Diversity Fishbowl Bristol

After attending a fishbowl event, myself, Hannah and Georgie thought that a fishbowl style event focused around diversity and inclusion would work really well. We have been planning hard and excited to launch this!

If you are thinking what is a fishbowl, well an open fishbowl is an event where there are 5 seats in the middle and 4 people in those seats, the audience is organised around this central seating in bands that indicate the level of participation the audience member wants to engage in. The first row is actively engaged and will undoubtedly ask questions or join the people in the middle at some point, the second row is less participatory but may ask questions and the third row is on receive only with no intention to ask questions (however, they can via a facilitator or still go forward rules are meant to be broken).

The Five seats and four people at the beginning may not be those at the end of the talk, in an Open fishbowl audience members can decide to join the middle and if they do the only hard and fast rule is that there must be a spare seat at all times, this means that a speaker in the middle who feels they have said enough can get up and move out of the middle back to their seats. This way the event is more discussion based and less Q&A. Learn a bit more about them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishbowl_(conversation )

Our first event will be a mix of invited guest, leaders in tech and then also open to folk who are passionate about inclusion and diversity in tech and facilitated by Georgina Hopkinson - Group Tech Talent Transformation Manager at OVO Energy.

This event is hosted and sponsored by OVO Energy.

If you are interested in sharing your experiences around D&I please come along and drop us a message if you have any questions.

See you soon x