WiT25 – Women in Tech annual conference

Laura Harvey is a Digital Skills Trainer specialising in Digital Literacy and Productivity, within Organisational Development at King’s College London. We focus on leadership, learning & development, and workplace culture. Laura specialises in Microsoft Office 365 software, with a focus on making sessions interactive, accessible, and relevant to work assignments.

With a strong focus on user-led solutions, Katy Mitchell currently serves as the lead UX Designer in the University of Glasgow's Digital Experience Team. She’s an optimistic problem solver and takes pleasure in tackling particularly complex challenges.

Antonia embarked on her IT career in 2012, transitioning from customer service to the tech world at the University of Leeds. Over the past 12 years, she’s moved from the IT Service Desk to Application Support as IT Operational Lead and Application Support Manager then back into Front Line Services as Customer Success Manager. Beyond this, Antonia is also a member of the UCISA Support Services Group and a CMDA student. Her passions lie in enhancing people’s experiences, advocating for mental health, and championing equity and diversity.

Kanika is a bold, engaging speaker who unpacks the challenges of likeability for women in higher education. A specialist in student systems and digital transformation, she combines sharp insight with real-world experience. As an IT change leader, she champions innovation, inclusion, and fearless leadership in HE.

Cathie Jayakumar-Hazra is the Cybersecurity Awareness Training and Policy Manager at Queen Mary University of London. She drafted and updated the AI guardrails policy for Queen Mary and has designed various security awareness programmes for the university. She launched the QMUL cybersecurity podcast and created an AI course for staff as part of her awareness programme.

Hannah has over 23 years of experience in IT with 18 years in the HE sector. As Head of Enterprise Architecture at Queen Mary University of London, she leads and manages a team of architects and designers, shaping QMUL’s digital future. Hannah is also a UCISA Enterprise Architecture committee member.

My career at NTU started 8 years ago when I joined as Technical Support Analyst. Over this time, I've worked mainly supporting our colleagues with SharePoint and working with colleagues to automate processes using Power Automate .  I'm now a Lead Digital Experience analyst specialising in SharePoint and the Power Platform.

Kirti is a Solutions Designer in the Enterprise Architecture team at Queen Mary University of London, bringing over 20+ years of expertise in software engineering and development. She is deeply passionate about empowering women in technology and is a strong advocate for equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Katie Wilde is Interim Head of Applications at the University of Aberdeen and Co-Director of HDR UK Scotland. She led digital research support and established the Grampian Data Safe Haven, a Trusted Research Environment. With a Masters in Mathematics, she’s passionate about digital innovation, health data science, rowing, and fitness.

Ella Rice is the AI & Cloud Solutions Designer behind Queen Mary University of London's first AI Innovation & Transformation Hub. With over 20 years in HE digital transformation, she delivers automation, governance, and trust at scale - embedding AI that works across complex institutions with speed, security, and strategic impact

Katie Grieve is the Data and Equality Officer for the Information Services Group at the University of Edinburgh. She has a background in mathematics and uses data science techniques to interpret demographic and user data, so we can better understand the experience of diverse groups of staff and students.