With a theme of ‘Powering Potential: The Tech Shaping Future Horizons’, the 2025 Vogue Codes Summit was an event dedicated to reshaping perceptions of STEM and technology, and a force in facilitating tech careers for women.
Our own Associate Professor Amy McLennan joined the day as a speaker on the panel entitled ‘Jobs of the Future: Future proofing your career for the next big leap in STEM’. The panel was led by the Head of Brand at Vogue, Gladys Lai, and featured Amy alongside Sarah Bradley, Lead Data Scientist at Nasdaq, and Sabina Streatfeild, Executive Manager of Innovation Ecosystems & Tech Community at the Commonwealth Bank.
Discussions focused on exploring what the future of work will look like as we move to a world increasingly shaped by AI, data, and digital transformation. The conversation reiterated that many jobs of the future will require tech expertise, and at the same time it takes a lot more than tech skills to create tech futures. Around any piece of technology sit teams of designers, operators, transportation networks, accountants, policy makers, logisticians, marketers, lawyers, communications staff, educators, technicians, manufacturers and more.
This event was a reminder that technology transcends the bounds of code and digital tools. AI-enabled systems are just as much about whose voices are heard, connected, and served by technology than the pure soft and hardware that are engineered.
Amy brought a cybernetic and systems thinking lens to the discussion, highlighting that our futures are being built right now, and we all play a role in shaping them.
