Biography

Sue Black is a Professor of Computer Science at Durham University, recognised by Forbes Magazine as a World Top 50 Woman in Tech & has received an OBE for her services to technology.

However, Sue’s journey to professional success was an unconventional one as she left school at 16 and was a single mum of 3 children by age 25. Fortunately for Sue she had an unusual ability in technology and this served as an extraordinary socioeconomic elevator for her career and life prospects.

Sue has since devoted much of her energies to helping bring the many opportunities enabled by technology to women around the UK and the wider world through initiatves such BCSWomen, #techmums and most recently the award-winning TechUP programme.

She joins us for TEDxDurham to discuss the remarkable potential for technology to improve lives dramatically for otherwise dispossessed communities and why this is better for the tech industry and the wider world.