QTV’s Lucy Lake joins SVG Europe Women Advisory Board and will take the stage at SVG Europe Women Scotland – Accessibility and Innovation

QTV’s Lucy Lake speaking at SVG Europe Women’s event at IBC 2023 [centre]
SVG Europe Women is about to host its fourth event in Glasgow with QTV. This is thanks to Lake, who – through her partnership with the initiative – is driving change in the sports broadcasting market in Scotland, bringing key stakeholders together, increasing collaboration in the marketplace, and every year the attendees to our joint events grow and the conversation about D&I gets louder.
Lake says: “It’s a great honour to join the SVG Europe Women Advisory Board alongside such an inspiring group of industry leaders. I’m excited to contribute to this unique platform, driving real change in diversity within sports broadcasting and helping to break down barriers to entry in the field. Over the past four years, I’ve worked alongside Heather to bring SVG Europe Women to the Scottish sports broadcasting community, and through our events, we’ve united decision-makers, stakeholders, and industry giants to collaborate on improving opportunities, training, and accessibility.”
SVG Europe Women is a powerful network of women in sports media who are able to call upon one another for ideas, support, help and advice. It is made up of members from across TV sports broadcasting, within production, distribution, technology, and related areas. This community has grown exponentially since 2018.
The initiative is supported by an Advisory Board of experienced, successful women from a wide variety of roles within sports broadcast, each of whom take an active role and interest in furthering the careers of women in this exciting industry.
The SVG Europe Women Board Members are:
– Lise Cosimi, industry consultant and external head of the Advisory Board
– Heather McLean, SVG Europe editor and internal head of the Advisory Board
– Jennifer Angell, industry consultant
– Inga Ruehl, Sky executive director, production services and operations
– Angela Gibbons, EMG / Gravity Media, Sales Director
– Anna Lockwood, Telstra International, head of media and sport
– Anna Ward, Premier League Productions, vice president, director of production and operations
– Paula Rigby, PG Productions, (France) executive director
– Roisin McKeniry, EMG / Gravity Media, head of technology
– Vili Nedialkova, ZDF, sport coordinator
– Åsa Edlund Jönsson, Swedish Olympic Committee, general secretary
– Lucy Lake, QTV, director of people and purpose
Lake continues: “Our next event, Innovation and Accessibility, takes place on the 25 February, and I look forward to welcoming our growing community on the night.”
New speakers including Lake and a member of the Rise board are joining those from Sky Sports, the TV Industry Human Rights Forum, the BBC and IMG for SVG Europe Women Scotland – Accessibility and Innovation.
The event is taking place in Glasgow on the evening of 25 February at The Exchange in central Glasgow in partnership QTV. This evening of networking, discussion and inspiration will see us looking deeper into inclusion and accessibility.
Panellists will debate areas ranging from the dichotomy of how technology and innovation is lowering barriers to work in live sports broadcast in some areas while raising it in others, to making outside broadcasting environments sustainably inclusive places to work with lasting legacies.
Register for Accessibility and Innovation here
Lake will be joining our host, sports broadcaster and journalist Alison Walker on stage for the session titled ‘Why, what and how: Making sports production sustainably accessible’. Alongside Lake will be Jo Finon, Sky Sports manager for responsible production and Amelia Knott, lead researcher for the TV Industry Human Rights Forum.
They will discuss how barriers to working in live sports broadcasting can be raised sustainably using technology and innovation, creating a lasting legacy, plus what is being done in the live sports broadcasting industry to help achieve this today.
Preceding this panel will be ‘Tech dichotomy: Creating accessibility or shifting the problem?’. A new speaker for this session is Anne-Louise Buick, Rise board member, along with: Purminder Gandhu, BBC R&D Edge Group Lead, technology transfer & partnerships manager; Charlotte Winter, IMG head of live technology; and Morag McIntosh, BBC solution lead for studio automation and gallery control.
Buick, Gandhu, Winter and McIntosh will discuss if the problem of inclusion and accessibility has simply been shifted to a different front, as while innovation and technology is allowing more people to be active members of the sports broadcasting community, it is also excluding others.
All genders are very welcome to attend.
Find out more about SVG Europe Women Scotland Accessibility and Innovation here