A presentation prepared by Dawn Wright (Group Sales and Marketing Director) for Blackheath School Science Week. According to our CSR strategy we continuously work on attracting young people to work in IT.

1. INNOVATION

2. What are we going to talk about?
1. Who is your speaker today?
2. Why is science important to me?
3. What is innovation?
4. An example of innovations that changed the world.
5. Famous innovators.
6. What do you need to do to become tomorrow’s innovator?

3. Who am I?
Dawn Wright
Past: One of two women
studying science at Queen Mary
college, London University
Present: Group Sales and
Marketing Director at Techgate plc
(IT Infrastructure Company)

4. Why is science important to me?
Only 5.5% of engineering professionals in the
UK are female and only 27% of engineering
and science technicians are female!
Science and Information Technology are my
life-long passions, but:
How do you think – How many female applicants for Techgate plc
engineering role did we have during our last recruitment process?

5. What is INNOVATION?

6. Innovations that changed the world
The Space travels started in the
late 50’s
The need for more compact
devices to operate space travels
led to an introduction of a PC in
1977.
Telephone was first coined in
1860.
Since then we have developed the
need for constant communication.
All of these events gave us,
something you probably can’t function
without.

7. Famous innovators
1820 - 1910
Florence Nightingale Thomas Alva Eddison
1847 - 1931 1867 - 1934
Marie Skłodowska-Curie
The winner of 2 Nobel prizes,
one in chemistry and one in physics!
CLEANLINESS
LIGHT BULB
THE MOTION
PICTURE CAMERA
MASS PRODUCTION
POLONIUM
RADIUM
X-rays

8. Famous innovators
1955 -2011 1982 1983
Who is he? Winnie and Per Enevoldsen Jo Malone
Steve Jobs - Founder of Apple
iPod
iPhone
iPad

9. How to Become One of Them?

10. Dare to Be Different!

11. Thank You For Your Attention!