Join us for networking drinks in London as we bring our members together for the first time in 2025.
Register here
Join us for an online workshop with Caroline Goyder, founder of the Gravitas Method.
Join us for an online workshop with Caroline Goyder, founder of the Gravitas Method.
WICT UK & Ireland are hosting a Negotiation Showcase with The Gap Partnership. This will be a two-hour virtual session which will raise awareness of the importance of negotiation and address key elements of this core business skill, including selling vs negotiation, the different types of negotiation and the importance of planning.
Date: Thursday 23rd January 2025
Time: 09:00 – 11:00 (GMT)
Location: Virtual
To confirm your attendance, please register here.
Save the date for our next London event:
In partnership with our sponsor, Accenture, WICT UK & Ireland are hosting a panel conversation on Emerging Trends to Watch in 2025. The panel will discuss the Accenture Life Trends 2025 report, which shines a light on the interplay between people, their behaviours and attitudes to the world around them - be it business, technology, or other societal shifts.
Date: Thursday 21st November 2024
Time: 5:00pm to 7:00pm (BST)
Location: Accenture, 30 Fenchurch Street, London EC3M 3BD
After hearing from the panel, we’ll continue the conversation over some drinks and nibbles!
WICT UK & Ireland members are encouraged to bring a guest.
More details, including our panel of experts, to come.
Register here: liberty.gl/3BLZP7b
Are you looking to develop your public speaking skills and build your brand as a female leader?
We’re inviting WICT UK & Ireland members to register now for our FIND YOUR VOICE Breakfast Workshop:
Date: 10 October 2024
Time: 09.00 – 10.30
Location: TBC – Hammersmith
There are only 25 spots for WICT UK & Ireland members who can commit to attending this workshop in person. Register here.
We’re hosting a breakfast workshop with Caroline Goyder – Owner of the Gravitas Method where we’ll cover:
Speaking with gravitas: Core tools to help you find congruence, confidence and grounded presence so you can trust yourself when you speak, no matter how high the stakes or how challenging the stakeholders
Flexing your leadership style: Different audiences require different approaches. Understand how you can flex your style and engage others while staying true to who you are
Teaching others how to treat you: Learn strategies for being intentional, assertive, and empathetic so you can speak up, ask for what you need and protect your boundaries in challenging moments
Questions and action planning: We’ll round out the session with a Q&A and develop personal action plans for attendees to take back to work
Join us for our THIRD online speed networking event in September:
Thursday 12 September
16:30 to 17:30
Virtual, hosted on Microsoft Teams
Based on the overwhelming success of our previous events, we're bringing you another fast-paced opportunity to connect with up to 10 fellow WICT members. Each mini-meeting will last three to four minutes, giving you just enough time to make valuable connections, share ideas, and swap LinkedIn profiles.
Don’t miss this opportunity to:
Expand your network: Meet inspiring women from across the UK & Ireland tech scene.
Boost your career: Make valuable connections that could open doors to new opportunities.
Learn from each other: Share experiences, insights, and advice in a supportive environment.
Sharpen your networking skills: Get comfortable introducing yourself, making connections quickly, and leaving a lasting impression.
Join us for our summer drinks and nibbles in London as we're bringing together out WICT UK & Ireland Chapter members. Register here
Where are careers headed in the digital age? If you’re in Leeds, save the date for our upcoming event on 11 July
We’re hosting a panel discussion followed by #networking drinks and a chance to catch up with colleagues across the TMT industry.
Save the date for our next London event! We’re hosting a fireside chat with @Ana Zigic, who as part of a four-woman crew, became the fastest-ever British Women’s team to row over 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean earlier this year.
Register here
WICT UK & IE will be hosting drinks at the TM Forum DTW event in Copenhagen on the 19th June at the Accenture booth. Details and times to be confirmed.
If you’re based in Ireland, please save the date – Thursday 30 May – for our next event.
We’re hosting a panel discussion in Dublin, bringing together industry leaders to discuss the sustainability of expertise, talent and skills in the Telco, Media and Tech (TMT) sector in Ireland. We’ll explore both the challenges and opportunities ahead, followed by a networking session and informal drinks.
Register here
What are the benefits of being a mentor or a mentee when it comes to boosting your career trajectory and personal development?
Join us on 18 April in London as we’re bringing together a panel of leading experts who will be sharing their experiences with mentoring and reverse mentoring programmes.
Register here
WICT UK & Ireland event – 21 March London
Join us on 21 March in London as we’re bringing together a panel of leading experts to discuss cloud computing and its role in digital transformation.
Register here
WICT UK & Europe Networking Drinks at Mobile World Congress
We’re inviting you to WICT UK & Ireland and WICT Networks Europe’s MWC drinks reception. Register here by 20 February to ensure your spot..
Ready for 2024? Celebrate a brand-new year with us on 24 January with board games, sips and nibbles, and informal networking! Register here
Join us for a panel discussion on the Ethics of AI where our expert panelists will be considering how AI might transform the workforce, how best to prepare future generations to address AI ethics and what role corporations have and should plan in the ethics of AI
Followed by networking and drinks
Register here
WICT UK & Ireland are delighted to be participating in the upcoming SCTE Autumn Lecture. More information and confirmed times coming soon!
To mark our expansion into Ireland we are hosting a launch event with a packed agenda! We have some brilliant speakers, great topics and networking drinks planned.
More information and final time to follow and invites will be sent out soon!
Save the date! Come and join us for summer drinks and networking.
Venue in London to be confirmed.
A great opportunity to spend a lovely, relaxed evening meeting other members.
Register here
Ready for more networking! After the great feedback from our first speed networking event we are excited to bring you another! This online event will provide you with the opportunity to network with up to 10 other WICT members. Each networking pair will have four minutes together, which is enough time for you both to get to know a little bit about each other and exchange details and LinkedIn profiles.
Join our panel of experts as we take a deep dive into the results of the 2022 PAR Workplace Diversity Survey. Together, we will explore:
• How our industry compares to national benchmarks
• The status of women and women of color with regard to recruitment and retention
• Strategies to improve results and proven practices that lead to better representation of women at all levels
Register here
The WICT book club is an online reading group for our members. It’s not super high brow. It’s a connected group of professional women reading a business and leadership book and discussing our thoughts.
We will confirm the book two months in advance of the scheduled book club, and we will aim for it to also be available as an audiobook. This time we are reading “She Thinks Like A Boss - Leadership” by Jemma Roedel.
Invitations to join the WICT UK Book Club have been sent out to all members.
Exclusive virtual event for our executive members. A fireside chat with Sarah-Jayne Williams, Director, Global Product Partnerships, Google. Caroline Hall will be chatting to Sarah-Jayne about her inspiring career journey.
Update: Sadly we will be postponing this event until future notice. We send Steve our very best wishes and support and look forward to working with him again when the time is right.
Steve has spent over 30 years helping people to increase their skill in communication, as well as being an experienced performer himself.
He brings these worlds together with his practical first hand business experience to transform individuals and teams ability to interact more effectively with the world.
Invitations to register for the event have been sent to all members!
We are delighted to be supporting International Women’s Day with one of our sponsors, NTT DATA, who will be hosting elevenses in their offices in Birmingham. As part of these celebrations they will be showcasing the various partnerships they have that support and promote gender diversity including their partnership with WICT. During the elevenses attendees will hear about:
The WICT vision and mission, the difference it makes and how to get involved
WICT objectives and programmes specifically in the context of IWD and its theme #EmbraceEquity
This will be followed with the opportunity to meet other WICT members. Please contact us if you would like to attend.
This online event will provide you with the opportunity to network with up to 10 other WICT members. Each networking pair will have four minutes together, which is enough time for you both to get to know a little bit about each other and exchange details and LinkedIn profiles.
Come and join WICT UK and our sponsorship partner Accenture to explore how non traditional thinking is creating new horizons, challenging the previous Boom and Bust ideation and growth strategies of the past. Understand how this fresh approach can unlock your personal creativity to achieve new levels. We’ll have special guests sharing their views and insights from Liberty Global and Bow & Arrow.
The event will be hosted at Kindred in Hammersmith followed by the opportunity to network with some drinks and canapes.
Panel discussion about Diversity in this important sector and hear insights from experts at Liberty Global, Virgin Atlantic and NTT Data
And just like that, The WICT Network UK is back!
The WICT Network UK membership provides access to a global network of ambitious professionals, events with industry leading experts and unique development offerings to advance careers. Learn more by joining us at this unique event and help shape your network for the future.
To welcome back in-person events, The WICT Network UK is hosting an exciting event with inspirational speakers Natalie Pinkham, British television presenter and Formula One pit lane reporter, and Kate Richardson-Walsh, double Olympic medallist, alongside a very special guest!
Join us on the afternoon of 5 May to hear from our inspirational line up of speakers, network with peers and learn about our amazing mentoring programme – and possibly meet your new mentor – as well as enjoy champagne and nibbles on us.
The value of a strong network is more important than ever and we are excited to get back to in-person events to inspire, connect and grow.
Join us to hear from these inspirational speakers and how WICT UK can support your personal growth story.
WICT UK in partnership with Broadminded will be in conversation with this broadcasting legend, Dame Jenni Murray. We will discuss her book, A History of the World in 21 Women, her extraordinary career, and her new book, Fat Cow, Fat Chance.
Dame Jenni Murray has been at the helm of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour for over twenty years. She will talk to us about the programme’s 64 year history and her most engaging interviewees from Barbara Castle to Kaffe Fasset, Monica Lewinsky to Tom Hanks, Jack Nicholson to Margaret Thatcher, through to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. As always, there'll be plenty of time for her to answer your questions too.
Register for the event here.
WICT members should use the promo code 'WICT' and the cost of their ticket will be free.
Four sessions, starting 26th October 18:30-20:00, and continuing 2nd, 9th & 16th November
Holding your ground in an important meeting; not being shaken by a difficult conversation at work; knowing your stress triggers and avoiding them so you’re always at your best. These are things we all wish we could be better at.
So how do we develop the resilience we need to face challenges in the workplace and thrive?
Join us this October to find out. FeForte will lead us in science-based training and philosophical exploration including mindfulness practice. They’ve identified the habits needed to build your personal resilience, and will teach us to master them on this deep-dive training course. Each of the four 90-minute virtual meetings will be an opportunity to review practice, share new knowledge and embed new skills.
WICT members use the Promo code WICT for £100 off the course
Four sessions, starting 26th October 18:30-20:00, and continuing 2nd, 9th & 16th November
Holding your ground in an important meeting; not being shaken by a difficult conversation at work; knowing your stress triggers and avoiding them so you’re always at your best. These are things we all wish we could be better at.
So how do we develop the resilience we need to face challenges in the workplace and thrive?
Join us this October to find out. FeForte will lead us in science-based training and philosophical exploration including mindfulness practice. They’ve identified the habits needed to build your personal resilience, and will teach us to master them on this deep-dive training course. Each of the four 90-minute virtual meetings will be an opportunity to review practice, share new knowledge and embed new skills.
WICT members use the Promo code WICT for £100 off the course
