Dell Ireland hosted the third Connecting Women in Technology’ (CWIT) event at Dell’s Cherrywood facility. The collective initiative aims to attract more female talent in to the technology sector and is the inspiration of senior women from Dell, Microsoft, Accenture, Google, Facebook, HP and Ernst & Young.
Entitled Making the Connection, the event focused on how to win business; general trends in the technology sector; and the art of networking in a global environment.
Hosting the event Marie Moynihan, vice president HR, Dell EMEA and one of the founding members of CWIT said: “The members of CWIT, Dell, Microsoft, Accenture, Google, Facebook, HP, and Ernst & Young base their success on having a diverse customer base and in order to meet our customers’ needs we need to have a workforce that represents them, a large proportion of which are women. Part of our future health and growth is dependent on attracting the right kind of investment into Ireland.”
Fionnuala Meehan, director of advertiser operations, North & Central Europe at Google, said: “The technological revolution is moving at a faster pace and having a greater impact than any other previous industrial revolutions. Ten years ago there was no Google, Facebook, Twitter, smartphones and no ‘cloud’. Yet all of these are changing the way we socialise and do business. They are opening up access to markets and are in themselves becoming whole new marketplaces that companies traditionally may not have targeted.
If you are not thinking about the technology of tomorrow, and how it will impact your customers’ lives you will get left behind by your competitors. In these challenging economic times, using all the tools at your disposal to reach customers and generate revenues is a key issue for all businesses.”
Niall Kitson
Pictured (l-r): Orna Holland, Facebook; Siobhan O’Dowd, HP; Michelle Abbey, Ernst & Young; Marie Moynihan, Dell
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