Technology Leadership Forum

Why does the Technology Leadership Forum exist? Speaking to tech leaders day in day out from all different backgrounds and career paths, there is one common theme uniting them all. Leadership is a lonely place. There is a lot of pressure that comes with senior leadership. All too often, those in positions of strategic influence are heavily relied upon for their input, guidance and support. But who supports them? 🤷♂️ Harvard Business School published an article in 2023 on "How to Address Loneliness in Leadership" citing creating new, meaningful social networks as a key 'antidote'. Psychologists have proven that cultivating a network of allies that can provide mutual support massively enhances performance. The TLF exists to facilitate exactly that, with the sole missions of 'making leadership less lonely'. If you're interested in becoming an active member, shaping the future of the community and the events we run, drop Jack Cole a message 📧 #techevents #techleadership supported by WeDo

4 years ago, I started to run invite-only online and in-person round-table networking events which subsequently led my path to become a regular TLF attendee, speaker, and sponsor. 4 years later, WeDo now hosts and manages the Technology Leadership Forum and we’ve just completed our first event of the year in partnership with our friends at Just Eat !✅🎉 It was great to be back in the Just Eat office for 2 reasons: 1️⃣I spent 4 years building the engineering teams for Just Eat and it was great to see how far they’ve come with their AI journey. 2️⃣It reconfirmed that our business strategy is going in the right direction and we have so much more to achieve this year.... Here’s what went down Wednesday night 👇 💥96 Technology Leaders attended our event. The first event I’ve gone to where 100% of the Pizza was eaten… 🐷 🤖Just Eat delivered a talk on their AI journey, and how they architected their systems and structured their teams to deliver something into production. A big thank you to James Osborn and Natalie Bains for preparing this for our guests. 👏Our key speakers: 🥑 Ben Gamble 🥑, Hema Nair, Sarah Tolfrey, Mark Winteringham and Lexy Kassan delivered engaging discussions based unconference format covering big topics like AI-assisted testing, how to measure ROI for AI, Data Governance, Building Data Teams and AI Ethics and Security 👏 🧑🤝🧑Plenty of time for networking as we know this is where the true connections are made. To everyone who came, on behalf of the entire WeDo  team, we hope you had a fantastic evening, made new connections and gained value. If you're interested in being part of the Technology Leadership Forum, please follow us on LinkedIn and drop me a message. If you attended, could you help us improve by providing feedback here

Re-introducing the Technology Leadership Forum! Or the TLF as we like to call it 🎉 If you're a seasoned member of the community, recently attended one of our events or this is your first time discovering us, welcome! What is the TLF? It's a cross-functional tech leadership community that hosts quarterly, in person events, (soon to be 👀) career podcast episodes and provides: leadership training, career insights, future predictions and an opportunity to increase your professional network. Who is it for? It's designed for professionals with strategic influence across the software delivery cycle to: network 🤝collaborate 🙏 and share their experiences. We invite those at: C-Suite level, Industry Thought Leaders, Entrepreneurs and those in a position of influence to share your stories, practical experience and predictions for the future of tech. How you can get involved? We're always looking for people to host our events (fully booked for 2024 now but 2025 is open 🙌), speakers who are keen to share their journey and insights, sponsors/ partners and facilitators. If you're interested in being part of the community, follow the LinkedIn page and drop Jack Cole a message for more info 📧 #TLF #techleadership #techevents #techcommunity

Event #1 of the year complete 🎉🙌 On Wednesday this week, we saw 96 Technology Leaders come together in the Just Eat Takeaway.com offices in central London to talk all thing "Exploring AI in Enterprises" 🤖 (You've not seen me post about it yet as I've needed a day to recover to recharge the social batteries from what was an amazing evening 🔋) The amazing Just Eat team provided us with more than just a great venue and elite pizza choices (Poppy Silverthorne and Eva Peerless you are fab! 🍕) Thank you for all of your support in making this event happen, without businesses like you, these things aren't able to thrive 🙏 A massive thank you to all of our speakers 🎙: James Osborn and Natalie Bains thank you for kicking off the evening and sharing your journey! 🥑 Ben Gamble 🥑 - your influence over the topics and structure is massively valued as well as encouraging super insightful discussion. Hema Nair, Lexy Kassan, Sarah Tolfrey and Mark Winteringham your insights, experience and choreography of conversation was nothing less than great! To everyone I had the pleasure of meeting for the first time (some long time LinkedIn connections and some new) thank you for coming, we'll see you at the next one 💙 Since becoming organisers of the Technology Leadership Forum last year, we've seen it grow from strength to strength and this event filled the whole WeDo team with pride (but we've still got a way to go to make it even better)! If you're interested in coming to a future event, hosting or speaking at one, drop me or Jack Cole a message ✉

Our first event of the year is officially complete!✅🎉 Last night we saw around 100 Technology Leaders gather together at the Just Eat Takeaway.com offices for an evening of networking, contributing to the discussions led by our incredible guest speakers and demolishing an obscene amount of pizza (it was seriously impressive!)🍕 A huge thank you to the Just Eat Takeaway.com team for hosting us for the evening: Poppy Silverthorne & Eva Peerless you've been amazing! 🙏 To our main talk speakers: James Osborn and Natalie Bains thank you for sharing your insights and the #AI journey you've been on. Our key speakers: 🥑 Ben Gamble 🥑, Hema Nair, Sarah Tolfrey, Mark Winteringham and Lexy Kassan - thank you for providing great insight, sharing expertise and encouraging discussion!👏 To everyone who came, on behalf of the entire WeDo team, we hope you had a fantastic evening, made new connections and gained value. Our next event will be in June...date pending but keep your eyes peeled for more updates 👀 If you're interested in being part of the Technology Leadership Forum, head to our meetup page here: https://lnkd.in/eSujrVAp If you're interested in speaking, hosting or sponsoring, please reach out to: Jack Cole 👉 jack.cole@wedotech.uk 📧 Shout out to Corey Latislaw's amazing note taking! Thanks for sharing 📸 #techleadership #techevent #aievent

Kudos to The Leadership team for orchestrating the fantastic unconference on AI in enterprise. Eagerly looking forward to future sessions and the chance to connect with fellow experts in the field. Huge thanks to Hannah Reynolds and Jack Cole for making it happen!

Enterprise Adoption break out session at the Technology Leadership Forum hosted by Hema Nair.

Shout out and thank you to the WeDo family - Jack Cole Ryan Speed Hannah Reynolds Omar Bakali Loch Robertson for a fantastic Technology Leadership Forum event this evening focusing on AI in all its glory! 🎉 A well organised event with lots of different tracks to attend free flow and some well fuelled Q&A sessions too. I really enjoyed the intro sessions led by James Osborn and Natalie Bains showcasing their journey into AI at Just Eat Takeaway.com 👏 Also the super session with Hema Nair 🫡 PS: Whoever was responsible for the pizza give that person a raise and hug from me the selection was EPIC! ❤️🌟 Roll on the next event looking forward to it! 😎 #thisishowWEDOit

Todays the day! 🎉🙌 Tickets have officially all been taken, guest list confirmed and this evenings event pending 👀 We're very excited to see you all at Just Eat Takeaway.com for an evening of discussing all things #AI, hearing our amazing speakers take the stage: James Osborn, Natalie Bains, 🥑 Ben Gamble 🥑, Lexy Kassan, Sarah Tolfrey, Hema Nair and Mark Winteringham. A reminder 📣: this is a closed event so you will only be allowed entry if you have a ticket secured or have spoken to the WeDo team. If you do have a ticket, you can arrive from 4:30pm for networking, pizza and drinks and our main talk "Exploring AI in Enterprises" kicking off at 5:15pm🎙 Any questions, please drop event organisers: Jack Cole and Hannah Reynolds a message ✉

Todays the day.... 💥 The Technology Leadership Forum will be taking place later on today in partnership with Just Eat Takeaway.com and we've got some amazing leaders giving talks on some of the most prevalent topics in the industry. Even though there's excitement pumping through the WeDo team.... as well as a lot of caffeine!! Our local barista gave me a prompt to not forget about my day job..... ☕ So, if you are a Senior Platform Engineer in London who's looking to take their next step - drop me a message ☁ Next stop..... TLF 🚂 #Event #Hiring #Leaders