Join SVG Europe Women Scotland for Innovation and Accessibility, which will take place in person at The Exchange in Glasgow.
This evening of networking, discussion and inspiration will see us looking deeper into inclusion and accessibility, from the dichotomy of how technology and innovation are lowering barriers to work in live sports broadcast in some areas while raising them in others, to making outside broadcasting environments sustainably inclusive places to work with lasting legacies.
Programme:
- 6.00pm Networking
- 7.00pm Introduction from SVG Europe Women and QTV
- 7.10pm Tech dichotomy: Creating accessibility or shifting the problem?
The big debate in accessibility and inclusion today is that while innovation and technology is allowing more people to be active members of the sports broadcasting community, it is also excluding others. While technology is liberating some areas of the industry for people, it is also creating barriers in places where barriers did not exist before. We discuss if the problem of inclusion and accessibility has simply been shifted to a different front.
The speakers will be Purminder Gandhu, BBC R&D Edge Group Lead, technology transfer & partnerships manager, Charlotte Winter, IMG Studios head of live technology, and Morag McIntosh, BBC solution lead for studio automation and gallery control
- 7.55pm Why, what and how: Making sports production sustainably accessible
While technology is advancing and remote production hubs are opening doors for crew that need accessibility support in order to do their job, roadblocks continue to exist around outside broadcast trucks, stadiums and more. In this session, we discuss how these barriers 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.
- 8.25pm Closing remarks
- 8.30pm Networking
- 10.30pm Ends