Happy International Women’s Day everyone! At SoAmpli we are proud to see thousands of women using the platform to further their careers and continuously build their personal brand on social media. Women alone have generated thousands of interactions through truly engaging content and have been instrumental in shaping the SoAmpli tool you see today.
To celebrate International Women’s Day properly, we took the opportunity to ask a couple of our colleagues some questions about what this day means to them and what it is like working in the technology industry.
CeAnn Simpson – Business Development Manager
Q. What is the best thing about working for a tech company?
C: I loveConstantly being pushed outside my comfort zone. I think failure is how we grow and constantly being on the edge I find incredibly challenging and exciting.
Q. What is the most exciting thing you can see coming for the future of tech?
C: I think the pace of innovation is just beginning and the barriers to market entry are being eroded, which means that new ideas are able to manifest a much faster pace.
Q. What is the proudest moment off your career so far?
C: Being given the opportunity to work in business development/sales in a tech start-up, I enjoy being challenged.
Q. What do you see as the biggest challenge facing the tech industry is?
C: The biggest challenge in tech right now is being able to explain and sell innovation into the marketplace. If a great idea is the starting point, then the next question has to be: “how do you add value?”. To be relevant, your solution has to deliver the answer to your client’s question,
Q. What does International Women’s Day mean to you?
C: Given all the political changes in the world this past year, this is a day where we should celebrate how far we have come as women in terms of our rights, freedoms and in making progress towards gender equality; but I think we also need to acknowledge how fragile these gains are and how we need to fight harder to demonstrate why gender equality matters for everyone, not just women. I think feminism has in the past not done enough to show why it is relevant to society and the benefits of educating and empowering women such as reduction in birth rates and raising people out of poverty. The single biggest indicator of a child’s success is the educational attainment of the mother, which speaks for itself.
Margherita Maspero – Content Strategist
Q. What is the best thing about working for a tech company?
M: What I like best about working for a tech company is the approach to problem- solving that manifests itself in all aspects of the business. We all work together to build technology that solves problems for our clients. The environment is extremely collaborative and everyone gets to actively shape the product and the brand.
Q. What is the most exciting thing you can see coming for the future of tech?
M: New and exciting technologies are popping up every day to optimise every aspect of our life. From sales to customer service, from dog-sitting to car sharing, we are really witnessing a revolution of sorts. What I’m most excited about is to see how these changes will impact people’s lives, helping them save time on manual processes and dedicate more time to what really matters, both at work and at home.
Q. What do you see as the biggest challenge facing the tech industry is?
M: I think this is a great moment for the tech industry as we’ve come to know it. It is becoming a more mature and stable environment with a number of exciting hubs around the world. The risk of saturation around specific technologies or solutions is always a possibility, but one that I believe is much less likely to blow up in our faces than it was 15 years ago. All in all, I’m pretty optimistic about the future of tech.
Q. What does International Women’s Day mean to you?
M: International Women’s Day, to me, is a celebration of all the brave women who came before me and fought for my right to receive an education, pursue a career and have the same choices in life as my male peers. It is also a reminder of how much still needs to change for women to achieve real equality, in every sector and in every part of the world.
Let us know in the comments what International Women’s Day means to you, or what you have experienced working in your industry. And as always, if you would like to know more about SoAmpli, you can sign up to our newsletter, or get in touch via info@soampli.com.
