Tech­nol­o­gy indus­try: Ahoy girls and women!

ISLET is pos­i­tive excep­tion in the tech­nol­o­gy indus­try, because usu­al­ly there have been few women in tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies — one fifth of employ­ees. From our 30 employ­ees almost half are women and half of our direc­tors board are women! Wow! There is a great short­age of experts in tech­nol­o­gy indus­try and most of the poten­tial stays yet undis­cov­ered since we are unable to draw enough women in to the industry.

Our CEO Jan­i­na Luo­to has vis­it­ed many edu­ca­tion­al insti­tu­tions and told about the ICT indus­try to younger gen­er­a­tion. Jan­i­na has just been elect­ed for her sec­ond term at the Finnish Soft­ware and E‑business Asso­ci­a­tion’s hal­li­tuk­seen ain­oana naise­na yhden­toista muun suo­ma­laisen IT-alan vaikut­ta­jan kanssa. Jan­i­na toimi­ikin esiku­vana muun muas­sa nuo­rille naisille, joi­ta tarvi­taan mukaan teknolo­gia-alalle tuo­maan diver­si­teet­tiä mikä on alan kasvun, jatku­vu­u­den ja inno­vaa­tioiden perusta.

The Finnish Soft­ware and E‑business Asso­ci­a­tion is an inde­pen­dent indus­try advo­cate and speak­er which believes in software’s heal­ing pow­er. The asso­ci­a­tion is a com­mu­ni­ty for exec­u­tives in growth-ori­ent­ed and entre­pre­neur­ial com­pa­nies in soft­ware and e‑commerce indus­tries. The asso­ci­a­tion cre­ates bet­ter pos­si­bil­i­ties for entre­pre­neur­ship, it par­tic­i­pates active­ly in dis­cus­sions and in indus­try deci­sion-mak­ing, it pro­motes research and edu­ca­tion and it devel­ops the busi­ness of its mem­ber­ship com­pa­nies. The asso­ci­a­tion was estab­lished in 1993 and it has over 700-mem­ber com­pa­nies with their exec­u­tives and influencers.

The Finnish Soft­ware and E‑business Asso­ci­a­tion has ini­ti­at­ed and led #mim­mitkoodaa (#GirlsCode or #Wom­en­Code) pro­gram to increase the inter­est and to draw women towards tech­nol­o­gy industry.kiinnostuksen kas­vat­tamiseen teknolo­gia-alaa kohtaan.

#mim­mitkoodaa-pro­gram aims to encour­age women who are inter­est­ed in tech­nol­o­gy to learn the basics of cod­ing and to access employ­ment in tech­nol­o­gy indus­try. The Finnish Soft­ware and E‑business Asso­ci­a­tion offers with its mem­ber com­pa­nies free train­ings for women who are inter­est­ed in the indus­try who don’t have pri­or cod­ing experience.

If you wish, we will glad­ly come and tell our own expe­ri­ences for what it is like to work in the tech­nol­o­gy field and what type of career paths it offers. Please con­tact our COO Piia Hoff­sten.

#GirlsCode #Wom­en­Code #Wom­enin­Tech #Islet­Group #Islet­ter­life