BCSWomen Lovelace

Great site visit to Bath this week. It's going to be awesome!

BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium 2025 - Women into Tech I strongly recommend to any women or gender minorities in computing or related at university to take advantage of this opportunity!

Lovely people, inspiring speakers, and great ideas. Our students share their experience of this year's BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium. blogs.napier.ac.uk/womenintotec...

We are at LSBU wrapping up 2025 and planning for Lovelace 2026 - Bath, April 9-10.

Dare, always dare: Lovelace Colloquium 2025 On 16 April 2025 the BCS Lovelace Colloquium celebrated its 18th birthday at the University of Glasgow Student’s Union (GUU), a building which forbade women until 1980. Georgia Smith reports.

Excellent article on this year's BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social in the latest issue of the BCS @wearebcs.bsky.social IT NOW magazine:

www.bcs.org/articles-opi...

Lovely to hear from Joanna Jardine, one of our @uofgcompsci.bsky.social Graduate Apprentices!

STEM Educator Awards Shortlist 2025 Discover the 2025 shortlist for SheCanCode's STEM Educator Awards, celebrating the outstanding educators shaping the future of women in STEM.

Our chair, @safiabarikzai.bsky.social has been shortlisted in the SheCanCode STEM Educator awards.
shecancode.io/stem-educato...
If you want to vote for her please do!
She's not only chair of our brilliant women-in-tech conference, she's a school governor, senior lecturer and an all-round superstar

The Rewriting the Code stall at the Lovelace Colloquium.

The EY stall at the Lovelace Colloquium.

Our other industrial stallholders were: Rewriting the Code, EY, BCS SIGiST and BCSWomen. Special thanks to BCS for supporting much of the admin behind running such a large event. The BCS also provided membership for the prize-winning students.

Safia, Hannah and Amanda planning the Lovelace Colloquium timetable on a laptop on a train.

The organising team are already excitedly making draft plans for next year’s Lovelace Colloquium (the 19th!) while on their journey home. It’ll be at Bath University, 9-10 April 2026 and we’re looking forward to it.

Red-ruffed lemurs at Blair Drummond Safari Park interact with the SensorySafari system

New technology developed by @ilyena.bsky.social of @uofgcompsci.bsky.social in partnership with Blair Drummond Safari Park which allows zoo animals and their human visitors to share experiences could have positive benefits for both.

Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

The P&G stall at the Lovelace Colloquium. Hannah Grimes came to Lovelace as a student, and now runs their stall and was a judge for one of the poster prize contests.

The STFC stall at the Lovelace Colloquium. STFC sponsored the people’s choice prize.

The stall for the AIMS CDT hoping to attract some of the Lovelace attendees to study for a PhD in their doctoral training centre.

We had three sponsors of student poster prizes this year: P&G, STFC and Oxford University’s AIMS CDT.

The RS Components stall at the Lovelace Colloquium, full of interesting stuff including a demo of a microscope research project they’ve been funding.

RS Components is also a Bronze sponsor. They had an amazing stall with a competition to win an Arduino. They have also sponsored Lovelace for many years now including during lockdown, and this year Amy Muncer joined the panel at the end of the day to give advice to the students.

OpenBright stall at the Lovelace Colloquium with their bags of chocolate eggs as the date of the conference was close to Easter.

OpenBright speakers gave a summary presentation and q&a of what they had to offer during the lunch break.

Our Bronze sponsor OpenBright would like to fund research opportunities in computing for women students @openbright.bsky.social

Ocado’s stall at the Lovelace Colloquium with four members of staff including Bala and Mariana, and a lot of pens.

We’d like to thank all our sponsors this year, starting with our Gold sponsor Ocado Technology, and their excellent speaker Bala Tirumalasetti and panel member Mariana Fonseca. Ocado have sponsored the Lovelace attendees for four years now and we’re so pleased they support diversity in computing.

What an amazing day we had at the @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social Colloquium yesterday! Massive congratulations to Rose Gowen from @durhamuniversity.bsky.social who came first in the poster competition 💜🙌🏽🥳

And she’s now here on Bluesky too… welcome @samoorembe.bsky.social !

Yes we agree! It was 1980 before women were allowed in!

It was so good to catch up with @safiabarikzai.bsky.social at the @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social social evening last night 🤩

A lot of cake. Imagine cake for 200 people.

And now cake.

with the People's choice runner up being Rabia Qamar of the University of the West of Scotland for Enhancing Aviation Sustainability Through Machine Learning-Based Turbojet EGT Prediction

And our people's choice winner is Saxon Partridge-Smith of Nottingham Trent Uni for Are we forgetting how to remember?

Joint second prize in the MSc contest goes to Deborah Adedigba of Southampton Solent University for Automated Skin Lesion Analysis for Early Melanoma Detection: A Computer Vision Approach

Joint second prize in the MSc contest goes to Sarah Tucker of London South Bank University for Wall Street Through A Neural Lens: Forecasting NASDAQ and NYSE Stock Price with Residual Network 2D CNN Model

First prize in the MSc contest goes to Caitlin Haddow of University of Bath for Repurposing Agricultural Dust for Smoke Removal

Second prize in the final year contest goes to Nurul Mohamad of University of Birmingham for Designing for Everyone – Integrating Accessibility into UI Design

First prize in the final year contest goes to Sakshi Paygude of Keele University for CarbonPulse: Turning Everyday Activities into Sustainable Action

Second prize in the second year contest goes to Alexandra Loh of University of Cambridge for Data Integrity Detection in Wearable IoT Devices for Cardiac Monitoring

First prize in the second year contest goes to Isabella Mullings Wong of University of Bath for Edgar Allan Faux: Testing the limits of computational creativity through response to artificially-generated poetry

Second prize in the first year contest goes to Irene Peleteiro Paniagua of University of Warwick for Guilt within video games

First prize in the first year contest goes to Rose Gowen of Durham University for The Future of Culture in a Digital World

It's time for the prizewinners megathread!

Ilyena speaking at Lovelace. She is showing a video of parrots preening over a video call.

In the afternoon we had a great talk from Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas about using technology to enable animals to communicate remotely (her dog can video call her, and parrots can call other parrots).