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Professor Liz Bacon

Professor of Software Engineering, champion of women in STEM, Vice-Principal and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at Abertay University in Dundee. With others she helped change the school curriculum in computing and set-up over 200 computers at school hubs across the country to train the teachers to deliver it.

Sue Black OBE

How does a mother of 3 fleeing an abusive relationship get a doctorate and save Bletchley Park too? Sue Black, a modest and shy lady in an overwhelmingly male environment, rose from the ashes of poverty to be become a motivational speaker. Learn about the obstacles that Sue encountered and how she persevered to overcome them and bring up her family and find fulfilment in life, career and home.

Muffy Calder OBE

Muffy Calder is Vice Principal and Head of College of Science and Engineering at Glasgow University. She is also a Professor of Formal Methods. She is a member of the governing body of EPSRC, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research. She is Chair of the DCMS Science Advisory Committee and a member of REF Main Panel B.She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the British Computer Society and, in 2011, she was awarded the OBE for services to computer science.

Professor Michael Earl

Michael Earl is an expert in the management of IT by its users. He pioneered the use of prototyping in the development of IT systems in the early 1970s. In the mid-1970s he studies the emerging client-server IT approach and developed strategies for managing UIT based around that approach. He is also researching mergers and acquisitions and working on why 70% of mergers and acquisitions fail.

Dr Steve Furber CBE

Steve Furber was working at Acorn Computers having helped develop the BBC Micro and was searching for the follow-on product. He found that the microprocessors then on the market had a deep design flaws: they were too complex. Acorn decided to design its own microprocessor using a novel approach. Furber led the small design team. They called it the Acorn Risc Machine (ARM), later changed to the Advanced Risc Machine and it is now found in over a billion mobile devices worldwide

Dame Wendy Hall CBE

Dame Wendy Hall is a British computer scientist and Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, and an Executive Director of the Web Science Institute. She was Dean of the Faculty of Physical Science and Engineering at the University of Southampton from 2010 to 2014. Between 2002 and 2007 she was Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science, where she was founding Head of the Intelligence, Agents, and Multimedia Research Group. In 2000 she was awarded a CBE and became a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. She is also a distinguished Fellow of the BCS, a Fellow of the IET, and of the City and Guilds of London Institute, and holds a number of honorary degrees. She became a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the 2009 UK New Year’s Honours list, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in the same year.

Dr Andrew Herbert OBE

Dr Andrew Herbert OBE retired in 2011, after a long and eventful career in IT. He has been a lecturer and researcher, an entrepreneur, a manager of SMEs, and finally Director and then Chairman of Microsoft Research EMEA. Innovation is one of the many threads which runs through his career.

Andrew (Andy) Hopper

Andy Hopper studied computer science at Swansea under Professor David Aspinall then did his PhD in Cambridge where he worked on the Cambridge Ring. His LAN company came to the attention of Acorn Computers and was taken into Acorn in 1979. Hopper was appointed managing director of the Olivetti Cambridge Research lab in 1986. As MD he helped more than 10 venture operations become independent companies under the benign eye of Olivetti. On the closure of the lab Hopper focused on his professorship at Cambridge where he developed a strategy to get over 200 ventures from Cambridge University into the market.

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