SVG Europe Women Scotland 2024


Glasgow 21 March 2024 6:00 pm - 10:30 pm

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Connecting the Community

Event location: The Poetry Club, SWG3 Glasgow, 100 Eastvale Pl, Glasgow, Scotland, G3 8QG

Join SVG Europe Women Scotland for Connecting with the Community, which will take place in-person on Thursday 21 March at the Poetry Club in Glasgow.

This evening of networking, discussion and inspiration will see us looking deeper into how the entire sports broadcasting community could work better together, viewing the industry as an ecology that needs nurturing as well as requiring companies to push harder to foster diversity and equality in this region. We will explore how the next generation of sports broadcasting freelancers need to be supported by the industry to successfully integrate within the existing community, therefore allowing it to remain resilient to industry growth and change.

Programme

    • 6.00pm Doors open, registration, networking, nibbles

 

    • 7.00pm Introduction from SVG Europe Women’s Heather McLean and our event host, the broadcast and sports journalist Alison Walker

 

    • 7.10pm Nurturing the sports broadcasting ecosystem
      • There is a new generation of young freelance talent in Scotland which is in need of support to connect with the existing broadcast freelance community. In this session experts will discuss how OB firms, broadcasters and production companies from Scotland and England need to encourage, support, mentor and utilise newer people post-learning who are moving into the Scottish freelance community, ultimately for the growth of the region’s ecosystem. Speakers will include Tom Giles, IMG Studios’ vice president, director of engineering, EMG UK sales director Angela Gibbons, Heather Andrews, freelance sound designer and engineer, and QTV chief technology officer Gareth Gordon.

 

    • 7.55pm Mind the gap: Fostering diversity and equality
      • Here we will discuss how an inclusive and equitable workforce makes business sense, and can be achieved for the Scottish sports broadcasting industry, while simultaneously helping to plug skills gaps within this region. We look at how tapping into local communities to create a diverse workforce using unplugged talent can make this happen, talking to local groups as well as companies that are already making this work in sports broadcasting. The speakers will be Timi Adegunwa, founder and chair of Black & Scot, a dynamic organisation committed to elevating black excellence in Scotland and beyond, and EMG’s group environmental, social and governance director Rohan Mitchell

 

  • 8.25pm Networking