🚨 New BCS research: Women in Tech 2025

Supercharging’ the trend of women choosing tech careers is key to UK’s AI ambitions, new report finds BCS, the professional body for technology, is urging government and industry leaders to focus on closing the gap to help meet the upskilling ambitions set out in the

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Great to have MPs including Allison Gardner MP (@AllisonCGardner) and Samantha Niblett MP (@SamanthaNiblet4) supporting this work. Completely agree with Allison Gardner's perspective: “British AI must draw from the fullness of British talent if it is to reach its

Key findings: 🔹 There are 441,000 female IT specialists in the UK. 🔹 If gender representation matched the workforce norm (49%), there would be *530,000 more women in IT roles*. 🔹 Female IT specialists are more than four times more likely to work part-time than men (13%

The proportion of women in the UK tech workforce has risen by 1% this year, reaching 22%, still far below what the UK needs to meet its AI and digital skills targets.

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In @LabourList today, we make the argument that a lack of trust in digital spaces is harming UK growth and productivity. Trust is not a ‘nice to have’ in the digital economy. Trust is the growth strategy. Article below. #AI #Tech #Policy #Growth

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.@OpenAI to add capacity equivalent to the output of an entire nuclear power plant every week from 2030.

On this day 89 years ago, the Jarrow March arrived in London, calling on the government to act after the shipyard closed.

It’s arguable that UK firms can benefit from AI more easily than those in the EU. UK banks reporting productivity gains from AI have doubled in a year, from 32% to 59% (Lloyds). Seems UK productivity is benefiting from non-EU AI regulation.

The best AI tools will be those that prevent us losing the skills we need to preserve. Great article in The Atlantic. "Stewardship now means ensuring that the capacities in which our humanity resides—judgment, imagination, understanding—stay alive in us. If there’s one skill we

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Nvidia’s value is greater than the GDP of India, Japan and the United Kingdom.

Great to have the opportunity to speak about AI and the Creative Sector last night at Newspeak House. Thanks to Jethro Reeve for a really interesting ‘unconference’ - a suitably innovative forum for a group of artists and technologists. I argued that part of the solution lies

Looking forward to speaking about AI and the Creative Sector at this event tomorrow 👇

New reservoirs especially important. Britain hasn’t built a new reservoir since 1992, since then Poland has built six!

Executive Leaders are failing to do the basics on cybersecurity... This leads to increases in successful attacks. 'Highly significant' cyber-attacks rose by 50% in the past year and the UK’s security services are now dealing with a new nationally significant attack more than