In today’s episode the founders of Her Tech Tales are all gathered again to talk about what we learned from our fantastic guests since we started our podcast on international women's day. What were the biggest teaching moments, what surprised us that the guest said and what will we take with us into our daily life.

The Her tech tales trio also gives you insight into how it was to start a podcast in two weeks and what were the scariest parts for us. We also share some personal stories and things that have happened in our lives the last few months and tell you a bit about what is our plans for season 2 after the Summer break.

We hope you tune in also after Summer and we promise to bring you more exciting guests and work even harder to have as many women as possible join the tech industry, as we believe it will bring better tech products to all of us!

We welcome Marianne Sandmæl to Her Tech Tales this Friday. Marianne is a change management guru, working with digital collaboration and technology at Coop, one of Norway's largest grocery chains.

Marianne is truly a people person, driven by working in teams towards strategic goals and getting everyone to use new technology. Her focus is to use proven methods to make her coworkers change the way they work. When she was young, she played handball and at the age of 11-12, kept a statistics journal on her performance in games and training sessions to improve - proving she was a goal oriented person from a young age. Marianne shares her experiences from studying pedagogy to entering the IT world and has many valuable tips to offer. Have a fantastic listen!

This week we talking to a real power woman, the Country Leader of Nordcloud in Norway, Therese Olafsen Mørck. Therese has worked in Tech since 2007 and thinks that you can’t find an industry more dynamic!

We get to know that Therese had a lot of responsibilities at a young age, and through this has learned to “just get things done”. She is also very open about being able to make mistakes as a leader and learn from them. Nobody is perfect 😀. She also admits that she is not the typical “techie”, but that there are roles in tech for so many of us - just learn, adopt and you will find your way!

We also off course talk about cloud and all of the opportunities with this technology- which is a topic Therese loves (as she should ;))! Tune in for an inspiring session with a woman as dynamic as the industry she loves!

In today's episode we meet, Katinka, a driven and goal oriented woman. She has always known what she wants and is following her passions. She talks about her experience with completing a full-time internship whilst in university studying for her business and tech degree.

She is now working for Microsoft with generative AI and modern workplace solutions. Katinka explains that she was thrown into the deep-end, but manages to swim just fine.

Learn more about this strong, ambitious (even though she just goes with the flow and does not have a five year plan) and positive young lady and how she got into tech and why she loves it!

Even though Katinka has always worked hard, she gives great advise around not taking everything too seriously. Her advise to students: exams are not everything!

In this episode you get to meet a real problem solver, Diksha Tripathi. She is an application developer for mainframe as well as a mainframe modernisation expert.
Listen in to how a 30-year-old women got into mainframe (it is a bit unexpected) and how she has excelled.
Diksha says that the way to stand up for herself in a male dominated industry is to know more than they do. "Knowledge is the power", and she is always learning and developing her skills.

Diksha also shares stories about her upbringing, how she was in school and how she became the first engineer in her family.

Tune in to learn how to always be curios and how to be a problem solver of excellence!

In today's episode we are meeting the outspoken and to-the-point tech-woman, Kelsey Nutland.

Kelsey says herself that she did not identify as being a woman in tech, but with her role as Head of GRC in Group security in Tomra she definitely is. She has a background in consulting and as a risk manager and has a way into tech that is inspiring. Kelsey also gives great advice on work-life-balance and is not afraid to speak her mind on subjects close to her heart in this episode. Tune in to learn more about Kelsey and how she is thriving in tech!

In this weeks episode we are interviewing the incredible Marion Løken. Marion has a PhD in applied mathematics and she started working with machine learning/AI long before it was considered cool or computing power was as we know it today.

Together we dive into Marion’s background and talk about how her childhood interests shaped her passion for studying and working with technology.

Marion makes statements like «girls have always been good in mathematics» which is so inspiring! She also explains why Chat GPT doesn't always work the best and how you can solve that. She also talks about what excites her about the future of AI (and what is scary about it).

For this and so much more - tune in and have a listen!

In this first episode of “Her tech tales” on International women’s day we are digging into the inequality we women face in tech but also the opportunities. We will cover everything from gender pay-gap to mansplaining with personal stories woven into it. You will also get to know your hosts a bit better where we explain a bit about our background and how we got started in tech. In future episodes (every two weeks) we will interview prominent women in tech about everything from their favorite tech gadget to their studies and their challenges and the best parts of working in tech. Stay tuned!