Longford's Aislinn Gannon wins prestigious Women in STEM award

Newtownforbes woman Aislinn Gannon recently won the Health Technology Women in STEM award.

Aislinn received this prize at the Women in STEM Awards which took place in the Manor House in Dublin on October 26.
Aislinn has been involved in the technology industry for around 30 years and is currently working for 4OC as their Client Director.

“I’ve had over 30 years experience in digital now, and transformation in healthcare, so it’s really great to get recognised for the work that I’ve done,” said Aislinn.

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She added, “It was so great to be surrounded by such inspirational people, both male and female.”

Aislinn continued, “It was really great to get to be a trailblazer and to highlight the STEM industry because some areas, take engineering for instance, tend to see fewer women choosing to study at university. But it is just really good to promote STEM and women.”

The Mansion House, where the Awards were held, has quite the feminist history having once been essentially a headquarters for the Irish suffragettes.

Aislinn has spent 30 years in the healthcare industry and 20 of those in digital, she has continued to contribute to these areas repeatedly throughout her career even before she started her career path.

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“I got into it because of my dad, my dad was a maths teacher and an ICT teacher back in the 80s so I've always had it in my family.”

This is not the only award Aislinn has received. She won an award with the HSE for a project she worked on for the utilisation of across community hospitals.

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“We’ve done sort of data transformation programmes where we’ve taken peoples data and made some sense out of it, they were then able to determine how care was to be given and what services were needed to deliver the care to people.”

Last year Aislinn received five nominations and didn't win one. This year however was different.

“It was really nice to be recognised and get such a personal recognition. I don't know the stats off the top of my head but it’s worth looking into the lack of women engaging in STEM fields. We’ve still got a long way to go,” concluded Aislinn.