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09 February 2023, Thursday |
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10:00 am to 11:00 am |
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The venue details will be sent
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Please register by 3 February 2023
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About the Talk
if i can do it, so can you
35 years ago, Professor Sue Black OBE was a single parent with few qualifications, bringing up her three small children in poverty on a council estate in Brixton, UK. She is now a multi award winning Professor of Computer Science and Technology Evangelist at Durham University. One of the leading tech personalities in the UK today, Sue shares the story of how she brought her family out of poverty and built an extremely successful career through education, passion and a determination to succeed.
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Speaker
Professor Sue Black FBCS FRSA OBE
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Professor Sue Black is Professor of Computer Science and Technology Evangelist, and Director of EDI in the Computer Science department at Durham University, UK. She leads the pioneering #TechUPWomen programme retraining women from underserved communities into technology careers. Sue is an internationally known, multi award-winning, technology evangelist, inspiring speaker and media figure who is well known for championing Women in Computing, promoting women in STEM and running the successful campaign to save Bletchley Park in 2011. Sue set up the UK’s first online network for women in computing BCSWomen in 1998 and in 2012 a social enterprise #techmums to help disadvantaged mums retrain.
Awarded an OBE by King Charles for “Services to technology” in 2016, Sue has written many articles evangelizing about technology, over forty academic computer science papers, and is currently working on a coding book to be published by Penguin. Board Trustee for Comic Relief and Digital Ambassador for the Global Partnership for Education Sue has spent much of her career helping people and organisations to realise the amazing opportunities and potential that technology can bring from refugee mums on welfare through to the UK Prime Minister. In March 2023 Sue will become Deputy President of the British Computer Society and President in 2024.
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