Jennifer Opal is a
multi-award winning DevOps Engineer, Founder of Health Tech app, ssensimm. , Content Creator , & a leading Neurodiversity Advocate building AI-powered solutions for neurodivergent communities.

LEARN ABOUT ME: As mentioned above, Jennifer Opal wears many hats including being the Founder of 'ssensimm'; an AI-powered health app that integrates with your wearables to help predict and prevent sensory overload for neurodivergent individuals. As an autistic technologist with ADHD, she brings her authentic lived experience to contribute to building inclusive health technology. To add to this, Jennifer sits on the Co-Production Board of a charity, 'Neurodiversity In Business' as well as being the former Founder of 'Data But Make It Human'; a company that had a mission to humanise the tech industry by harnessing data insights to drive neurodiversity, inclusion, and equity in the tech industry. Her work and advocacy has led her to contributions & features in Forbes, The Guardian, BBC, and Mashable.

WINS & RECOGNITIONS: She was the winner of the Tech Women 100 Awards 2020 & the Rising Star Award at the Black Tech Achievements Awards 2020.

Along with this, Jennifer has gained multiple nominations & recognitions such as being named as one of the Most Influential Women In Tech by ComputerWeekly.com in 2019, 2020 & 2021 & nominated for the Rising Technologist Award 2020 for Booking.com's Technologist Playmaker Awards 2020.

She has been featured in Refinery29, The Guardian, BBC News, Silicon Republic & more.

Jennifer contributed to a book called 'The Voices In The Shadow'; a book that showcases 51 stories of black women in tech, including her own. The book is being distributed in schools across the UK & Ireland as well as being sold globally.

FEATURES & CLIENTS: As a Keynote Speaker, Jennifer has worked with Bloomberg, Google, HackaJob, Coding Black Females, Code First: Girls & WeAreTechWomen to name a few.