Emma Kendrew is Accenture's Technology lead in the UK, Ireland, and Africa. Emma has over 20 years of experience driving technology-powered business transformation with clients in retail, resources, government, and financial services. Throughout her tenure at Accenture, she has played a lead role in establishing new centres to drive innovation, and helped to build new practices including automation, AI, and full-stack engineering. Before leading Technology, Emma led Accenture's Enterprise and Industry Technologies practice in UKI where she was focused on helping clients achieve enterprise-wide transformation. Prior to this, she led Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering driving the growth of Accenture's modern engineering business in UKI. In 2015 Emma was recognised as one of the UK's exceptional young businesswomen in Management Today's 35 Women Under 35. She is passionate about the role of technology in sustainability, diversity and regional opportunity.