08 Jan 2026
by Tess Newton, Nimmi Patel

Contribute to our TechTogether 2026 campaign

Get involved with our diversity, equity, and inclusion campaign month, happening throughout March 2026. 


In March, techUK’s TechTogether campaign will return, following the great success of our 2025 campaign and the continued DEI work that techUK and our members have been championing. This includes raising awareness, influencing policy and facilitating collaboration on areas such as digital inclusion and women in tech.

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In our pursuit to shape a more equitable future, in 2026 we are focusing on supporting the next generation by joining the National Careers Week campaign, empowering women in tech, advancing equity by design, and evolving the landscape of online safety. 

True digital inclusion lays the foundation for an equitable tech future, by supporting the future workforce and empowering diverse talent, embedding inclusion into the design of digital infrastructure, and ensuring that online safety evolves in step with digital access, we want to ensure every individual can participate confidently and securely in the digital world. 

Together, these topics weave TechTogether's mission to break barriers and create opportunities for all. 

Tech companies wield significant influence and have the potential to drive positive social change. Our goal is to use this month to celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion and the work organisations are doing to support it while acknowledging the work that still lies ahead. 

This means discussing the good, bad, and ugly realities of working in the industry. As always, we want to support allies in all shapes and forms, wherever they come from. Everyone has a story to share, and we want to hear yours! 


Input from members  

We would like to invite members to contribute to the month via blogs, videos, or being an interviewee to discuss four key areas. Submission must cover one of the four broad topics but can include a wide range of ideas, including but not limited to:

💼National Careers Week

  • Career opportunities and pathways into digital and tech roles in different industries and sectors.
  • Skills development and the capabilities needed for future careers.
  • Case studies of member engagement with schools, colleges, and early careers initiatives.
  • Insights on emerging roles and how technology is shaping the future of work.

👩‍💻Empowering women in tech from classroom to c-suite

  • Addressing workplace biases and strengthening DEI initiatives.
  • Gender pay disparities in the tech world.
  • Female retention and growth in tech workplaces.
  • Spotlighting successful female tech leaders.

📱Equity by design

  • The importance of inclusive design in product development.
  • Creating technology that is accessible to people with disabilities.
  • Tackling affordability, connectivity, and digital skills gaps through cross-sector partnerships and community-led initiatives.
  • Ensuring public services, NHS digital, education, civil service, are co-designed with disabled, ethnic, and older users.

🛡️Evolving the landscape of online safety

  • Exploring proactive approaches to inclusive digital safety, from tackling the implications of AI bias, fraud, cyber-attacks, and surveillance.
  • How changes in the defence landscape, digital transformation and new and emerging crime types require the need for inclusive recruitment, anti-bias training, co-designing technology solutions with diverse communities.
  • The importance of equitable access to career progression and leadership roles in these sectors.

This could be a thought leadership blog post (400–600 words), a case study, or a video that demonstrates your views on this issue. 

Please email your Word document submissions to Tess Newton ([email protected]) and Nimmi Patel ([email protected]). Please also ensure you submit a headshot photo, your most up-to-date job title, a short biography and your company’s logo. 

Deadline for contributions:  Friday, 27 February 2026 


Guidelines  

Blog  

Written Interview   

  • If you would like to be part of our written LinkedIn interview series, please email Nimmi Patel ([email protected]) for the interview questions. 

Video 

  • Please make your video less than 2 minutes for the most impact. 


International Data Centre Day 2026

We're celebrating International Data Centres Day as part of our TechTogether month-long campaign. This day is aimed at raising awareness about the data centre industry and igniting interest among future talents. At techUK, we're dedicated to championing STEM education to foster the continual advancement of the data centre field.

We want to explore how engineering roles in digital infrastructure are evolving and what this means for skills pipelines, access and inclusion. We welcome contributions that showcase practical initiatives, barriers that still need addressing, and evidence-led approaches to building a more diverse and sustainable talent base.

This content will only be published on Wednesday 25 March on our LinkedIn and website. Content for this specific activity should be submitted no later than the 18 March. Please get in touch with Luisa Cardani ([email protected]).


Are you a techUK member hosting an event around these topics in March? 

Please do get in touch, as we may be able to spotlight your event on our website as part of this campaign and support promotion. 

Please note: This opportunity is exclusively open to techUK members. If you would like to take part in this activity, please email Jaroszlav Katai ([email protected]) and Glyn Hughes ([email protected]) to initiate a conversation on how to join.


techUK's Skills, Talent and Diversity Programme activities

techUK work with our members to signpost the opportunity of digital jobs and ensure these opportunities are open to people of diverse backgrounds. We strive to help our members attract, recruit, and retain a diverse workforce, whilst showcasing their work on workplace innovation. Visit the programme page here.

Jobs and Skills

To make sure that the UK is a world-leading digital economy that works for everyone, it is crucial that people have the digital skills needed for life and work. Rapid digitalisation is creating surging demand for digital skills across the economy and the current domestic skills pipeline cannot keep up. Digitalisation is also leading to rapid changes in the labour market that means some traditional roles are being displaced. There is an urgent need to better match the demand and supply.

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Future of Work

The future of work is changing. Technology is powering a growth in flexible work across the economy, whilst emerging technologies such as robotics and AI are set to become common place. techUK believes the UK must consider the implications of digital transformation in the world of work now, equipping people and businesses across the country with the skills and conditions needed to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the 4IR.

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Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity and inclusion sits at the heart of digital growth. The tech sector understands that innovation thrives from diversity of thought and is continually looking to attract, recruit and retain a diverse workforce. techUK is proud to support a number of initiatives that promote this, from doing outreach work to ensure that people regardless of their background are inspired into tech, to initiatives that help build more inclusive workplaces for those with different accessibility needs.

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Returners Hub

Returners programmes offer a supported bridge back to work for people who have taken a career break. Providing ways for people to ease back into work after a career break is a vital way to make sure we do not lose out on their talent and experience. The techUK returners hub was created as a one-stop-shop for people looking to return to a career in digital.

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Tess Newton

Team Assistant, Policy and Public Affairs, techUK

Nimmi Patel

Nimmi Patel

Associate Director for Policy, techUK

Nimmi Patel is the Associate Director of Policy at techUK. She works on all things skills, education, and future of work policy, focusing on upskilling and retraining. Nimmi is also an Advisory Board member of the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (digit). The Centre’s research aims to increase understanding of how digital technologies are changing work and the implications for employers, workers, job seekers, and governments. 

Prior to joining the techUK team, she worked for the UK Labour Party and New Zealand Labour Party, and holds an MA in Strategic Communications at King’s College London and BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Manchester. She also took part in the 2024-25 University of Bath Institute for Policy Research Policy Fellowship Programme and is the Education and Skills Policy Co-lead for Labour in Communications.

Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
07805744520
Twitter:
@nimmiptl
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nimmi-patel1/

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