About Girls Invent Tomorrow

GIRLS INVENT TOMORROW INITIATes PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO EMPOWER, EDUCATE AND MENTOR GIRLS to pursue STE(A)M careers.

The Team

Thuli Sibeko

Founding Member of an Events and Campaign Management Company, Anglo-African Events.

She has been planning and designing events for the past 8 years. Blending her passion and love for event design, creative marketing and comprehensive knack for project management, she has designed and produced many successful events for major corporations including HP, Intel, Microsoft SA, Nokia, AMD SA, ABSA Capital, Unisys to mention but a few.

Prior to starting the business, she was a member of a Non-Profit Organisation called Community Youth Empowa’ment, an organisation committed to social upliftment through community-based initiatives, the projects ranged from running a Saturday School, hosting Career Days, building Libraries in schools in Soweto.

Palesa Sibeko

Palesa is co-founder of a ways-of-working design firm, BetterWork, creative technology company, SiGNL, and non-profit work experience think-tank, The GoodWork Society. She has also spent 2 years volunteering as OpenIDEO Joburg Chapter organiser; then later serving as an OpenIDEO Board of Explorers member.

Her involvement with Girls Invent Tomorrow is driven by her passion to enrich young girls’ lives through practical means in encouraging that they consider pursuing the science, technology and design fields. In this way, they not only have an opportunity to explore meaningful and lucrative careers but can also impact an increasingly complex world: to shape it through work excellence and ethical practice of these disciplines.

Inez Patel

Inez works as a freelancer user experience designer for several local and international companies.

In addition to her contribution towards Girls Invent Tomorrow, she is the founder of a non-profit organisation, Ladies that UX Johannesburg which aims to upskill and empower women in the UX, UI and design industry within Johannesburg. Inez is also a co-organiser for The GoodWork Society.

Inez is driven by her passion for building supportive and enriching communities that are built on ethical design-thinking methodologies.

WHY YOUR PARTICIPATION IS IMPORTANT

Globally there’s a drive to make technology more appealing and accessible to women. With your help we can be part of this global drive and help build the next generation of young women in technology by providing them with the resources and tools to further pursue careers in ICT.

Get in touch - info [at] girlsinventtomorrow.com