Sue Black

Professor Sue Black

Sue is a Professor of Computer Science at Durham University. She led the national campaign to save Bletchley Park, founded life-changing initiatives like BCS Women and #techmums and retrained hundreds of women from underserved communities through the award-winning TechUP programme at Durham University. In 2016 Sue received an OBE from King Charles for services to technology. Sue speaks about her experience with heart, humour, and honesty, and never reads from a script (unless you ask her to).

Keynote: If I can do it, so can you

Professor Sue Black named in the list of top 50 women in tech in Europe, and winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Lovie Awards 2018, Sue is one of the leading tech personalities in the UK today. However, Sue hasn’t had a traditional start to her career. She left home and school at 16, married at 20 and had 3 children by the age of 23. A single parent at 25, she went to university, gained a degree in computing then a PhD in software engineering. Sue shares her remarkable and inspiring story of one woman’s determination to succeed, talks about her passion for getting everyone excited about the opportunities that technology offers and how she built a successful career through education and a desire to succeed.