Scotland’s first Women’s Economic Empowerment Conference kicked off this morning in Edinburgh , hosted by Women’s Enterprise Scotland (WES) in collaboration with US based Women’s Economic Imperative (WEI). Attracting over 100 thought leaders and change makers from across the globe, the conference focuses on opportunities and challenges for Equity, Inclusive Growth, and Sustainability. It seeks to instigate action and identify tangible next steps for transformative change, drawing on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the work of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, and the outcomes of the T-20 Task Force on Gender Eco
Scottish Enterprise Chief Executive Steve Dunlop and David Sole OBE, Managing Partner at School for CEOs, have joined tech investor Mark Logan as the first male Ambassadors to be part of the Women’s Enterprise Scotland male Ambassador programme. After delivering the Equality and Diversity in Business - Men as Agents of Change workshop last week at the 13th Business in the Parliament Conference, the pioneering trio of leading male businessmen headed up a call for more male entrepreneurs to join the ranks in fighting to end gender inequality in enterprise. Lynne Cadenhead, Chair of Women’s Enterprise Scotland said; “We are delighted to have such high profile change agents making a visible call
Talking Medicines is a ‘data tech for good’ company. Our vision is to capture the digital voice of the patient, in turn driving more effective medicines so the pharmaceutical industry can understand why, what and how medicines are being taken in the real world. Now is the right time because the force of change has started across the industry, with companies looking to improve the outcomes of their medicines as they face new competition from faster to market drugs and the reimbursement system that pays them is favouring effective drugs. This wave of change is propelled further by patients themselves, the patient voice growing louder as people become more empowered digitally, ask questions an