Ada is an amazing role model for women in science and technology - more here. I'm always surprised to hear from people who have studied computing or programming but who don't know about Ada.
Also worth looking at - to put Ada's achievements in context - is Women's Status in Mid 19th-Century England by Helena Wojtczak. Women have come a long way since then but we still need to be watchful for our rights to education and participation.
The AI conversation is shifting. What began as a fascination with generative tools is rapidly evolving into something far more consequential: AI as an enterprise execution engine. The real challenge is no longer producing outputs, but delivering reliable, governed outcomes at scale.
As AI agents take real actions across your business, observability and assurance move from nice‑to‑have to non‑negotiable.
Data is no longer a static by-product; it is a flowing asset that powers automation and AI. When it is poorly governed, AI amplifies the problems - so managing data and its risks is now a strategic imperative.
Ukraine has shown that modern war is increasingly software-defined, data-dependent and commercially entangled. Salt Typhoon reveals what this means in peacetime: adversaries are mapping telecommunications, infrastructure and digital ecosystems long before a crisis begins.
