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Robyn Foyster is a multi-award-winning journalist, tech entrepreneur, and a publisher and owner of an
independent media business specialising in female entrepreneurship and women in tech.
The former Editor in Chief of The Australian Women’s Weekly is also a podcaster, author, and has over three
decades of global experience in media across TV and both traditional and digital publishing.
A leading commentator on women in STEM, diversity and inclusion, leadership, technology and business,
Robyn has lived in Britain, the United States, and New Zealand.
She is the editor, owner and founder of three websites: Women Love Tech, The Carousel and Game Changers.
A passionate advocate for diversity, with a strong track record of supporting and mentoring young women, Robyn is a 2023 Women Leading Tech Champion of Change finalist and 2024 finalist for the prestigious Samsung Lizzie’s IT Journalism Awards.
A regular speaker on TV, radio and podcasts, Robyn emceed two panels for SXSW Sydney in 2023, and was a
speaker at the 2024 Intel Sales Conference in Danang, Vietnam and Intel AI Summit in Melbourne. She has been a judge for the Telstra Business Awards for 8 years and is a mentor for the Taronga Hatch Accelerator Programme.
Voted one of B&Ts 30 Most Powerful Women in Media, Robyn was Publisher and Editor of Australia's three biggest flagship magazines - The Australian Women’s Weekly, Woman's Day and New Idea and a Seven Network Executive. She was also Group Publisher for Hearst in Australia where she was responsible for Harper’s BAZAAR, Cosmopolitan and Madison.
Her career began as a copy girl at The Australian. At, age 23, she moved to London and worked for Today newspaper. In this highly competitive world, she was responsible for numerous front-page stories on racism, environment and fraudulent trade practices in Britain. She also worked in LA as the US correspondent for Ch 4’s Big Breakfast before returning to London where she worked as a producer for GMTV, Britain’s biggest breakfast TV show.
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