https://www.festivalofsustainablebusiness.co.uk/

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A CELEBRATION OF THE ORGANISATIONS LEADING THE WAY IN BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY.

THREE EVENTS | DOZENS OF SPEAKERS | OVER 2000 ATTENDEES

Tuesday 12 March 430-630pm in Bristol - venue TBC

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tech4good-south-west-relaunch-tickets-813373190107

Join us for Tech4Good South West relaunch event, open to all to find out more about our new direction as a Community Interest Company, and the launch of our membership model.

Meet our sponsors, organisers and members of our advisory team.

Event details to follow!

11 March 2024 - Bristol - timings TBC

https://www.purposefest.org/

If you are already a B Corp, on your B Corp journey or simply using your business as a force for good, then PurposeFest is a great place to learn, share and network together.g

Tech4Good Exeter Launch

Wednesday 7th February - 430-6pm, Exeter Innovation Hub, Exeter

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tech4good-exeter-launch-tickets-791940474277

Brought to you by Tech4Good South West and Exeter University, join us for the exciting launch of Tech4Good Exeter at the Exeter Innovation Hub! This in-person event is a must-attend for anyone interested in the intersection of technology, social justice and social change. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a social entrepreneur, or simply curious about how technology can make a positive difference, this event is for you!

At Tech4Good Exeter Launch, you'll have the opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and be the catalyst of a new community in Exeter.

Our ambition is to bring together stakeholders across the tech and non-profit sectors, academia, local business, public sector, funders and investors to actively contribute to improving the welfare of our communities.

We want to convene an Exeter network focused on tech for good - to hear inspiring stories from local tech leaders, and learn about innovative projects that are using technology for good in our community.

Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to network, and be a founding member of a tech for good movement in Exeter.

Mark your calendars and join your hosts Sue Prince and Annie Legge at the Exeter Innovation Hub for an evening of inspiration, collaboration, and celebration.

Online Microsoft SharePoint session for charities

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Agenda to expect:

• Introduction

• Sharing files - not creating duplicates, edit files

• Organising the SharePoint and how to use efficiently

• Photo library creation

• Shortcuts

• Saving locations

• Sharing multiple files at once

• Creating a link to share to promote collaborative working

• Q&A and Troubleshooting

Bath – People, Planet, Pint: Sustainability Meetup Tickets, Thu 1 Feb 2024 at 19:30 | Eventbrite

Pop down to your local People Planet Pint meetup to find more about what’s going on locally with sustainability and how you can get involved

No pitches, powerpoints or panels. Just People, Planet, Pints. Your local meet-up is a great place to start your journey or continue learning, and meet diverse people to chat about life and how we can sustain it. Every job is a climate job, so come along and learn about how you can take action, as well as what is going on locally.

We welcome everyone, regardless of their experience or background. People Planet Pint is a space where everyone can feel comfortable learning about sustainability and sharing their ideas.

After all, creating a sustainable future requires connected communities. And what better way to bring everyone together than over a drink?

All Tech is Human is a US-based non-profit initiative growing a Responsible Tech Ecosystem and very much an increasingly global community. The aim is to grow the Responsible Tech field by promoting knowledge-sharing and collaboration among multiple stakeholders in order to co-create a better tech future, close to our hearts at T4GSW!

They will be back in London on 5 December - sign up to find out more.

Third Sector Unconference

30 November 2023 in Birmingham, 930-530pm

ukcharitycamp.com

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UKCharityCamp is an unconference: a space for conversations, not-for-profit, free to participants, open to anyone, with travel bursaries for those who need them. We're expecting a range of third sector folk to attend; from trustees to people at smaller charities who have to “do digital” as well as everything else to heads of digital at larger organisations. Diverse experiences make for a better event.

The agenda will be worked out on the day, by the people who are there. You can look forward to folk bringing their most burning questions, and to have real trouble working out which session to join. We'd expect sessions on recruiting for digital roles, what good practise with AI looks like, where to focus if you have to do it all, working with digital partners, and loads more.

Wednesday 29th November

Online - 12-1pm

We have a new Tech Session: Microsoft Power BI in our Microsoft Series on Wednesday 29thNovember (13:00 – 14:00), incorporating your feedback on what you would like to see from each of the sessions.

Please don't be discouraged from attending this training session if you have no Power BI experience, our host will be taking you through the basics from the beginning to help you improve any metrics and reporting you may need to capture in your organisation.

Please sign up using the link attached to our Teams Webinar where you’ll receive an invite for the session and please await further details of our next Tech Session dates in the Microsoft Series – Tech4Good Microsoft Series: Power BI

A workalong document will be provided once you register for the session to help you build your visuals during the session which our host will be walking you through using pre-prepared data. It would be great if you could download Power BI before the session on Wednesday 29th November to provide more time in the session to get used to using Power BI's tools but please feel free to reach out if you have any questions and we can provide any support during the session too.

Please also see the help documents provided below to help you get started and explore more about Power BI before the session. 😊

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-gb/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/power-bi/fundamentals/desktop-get-the-desktop

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/nonprofits/power-bi

https://nonprofit.microsoft.com/en-us/getting-started

Bristol on 11-13th October 2023

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The breakthrough summit for people in business inspired by the great outdoors

11 - 12 October 2023

The King's Fund, London, W1G 0AN

Sign up: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/events/digital-health-and-care-congress

Digital technologies have transformed how health and care services are offered, accessed and used. As digital health and care services evolve, improve and become more widespread, they offer further opportunities to improve people’s health and experiences of services.

Through panel discussions, keynote speeches and interactive workshops, this event will explore how to successfully adopt digital solutions in health and care to benefit both the health and care workforce and people use services, and the practical realities of implementation. You’ll have the opportunity to learn from good practice and discuss different digital technologies, such as virtual wards, artificial intelligence, the NHS app and remote monitoring. You will hear from health and care staff how digital solutions are being used innovatively to streamline work processes, enhance efficiency and alleviate workforce pressures, and hear from those with lived experience on how digital can improve the quality of their care through co-design and breaking barriers of exclusion and inequality.

Join experts from The King’s Fund and across the health and care system at the in-person event to consider the opportunities and challenges for digital in a system under strain, and how we can ensure the system has the skills, leadership and culture needed to harness digital transformation.

Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 6:00 PM to Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 8:00 PM BST

Engine Shed

Sign up link: https://www.meetup.com/greentech-south-west/events/295632144/

Join us for our hybrid event with great talks combining tech and sustainability. The event theme is tech meets clothing, with three brilliant speakers based in the South West - Tim Kindberg from Sust and Jen Wagner & Gary Lake from LAYBL.

Why a clothing themed event?

Fashion's carbon emissions are estimated at over two billion tonnes annually (McKinsey, 2020); that's not to mention its massive water consumption, the poor pay and conditions of its workers creating them.

At the other end of the lifecycle, the equivalent of a rubbish truck of clothes is burnt or buried every second. The $1.7 trillion fashion industry creates a staggering volumes of waste. It’s time for change.

Tech West England Advocates are inviting you to a short follow up meeting to the Health Tech in Bath and North East Somerset event in May.

One of the key issues raised on the day was the confusing landscape of all the helping agencies that exist to support start up and scale up companies to grow and where appropriate to go international. To address this, they are inviting you to a discover and design session at Rocketmakers in Bath.

When: 27 September 5.30 - 7.30 pm

Where: Rocketmakers, 20 Manvers St, Bath BA1 1JW

We hope we can design a map of support for Health Tech companies along the lines of previous maps such as the Tech4Good, Bristol Growth and TechSPARK maps.

Interested? Please contact: chrisborn@cantab.net

Signup: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/third-thursday-social-drinks-and-networking-tickets-684892912137

About this event

Do you work in the creative, digital or Tech space?

If yes, this is the perfect place to meet other like-minded individuals in the Bath and Bristol area.

What is it?

Each Third Thursday follows the same format:

Arrival from 6.00 pm and a drink on us

Around 6.30 pm we'll have a guest speaker

and it's going to be a busy one;

We'll be hearing about the Bath Digital Festival Tech for Good hackathon from Annie Legge - what challenges were considered, how did they decide upon the focus, and what happened during the week - lots to catch up on!

Secondly our Third Thursday sponsors AgileBase will be leading a conversation, details TBC

.. and from 7.15 pm we'll have time for a drink and a debrief

8 pm - close

We aim to keep these evenings, fun, light, and a great place to get together.

See you there!

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 18:00 - 20:00 BST

Engine Shed - Station Approach Redcliffe BS1 6QH

Sign up link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/is-tech-addressing-societys-greatest-challenges-tickets-680768786767

Keynote:

Josh Glancy, Special Correspondent at The Sunday Times

Panellists:

• Zara Nanu MBE: CEO at Gapsquare

• Ben Shorrock: Managing Director at TechSPARK

• Palie Smart: Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor Global Civic Engagement, University of Bristol

• Charlie Mercer: Deputy Policy Director, Startup Coalition

• Annie Legge: Co-founder of Dot Project, Tech for Good South West and Tech for Good Organisers Network

We are excited to continue our Engine Shed Financial Innovation Event Series with a keynote and panel discussion: Is tech addressing society’s greatest challenges?

In his keynote, Josh Glancy will outline his case that decades-long innovation in tech has been a wasted opportunity for transforming a human society for the better.

The panel will discuss if they agree or disagree with Josh’s case, debating:

• Is our brightest talent focused on designing smart apps rather than addressing society’s greatest challenges?

• Are tech companies too easily tempted by low-hanging fruit, instead of shooting for the moon?

• Is technological progress stagnating?

• Are the tech giants stifling innovation and exacerbating inequality?

Agenda

• 18.00: Networking

• 18.30 : Josh Glancy keynote

• 18.40: Panellists respond

• 19.10: Open discussion moderated by the chair

• 19.30 : Continue networking

• 20.00: Close

Bath Spa University - Locksbrook Campus, Bath, BA1 3EL

Tue 12th September 2023

Sign up link: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bath-social-impact-network/bath-social-impact-network-september-in-person-networking-collaborations/e-zqlayv

Join us for the Bath Social Impact Network in person event on Tuesday 12th September, 5pm - 7pm at Locksbrook Campus (Bath School of Art, Film and Media and Bath School of Design, Locksbrook Rd, Bath, BA1 3EL) 

We will be exploring the topic of collaborations. With guest speaker Ruby Sant. 

Ruby will be talking about her work on "The Social Prescribing Ecosystem and Wilson Grant" This development and organisational growth project was co-designed by: Wesport, Active Travel B&NES, NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB, Bath Spa University, Cultural Compact WECA.

The second part of the session will be a creative workshop exploring how we want to work together collaboratively as a network over the next year.  Exploring the opportunities being part of the network provides and how we can best utilise these for current and future members. We are keen to collect your feedback, thoughts and ideas to help us grow and develop something which meets your needs moving forwards.  

Tuesday 8 August | Online | 08:30 - 10:00 BST

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Event by Bethnal Green Ventures

We’re running investment readiness workshops for tech for good entrepreneurs to equip founders from all walks of life with the knowledge and resources to determine their best strategy in raising funding for their businesses.

In this workshop, we'll cover the routes to engaging with investors (VCs and angels) and what to do to prepare to raise investment.

We'll dive deeper into the metrics and milestones most commonly associated with the early-stage funding lifecycle, from pre-seed to Series A, what you might expect during due diligence at the early stages and dig into fund mechanics to help you determine which investors might be best to engage with.

Who is this for?

• For any startup founders using technology to tackle the world’s pressing social and environmental challenges.

• If you're at the very early stages thinking about how to raise funding for your business for the first time.

So if that's you, register now and join online.

14 July | In-person, Bath - 11-12pm

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/addressing-digital-poverty-a-city-divided-tickets-647168527487

This final event in our Digital Divide series will bring together a discussion with Wera Hobhouse, the Liberal Democrat MP for Bath to present what we know, the map of the digital divide in Bath with a call to action for city-wide focus to address the issue.

Digital Poverty

You’re far less likely to have access to the online world if you’re living on a low income. In fact, the lower your income the less likely it is. That means – increasingly so – not having access to the fundamentals of life. From social security, to healthcare, education and training, to finding work and applying for jobs – critical services are more and more online.

So digital inclusion is no longer something that’s ‘nice to have’ – it’s an essential. And being cut off from digital isn’t just an inconvenience – it compounds and exacerbates poverty. That’s no longer something we can ignore if we’re interested in a just society. (Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA)).

In May 2023 the DPA launched the National Delivery Plan, which “outlines an initial roadmap for ending digital poverty by 2030”.

Mission Six of that plan is “Increase local capacity to provide joined-up digital inclusion support to individuals and communities”; while we now have a national plan that aims to fix this issue in our society, it is on us locally in the tech sector to step up and play a part in acting on and delivering the outcomes of that plan.

The situation in Bath

Bath is included in the affectionately coined “Silicon Gorge” (Wikipedia, 2019) which describes our region’s high density of technology expertise and innovation. Bath and North East Somerset Council (BANES) is ranked in the 2019 Indices of Deprivation as one of the 20% most affluent areas in the country (BANES, 2022).

However this average measure disguises the fact that Whiteway and Twerton West are among the 10% most deprived areas in England. In Twerton, 35% of children live in poverty (BANES, 2019) and the cost of living crisis is expected to result in 4,000 more people in BANES entering poverty in 2023 (BANES, 2022). 52% of people surveyed in BANES complained about their broadband connection (BANES, 2022).

As employment requires more digital skills, and access to key services moves towards digitisation, these statistics indicate a significant likelihood of persistent exclusion for many of Bath’s citizens.

Related events addressing the Digital Divide during the Bath Digital Festival

At the opening of the festival, our first event as a new Bath Digital Divide Collective will map the digital divide in Bath, if you'd like to join this event, sign up here.

After this event we will kick-off our hackathon, bringing our tech community together to address an aspect of our digital divide challenge challenge. One challenge we know exists already is access to the internet at home via an affordable, reliable and appropriate connection varies across our area. Sign up to take part.

Together we can bridge the digital divide

Wednesday 12th July | Online & in person Bristol 6-8pm

https://www.meetup.com/greentech-south-west/events/292598957/

Join Green Tech South West for an informal fireside chat with the pioneering Dale Vince, Green Industrialist and Founder of Ecotricity, Skydiamond, BritWind, Devil’s Kitchen & Green Britain Foundation.

3SG are delighted to be teaming up with Tech4good South West and techSPARK as part of the Bath Digital Festival. 

https://www.3sg.org.uk/event-details/digital-surgery-workshop

This is our first-ever Digital Surgery Workshop where you can bring your digital questions and we'll match you up with an expert who can help! Any digital question is welcome, whether it be about the systems you use, managing your data, digital marketing, setting up a website or anything else for that matter!

You will also have the opportunity to network with other like-minded organizations and learn from their experiences. Don't miss this opportunity to get the digital help you need to make a bigger impact. Register today! We'll then send you a very quick pre-event survey to better understand your needs before you attend the workshop.

Workshop Schedule:

09.30 to 09.50 - Tea and coffee welcome

09:50 to 10:00 - Welcome and outline of surgery structure

10.00 to 12.00 - Digital Surgery workshops

Are you a digital expert? We'd love to get you involved in sharing your knowledge with local organisations. Get in touch!

11 July | In-person, Bath - 430 - 6pm

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/young-peoples-digital-learning-environments-imagining-the-future-tickets-647099701627

How would young people like to experience digital learning? Through consultation with young people, we are bringing together our community to co-create ideas for what young people need from digital learning spaces.

Our project invites a more personalised creative approach to learning that is welcoming, nurturing and supportive, with young people as active citizens and agents in shaping their own education.

This event will build upon consultation with young people from secondary schools across Bath in the run up to the festival. We will bring the learnings and ideas to this space.

We invite anyone interested (educators, learning technologists, educational psychologists, therapists, parents and carers) to join us in a session to bringing forward your perspectives, to listen to the voices of young people and to initiate a community to co-create ideas for the future.

About the team

Dr Penny Hay is newly appointed as Professor of Imagination at Bath Spa University. Penny is an artist, researcher and educator, specialising in the arts, imagination, nature-based and creative education. She is a National Teaching Fellow and Director of Research for House of Imagination, a charity devoted to supporting young people's creativity and imagination. Penny's new book Children are Artists is based on her PhD research which focused on how adults can support children's learning identity as artists. Signature projects include School Without Walls and Forest of Imagination. Penny is an active Fellow of the RSA, Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and has awards from Action for Children’s Arts and Creative Bath.

Madeleine Holt is an education campaigner and filmmaker. She made the documentary “Above all, Compassion: the Story of XP school”. She helped set up the campaign Rescue Our Schools, which is part of the More than A Score alliance for alternatives to high stakes testing in primary schools. Madeleine is a member of the Private Education Policy Forum (PEPF) which looks at the effect of private education on society. She is also involved in the Time’s Up for the Test campaign to phase out the 11+. Madeleine also runs Meet the Parents, a pioneering project in London to persuade families to support their local state schools. Madeleine was culture correspondent on Newsnight in her previous career.

Ian Pocock is the MD for Research and Service Design at Transform, a technology and data consultancy. Ian has extensive experience designing public services in the UK & internationally. His teams won the 2021 Service Design Network Award for the transformation of Immigration and Asylum Appeals and 2019 Good Design Australia Award for their work on digital public health services. His specialisms include human-centred design, product management and behaviour change. He is also a certified Lego Serious Play Facilitator.

Dr Chris Bagley is Director of Research at States of Mind, Co-Director of Square Peg and a lecturer, tutor and doctorate research supervisor at The Institute of Education, UCL. He is a teacher, Educational Psychologist and writer. As a practitioner, Chris has spent many years working with the most marginalised young people and families and in particular, those subject to school exclusion and the youth justice system. Chris co-delivers 'Participatory Action Research' projects, led by young people and supported by doctorate researchers at the Institute of Education with a focus on evaluating education systems and actioning change. Website: www.chrisbagley.co.uk

Tuesday 11 July | Online | 15:30 - 17:00 BST

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Event by Bethnal Green Ventures

We’re running investment readiness workshops for tech for good entrepreneurs to equip founders from all walks of life with the knowledge and resources to determine their best strategy in raising funding for their businesses.

In this workshop, we'll cover the routes to engaging with investors (VCs and angels) and what to do to prepare to raise investment.

We'll dive deeper into the metrics and milestones most commonly associated with the early-stage funding lifecycle, from pre-seed to Series A, what you might expect during due diligence at the early stages and dig into fund mechanics to help you determine which investors might be best to engage with.

Who is this for?

• For any startup founders using technology to tackle the world’s pressing social and environmental challenges.

• If you're at the very early stages thinking about how to raise funding for your business for the first time.

So if that's you, register now and join online.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/addressing-digital-poverty-mapping-the-bath-digital-divide-tickets-647128959137

How as a community of Bath might we address the digital divide in our city and ensure all our young people have equal access to technology?

At the opening of the festival, our first event will be an interactive workshop event bringing community together to collectively map the Bath Digital Divide -

• What do we know about the problem - where is it, what is it, and what do we want to do about it?

• What is already happening and what can we do to accelerate what is already there?

• What can we do now, and for the longer term, and where do we need to influence?

This is a call to action for our teachers, local businesses, tech and charity sectors, local government and philanthropists to come together as a community to apply ourselves to addressing the digital divide in Bath.

Our particular focus initially will be on the impact for young children in our schools and their longer term outcomes.

Related events addressing the Digital Divide during the Bath Digital Festival

At the opening of the festival, this first event to address the Digital Divide will map the problem and make sense of what initiatives already exist.

We will next kick-off a hackathon, bringing our tech community together to address an aspect of our digital divide challenge. One challenge we know exists already is access to the internet at home via an affordable, reliable and appropriate connection varies across our area. Sign up to take part.

At the end of the week, we will be in discussion with Wera Hobhouse to present a call to action to address this city challenge, sign up here.

Together we can bridge the digital divide.