🎧 The techUK podcast: celebrating female Heads of Policy
In this very special edition of the techUK podcast, techUK celebrates International Women’s Day 2022 by talking to female Heads of Policy of big tech comapnies within our membership. Moderated by techUK's Nimmi Patel, Policy Manager – Skills, Talent & Diversity, and Lulu Freemont, Head of Digital Regulation, techUK, we hear from an inspiring panel all about their experiences of working in digital policy and what more needs to be done to support inclusivity.
Listen to: Becky Foreman, UK Corporate Affairs Director, Microsoft, Katy Minshall, Head of UK Public Policy, Twitter, Rebecca Stimson, UK Head of Public Policy, Meta, Elizabeth Kanter, Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, TikTok.
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.
Latest news & insights
Guide to help UK business leaders deliver inclusion, fairness, opportunity and value
techUK is proud to support the Leaders As Change Agents Board's Employer & Employee guide which has been specifically designed for CEOs and their leadership teams to help them deliver better inclusion, fairness, opportunity and value for every UK employer and employee.
The Guide sets out 8 tangible commitments for adoption as the cornerstone of a better workplace. The guide also includes a comprehensive step-by-step resource guidance to help organisations with adoption and effective delivery.
Upcoming events
Information Superiority Forum Briefing with Air Vice-Marshal Paul Godfrey
Online Market briefing
Webinars
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.
Black Tech Fest
techUK was a strategic partner of Black Tech Fest, a digital festival celebrating innovation, creativity, and excellence during UK Black History Month, which aimed to create pathways for underrepresented talent.
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.
Get involved
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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
The Skills and Diversity Council aims to support the wider diversity and inclusion agenda in the tech sector and use their convening power take concrete steps to help the UK develop skills for the modern economy. The Council brings together some of the most influential networks and people working across the industry to champion diversity in tech.
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
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-patel1/
Antony Walker
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
- Twitter:
- @techUKdepCEO
- Website:
- www.techuk.org/
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonywalker/
Jake Wall
Jake Wall
Jake has been the Policy Manager for Skills and Future of Work since May 2022, supporting techUK's work to empower the UK to skill, attract and retain the brightest global talent, and prepare for the digital transformations of the future workplace.
Previously, Jake was the Programme Assistant for Policy. He joined techUK in March 2019 and has also worked across the EU Exit, International Trade, and Cloud, Data Analytics and AI programmes.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- www.techuk.org
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jwwuk