Summit kindly sponsored by:
Times below are British Summer Time (BST).
All talks are recorded so you can revisit or view at a time convenient to you!
08:40 Online networking
09:05 Chair’s opening remarks
Speaker:
09:10 How Sky is making disability inclusion a business-wide priority
- Understand where you are in order to identify barriers and set ambitious targets in relation to disability
- Ensuring disability inclusion is part of your wider DEI manifesto
- Working with external partners to attract more disabled talent and ensuring your culture and workplace is accessible and inclusive
- How Sky is driving disability awareness and better representation across the wider industry
Speakers:
09:30 How assistive technologies are supporting employees with disabilities and transforming the world of work
Speaker:
09:50 The Social model of disability as a guiding light for all EDI efforts
- My story and how I discovered the Social Model of Disability
- The Social model of disability as a guiding light for all EDI efforts
- What we do at HS2 to be a Disability Confident Leader employer
Speaker:
10:10 Live audience questions and answers
10:40 Break and online networking
11:05 In conversation: Supporting employees disabled by long-term health conditions to sustain work
In this session, Emma will discuss her own personal journey, living with a disabling long-term health condition; how her employer has supported her return to work, as well as some research undertaken with the University of East Anglia looking at what works to sustain employment.
Speaker:
11:25 How Siemens became a Disability Confident Employer and has attracted new talent through supported internships
- Siemens’ journey towards becoming a Disability Confident Employer
- Helping young people with disabilities transition into paid work through the Supported Internships Programme
Speaker:
11:45 The power of influencing your organisation to remove barriers for disabled customers & employees with accessibility & inclusive design in mind
- My journey to become an Accessibility & Inclusive Design Lead
- The value of championing Disability Inclusion and networking within an organisation
- How to make your framework’s principles work for your stakeholders
Speaker:
12:00 What happens when universal design meets inclusion?
- Why the universal design mindset is key for disability inclusion and beyond
- The principles of universal design and how to apply them to the workplace
- How technology can help us to design universally for all
Speaker:
12:10 Live audience questions and answers
12:40 Morning chair’s closing remarks and hand over to afternoon chair
Speakers:
Shani Dhanda
Disability Inclusion & Accessibility Specialist, Social Entrepreneur & Broadcaster
12:45 Lunch break and online networking
13:30 Chair’s welcome back
Speaker:
Shani Dhanda
Disability Inclusion & Accessibility Specialist, Social Entrepreneur & Broadcaster
13:35 Improving the employee experience for all disabled workers – insights from the BDF Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey 2023
Speaker:
Diane Lightfoot
Member, UK Disability Confident Business Leaders Group & CEO
Business Disability Forum
13:50 Supporting managers to become disability smart
- Addressing the gap in experience of managers and how training can help with this and build confidence
- Using training to activate modern day skills and get the right outcome
- How mandatory training of all 400 line managers ensured the successful delivery of a new disability inclusive policy at Raytheon UK
Speaker:
14:10 How Boots is supporting and driving the disability inclusion agenda with a new workplace adjustments process and colleague passport
Speaker:
14:30 How data and a good governance structure has helped establish and grow strong disability networks
Speaker:
Dawn Poulson Whelan
Chair, National Ambulance Disability Network
Association of Ambulance Chief Executives
14:50 Live audience questions and answers
15:20 Break and online networking
15:50 Supporting mental health and wellbeing for disabled colleagues at work
Speakers:
16:10 In conversation: Driving disability inclusion and diversity across the business and balancing being a content creator
Speaker:
16:30 How organisations can take an intersectional approach to disability inclusion
Speaker:
16:45 Live audience questions and answers
17:15 Chair's closing remarks
Speaker:
Shani Dhanda
Disability Inclusion & Accessibility Specialist, Social Entrepreneur & Broadcaster