On Thursday 20th April, 2023, Playfair Capital and 150 of the world’s leading venture capital funds, including Amadeus, Atomico, Balderton, Cherry, Creandum, Notion, LocalGlobe, Partech, Point9, Octopus, and Seedcamp will be holding remote office hours for more than 300 female founders from across Europe.

Emma Jones, CBE, founder of Enterprise Nation, said: “Increasing digital capacity is a key driver of productivity and growth. 

Niyo Bootcamps is to run its inaugural DistruptHER Talent Expo on 31 March 2023 to help improve the number of black women working in tech.

Despite efforts of businesses to improve gender equality in the workplace, women are still unequally impacted by COVID and the cost-of-living crisis. The pandemic and current economic conditions have acted as major barriers towards women succeeding in technology related careers, new research suggests.

ChangeNOW, the largest event of solutions for the planet, today revealed the 25 nominees for its Women Shaping Our Future programme, which aims to shine a spotlight on women set to have a significant positive impact on the world over the next 10 years.

NatWest and Meta have launched a partnership to offer financial readiness training and other support to female business owners.

Key figures from the cyber security industry will gather to address parliament this month to discuss the UK’s readiness to defend itself against the growing threat posed by ransomware.

Following reports that white collar workers are allegedly now under threat by AI, specialist recruitment firm, Robert Half, has argued that the right implementation of this tech will in fact help both save and create new, higher skilled jobs, rather than replace people altogether. 

Now in its fifth year, World Summit AI Americas will return to Montréal on 19th and 20th April 2023 and once again bring together global AI leaders from enterprise, big tech, startups, academia, law, government and investment to tackle the most burning AI issues and set the global AI agenda.

On Saturday 11 March Brighton & Hove’s most established independent coworking community, PLATF9RM, is back for their fourth annual Kickass Women event celebrating the achievements of the inspiring women in our community and beyond.

The phenomenal rise of online marketplaces in the last several years has seen eCommerce become a key strategic consideration for practically every retail business. Those wishing to launch, grow and reach new audiences need look no further than huge online marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay and many more.

Hear ye, hear ye! Startups Magazine’s second event of 2023 will commence on March 29th, 2023 in the glorious seaside town of Brighton! Get tickets HERE. 

Storyblok has released a survey of 6,000 consumers and 500 business leaders at medium sized ecommerce businesses across Europe and the US on the website features that influence their purchasing decisions. 

Ahead of International Women’s Day Raffolux, the UK’s leading digital raffling platform, shares that the UK has seen the biggest increase in the number of women on boards since 2016. The company analysed data from the annual FTSE Women Leaders Report to reveal that the UK experienced a +12.5% increase in the number of women on boards between 2016 and 2021. The increase is the largest seen in a list of similar countries.

According to the CBI, UK job vacancies are reaching record highs, currently at 147% of the February 2020 average. In those three years, an estimated half a million people of working age have left the UK labour market, and more than three-quarters of UK businesses say that access to labour is threatening UK competitiveness. Denis Dorval, Vice President of International, JumpCloud, highlights how to bridge the digital skills gap with new tech investment.

Technology industry leaders have been invited to Parliament for a special debate on the UK’s digital skills crisis.

The E-commerce Germany Awards 2023 ceremony was a roaring success! The awards recognise the best and brightest companies, teams, and individuals in e-commerce across Germany. It was a star-studded evening with hundreds of prominent leaders from the world of e-commerce gathering to celebrate the achievements of the industry. Let us hop into the details! 

Futurebuild is setting the stage for the construction industry to come together and share innovations in our joint goal of net zero. Taking place from March 7th to March 9th at London’s ExCeL, it will see creative startups and SMEs given the chance to share their pioneering ideas and products working to make net zero possible. The event is a unique opportunity to witness ground-breaking change first-hand, so we have put together five ways in which you can make the most out of Futurebuild 2023. 

Quite an event, that was! Discover the highlights and takeaways from this year's unmissable E-Commerce Berlin Expo, where industry giants gathered to showcase their latest ideas, products, and services.

Elite Business, the publication dedicated to inspiring Britain’s SMEs, is celebrating 10 years of entrepreneurship with livestream panel discussions at the UK’s top business expos.