GeekGirlMeets

This time we meet up with GeekGirl Lauren Ingram, a senior marketer specialising in PR, events and social media, with experience in agencies and tech startups.

In early 2017 she launched Power Suit Social, a creative community which aims to keep creativity commercially viable. As if all this was not enough, Lauren is also a mentor mentor for SheSays, as well as an active member of the DevelopHer community for women in tech, and a member of and mentor for ONE!

She’s a winner of awards such as: “2017 The Drum 50 Under 30 women in digital” and “2018 Pitch 100 Superwomen in the creative industries”.

Connecting ‘things’ has always been GeekGirl Nicole Yershon’s driving force, and she made it her business. She is a well known and widely admired author, speaker and advisor to clients. The NY Collective is built on her experience in agencies and her work with Global brands and institutions all over the world.

Find out more about this power woman and her business at https://www.nicoleyershon.com/

Meet GeekGirl Ellie Budd, the digital pro who is a leading digital products and digital transformation at some of the most respected charities in the UK. Her experience and knowledge ranges from best in class digital techniques to the delivery of large scale change programmes which help organisations realise their potential digitally. At William Joseph Ellie is putting this to use in creating great experiences for her clients users.

Ina Yulo is a GeekGirl who specialises in content. She has launched and grown BrightTALK's FinTech community to an audience of over 300,000 global professionals to become one of the leading sources of online content in the industry. Ina is working closely with a network of the top industry speakers to curate and publish timely content for both online and physical events.

This inspiring woman has been listed on the Women in FinTech Power List for two years in a row and have been a speaker and moderator for conferences on Blockchain, FinTech, Payments, Women in Tech, and Marketing. She is also a mentor at The Factory in Oslo, SuperCharger in Kuala Lumpur, and the European Women in Payments Network.

Listen and get inspired by her incredible story!

Let us introduce Abi Mohamed, a tech genius passionate about ethical software building and developing. She believes that developers should be more conscious about what they’re creating, as the boundaries of how far is too far can be vague.

Abi turned down an amazing offer as a Project Office intern in Kenya to work and save money for her Masters in Information Systems Management instead.

Now she’s changing investment for underrepresented founders at CGVentures.

GeekGirl meets is back again with some amazing stories to share!

First up: meet Katerina Pascoulis, a coder and entrepreneur who’s passionate about getting other women into tech. Two years into her law studies at cambridge she realised that law wouldn’t be her thing. Katerina fell for the tech industry instead and founded Personably in 2016, since then she’d been helping teams onboard their new hires and enable them to get up to speed quickly.

There are some women that GeekGirl keeps missing! Honestly, we have relationships with women entirely through social who we've never been able to meet! And Lauren is one of these awesome ladies! One of our first remote interviews, GeekGirl was delighted to be joined by Lauren from 'Over the Pond'.

Lauren has done a fair bit - we're pretty darn impressed! Her career and studies have taken her around the world, and she has a clear love of travel. She started her career as a freelance reporter covering tech trends in London for The Next Web and The Guardian, and now covers the impact of tech trends like AI on small business owners for GetApp, a Gartner company.

In 2017 she helped organize Women Startup Challenge - Europe's largest venture capital competition for women-led startups, and was named to The Drum's 50 Under 30 list of women worth watching in digital in 2017. She's also spoken at events and venues on three continents, including the British Embassy in Washington, DC, and The Global Talent Summit at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. We get her top tips for putting yourself forward and chasing the opportunities ahead of you!

There's a load of great advice in here from Lauren and you can reach her on Twitter @laurenmaffeo.

When GeekGirl gets a crush, it's a big one. Silja Litvin, is our most recent Girl Crush, the model-turned psychologist and now mental health startup Founder was ticking all our boxes in this podcast. We learned all about her love of psychology and how her startup is aiming to help people who are suffering from mental health issues. From the runway to Old Street, Silja is building her business in London and has definitely felt a culture change, but even sees similarities between the fashion and tech world.

A fantastic chat with a true wonder woman! You can find out more about Silja at http://www.siljalitvin.com/

AND back her latest game on Indiegogo! Go check out eQuoo, the emotional fitness game: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/equoo-the-emotional-fitness-game#/

GeekGirl sat down with our very first (on the show!) post-doc researcher, Vivian Tong, from Imperial College London, to discuss her career to date in Science, and her own personal experience with academia and mental health.

Originally from Hong Kong, Vivian wants to show women, young girls, and just everyone, that science and engineering are fun, and a career is absolutely achievable!

Vivian graduated with a Materials Science Degree in 2013 and went on to finish her Ph.D. in 2016, where she investigated metals used in nuclear reactors - specifically what happens on the microscopic structure when we heat and deform it. During her Ph.D. she went into schools to tell kids about science and engineering. She is currently studying the behaviour of metals for planes and nuclear reactors and use microscopes to link the behaviour of these metals to atomic-scale phenomena. She is one smart cookie, and her passion is incredibly obvious is this podcast. There is also a huge wealth of advice on mental health.

You can find Vivian on Twitter, @vt_vivian1

Did you miss us? GeekGirl Meets is back, and it's business as usual as we look to interview awesome women in tech just for you.

This week GeekGirl was joined by Riya Grover and Lyz Swanton, co-founders of Feedr. These two women are ones-to-watch in the world of Foodtech as they change the world of corporate catering and workplace canteens. Riya and Lyz’s combination of incredible business experience from management consultancy and banking (Deutsche Bank, Oliver Wyman) and startup growth (Osper, Pashion) and their passion for giving access to healthy sustainable food means that Feedr is on the road to success.

Both women are recognised for their success and passion for business, including recent nominations for Women of the Future awards and the 2018 Forbes 30 under 30. Customers include Nike, Etsy, Chanel, Eve Matresses, DHL and more!

Find out more! And check out Feedr: https://teamfeedr.com/