Speaker Bio
linkedin.com/in/dr-claire-thorne
Computer Weekly’s 'Most Influential Women in UK Tech' 2024 - Top 15
Computing’s '100 Most Influential Figures in UK IT' 2024
Co- Chief Executive Officer of the tech skills and social mobility charity Tech She Can: bridging industry, policy and education, on a mission to close the critical tech skills gap
Adviser & Venture Partner at Deep Science Ventures: supporting the creation of deep-tech companies; working across deep-tech skills, international R&D partnerships, commercialisation strategy
Driven by social justice and inclusion
Passionate about skills, science and tech R&D policy, and STEM education and research
Council member: The Foundation for Science and Technology
Board member: techUK’s TechSkills Employer Advisory Board
Background: leading innovation strategy in research-intensive universities, working across government, business, start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs, third sector, philanthropy and academia
Sector-agnostic, operating in deeptech, digital, smart infrastructure, space and defence innovation ecosystems
PhD in Astroparticle Physics from Imperial College London on dark matter.