Joysy John
CEO
01Founders
Joysy John is the CEO of 01Founders, tuition-free coding centres with a job-guarantee to improve diversity in tech.
Joysy is passionate about education, entrepreneurship and women’s empowerment. She is the former-Director of Education at Nesta and former-CIO of Ada, the National College for Digital Skills. She was appointed by the Department of Education to the Edtech Leadership Group and by the Welsh Government to the expert panel on Schooling Reimagined in 2019. She left her banking career in 2012 to change education after spending a decade working across Singapore, US and UK. She holds a Computer Engineering (Honours) degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and an MBA with Distinction from London Business School.
SHAPE Live | 15 June 2021
How can we optimise learning using digital pedagogy?
Making the case for employers to fund education and address the digital skills gap. How 01 Founders is building affordable education pathways for a diverse workforce in tech.
Introduction to why we need to reimagine the way that skills development happens in our current education system.
Exploration of a promising innovative model of peer-to-peer, gamified, digital learning.
Understanding of how different parts of the ecosystem can engage in support of innovations in digital skills development.