Tech Events by Empower Together

It's never too early for a festive get together! and let's face it December is a lot, packed diaries, deadlines and less time than normal to do it all! So we're going early with a relaxed festive affair to send you into the season feeling empowered! **Everyone is welcome at our events.** Join us to listen, learn, make new connections and support the brilliant people stepping up to share their stories.

Empower Together's October open mic, part of Women in Tech Week, hosted at Kraken Technologies in Circle Square. The format hands the stage to eight women from the community for short talks rather than booking an outside headliner. The line-up is Ella Worsdale on delivering two things at once, Tetiana Drebot on how legal thinking strengthens the start of technology projects, Mrigna Singh on career transitions, Chelsea Nidikum on building visibility in tech, Farah Shaikh on her career journey, Natasha Rinaldi on saying yes to yourself, Thea Shen on navigating uncertainty, and Aaalia Ahamed on showing up. Everyone is welcome, not just women; three hours including time to talk afterwards. Why go: eight first-person accounts in one evening is an unusually high signal-to-noise ratio, and these are practitioners rather than circuit speakers. Best for people early in a tech career or thinking about changing track.

Empower Together — the rebranded Women in Tech North community (3,500+ members, founded 2016) — runs its May evening at Kraken Technologies on Circle Square. One of the largest and longest-running women-in-tech rooms in the city, with sustained sponsor support from Kraken.