With Ada Lovelace Day the inspiration for this special episode, we actually go on a journey beyond into'the how' of embedding diversity, equity and inclusion by design, and in these ever evolving times, how to better embrace change too. To do so, I am joined by the brilliant Isabelle Guis, Chief Marketing Officer at Commvault, who has a truly fascinating personal journey to share - I am sure it will inspire many! We cover the holistic skills that matter most today and into tomorrow including STEM and STEAM, growing through discomfort or'feel the fear and do it anyway', mottos for professional and personal life, the power of mentoring and sponsorship and so much more, packed with real life examples. And beyond this still, we explore the power of protection for data which alongside trust, must be the biggest currency of our times sharing security examples from Commvault and looking ahead to their Connections 2022 event on November 2nd and 3rd. This is a superb technology, learning and networking opportunity, freely available to all, that can help everyone to innovate with confidence.

We'd like to share the video from our 2020 Ada Lovelace Day celebration of Women in Robotics. The speakers were all on this year's list, last year's list, or nominated for next year's list! and they present a range of cutting edge robotics research and commercial products. They are also all representatives of the new organization Black in Robotics which makes this video doubly powerful. Some of the takeaways from the talk were collected by Jasmine Lawrence at the end of the discussion and include the encouragement that you're never too old to start working in robotics. While some of the panelists knew from an early age that robotics was their passion, for others it was a discovery later in life.

My young daughter caught Covid in July. And she recently had a temperature again. But it took six days to get a test result, so my son was off school again. And my husband was working until midnight to fit everything in.

In celebration of International Women's Day, we're reposting our latest '25 Women in Robotics You Need to Know About' list. Over the last four years, Robohub has featured 100 inspiring women leading future developments within robotics, with plenty more for the years to come! Our next edition will be released on Ada Lovelace Day. In celebration of Ada Lovelace Day, we've compiled our fourth annual '25 Women in Robotics You Need to Know About' list. That's 100 women who have been featured to date.

In the beginning, the whole coding scene consisted of one woman. In the 1800s, the story goes, an aristocrat named Ada Lovelace was studying maths with inventor Charles Babbage, who had built a machine that could perform calculations – what we'd call a computer. Lovelace came up with a series of commands for the machine: the first computer program. Now, in celebration of this, the second Tuesday of every October is Ada Lovelace Day. It's not surprising that this has spiralled to become the most symbolic day for women working in science, maths and engineering, with Lovelace a figurehead for ongoing attempts to close a worrying gender gap in those fields.