Advocacy needs action to fix tech diversity gap – Suki Fuller, founder, Miribure
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🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Suki Fuller, founder of Miribure, discusses the power of advocacy to improve gender and ethnic diversity in tech, unpacks the importance of storytelling in data, and explains why we should dispel the myth that tech is a “highfalutin career path”.
In this episode, Fuller shares her experience as a woman and person of colour working in tech and why it’s important to raise awareness “every single day with everything you do”. She explains how she “struggles” with the dichotomy of needing labels like ‘women in tech’ to highlight that change is needed, despite male entrepreneurs not being described in the same way.
Fuller founded Miribure in 2015. It provides advice to businesses from startups to multinationals on how to mitigate risks. In addition to founding Miribure, Fuller is the co-lead of the Tech London Advocates Women in Tech and the co-chair of the Global Tech Advocates Black Women in Tech. She is also a fellow at the Council of Competitive Intelligence Fellows and was voted Computer Weekly’s ‘2023 Most Influential Woman in UK Tech’.
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| 0:00.0 | And especially as a woman and her person of color, it is about raising awareness every single day with everything you do. |
| 0:17.8 | And until we have that gender pay gap, ethnicity pay gap really closed, |
| 0:25.3 | it's always going to be the driving factor, like who made the most money, who gets paid the most. |
| 0:32.3 | And your average person is being diluted into thinking it's some, you know, sort of highfalutin career path, |
| 0:40.4 | when in fact, everything has an aspect of technology in it now. |
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| 1:17.3 | Hello and welcome to the UKTN podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK |
| 1:23.0 | tech industry and the destination for all things UK tech related. And this week we are joined by |
| 1:29.1 | Suki Fuller, founder of Mirabue and co-lead of Tech London Advocates Women in Tech. That's a mouthful. |
| 1:37.4 | Welcome, Suki. I know, as we all know, there's a lot there. But good morning, good day, good evening, wherever you are. But today, good morning, Jane. |
| 1:47.7 | Cover all bases. I like that. Now, I'm going to start with an award that you've recently won, voted most |
| 1:54.3 | influential woman in tech, or one of the most influential women in tech by Computer Weekly in |
| 1:59.0 | 2023. And before we talk about that award, I just |
| 2:01.7 | want to do a quick shout out to Computer Weekly. What a magnificent job they did on the post office |
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