The Digital Skills Festival Launch event is taking place on Monday 4th February from 2pm until 6pm. The launch is where we will release the findings of our Digital Skills Audit. There will also be expert inisghts and talks and time for networking with industry professionals and education experts.
| 2:00 | Arrival and Registration |
| 2:30 | Introduction |
| 2:40 | Welcome |
| 3:00 | Skills gap? Grow your own engineers |
| 3:20 | The Future of Education Josh Smith, Chief Technical Officer, Demos |
| 4:00 | Refreshment Break |
| 4:20 | SODA: Greater Manchester's first multidisciplinary school for digital |
| 4:30 | GM Digital Skills Programme Launch |
| 4:45 | Findings from the Digital Skills Audit |
| 5:25 | Close and drinks |
Auto Trader and BJSS are headline sponsors of the Digital Skills Festival. Moneysupermarket Group, GCHQ and Manchester Metropolitan University are also sponsoring the five-day event. Attendance at the Conference is free and open to any digital business or education provider. Please note that places are very limited so if you book a ticket and you can no longer attend, please let us know so that we can reallocate your ticket.
If you'd like to join them as a sponsor, please click here to find out more.
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About our Sponsors
Auto Trader
We’ve built a business that is centred around its people, and we’re proud of our inclusive and progressive culture. Our tech and data expertise make us one of the UK’s leading companies and we were named one of the Sunday Times Top 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2018.
We're not simply a website that allows people to buy and sell vehicles. through the evolution of our digital platforms and innovative data products we make the process of buying and selling cars easier for consumers, retailers and manufactuerers.
BJSS
BJSS (www.bjss.com) is the UK’s largest privately-owned I.T. and business consultancy. With over 25 years' software development and IT advisory experience, the company is renowned for technical excellence, cost-effective delivery and its proven BJSS Enterprise Agile approach.
Moneysupermarket
At Moneysupermarket Group we invented price comparison and now we are ready to re:invent the market with our tech teams, constantly looking for new and better ways to help people save money by connecting them to the right advice and the best deals. To do this we are changing the way we work, connect and grow our current and future talent.
GCHQ
GCHQ is the UK’s Intelligence, Security and Cyber agency. Our purpose is to keep the country and it’s people safe in the real world and online. We work with our partners in Government to counter threats to the UK such as terrorism, serious crime and cyber attack. We also support the armed forces deployed overseas. From WWI to the present day, GCHQ has been bringing together the best minds with the latest technology to protect our nation for 100 years.
Manchester Metropolitan University
The School of Digital Arts (SODA) will be a purpose-built, interdisciplinary school opening at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2021. This is a £35m investment into the workspaces, networks, teaching and research that will drive ideas and innovation across all forms of creative content. Find out more at: https://www.schoolofdigitalarts.mmu.ac.uk/
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