Máirín Murray and Vicky Twomey-Lee talk Women in Tech

In this episode, Finbarr and Erin are joined by two innovative and passionate guests, Máirín Murray and Vicky Twomey-Lee.

Máirín Murray is a highly creative digital innovator with a passion for creating technical products that produce a positive social impact. She is a TEDx speaker and the Co–Founder of Tech for Good Dublin – an inclusive community of techies, activists and others which has been growing rapidly since it launched in 2017.

Máirín has particular expertise in developing digital campaigns, games, apps, animations, videos and e-courses, and has worked across the media, education and not–for–profit sectors. She has an MSC in Multimedia Systems from Trinity College Dublin and is a certified in Data Science, UX Design and project management. As a Senior Digital Content Producer at the BBC, she headed up the digital team for a UK wide youth inclusion service, BLAST. She is an enthusiastic and dynamic leader who is highly collaborative and has founded her own digital innovation studio.

Digital Doddle www.digitaldoddle.com

Recently, Máirín initiated TechFoundHer.com to build solidarity between women leaders in tech locally and globally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTYeb6g4ivY

Vicky Twomey-Lee is a software engineer but can be found nowadays organising community tech workshops and events with a focus on advocating diversity in the tech community.

She has managed the Python Ireland user group since mid-May 2005, and chaired four annual Irish Python Conference, PyCon Ireland. She was nominated and became a member of the Python Software Foundation in 2012, and also became a board member of the EuroPython Society that year. She launched PyLadies Dublin in October 2013 and is the main organiser.

She co-founded and is also the main organiser of Coding Grace, which runs language-agnostic, diversity-friendly workshops and events. Games have always been in her interests, so much so, she co-founded GameCraft Foundation to run community game jams so people can “Connect, Create, Collaborate”. Her focus to bring like-minded people together, grow, learn and support each other. You can find her on Twitter: @whykay

This episode is produced by the KBS Digital Hub-Grzegorz Rogala