Christina Scott is an award-winning senior technologist with 25+ years experience leading technology, data and product teams. She is former CTO / CIO / Chief Product Offcer of OVO, News Corp and the FT. Her early career included the BBC and time as an Accenture consultant. She began her technology journey as a mechanical engineer. Specialising in digital transformation and building high performing teams to deliver business success, Christina firmly believes the key to outstanding outcomes comes from people, not software. Christina is CIO of the Year at the Women in IT awards, and regularly appears in the CIO 100 and top “most influential leaders” lists. She judges a number of awards and is involved in a variety of diversity initiatives.