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Urbano Network - Urbano UWACTE Community Launch and Networking Evening

This year, Urbano Network celebrates its seventh year connecting hundreds of companies and individuals across our business communities: Build, Finance, Media, People and Tech.

As part of our celebrations, we are hosting an evening event on Wednesday June 27th - timed for London Festival of Architecture (LFA) - where we will officially launch our new Urbano Community UWACTE (Urbano Women In Architecture Construction Technology & Engineering).

Since our first events in the summer of 2011, around 50% of an Urbano Build event audience have been female, many running their own companies or with senior positions at larger companies. And in 2018 to date, all our speakers have so far have been women.

UWACTE, our new Urbano Community, will sit along the established Build Community and allow us to foster deeper connections between women across the relevant sectors and specialisms, with female entrepreneurs, those in positions at SMEs and especially with those within our larger members and corporates.

Urbano sees events as catalysts to quality connections and all our events are open to not only women and men, but also from any sector and stage of business. This mix tends to make our events lively and genuinely engaging.

Urbano has always been passionate about encouraging diversity, with a genuine and provable commitment to being open to everyone, regardless of status, size, sector, sexuality, race or gender. We have also worked tirelessly to connect companies of different sizes and individuals with different roles and responsibilities across across all sectors.

About our hosts, Bakers' Hall

Bakers Hall is home to the Worshipful Company of Bakers and The Bakers' Company can trace its origins back to 1155 making it the City of London's second oldest guild. Rebuilt after the Blitz, Bakers' Hall is an elegant, modern venue for your business meeting, conference, wedding reception, bar mitzvah, exhibition or silver service dinner for up to 100 guests.

Our caterers for this event are Berkeley Catering, London's leading corporate and events caterers. Catering with passion! View their profile here: Berkeley Catering

About our event

We want our first UWACTE evening to bring together those all those who work in the ACTE sectors to celebrate the role women already play in their own companies, and encourage others to engage in a positive dialogue and agenda of change.

Our previous female speakers from across industry have included:

Ella Bennett - HR Director, Fujitsu UK & Ireland

Pauline Bickerton - Entrepreneur in Residence at Cass Business School

Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne - Founder & Director of Genius Foods

Charlie Duff - Global Social Media Relations Manager, Ernst & Young

Jane Duncan - ex President of RIBA

Sadie Morgan - Founding Director, dRMM & Chair HS2 Design Panel

Sofie Pelsmakers - Founder, Architecture for Change

Ann Kemp - Director Atkins / Chair UK BIM Alliance

Jacqui Glass - Professor of Architecture & Sustainable Construction

Teresa Gonzalez Rico - Future Cities Catapult Project Lead

Daisy Goodwin - Producer/Writer of ITV Series 'Victoria'

Jo Haigh - Dealmaker and responsible for over 300 multi-million deals

Kate Holt - HR Director at KPMG UK

Nicola Horlick - 'Superwoman', CEO of Derby Street Films

Lara Morgan - Entrepreneur & ex CEO of Pacific Health

Ann Pickering - Chief HR Officer at O2

Modwenna Rees-Mogg - Editor of Angel News

Jackie Sadek, CEO of UK Regeneration, amongst others

Jo Taylor - Head of Talent Management, TalkTalk

Katie Wood - Director of Operations Consulting, ARUP

Although this event is aimed primarily at women in the construction, engineering, architectural, environmental and technology sectors, we welcome male colleagues and supporters of diversity and inclusion to book and attend.

Event Organised By

Urbano Network

www.urbanonetwork.co.uk

Urbano is an independent business networking community that grew out of Shoreditch, London, from the early 2000's and helps our membership of mainly small, medium and micro companies - and those that run and work for them - to connect, engage, share, learn, and together develop new business opportunities.

Urbano consists of different Communities: Build, Create, Finance, Host, Tech, UWACTE (Urbano Women In Architecture, Construction, Technology & Engineering), Work & Zero Carbon. Like the UK economy, the majority of our member companies work in the Build community sectors, but we are well represented with members in the other sectors, too.

We are also pro-active, making introductions outside of events between members where we see value. We also offer a range of member services, including Tenders & Opportunities Notices.