Nominate: Most Influential Ladies in UK Know-how 2025
Nominations are actually open for the 2025 Pc Weekly record of the Most Influential Ladies in UK Know-how.
Ladies make up round 20% of the individuals working in tech and digital roles within the UK, and every year, we intention to showcase these girls to create consciousness of the unbelievable underrepresented expertise within the sector and the challenges girls face when making an attempt to do their jobs in a male-dominated panorama.
Every year, we ask readers to inform us who among the many 1000’s of girls within the expertise sector they assume is essentially the most influential.
The concerningly sluggish progress in terms of the variety of girls in tech has led to requires motion to extend efforts to construct range and inclusion within the sector, particularly in gentle of just lately diminished range, fairness and inclusion (DEI) efforts. A method of doing so is to showcase the feminine expertise that already exists and make it clear precisely what’s standing in girls’s method in terms of a thriving tech profession.
Offering seen and accessible function fashions is another excuse Pc Weekly launched the record of the Most Influential Ladies in UK Know-how 14 years in the past, as many younger girls select to not pursue a profession within the sector or drop out of tech-based schooling as a result of they don’t consider it’s for individuals like them.
This can be a downside that might be solved in the event that they see extra function fashions within the sector whose footsteps they will aspire to comply with.
As identified by the 2024 winner Sheridan Ash, co-CEO of expertise schooling charity Tech She Can: “I need to persuade ladies they’ve a job to play in ensuring that the world isn’t simply developed by loads of white ‘tech bros’, that they might be a part of ensuring the world is a match place for everyone, and that it’s someplace girls are handled equally in creating that world.”
Every year, we recognise the expertise sector’s Rising Stars alongside the highest 50, in addition to including a number of nice girls in tech to our Corridor of Fame, of which there are actually greater than 50 members.
As soon as the nominations are obtained, a gaggle of professional judges will select the highest 50 shortlist, after which Pc Weekly readers can vote on the highest 50 through a web-based ballot to point who on the shortlist they consider must be named the 2025 Most Influential Girl in UK Know-how.
The winner, in addition to the complete high 50 record, can be introduced on the Pc Weekly and Harvey Nash range in tech occasion in London later this 12 months.
Please full the shape under to inform us who you wish to nominate – and why – together with some primary particulars about your self, and click on on the “Submit” button to ship your nomination to our judges.
The deadline for submission of nominations for this 12 months’s record is 23.59 on 25 August 2025.
Judging panel
The judging panel that can determine the shortlist and order of the highest 50 alongside the readers’ vote includes trade professionals and specialists, together with:
- Russ Shaw, founding father of Tech London Advocates and World Tech Advocates
- Karen Blake, head of inclusive workforce technique and advisory, Powered by Variety
- Debbie Forster, NED, advisor and coach
- Sheridan Ash, founder and co-CEO, Tech She Can
- Amali de Alwis, startups and enterprise capital enterprise growth, AWS
- Clare McDonald, enterprise editor at Pc Weekly
- Bryan Glick, editor-in-chief of Pc Weekly
- A consultant from Harvey Nash
Non-binary tech expertise
We realise people who find themselves non-binary could not need to be included in a listing of predominantly girls.
In case you are a non-binary individual in tech or need to champion a non-binary individual within the trade, we nonetheless need your nominations – in case you’re snug right here please proceed, or alternatively look out for our annual UKtech50 record of essentially the most influential individuals within the UK’s tech sector.
