SVG Europe Women: Speakers from Sky Sports and TV Industry Human Rights Forum added to line-up for 25 February Glasgow event

Speakers from Sky Sports and the TV Industry Human Rights Forum will participate in SVG Europe Women Scotland’s ‘Accessibility and Innovation’ event which is taking place in Glasgow on 25 February.

Joining event host, the sports broadcaster and journalist Alison Walker, for a session titled ‘Why, what and how: Making sports production sustainably accessible’, will be Jo Finon, Sky Sports manager for responsible production, and Amelia Knott, lead researcher for the TV Industry Human Rights Forum.

The trio 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?’. The first speakers announced for this session are: 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.

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 are allowing more people to be active members of the sports broadcasting community, it is also excluding others.

Panellists will also look at how outside broadcasting can be made more environmentally sustainable and inclusive.

‘Accessibility and Innovation’ will take place at The Exchange in central Glasgow in partnership with independent technical services provider, QTV. It will be an evening of networking, discussion and inspiration.

More speakers will be announced soon. All genders are welcome to attend the event.

To find out more and to register to go: Accessibility and Innovation

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