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Sarah Burnett is a founding Partner, Head of Technology Immersion and Market Insights at Emergence Partners. She is a renowned industry analyst who advises enterprise clients on automation technologies, sourcing, competitive strategies and market trends and their commercial significance. She also helps technology companies successfully formulate their product innovation and go to market strategies for growth. Sarah is a strong advocate for women and diversity and serves as Chair of BCS Women, the women’s group of the British Chartered Institute for IT, and founder of AI Accelerator, a programme of free AI events, seminars and webcasts by experts, to inform and educate participants.

I've been a BCSWomen committee member since 2008, and spent four years as deputy chair. I am working in robotics and AI at Aberystwyth university, and teach students subjects across computer science discipline.

I am the founder of the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium, the UK's main conference for women undergraduates in computing. This usually brings together 200+ young women in tech, although this year unsurprisingly we had to go online. Next year will be our 14th event and if the situation allows we'll be at Lancaster University in the spring.

Jo has 20 years’ experience delivering enterprise software to global industry, spanning oil & gas, automotive, aerospace and marine sectors. She is a passionate advocate for greater diversity and inclusion within engineering industries. Having held software engineering, product management and leadership roles, Jo is now studying an Organisational Psychology MSc and leads AVEVA’s global Diversity and Inclusion programme.