Although the progress of achieving greater diversity in the tech industry is slow, we at BTF want to ensure that the voices of the underrepresented are heard.
Since we started, we've welcomed thousands of women as attendees - Join thousands of like-minded leaders, founders, technologists, and industry disruptors and be part of one of Europe's leading tech festival!
My name is Amber Clifford. I've been working in tech since the early days of Uber (2014). Since 2016 I've specialized as an International Expansion Strategist for Uber Eats and Disney+ where I've launched the respective products in more than a combined 120 markets across the globe throughout Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Latin America + The Caribbean. From on-the-ground operations set up, go-to-market strategy, pre-market assessments to product strategy and everything in between, I've worn many hats. I’ve led strategy and been hands on in execution in a role and industry where you don’t see many BIPOC, especially women. During my time at Uber in EMEA I also co-founded and led the Black ERG, UberHue.
I’ve contributed to and keynoted at various product summits, ERG sessions for Fortune 500 companies, cultural events across Europe to audiences of up to 2,000 people. Every time a line of people queue up after to chat and ask me to speak at other events, as I truly believe the journey and unique experiences resonate with people and provide so much inspiration to the places and things one can do within tech.
I know Black Tech Fest is in the final stages of planning but I’d love to be considered as a speaker or panelist where it makes sense. Topics on operations, international (esp Africa, Europe and Middle East), product, scale, and/or women all make lots of sense for my experience.
An ambitious, conscientious, innovative, and entrepreneurial individual who is passionate about making a positive impact on the world through bringing people together.
Throughout her career, Catherine has achieved a lot from running two businesses (GLOW and Social) to making the career change into community management using her automation and communications expertise.
In her four years of automation and communications experience, she has achieved impressive statistics and achievements for the communities she's grown, including:
🌟 Automated seven businesses from enquiry to nurture and renewal - in fact one of them saw 9.37% of lost clients convert later on;
🌟 Trained and supported her teams to automate aspects of their roles to save them time;
🌟 Increased open rates and click rates of communities like Circl's where Catherine increased the open rate from 53.21% in Mar 22 to 71.87% in Sep 22 and Colorintech's where the average open rate is 75% and the click rate is 7.1%;
🌟 Has been awarded for managing one of the most engaged groups on LinkedIn and has maintained an 'Active Group' badge for the Colorintech community group.
If you're interested in hearing more about her community building and communications expertise, then do drop a connection request! In addition, she has six years of speaking experience, including but not limited to:
🌟 Running workshops and training sessions on a variety of topics; 🌟 Hosting in-person and virtual events for audiences for small and large scale audiences; 🌟 Participated on multiple panels surrounding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion;
🌟 MC'd panel discussions both in-person and virtually;
🌟 Co-Hosted a Podcast and Social Media series on Business and the Impact of COVID on Students.
Fiona has been tackling big challenges head-on throughout her career starting in the digital discipline when digital was still a watch word. She is passionate about all things in the connected space, and has explored that passion extensively, currently heading up Social & Content for Ogilvy UK.
Her passion for connected communications has seen Fiona drive innovation at every opportunity, successfully rolling out automated communications programs for American Express in the UK, as well as leading the growth of digital and social as a discipline first for Ogilvy in Kenya and then later as the Social and Digital Lead across all of Ogilvy Africa’s Sub-Saharan Network. And while running the Ogilvy Nigeria office was appointed as Jury President in the category of Digital Innovation for the Pitcher Creative Awards (Cannes Lions Official Festival Representatives in Africa).
She has successfully steered creative teams to awards wins in the Loeries, African Cristals, APAs (Association of Practitioners in Advertising, Kenya), Dubai Lynx, BIMAs and the LAIF Awards (Lagos Advertising and Ideas Festival).
Fiona is also Exec Sponsor of the Roots Network (ERG) within Ogilvy and supports in driving awareness of, and the adoption of Consumer Equality and inclusion in the creative space/industry.
Mam is a mother of three who transitioned from a Secondary School Computer Science and ICT teacher to a Solutions Architect. She has become a trusted advisor to organisations seeking to navigate the DevSecOps landscape of modern technology. Since her career change, Mam has delivered talks at conferences for companies such as Nutanix and Geekle. She has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Women in Tech Excellence Awards 2023 for Rising Star of the Year in Tech and the Makers Women in Software Awards 2023 PowerList category. She is an ambassador for Google’s Women Techmakers. Her tech journey will be featured in the Voices in the Shadow Volume 3 book. The book will showcase the journeys of 51 black women who have impacted the tech industry. It will be distributed to secondary schools in the UK and Ireland and kept as an archive in The British Library.In her spare time, Mam is an advocate for Tech education and particularly educates, empowers and encourages women from underprivileged backgrounds to pursue and progress in their tech careers. She enjoys exploring new cuisines and spending time outdoors with her family.
Shelina is Director of Consumer Equality at Ogilvy Consulting. In this first-of-its-kind role, she is pioneering an industry paradigm shift to tackling 'consumer inequality' facing Minority Ethnic groups, in order to drive business growth. An award-winning brand and business leader, she is also Ogilvy's Vice President of Islamic Marketing, and has worked to engage Muslim audiences with some of the world's biggest and best known brands such as Unilever, Coca-Cola and ASOS as well as its most exciting start ups. Shelina is a passionate advocate for businesses and brands to reclaim their creative and commercial superpowers for business growth and societal impact. She is a bestselling non-fiction as well as a children's author, including her most recent kids' book about the British Empire. Alongside all this, as a podcaster, op-ed writer, marketeer and sandwich generation carer, she is working hard as a polymath-in-progress to create social and cultural change.
Zahra Bahrololoumi is the CEO of Salesforce UK and Ireland. She was appointed in March 2021 to lead the company’s operations across both key growth markets.
Prior to joining Salesforce, Zahra worked for Accenture where she led the Technology business for the UK and Ireland with a particular focus on transformation in artificial intelligence, cloud computing and platforms underpinning new applications. Zahra has been widely recognised throughout her career as an industry leader, including Computer Weekly’s Most Influential People in UK Tech 2022, Woman of the Year for MENA Women In Tech Awards 2022 and Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2021.
Zahra is a strong advocate for equality for all and has held many D&I roles across the world. She currently sits on the boards of TechUK, Cancer Research UK and Movement to Work.
