Women in Technology - 27 October 2022, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
University of Tasmania, Inveresk Library, Launceston
Program Agenda
Introduction and Keynote Address (3:00pm to 3:30pm)
Workshop 1 (3:30pm to 4:00pm)
- Job Readiness and Skills Transfer
Workshop 2 (4:00pm to 4:30pm)
- Entrepreneurship and building a meaningful network
Networking (4:30pm to 5:00pm)
Note: All attendees under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian
Workshops
Job Readiness and Skills Transfer
3:30pm to 4:00pm
Presenter:
Georgi Brown, Managing Director of Red Apple IT, is Tasmanian born and relocated to Sydney for 20 years to build a successful career in IT Recruitment.
Having worked with a range of clients including Accenture, MLC, Optus, NBN Co, Woolworths, Federal Government and NSW Government, IBM, Cochlear, Canva, Icon Water, etc and placed hundreds of contract and permanent IT people across Australia, she knows the importance of being happy at work.
Georgi is a big believer in diversity in the Tech Industry. As we enter a world of AI, machine learning and decision-making software, it’s more critical than ever that we work towards gender and diversity balance. Women are widely underrepresented in technology and Red Apple IT is on a mission to change that.
Now solely based in Tasmania, Red Apple IT are a proudly female-majority and Tasmanian owned business and have a current female ICT contracting workforce of 60%. Red Apple IT is passionate about connecting the right people to the right environment, so that people can find their happiness and learn to put it first.
Entrepreneurship and building a meaningful network
4:00pm to 4:30pm
Presenter:
Georgie has been practicing as a designer for over a decade, working across many sectors, listening to, and solving problems for her clients. UX has been a focus, with human behaviour and the human experience at the centre of her curiosity. Georgie has always valued being connected to her community, and driven by impact over profit.
With community hubs in their sights, Georgie first developed Gretel Analytics to observe human behaviour in public arts spaces, but her interest was quickly piqued in February 2020 when she read the Royal Commission’s (Aged Care Quality and Safety) preliminary findings. It was clear that the sector could benefit from a system which provided accountability, transparency and insights. Subsequently, conversations with aged care providers were immediately engaging.
"Technology can provide evidence-based insights in the place of previously unreliable anecdotal evidence. The ability to report accurately in real-time, and provide powerful temporal analytics is a game changer in a dynamic aged services sector seeking meaningful solutions."
"Using smart data, and being in-tune with users and their needs, we can propel aged services in Australia to where they need to be, through risk mitigation, hazard identification and augmentation of existing human resources. To a place where quality consumer-centric care is provided in a manner which advocates the dignity, and agency our ageing population is entitled to."
On the road to finding her passion in serving a vulnerable segment of our community, Georgie has come to believe that dignity driven, consumer centred, quality care is not just a possibility, it's an economic and social imperative. For transparency, efficiency, and quality to prevail in the next chapter of aged care, Gretel is providing data to drive best care decisions. Georgie is excited to be a part of the solution.
