Stage 2
DAY 2 [7.11.24]
About the conference
Core Festival, MAIN STAGE, VICTORIA BATHS
After an overwhelming number of talk submissions we are delighted to announce that we are extending the main stage out! Join us on stage 2 for a packed agenda full of the most topical talks to be submitted!
SPEAKERS
Check out our lineup of speakers by clicking their images below! We will be continuing to announce speakers over the next few weeks, so sign up to our newsletter to be the first in the know!
Nicki Clegg
DEI advocate, NED, Board Advisor
Performance Coach, CTO
Mark Stokes
Desktop Engineering Lead
Lloyds Banking Group
Craig Cartwright
Product Owner
Lloyds Banking Group
Nicki Clegg
DEI advocate, NED, Board Advisor
Performance Coach, CTO
Kate Davies
Public Policy Director
Ofcom
Craig Cartwright
Product Owner
Lloyds Banking Group
AGENDA
Woah! We’re still busy pulling together this year’s agenda, so check out the talks below and sign up to our newsletter to be the first to hear when new talks go live!
Nicki Clegg
DEI advocate, NED, Board Advisor, performance coach, CTO, technology leader
SESSION OVERVIEW: Data shows 9% of tech employees are from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, compared to 39% of the UK population, and organisations with focused interventions on social mobility, such as schools engagement, have higher diversity levels across protected characteristics.
Engaging with schools helps your business, your employees, and teachers:
• 90% of volunteers said it increases their satisfaction with work
• 96% of volunteers said it enhanced their ability to communicate with a range of audiences
• Over 90% reported improvements in presentation skills and relationship building and networking
• 90% of young people said engaging with volunteers increased their understanding of why STEM subjects are important particularly in the workplace
• 90% of educators said engaging with volunteers improved their own knowledge of STEM careers
• 86% said engaging had improved their enthusiasm for teaching STEM subjects
Come and learn how to build a schools engagement programme
Mark Stokes
Desktop Engineering Lead
Lloyds Banking Group
Craig Cartwright
Product Owner
Lloyds Banking Group
SESSION OVERVIEW:
Empowering colleagues to fulfil customer needs in the most straightforward and effective manner possible should be simple to achieve. And yet plenty of businesses apply layers of complexity to what should always be a valuable and trusted experience.
This session will shine the spotlight on how we have brought a bespoke in-house application to life, from cradle to production, providing our colleagues with the latest UX, tools and technologies needed in today’s competitive financial services’ marketplace.
Craig Cartwright and Mark Stokes will take you through our journey to date, bringing together product and tech in a shared purpose to place the customer at the centre of everything we do. Through energised collaboration and priority alignment, between those who know the customer best and those who can offer innovative, industry-leading solutions, they will demonstrate the journey away from a legacy mindset and towards what banking of the future will look like.
You will hear:
How to design and build a product to improve the user experience.
How to iterate and optimise a product, exploring the continuous feedback cycle to enhance adoption.
How to deliver change at scale in a demanding environment, without impacting customer expectations.
Kate Davies
Public Policy Director
Ofcom
SESSION OVERVIEW:
This take will cover:
- Why regulation and innovation go hand in hand:
- Role of tech and innovation in our sectors
- Case studies
- What this means in terms of the kind of organisation we need to be:
- Skills and capabilities
- Diversity
- Always coming back to the user/citizen/audience
- What the future holds
