Welcome to the September edition of Joining the Dots in Tech. With our D&I survey coming to a close, we are bringing Signatories together at our Leeds Roadshow event to share and learn from each other in person! Sign up to join us on 10th October in Leeds. We're also delighted to announce that Sky has become a Principal Partner of the TTC, helping us to continue our work, and helping to keep all our resources free for all to use. Welcome Sky!
Here are the latest TTC updates:
📣 Join us for our upcoming, in-person event - the Diversity in Tech Roadshow in Leeds on 10th October! We will be bringing together tech and people leaders from the region to discuss localised diversity insights and key topics like digital skills, retention and progression. Sign up now!
🤔 Many of our Signatories were asking about retention and attrition in tech. So, supported by DSIT and our research and data partner, Attest, we released new insight on why women are leaving tech jobs. We've got all the answers you need to understand how big a problem this is and what's driving women in tech from their jobs. Don't miss this one!
⏳ The D&I survey closes on 28th September and we've been overwhelmed by the amazing response so far with the majority of Signatories having sent us your responses or updates. The team will soon be reading through and analysing all the responses so if you've not done so, submit your D&I survey now!
Thanks to everyone who has already got your survey into us, and have a great rest of your week!
The Tech Talent Charter team 😊
📅 Join an upcoming event
Our events are free to attend, are open to all Signatories and their employees, and encourage collaboration and information sharing. View more TTC events.
Get the most from your Signatory membership
If your organisation is new to the Tech Talent Charter, or your company has been a Signatory for some time but you're newly taking ownership of the TTC relationship, you can join this session with our COO, Karen Blake, to learn more about how to get the most from being a Signatory. Register here.
Signatory Forum: LGBTQ+ Inclusion throughout the employee career journey
Join us on 19th October, 13:00 to 13:45 for a Signatory forum on how to make the employee experience, from attraction to exit, LGBTQ+ inclusive. We'll be speaking to EDI Associate from the Robert Walters Group, Beth Tappenden, a fantastic practitioner and advocate. Register here.
📰 Welcome our new Signatories
Our broad base of 775+ Signatories includes companies and industries of all sizes from 70+ sectors. We're delighted to welcome these new members who have committed to driving greater workforce diversity. Not yet a member? Join us today!
📚 D&I Resources, Awards and Opportunities
Join Tech She Can for their birthday event at Zoopla
Our community partner, Tech She Can, focuses on improving diversity, inclusion and access to tech education for children and young people. They provide free resources and assemblies for schools, to help them bring the excitement of tech to young people across the UK, focusing especially on social mobility cold spots. Join them at their birthday event at Zoopla's London offices to meet the team and find out more about how you can support this vital work.
Level Up Summit - ticket giveaway for TTC Signatories!
TTC Signatory, We Are Tech Women, are running their hugely successful Level Up Summit on 8th December. Key themes this year are intersectionality, bias, data, allyship, sponsorship and privilege. They are offering all Signatories a 10% discount on tickets. Register here and use the code: TTC10. We also have 20 free virtual passes available for our Signatories 🙌. Email Lexie to request a free pass.
Do you know the founder of Ada Lovelace Day?
Suw Charman-Anderson founded Ada Lovelace Day back in 2009, spawning a global movement, and we're super proud to have the organisation as a Signatory and to be supporting the original Ada Lovelace Day event at the Royal Institute. Signatories can all enjoy a 10% discount on tickets here.
Nominate for the Bupa everywoman in technology awards!
The awards are a great opportunity to showcase the amazing achievements of women working in the sector. You can nominate yourself or others and it is free to enter. Entries take about 30 minutes to complete and applications close on 9 October 2023. Who will you nominate?
Call for evidence: technology that makes events more accessible
Fox Agency is working with Diversity and Ability to curate a guide to the best technology for enabling inclusivity in events. Recent research from the Office for National Statistics shows that Disabled people find accessing venues as well as the digital environment more difficult than non-disabled people. They are looking for tech businesses whose products/services help to reduce these disparities, to participate in their research. You can get involved here.