Delivering diversity
techUK has catalogued how members are committing to ethnic diversity in the tech workforce and are pushing for progress. Effective and sustainable solutions must cover all aspects of a company - the people, its processes, and its culture. It explores approaches from our membership focusing on four things: action in the community to inspire the next generation; attraction and recruitment; getting workplace culture right; and the development of diverse talent.
Webinars
techUK’s Skills, Talent & Diversity programme has organised 12 techUK-led webinars in 2020 where over 790 people have attended. This has been key in showcasing outputs, thought leadership, and speakers from our membership beyond. Get in touch about future events.
Moving the dial on diversity: how to forward inclusion post-COVID
techUK’s ninth post-COVID webinar identified fundamental actions employers can take to keep diversity & inclusion at the forefront after the pandemic.
D&I in healthtech: Ways to be a good ally
Key takeaways from our London Tech Week event with NHSX, Tech4CV19 and the Department for International Trade.
#LTW panel: Is diversity in recruitment just a numbers game?
Catch up with this London Tech Week webinar from the techUK Skills and Diversity Council with our round-up and event recording.
Compassionate Leadership post-COVID
techUK and FDM explored what tangible actions people can take to practise and nurture compassionate leadership and challenge people to be more intentional in these areas.
Ethnic diversity in healthtech: Actions to do more
On 6 July, techUK hosted a webinar exploring race, inequalities, and inclusion across healthtech, healthcare and the NHS.
BEEqual: National Inclusion Week- Let’s talk about Disability in the Workplace
techUK joined BEEqual, Neurodiversity Works and Purple to talk about disability in the workplace.
From Crisis to Opportunity – Redesigning the Workplace
techUK joined forces with TIMEWISE – a company that works with talent through flexibility to explore redesigning the workplace on workshop around how to work from home effectively and manage teams.
Launch of new working group
To mark this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day, techUK launched a new working group that will bring together members to champion inclusivity in design. Tech is one of the central drivers and enablers of productivity, but when it is not accessible it can limit opportunities for people. During this current public health crisis, we have seen the importance of access to digital technology. As we adapt to a new normal and begin our recovery, it is vital that everyone can benefit from the technologies of today and tomorrow.
Accessible Technology Group
techUK’s Accessible Technology Group is forum that works to highlight the economic and social benefit of ensuring tech products and services are inclusive by design and is a visible advocate promoting inclusive tech to support people with disabilities and inclusive tech solutions. The Group aims to share best practice in developing solutions and services, and disseminate knowledge and facilitate engagement on accessible technology within techUK’s membership.
Accessibility insights
Tech Talent Charter
techUK is a founding signatory and strategic board member of the Tech Talent Charter. The Tech Talent Charter (TTC) is a commitment by organisations to a set of undertakings that aim to deliver greater inclusion in the UK’s
tech workforce. Signatories of the charter make a number of pledges in relation to their approach to the recruitment, promotion and retention of a diverse workforce. Although it is very much an employer-led initiative, the TTC is supported by the UK Government's Digital Strategy.
Importantly, the Charter states that all signatories must provide data on their own workforce each year so that we can measure success and make more impactful, measurable changes as an industry for the future. The TTC now has over 460 members. Becoming a Signatory of the TTC is free, find out more here.
The techUK Podcast Epsiode 6 - Skills, Talent and Diversity in Tech
This podcast explores the importance of skills in creating a thriving tech sector in the UK. Sarah Atkinson, Global Director of Corporate Social Responsibility at Micro Focus and former chair of the Skills & Diversity Council talks about the variety of ways tech skills can be taught, while work experience student Abi Pearson interviews techUK President Jacqueline de Rojas CBE on what the barriers are to women entering the tech sector and how we can create more inclusive workplaces.
Get involved
All techUK's work is led by our members - keep in touch or get involved by joining the group or programme below. Our D&I working groups provide business intelligence, networking and event opportunities. Get involved if you are a techUK member.
Skills, Talent and Diversity
Making the UK the best place to start and grow a digital business is contingent on our ability to skill, attract and retain the brightest global talent. techUK’s Skills, Talent and Diversity Programme seeks to ensure the UK has a world-leading tech workforce by equipping the pipeline of talent with digital skills to become digital leaders, attracting and retaining a diverse workforce & making sure the UK is an attractive location for talent from across the world.
Skills and Diversity Council
techUK's Skills and Diversity Council aims to support the wider diversity and inclusion agenda in the tech sector and take concrete steps to help the UK develop skills for the modern economy and address skills gaps. The Council brings together some of the most influential networks and people working across the industry to champion diversity in tech, relating to: gender, ethnicity, LGBT+, disability, neurodiversity and social mobility.
Skills and Diversity Working Group
Delivering 21st Century Health and Care requires a digitally-skilled workforce. The Skills and Diversity Working Group is supporting the NHS and social care bodies to develop the next generation of digital leaders while encouraging diversity and inclusion in healthtech. For more information, please contact: Leontina Postelnicu| Programme Manager, Health and Social Care.
Nimmi Patel
Jake Wall
Antony Walker
Ben Bradley
Nimmi Patel
Nimmi Patel is the Policy Manager for Skills, Talent and Diversity at techUK.
She works on all things skills policy, focusing on upskilling and retrain. She is committed to embedding diversity in the UK tech pipeline from classroom to boardroom working with partners such as the Tech Talent Charter and the WISE Campaign. Nimmi also leads techUK’s immigration work, collaborating with techUK members and stakeholders to create an environment that attracts the best talent to the UK.
Prior to joining the team, she worked for the UK Labour Party and New Zealand Labour Party and holds a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Manchester and is currently studying MA Strategic Communications at King’s College London.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 07805744520
- Twitter:
- @nimmiptl
- Website:
- www.techuk.org
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/nimmi-patel-b0920214a/
Jake Wall
Jake is the Programme Assistant for Policy, assisting techUK's work across the Policy and Public Affairs; Skills, Talent and Diversity; and EU Exit programmes.
He joined techUK in March 2019 following his graduation from a master’s degree in International Relations at the University of Sussex, as well as a bachelor’s degree in International Politics at Aberystwyth University, and has also worked across the International Trade and Cloud, Data, Analytics and AI programmes. Outside of work, he enjoys watching and playing sport, spending time with friends and family, and – when possible – travelling!
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Twitter:
- @jww_uk
- Website:
- www.techuk.org/
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakewwall/
Antony Walker
Antony Walker is deputy CEO of techUK, which he played a lead role in launching in November 2013.
Antony is a member of the senior leadership team and has overall responsibility for techUK’s policy work. Prior to his appointment in July 2012 Antony was chief executive of the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG), the UK’s independent advisory group on broadband policy. Antony was closely involved in the development of broadband policy development in the UK since the BSG was established in 2001 and authored several major reports to government. He also led the development of the UK’s world leading Open Internet Code of Practice that addresses the issue of net neutrality in the UK. Prior to setting up the BSG, Antony spent six years working in Brussels for the American Chamber of Commerce following and writing about telecoms issues and as a consultant working on EU social affairs and environmental issues. Antony is a graduate of Aberdeen University and KU Leuven and is also a Policy Fellow Alumni of the Centre for Science and Policy at Cambridge University.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 07780603065
Ben Bradley
Ben is Head of Policy at techUK, working to develop and deliver policies that make the UK the best place to start, scale and base tech businesses.
He also works alongside working on wider issues around the digital strategy, regulation, skills and the future of work. Prior to joining techUK Ben worked at strategic consultancy Teneo where he focused on public affairs and policy. During this time he worked on a range of clients covering the digital economy, telecoms, and financial services.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 07811 190 830