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Women Tech Charge: Ninth episode of the Evening Standard’s new podcast with Helen Disney from Unblocked



The ninth episode of The Evening Standard’s brand new podcast, Women Tech Charge, is available to download today.  

Hosted by Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, the CEO of stemettes.org, Women Tech Charge is a series of candid, inspiring and often funny conversations with inventors and entrepreneurs, created to shine a light on the incredible women revolutionising our lives through technology. 

After interesting discussions with ‘Beth’, a senior leader at GCHQ, Rikke Rosenlund of BorrowMyDoggy, Louise Broni-Mensah, founder and CEO of Shoobs.com, next in the chair is Helen Disney, founder and CEO of Unblocked Events

Can’t get your head around blockchain? The word ‘cryptocurrency’ send you into a tail spin? Disney is the woman trying to help you understand these burgeoning technologies. A former journalist, Disney initially became interested in the technology after thinking it could solve some of the media’s money-making problems. 

“The media is struggling to make money. And if you could perhaps have some kind of micro payments for articles, maybe this would be a better way of bringing revenue into the media rather than having some sort of cumbersome subscriptions or having to rely on an advertising model,” Disney tells Imafidon. 

“So I was really interested in blockchain because of the problems that it can solve, rather than the technology, it’s just a toolkit to me for things that we can do.”

From how to understand the blockchain, as well as its potential to create a “Tinder for horses”, make sure to listen to this week’s episode. 

Over the next 12 weeks, inspiring women will be sitting in the podcast chair to discuss their experiences of working in tech. 

Tune in every week as the women discuss their highs and lows in the industry, from getting their idea off the ground, to raising funding, and dealing with being a minority in a workforce dominated by men.

Imafidon hopes the podcast will inspire its listeners. “It’s easy for you to dip into the podcast and glean a broad appreciation of these women in the industry. It’s a call to take charge, a call to action,” she tells the Standard

Women Tech Charge’s first season will run for 12 weeks. Tune in to the new episode below.

You can subscribe to Women Tech Charge wherever you get your podcasts from, including

 

Subscribe to Women Tech Charge, a new podcast from the Evening Standard.

From fashion to finance, technology is revolutionising our lives. Meet the extraordinary women who are leading the charge.

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.



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