Ada Lovelace Day is over!

After a marvellous 50 hours celebrating women in STEM, ALD finally draws to a close for another year.

Ada Lovelace Day’s founder, Suw Charman-Anderson, introduces the live event. All photos by Paul Clarke.

Hi there, 

Thank you!

Midnight has just arrived on Baker Island and Howland Island, finally bringing Ada Lovelace Day 2023 to a close.

We’ve had an absolutely wonderful day with lots of amazing independent events held around the world and, although many of them are over, there are a handful still to come. See what’s on in your area by checking our map!

And if you’d like to take a peek at some of the things people got up to yesterday as they celebrated around the world, take a look at our collection of posts on Wakelet.

Catch up with ALD Live and our online extravaganza

Dr Azza Eltraify

If you bought a livestream ticket but missed the Ada Lovelace Day Live show last night, you now have two weeks to watch it on demand, so check your email for the link. 

Our 50 blog posts profiling amazing women in STEM both historic and contemporary are up on our blog for you to dip into whenever you like. There’s no time limit on those!

And if you’d like posts like those delivered to your inbox every week, then don’t forget to check your newsletter settings on Substack and turn on emails for Profiles, Videos, and Books & Podcasts in the Notifications section. Each Thursday, we dig into our archives and send you the very best from past Ada Lovelace Days.

Thanks to our fantastic speakers!

L-R: Helen, Antonia, Rosie, Azza, Suw, Jennifer, Sophie, Aarathi, Anjana.

Many thanks to our Ada Lovelace Day Live 2023 speakers for sharing their expertise, passion and knowledge with us: Prof Jennifer Rohn, Dr Anjana Khatwa, Sophie Carr, Dr Aarathi Prasad, Dr Azza Eltraify, Dr Antonia Pontiki and Rosie Curran Crawley.

Special thanks go to our long-term compère, Helen Arney, who wonderfully and hilariously tied it all together.

And thanks to our fabulous team!

Huge thanks to Stephanie Davey, Katrina Barhouse, Martha Barhouse and Lorna Richardson for their invaluable help both on the night and ahead of the day. 

And of course, thanks to our Advisory Council for their guidance and support: Sumaya Abdurrezak, Louise Ferguson, Timo Hannay, Prof Thorunn Helgason, Stefan Magdalinski, Emma Mulqueeny and Tom Hunter. 

Thanks to our sponsors!

We would like to thank our host, Royal Institution, and our media partner, Stylist, as well as our sponsors, Redgate, Arden University, Ada Infrastructure, The Information Lab’s Data School and dxw, for their support this year. You can find out more about them on our website.

Thanks also to Synergy and Stylist for their help preparing our blog posts.

Ada Lovelace Day is reliant on the generosity of our sponsors in order to run not only our events, but also our work all year round, so the support of these companies and organisations has been absolutely crucial. If you’d like to join them and sponsor Ada Lovelace Day next year, please drop me a line.

Thank you! 

Finally, many thanks to all of you for your continued support of Ada Lovelace Day, whether you were a volunteer, speaker, event organiser, or attendee! 

If you’d like to help out more, please forward our newsletters to any friends or colleagues who might enjoy them, and consider becoming a paid subscriber so that we can continue to keep our content free.

Next year, Ada Lovelace Day will be on Tuesday 8 October so save that date in your diary now!

Thank you all again so much for all your wonderful support.

Best regards, 

Suw & the ALD team