The Stack: UK Women Building Tech Policy
A living index of the women shaping the UK’s digital future
We founded the Women in Tech Policy Network to respond to a glaring gap in UK tech policy: there were too few spaces where women could speak openly about their expertise while truly being themselves.
One year on, the network has grown to over 500 members, with thousands more engaging through our mailing list and digital platforms. We host policy discussions, challenge orthodoxies in policymaking, and build connections across sectors. But again and again, our members (many with years or decades of experience in tech) identify the same problem.
Whether they’ve built successful start-ups, sit on government policy roundtables, or lead in their field, many still struggle to access opportunities to speak on panels, brief policymakers, or be quoted in the media.
At the same time, we’re regularly approached by conference organisers and journalists who say they want to feature more women in tech policy, but don’t know where to find them.
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That’s where The Stack comes in.
It bridges that gap: helping institutions more accurately reflect the voices shaping the UK’s digital future, and helping women translate deep expertise into influence.
This isn’t about tokenism. It’s about recognising the women already designing, regulating, and challenging the UK’s digital infrastructure — and ensuring they’re called on, cited, and heard.
Why it’s different
This isn’t a list for visibility’s sake. It’s a tool for influence.
If you’re a journalist, a policymaker, a conference organiser: anyone that wants to ensure the conversations they are steering forward are shaped by the women at the helm of policy making: email us to get your link to The Stack
Built on intersectional feminist principles, power-sharing, structural change, and rejecting performative inclusion, The Stack is a challenge to business as usual in tech and policy spaces. It rejects the idea that one woman on a panel equals progress.
We want representation across the policy-making spectrum — from infrastructure to ethics, from Whitehall to the grassroots.
Use The Stack If You Are
A journalist looking for credible, diverse voices beyond the usual suspects
A minister, adviser or senior civil servant shaping policy in AI, data, safety, inclusion, or digital infrastructure
A conference organiser committed to ending all-male panels and surfacing new thought leaders