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SUMMARY:Upskilling the UK for a Future Ready Economy
DESCRIPTION:Join us to explore how green skills can prepare workforces\, young people and communities for a fair\, future-ready UK economy.\n\n\nThis is an online event. \nAudience\nThis event is open to both members and non-members and will be particularly useful for HR and sustainability leaders. \n\n\nOverview\nLearn how businesses can build the green skills the UK needs for an inclusive\, future-ready economy. Hear insights from BITC’s Green Skills Lab and Future Ready Communities pilots\, and explore how businesses can prepare their workforce\, young people\, and communities for the jobs of tomorrow. \nAbout the Event\nThe UK’s transition to a fair and future-ready economy depends on whether people have the right skills to thrive in rapidly changing industries. Green skills are increasingly essential across all sectors\, yet many employers struggle to build a strong skills pipeline. \nThis webinar will share practical insights from Business in the Community’s Green Skills Lab and our Future Ready Communities programme. You will hear examples of how businesses are embedding green skills into their workforce planning\, and how place-based pilot projects are helping young people and underserved communities to gain skills that will prepare them to access jobs. \nDrawing on BITC’s experience over the last few years\, we will explore: \n\nWhat green skills are and why they matter.\n\n\nHow employers can develop future-ready skills within their organisation.\n\n\nHow businesses can invest beyond their own workforce to prepare the talent of the future.\n\n\nThe partnerships\, behaviours and actions needed to support thriving people and thriving places.\n\nThis session will provide practical steps for any organisation preparing for the future of work. \nSpeakers for the event include: \nRuth Watson\, Founder of EcologicoUK and Eco Connect \nRuth Watson is the founder of EcologicoUK and Eco Connect North East CIC\, based in Teesside. She leads community focused work that makes sustainable living more accessible\, through refill and low waste retail\, workshops and community events\, and a mobile eco hub that takes refill and circular economy activity into local communities. \nEcologicoUK is the delivery partner for Business in the Community’s supported project at Dormanstown and Grangetown Primary Schools in Middlesbrough\, helping pupils set up and run closed loop refill stations as well as a food waste farm shop as a young enterprise model that enables development of green skills while supporting families with low cost food and household essentials. \nMax Finney\, Senior Sustainability Manager\, Shoosmiths \nMax is the Senior Sustainability Manager\, responsible for all elements of Shoosmiths’ sustainability programme including carbon reductions in line with the firm’s net zero targets\, social impact through philanthropy\, volunteering and pro bono and ensuring effective governance and accountability. \nPrior to joining Shoosmiths\, Max led sustainability strategy development and implementation across a variety of public and private industries including finance\, healthcare\, chemicals and pharmaceuticals. \nMax has a Degree in Physical Geography and a Masters Degree in Carbon Management from the University of Edinburgh\, as well as having completed an apprenticeship in Leadership with Imperial College London. \n\n\nBackground\nBITC’s Future Ready Economy report argues that the UK will only achieve a fair\, resilient and competitive economy if businesses invest in people\, skills and places\, while operating within planetary boundaries. Our work has found that access to good\, future-ready jobs is distributed unevenly\, with some communities at risk of being left behind as industries change. This webinar builds on those findings by focussing specifically on how businesses can support the development of green skills within their organisation and also across their communities. \n\n\nBooking and contact details and further information\n\nContact events@bitc.org.uk for any further questions.\nFull joining instructions will be sent before the event.\n\nFind out how your organisation can become a member of Business in the Community
URL:https://www.bitc.org.uk/event/upskilling-the-uk-for-a-future-ready-economy/
LOCATION:Online event
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SUMMARY:Inclusion & Wellbeing Champion Forum: Impacts of AI for disabled employees
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an opportunity to discuss shaping the risks and opportunities for employment of disabled employees presented by AI adoption.\n\n\nThis is an online event. \nAudience\nThis event is open to Inclusion (Gender\, Race and Inclusion) and Wellbeing Champions. \n \n\n\nBackground\n \nBITC found that 90% of organisations are considering the way AI interacts with the equality\, diversity and inclusion agenda. A tailored focus on the impact of AI and disabled employees must be prioritised to reduce the risk of stalling progress on the disability pay and employment gap. \n \n\n\nAbout the Event\nAre you using or considering AI and/or automation technologies in your workplace? Have you considered the impacts of AI on disabled employees? \nJoin BITC and the University of Birmingham to explore the impacts of AI on disabled people in the UK through the AI-EMPOWERED research project with Dr Daniel Wheatley\, Director of the Work Inclusivity Research Centre\, University of Birmingham. \nThis champion forum shares expert-led insight and provides space to contribute to understanding the impacts of AI and automation on disabled employees. Regardless of your organisation’s maturity or current use of AI technologies\, research estimates that globally 92 million jobs will be displaced by 2030. \nDisabled employees already experience disproportionate marginalisation and barriers to accessing good work\, an inequity at risk of rising without responsible AI adoption. \nThis event will: \n– Explore the AI Empowered research project aims \n– Ensure inclusivity remains at the forefront when considering the use of AI \n– Facilitate best practice learning to support disabled people in the AI era \n \nBusiness in the Community’s work on Artificial Intelligence and Wellbeing: \nBusiness in the Community has responded to the rapidly evolving rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) through our Responsible AI labs\, spotlighting critical challenges AI poses if businesses fail to embrace responsible integration. Considering the impact of AI on marginalised groups has remained imperative to this approach\, exploring the Gendered Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Racial Bias in AI. \nBITC’s Wellbeing campaign and BITC Workwell model positions thriving people at the heart of organisational purpose\, culture and business strategy\, providing a framework for an intersectional\, inclusive and people-first approach. Inclusive AI practice should consider the lived experience of the one in seven workers in Britain with a disability and the broader workforce wellbeing implications of adoption to identify risks and mitigate accordingly. \nFind out more about BITC’s work on wellbeing. \n \n\n\nGuest Speaker\nOur guest speaker is Dr Daniel Wheatley\, Director of the Work Inclusivity Research Centre\, University of Birmingham. \nHe will be discussing the AI EMPOWERED research project\, exploring the impacts of AI on disabled people in the UK. \n \n\n\nBooking and contact details and further information\n\nContact Jade Olivo for any further questions.\nFull joining instructions will be sent before the event.\n\nFind out how your organisation can become a member of Business in the Community
URL:https://www.bitc.org.uk/event/inclusion-wellbeing-champion-forum-impacts-of-ai-for-disabled-employees/
LOCATION:Online event
CATEGORIES:Gender Equality,Health and Wellbeing,Race Equality,Responsible Business and Strategy
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SUMMARY:Launch Event: Responsible AI Framework– Shaping the Future of Business
DESCRIPTION:Join us in London for the official launch of Business in the Community’s Responsible AI Framework.\n\n\nThis is an in-person event \nAudience\nThis event is open to members and non-members. \n\n\nAbout the event\nJoin us at Verizon’s Innovation Hub in London for the official launch of insight’s from Business in the Community’s Responsible AI lab series. These insights have been informed by cross-sector business\, not for profit organisations and subject matter experts. The insights will offer practical\, actionable guidance to help organisations navigate responsible business in an AI world. \nAt this event\, you’ll: \n\nDiscover how you can navigate the opportunities and risks of AI.\nHear from experts on the role of AI in shaping a fairer\, greener\, and more inclusive future.\nExplore cutting-edge technology inside Verizon’s state-of-the-art Innovation Hub.\nConnect with senior leaders and practitioners driving responsible innovation.\n\n\n\nRefreshments\nRefreshments will be provided. \n\n\nBooking and contact details and further information\n\nContact Annette.Ettarh@bitc.org.uk\, Event Manager\, with any questions.\nFull joining instructions will be sent before the event.\n\nFind out how your organisation can become a member of Business in the Community
URL:https://www.bitc.org.uk/event/responsible-ai-blueprint-shaping-the-future-of-business/
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