Talking Tech: Powering the Future

Digital entrepreneur Sarah Wood, strategist Rachel Coldicutt, health-tech director Rebecca Love and Computer Science academic Marwa Mahmoud discussed their experiences as innovators and changemakers in the tech sector.

About the speakers:

Sarah Wood (KC 1992) is a digital entrepreneur and diversity advocate who co-founded Unruly, the international video advertising marketplace, acquired by NewsCorp for £114 million in 2015. Sarah is Senior Independent Director on the board of Tech Nation, the growth platform for British tech entrepreneurs. She is an ambassador for The Prince’s Trust Women Supporting Women Programme, on the advisory boards for AccelerateHer and Anna Freud, protecting and pioneering in the field of children’s mental health.

Rachel Coldicutt (KC 1992) is an expert on the social impact of new and emerging technologies, and executive director of research consultancy Careful Industries. She was previously founding CEO of responsible technology think-tank Doteveryone where she led influential and ground-breaking research into how technology is changing society and developed practical tools for responsible innovation. Rachel is an advisor, board member and trustee for a number of companies and charities and a member of the Ofcom Content Board. In 2019, she was awarded an OBE for services for the digital society.

Rebecca Love (KC 2015) is a behavioural scientist and co-founder of the health-tech firm Vira Health, which recently launched the ‘Stella’ app to support women through menopause with personalised treatment programmes. She completed her PhD at King’s in behavioural epidemiology, focusing on health inequalities in children’s physical activity, and after graduating worked for the London Mayor’s office on its childhood obesity taskforce and for the World Health Organisation.

Marwa Mahmoud (KC 2010) former Junior Research Fellow at King’s College and currently a Lecturer (Assistant Prof. ) in Socially Intelligent Technologies in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at University of Cambridge. At Glasgow, she leads the "Behavioural Al Lab - for human and animal behaviour understanding", focussing on research on multimodal behavioural modelling combining visual AI and multimodal perception for applications on “AI for social good”, such as mental health applications and animal welfare. She is the President-elect of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC). She previously held the position of the chair of Women@CL; a network that aims to support women and non-binary people in computing research in their careers and encourage them to aspire to leadership positions, both in academia and industry.