HASSL Joins Women’s Safety Panel with Women in Tech UK and Yoti

Today, HASSL founder Amy Watson joined a powerful panel discussion on women’s safety, hosted by Women in Tech UK and Yoti at Yoti’s London HQ. The event brought together leaders and advocates from across policy, technology, and community action to explore how we can advance real progress on women’s safety - both online and offline.

Amy shared HASSL’s mission and insights on how harassment and violence are sustained by systemic issues - and why education, tech accountability, and collective responsibility are critical to real change.

The discussion tackled key topics including:

• Why safety is a collective responsibility, not just a women’s issue.
• The need to teach respect, consent, and equality early.
• The importance of access, ensuring safety education reaches all communities.
• The double-edged role of technology - from empowering apps and alerts to harmful deepfakes and AI-driven abuse.
• The responsibility of tech companies to address bias and design safer platforms.
  
  
  

Being part of this event was significant for HASSL. It allowed us to connect with senior leaders in tech and policy, speak to a room of changemakers about systemic solutions, and form new relationships that could lead to future collaborations. Events like this help amplify our message to the very people with the power to implement structural change.

This milestone is part of Stage 3 of our five-stage plan: scaling education, activating partnerships, and putting systemic solutions into public and industry conversations.