Robyn Foyster
Robyn Foyster
Women Love Tech Editor and CEO
Robyn Foyster is the CEO of Foyster Media - a multi-platform media company which owns The Carousel, Game Changers and Women Love Tech.
She is an award-winning journalist, editor and media executive and was voted one of B&T's 30 Most Powerful Women In Media at the 2015 Women in Media Awards. Robyn was a finalist for the Entrepreneur of the Year for the 2022 B&T Women In Media Awards and a Finalist in two categories for the 2022 Samsung Lizzie’s Awards.
She has also judged the Telstra Business Awards for ten years and her company AR Tech created an AR app for Vivid in 2019 and a shopping app called Sweep which was a Finalist in the Finder Innovation Awards. She previously held the role of Non-Executive Board Director of ASX listed tech start up Thred.
Former Publisher and Editor of Australia's three biggest flagship magazines - The Australian Women's Weekly, Woman's Day and New Idea.
She was Publisher of Bauer Media's most successful and prestigious magazines including Woman's Day, Good Health, Grazia and the Hearst Magazine group - Harper’s BAZAAR, Cosmopolitan and Madison.
Prior to that, Robyn was Lifestyle Editor for the Seven Network’s Sunrise
She is an award-winning journalist, editor and media executive and was voted one of B&T's 30 Most Powerful Women In Media at the 2015 Women in Media Awards. Robyn was a finalist for the Entrepreneur of the Year for the 2022 B&T Women In Media Awards and a Finalist in two categories for the 2022 Samsung Lizzie’s Awards.
She has also judged the Telstra Business Awards for ten years and her company AR Tech created an AR app for Vivid in 2019 and a shopping app called Sweep which was a Finalist in the Finder Innovation Awards. She previously held the role of Non-Executive Board Director of ASX listed tech start up Thred.
Former Publisher and Editor of Australia's three biggest flagship magazines - The Australian Women's Weekly, Woman's Day and New Idea.
She was Publisher of Bauer Media's most successful and prestigious magazines including Woman's Day, Good Health, Grazia and the Hearst Magazine group - Harper’s BAZAAR, Cosmopolitan and Madison.
Prior to that, Robyn was Lifestyle Editor for the Seven Network’s Sunrise
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TUE, OCT 17, 12:30 PM
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Four leading women in tech discuss the issues of unconscious gender bias that will result from AI and machine learning and debate whether it's too late to unravel the mistakes of the past. The lively debate will be moderated by Women Love Tech Editor and entrepreneur Robyn Foyster. She will be joined by Tracey Spicer, who is a
Global keynote speaker, emcee, broadcaster, author and multiple Walkley Award winning journalist. Tracey's book - MAN-MADE: How the bias of the past is being built into the future is out in May 2023. Another leading voice in AI is Dr Catriona Wallace, who is an Artificial Intelligence & Metaverse specialist, who has been recognised by AFR as the most influential woman in business and entrepreneurship. Catriona is the founder of the Responsible Metaverse Alliance and the Executive Chair of Boab AI - Artesian Capital's AI Accelerator and VC fund. Catriona was also the Founder of Ethical AI Advisory, now part of the Gradient Institute, where Catriona is a Director. She is also the co-author of the book Checkmate Humanity: the how and why of Responsible AI. Shivani Gopal will also join the debate. She is the Founder and CEO of ELLADEX and Co-Founder of Upstreet.
You Can’t Be What You Can’t See: Changing the Face of the Tech Industry
FRI, OCT 20, 1:30 PM
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The face of Big tech doesn’t have to look like the AI generated lovechild of Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. Women, although currently outnumbered, are ready to change the stats within STEM. Come explore ways to reshape the tech industry with Xylo Systems Chief Executive Camille Goldstone-Henry, Missing Perspectives Co-founder Hannah Diviney, Women Rising Founder Megan Dalla-Camina, and Women Love Tech Founder Robyn Foyster.
