Exploring languages and tech at Digital Leaders’ 2017

On 2nd March 2017, over 200 girls from 22 GDST schools across the country gathered at South Hampstead High School for the GDST Digital Leaders’ Conference. Now in its third year, the Conference challenges and encourages and inspire budding female digital leaders in our schools. On hand to help with this mission were 60 staff and industry mentors from organisations such as Discovery, Capita SIMS, Brainlabs and Firefly.

This year’s event was built around the theme of languages and digital technology. The action-packed day began with an inspiring keynote speech from Inky Gibbens, Founder of Tribalingual, on the role of technology in preserving rare languages. Suitably inspired, the girls then set about their challenge for the day – to build a product or service to help language learning.