Oyin Talabi | Buro Happold
Oyin joined Buro Happold’s energy consulting team in September 2017, after graduating from Loughborough University with a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering.
Since joining the energy team, Oyin has been involved in energy modelling, cost viability assessments and energy strategy development for a variety of city-scale masterplan and campus projects.
Oyin has a keen interest in low carbon energy systems and technologies. She is proficient in hydraulic modelling, using industry standard software to provide realistic network operation models. Oyin has experience using GIS mapping software for energy demand, supply and constraints mapping, for small and large scale schemes.
Oyin has specific project experience developing energy strategy for different scales of developments with focus mainly on district heating strategies for the site to discharge the planning commitments in alignment with the Greater London Plan requirements and first hand experience of various local authority guidance.
Oyin also has extensive experience in techno-economic modelling of district heating networks, engaging with councils and campus operators to understand existing operation and options for business operational structures.
Prior to joining Buro Happold, Oyin worked in the oil and gas field with Total Lindsey Oil Refinery UK were she managed and optimised mercaptan oxidation units on the refinery. Her role also involved corrosion management of key units of the refinery including the crude distillation units. She worked as a crude expert, analysing the effect of running new opportunity crudes on various units on the refinery, using the properties of the crude to determine appropriate crude blends which would lead to the least amount of fouling on the units.
Oyin also worked as a research engineer at Columbia University in the city of New York, USA. She designed the first generation of 3D-printed membraneless electrolysers for low cost acid and base, hydrogen production. She helped to improve the industrial process of producing acid and bases on the project, making it more sustainable and cost effective.
Peny Lantzouni | Shell International
Currently, as the Chief Product Manager for Analytics and Insights, Peny drives the strategic roadmap for analytics projects across Shell’s Global B2B businesses.
Peny leads the delivery of digital products that enable data driven decision making for a business that is the market leader for 12 consecutive years and sells 5bil litres of product to over 1300 commercial customers in 100 countries.
Prior to this Peny worked as Technology Manager for Shell Retail, leading digital projects that transformed the B2C business from a fuel to a mobility retailer, including loyalty, CRM and digital marketing.
Peny holds an MPhil in Technology Policy from the University of Cambridge, a Diploma in Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science and a Management and Information Systems degree from Athens University of Economics and Business.
Peny is passionate about women career development in technology roles and has organised multiple events about Women in Tech. Peny has also been involved in graduate development since the beginning of her career, actively mentoring early career professionals and students in Greece, the UK and India.
Ravneet Kaur | Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult
Ravneet is a clean energy enthusiasts and a clean tech ninja.
She is dynamic, result-oriented innovation professional with over 11 years of business development and innovation management work experience having a formal education in business management, marketing, renewable energy, and finance. Ravneet holds triple masters, an MBA from a reputed Indian University, MSc International Marketing and PGCert Renewable Energy Enterprise and Management from Newcastle University
She is committed to utilise disruptive technology and innovative commercialisation strategies to promote novel clean technology solutions for solving global social, economic, and environmental problems. In her current role, as Innovation Manger at ORE Catapult she works as a self-driven strategic business, portfolio, and project manager with multi-functional teams implementing broad knowledge of development, procurement, technology, strategy, and policy that she has gained over the last decade. She is responsible for establishing effective relationships and managing and co-coordinating collaborative research and development projects with partners (academia, industry and SMEs) across the innovation landscape covering variety of offshore wind technologies.
In her previous role as Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Equiwatt limited, a cleantech start-up, which has been featured in Current News, Business Live, Chronicle Live and The Journal, she led the strategic development of the company’s vision and plans while managing smooth delivery of day-to-day tasks, including human resources, legal, tax, marketing, report writing, preparing investment deck, finances, and extensive market research. During her time at Equiwatt, she has raised private investment and government grant; developed key strategic partnerships and managed various projects involving senior stakeholder including the development of IoT technology and its deployment for pilot trials.
Throughout her career, Ravneet has proven track record of being recognised for her excellence. She was one 200 hundred exceptional digital talent visa recipient in 2016, a highly prestigious recognition by UK gov. In 2018, she was invited by UK PM at a technology celebratory event at 10 Downing Street. She is winner of Entrepreneur of the Year, Young Renewable Energy Professional by Renewable Energy Association and recognised as Top 100 North East, UK Entrepreneurs. In 2020, she was also listed in Future List of Northern Power Women, sponsored by Ernst and Young, for her work in energy sector as a role model and future leader
Being first woman from her family to study abroad and have a professional career, it was a uphill battle to break many conformist societal norms and thus, very well recognises the value of role models and representation. So giving back to her community is a very important aspect of her life. She passionately promote entrepreneurship and stem uptake amongst students and particularly encourage women to pursue higher aspirations. Further, she volunteer as an Enterprise Adviser for local schools and Fouder4Schools, and a STEM Ambassador. She is also a guest lecturer on innovation and offshore renewable sector by Newcastle University.
Yamina Bibi | Forest Gate Community School
Yamina Bibi is an innovative values-driven Assistant Headteacher who thrives developing others through mentoring and coaching. In particular, Yamina has a passion for developing and supporting other women to become middle and senior leaders in education.
As a leader who is enthusiastic about staff development, Yamina leads the whole school coaching programme, where she has trained over 30 coaches at all levels as Teaching, Learning and Leadership coaches. Outside of her own organisation, for four years, Yamina coached female teachers for the Department for Education’s voluntary Women Leading in Education scheme. As an inspirational leader who is continuously seeking to improve, Yamina is currently completing the Resilient Leaders Element Accreditation to become an RLE consultant coach herself.
As Assistant Headteacher (AHT) leading the 2020 TES award winning English Team of the Year, Yamina loves sharing her knowledge inside and outside of her organisation by presenting at various CPD events such as Seneca English CPD and TeachMeet English Icons.
Yamina is also devoted to helping Early Careers Teachers thrive and does this by leading CPD inside and outside her organisation such as at WomenEd events and for the Chartered College of Teaching. One of Yamina’s favourite roles is as a voluntary Network Leader in London for WomenEd, as part of a global community of volunteers inspiring women to lead in education.
Yamina is driven by a desire to ensure that leadership in education is truly inclusive and representative and aims to ensure that women of an ethnic heritage gain promoted roles. She also promotes inclusive allyship and speaks and writes about its importance. Yamina is a proud member of the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) group for the Association of School and College Leaders, working alongside other leaders to promote and increase diversity and representation for people from BAME backgrounds at leadership levels.
Tanya Howden | Heart of Midlothian FC
Tanya Howden is the Digital Education Programme Manager for the Innovation Centre at Heart of Midlothian FC.
Originally from the Highlands, she is a Computer Science graduate from Heriot-Watt University where she took her first steps as a mentor for other women and girls in technology through lab helping and co-founding the Women@CS group at the university. Since graduating, she has stepped into STEM education, working to show young people from all backgrounds how exciting and creative these subjects are whilst breaking some of the stereotypes held by young people, especially girls, about these industries.
She joined Edinburgh based start-up, Robotical, who are the creators of Marty the Robot – an eye-brow wiggling, walking, and dancing robot that brings coding to life and supports students with exploring the world of technology.
Meanwhile, Tanya was volunteering outside of work to run code clubs around Edinburgh to continue to spread the word to young people about how creative and exciting coding and engineering is. Through this voluntary work, she met the team at Heart of Midlothian FC who were looking to set up an Innovation Centre, that is the only one of its kind in the UK, with the aim to provide digital education classes for young people and families in the underprivileged community of Gorgie to learn vital skills for any future. She then went on to join the team full-time to manage the digital education classes using sport and football as a magnet to attract young people to try out coding for the first time and explore how they could use their interests to create using technology for good.
Meera Chudasama | Oakgrove School
My name is Meera Chudasama and I have 3 exciting roles.
• English, Media and Film Studies Teachers at Oakgrove School, Milton Keynes
• Research Lead, Oakgrove School, Milton Keynes
• Editor, Innovate Journal
In each role I am privileged to develop strong teaching and learning practices for other practitioners and myself. For myself, I have developed students as researcher who have taken part on research; this has lead to students leading and presenting their own findings to their peers. Such presentations have provided further evidence for the role of students academic research. Furthermore, I have been able to support students achieving their target grade; 70% and above for English and 98% for Film Studies coursework.
My love of teaching and learning led me work with a growing network of global practitioners. At the core of this network is Innovate Journal. I re-invented this journal and curate it by myself. As a result, I have grow an in-house teacher-research journal to an international platform that shares best teaching practice.
Alongside the journal, I connect with a (put a number in here) teachers to support their investigations into their practice; as well as working on a one-to-one level with teachers to develop their own action research in their unique contexts.
Fiona Yelland | Queen Mary University London
Fiona is responsible for the administration and coordination of Teaching Recognition and Student Engagement within Queen Mary Academy.
To date, this has included acting as the administrator for a national week-long online Festival of Education, encouraging both staff and students alike to think about the way education is changing as a direct result of the COVID-19 Pandemic. She also works to recognise the work of both teaching staff and students through her role within the Queen Mary Academy, who deliver university-wide support and development of education and research. We work with staff and students to develop and enhance their practice in teaching, learning, and research.
Prior to joining, Fiona managed Educational programmes for social enterprise Code First Girls, working to address gender parity in the tech industry by training women for free in a variety of tech skills. In this role, Fiona was responsible for coordinating and working with 25+ universities across the UK and Ireland to provide free education and training for c.1000 women every month of 2020, leading CFG to hitting our target of teaching 20,000 women to code for free before the end of 2020 early in September of that year.
Alongside this, Fiona holds an MA in Education in Arts and Cultural Settings from King’s College London, where she specialised in museum learning provision for young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Through this work, Fiona partnered with numerous Museums and Cultural Heritage sites to grow and develop their offerings for those with ASD.
Toria Bono | Thomas A Becket Junior School
Toria is the Equity and Diversity lead at Thomas A Becket Junior in Worthing, a Primary Evidence Lead Educator for Durrington Research School, the OU UKLA Reading for Pleasure Lead for West Sussex and a class teacher.
She is in her 21st year of teaching and has held a number of roles across the primary sector during that time. In June 2020 she was awarded a fellowship by the Chartered College of Teaching for her commitment to education.
Toria is passionate about preparing young people for the world that lies ahead of them and believes that if educators collaborate and learn from each other, the life-chances of young people will be significantly improved. In February 2020, she created #TinyVoiceTalks as a platform for the quieter voices in education to be heard. She believes that we all have a voice - we just need the right platform. From that date, the #TinyVoiceTalks community have come together every Tuesday on Twitter to find their voices and enable others to do so too. In August 2020, she launched a podcast of the same name to enable quieter voices to speak about big issues. Toria has spoken to educators about significant issues such as 'coming out', 'inequality' and 'disability'. She hopes that by having these conversations, it will enable educators to better understand the young people they teach and know how to support and prepare them for their future.
Recently, Toria has become an anchor presenter for Teacher Hug Radio and has her own show 'Origins' and is a presenter on Teacher Hug Book Club. Toria's love of books and of teachers as readers extends further and she created Tiny Voice Book Salon in November 2020. This monthly show on YouTube is an opportunity for authors and educators to come together, discuss a theme and share their love of books. Children's authors and educators are dedicated to improving the lives of young people and this show gives them an opportunity to collaborate on themes such as 'Diversity', 'Family', 'Journeys' and 'authentic representation'.
Above all else, Toria is a mother and wife who recognises that without the unwavering love and support of the family she adores, all her achievements mean very little. She is also a passionate full-time class teacher and her pupils matter most amongst all her other projects. The last year has certainly been challenging for all educators, however Toria believes that even with these challenge there are a myriad of opportunities to connect and to learn from each other.
Hilary Lambert | J.P. Morgan
Hilary Lambert, Senior Administrative Coordinator & Assistant Strategy Lead, develops and drives strategy for the JP Morgan Asset Management UK Administrative population.
An employee since 2017, Hilary was previously based in Dubai where she set up a new office for Macquarie specialising in Sovereign Wealth Funds. Prior to this, Hilary was Executive Assistant to the UK CEO of Deutsche Bank in London. Before this, Hilary was based in Bermuda where she worked with Group Management for the offshore law firm, Appleby. Hilary was educated at Solent University where she studied Law and Business and has over 20 years of experience of supporting Senior Executives, while leading and managing teams ensuring first class support is a priority.
Hilary has been recognized with a number of Honors and Awards during her career including Executive Assistant of the Year awarded by Executive PA magazine in 2006 and Employee of the Year awarded by Appleby in 2010.
Hilary sits on the JP Morgan UK Employee Forum and is Secretary to the JP Morgan Asset Management UK Philanthropy & Volunteering Committee.
Ann Hodson | PwC
I think I was always destined for a career as a personal assistant.
When I took my options at school (way back in 1989), the “art” subject I chose was keyboarding applications and, as one of the top five in my class, I was one of the first to be allowed to use the electronic typewriters (the ones with the little window that printed a line of text that you typed in) and yes, I did learn to type on a manual typewriter! I stayed on at school to do my A Levels but decided it was not for me and left after a few months. I got a job as an office junior at a construction company and went to night school to study typing and shorthand. I loved both and knew this was the career path for me.
After a couple of years I moved into professional services and that is where I have spent most of my career - mainly solicitors, corporate real estate and accountancy firms. I gradually worked my way up from an office junior to secretary and then to senior secretary/PA.
I met my husband in 2003 but I lived in Birmingham and he lived in Lancashire. After months of weekend travels on the M6, we decided to move in together so I moved “up North”. I worked locally as a secretary for a year before I secured a job as Office Manager at JLL in Manchester where I had worked previously in Birmingham.
After the birth of my first son in 2009 I wanted to work closer to home and was lucky to secure a job at a local housing association which included a role in governance looking after the Board. It was whilst I was advertising a PA role for my team that I noticed an offsite PA role advertised at PwC which looked perfect for me as I was then a mum of two children under 8. I previously worked for PwC in Birmingham and only left to move to Lancashire so it felt like it was meant to be. I was lucky to succeed in the interview and I re-joined PwC in 2016.
I have been very fortunate in my career to work at some amazing companies, with some brilliantly talented people and been exposed to a wide variety of opportunities to challenge myself, learn new skills and share my experience and knowledge with others.