Tech for Good + Women Changemakers at Flourish

A joint event from Tech for Good Live and Flourish for women changemakers (both those with tech experience and those without) exploring how tech and social good can work together to create the right solutions to the right problems. What practical steps can we do next to connect the Flourish and Tech for Good Live communities?

Tech for Good Live is an organisation looking to help people use tech to make social change. We have a local community in Manchester of tech and charity types who meet monthly, and a weekly podcast.

Flourish are an organisation who support Women changemakers to make the change they want to see with peer-learning, mentoring and investment.

PANEL

Kirsty Devlin – Co-founder and CEO Recode, an orgainsation that strongly believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn to code, regardless of their postcode. Through coding education, they seek to empower individuals from within communities to transform the technology industry. Kirsty is also a Lead Tutor at InnovateHer and set up Women Who Keynote.

Kim Foale – Web Development and Strategy Consultant and Co-founder of Geeks for Social Change, and organisation working towards a fairer society using technology, communication, and education. One of their key products is PlaceCal a community events calendar and online suite of support to collaborate and promote everything that happening in local areas.

Beth Nunn – Founder of PIE Social UK which aims are to improve the employability skills and life aspirations of young people from economically deprived backgrounds by providing them with experiences they may not necessarily have access to through home life or school teaching. As a former secondary school teacher Beth aligns her knowledge of the curriculum with the wider needs of business and workforce development. Her Future Learn programme amongst others has a strong focus on developing digital and communication skills alongside cultural and community capital.

Shelley Metcalfe – Co-founder at Digital Life Skills which aims to Empower young people to use the world’s information well. The Digital Life Skills Company CIC (formerly Digital Resilience) is a social enterprise that exists to help children and young people thrive in a digital world. They do this by upskilling young people – and their parents, teachers, educators – to navigate the internet effectively.

TIMINGS

5:00 Arrival for food, drinks and networking (Children welcome!)

• We have alcohol, non alcohol, vegetarian and vegan. Feel free to bring your own.
• If you don't fancy networking, the venue has plenty of space for you to sit and chill.

5:30 Intro and Panel Discussion

Covering topics such as:

• Where should social innovation come from?
• Are tech organisations equip to solve social problems?
• Should the social sector be using tech better? Or using more tech?
• What’s the best way we can work together?

6:00 - Discussion sessions
Round table conversations and connection building thinking about how we might work better together. Some suggested next steps and opportunities for practical things to build on across our worlds.

6:30 - Feedback/plenary and next steps
6:45 - lightening talks
7:00 - followed by more time for drinks and chatting.

7:30 - event close

LIGHTNING TALKS
We'll also have space for brief "lightning" talks on the night, where anyone will have a chance to speak for up to 3 minutes on something that helps more people do good with tech.

PARTNERS
We are proud to be sponsored by The Federation, Co-op Foundation and Luminate Group

http://www.thefederation.coop/

OTHER STUFF
You can follow us on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/techforgoodlive #tfgl

Please keep your RSVP up to date as we often have high demand, but a fair few no-shows on the night.

See you there!