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Another year and another brilliant The Parliamentary Internet, Communications and Technology Forum (PICTFOR) diversity rally which I gave the closing short speech at but the brilliant Dame Caroline Dinenage MP DBE -who I co-chair this All Party Parliamentary Group with- gave the welcome speech, and it was remiss of me not to grab her to come to the front for this group selfie at the end. Caroline handed over to the ‘OG’ Chi Onwurah MP who in turn handed to new Lib Dem MP Victoria Collins. I said that as a new Member of Parliament and one of many new entries with a background and/or an interest in tech, Victoria and I are standing on the shoulders of giants. It was wonderful to catch up with some familiar faces Emma Wright, Karen Blake, finally meet Lavinia D. Osbourne in person, and make some new connections and ace speakers Melissa Wills FRSA, Lydia Martelly-French, Dr Jess Wade, Ren Yi Hooi and others. My big ask: let’s get the data and please lean on this new entry of parliamentarians to help us change laws. That’s the bit that we MPs can help deliver with you. Big shout out to PICTFOR secretariat Lodestone Communications for pulling off another blinder of an event. ?? #WomenInTech #DiversityInTech #DiversityInSTEM

What did I takeaway from the UNESCO Women4Ethical AI conference in Paris? Stop designing and deploying AI models that work for the few, instead: ???????? ?????????? ???????????????? ?????? ?????????? ?????? ?????? ???????????????????????? ?????????????????????? ?????? ??????'???? ?????? ?? ???????????? ???? ????????????????, ?????? ?????????? ???????????????? ????????????: ??????-??????! Yesterday, at the Women for Ethical AI Conference @UNESCO in Paris, we launched the new outlook and discussed the state of gender. ?? It was an honor and a delight to get to meet my fellow Women for Ethical AI comrades! ?? What's the current path we're on for AI and gender? Not. Looking. Good. What you should know: ?? ?????????? ?????? ?????? ????????-???????????????? ???????????? ?????????????? ?????????? ???? ???? ?????? ????????????, led by the fantastic Caitlin Corrigan: ?https://lnkd.in/eR9528m3 ???????? ?????????? ?????? ?????????? ???????? ?????????? ???? ?????????????? (?????? ???????????? ???? ???? ??????????): 1. Gabriela Ramos – “If we build for women, we build for all.” ??? 2. Caitlin Kraft Buchman – “This is a crisis in waiting… And a great opportunity to do 21st century science” Even biomedical research is done on male mice; majority of genomics research is based on European men. “Consider all the examples of bias you’ve heard and consider them at velocity and at scale.” ??? 3. Wanda Mu?oz – “Intersectionality is the analytical framework we need now. If use we gender as a single attribute, we will end up perpetrating bias against the most marginalized women. We cannot leave anyone behind.” ??? 4. Bhavani Rao R – “We need a value shift to begin with. Wolf packs have the old lead, then female, then the cubs, last by the alpha. This means that the most vulnerable sets the pace. This means we need to build for everyone. ??? 5. Emma Wright – “[Investing in women startups] isn’t a female issue, this is a societal issue and an economic problem. If you invest in products by women, you will open up new markets and drive growth.” More great quotes and takeaways from this conference in the weeks ahead! Stay tuned! Thank you to all the amazing people I met, looking forward to building the world we want to see with you! CC: Thanks for the lunch time chat Shraddha Chickerur, PhD, Maya Moussa, Maja Vande Velde, and Katherine Elizabeth Bustos Rodas ?? ! Thanks Cecilia Celeste Danesi for the great photos!

Huge kudos to Gabriela Ramos Dr. Alessandra Sala Eleonora Lamm Mariagrazia Squicciarini for hosting us all in Paris today. A truly inspirational group forever developing the agenda and dialogue in the #AI and #emerging #technologies arena for the better. So sorry not to make it out to UNESCO in person - but truly honoured to be speaking on the barriers that exist to funding of #female #founders in #AI globally. investHER-UK changed a law that was a structural barrier to funding that had a disproportionate impact on already underrepresented founder groups - imagine if we could share best practice and have this impact globally? Constanza Gomez Mont Fran O'Leary Interparliamentary Forum on Emerging Technologies

#PRWeek: Public Affairs Award 2024 ?????? We’re bouncing off the walls to say Lodestone has won the Public Affairs category at the #PRWeekAwards 2024 for our work on the #Investher campaign overturning legislation that would have disproportionately harmed female founders and investors! ?? Thank you thank you to all involved especially Samantha Niblett MP, Emma Wright, Mary Portas, Grace Beverley, Deborah Meaden, Dame Caroline Dinenage MP DBE, Rt Hon Caroline Nokes MP, The Power Collective, and so many others! ?? And a huge thank you to our team, Martha Dalton, Josephine Dalton, Harriet Kaye, Niamh McGurk, Kate Troiano, Charlotte Dignam ?? ? Our work advocating for women in business through #investher is not done yet – to get involved email [email protected]