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Introducing...big ideas

CALLING YOUNG PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD

Help shape a better future. Get expert career guidance. In an amazing virtual space designed just for you...and it's all free!

Featured Speakers

These speakers will provoke and inspire you early on and then you can nominate who else you want to hear from.

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Rupert Read

Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia

Tom Rippin

CEO and Founder of On Purpose

Jessica Gordon-Nembhard

Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development

John Wood

Emeritus Professor of Design at Goldsmiths

The Challenge

Join our challenge to develop proposals to build back better post pandemic by the end of August. We will provide briefings, Q&A and explorations sessions to help you collaborate to develop your thinking.

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04aug9:00 am9:45 amChallenge Briefing #3: Generating ideas9:00 am – 9:45 am BST Event Type :Challenge Briefing

Time

(Tuesday) 9:00 am – 9:45 am BST

Location

The Workshop – https://live.remo.co/e/f4c20-the-workshop

URL: https://live.remo.co/e/f4c20-the-workshop

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In this session we look at all the insights you’ve gathered and try to both synthesise the underlying trends and ideate a range of creative responses to them.

Dave Jarman

Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship

Show bio +Dave is a Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the multi-award-winning Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Bristol (www.bristol.ac.uk/innovation) (CATE 2019, NEEA 2018, Vice-Chancellor’s Award 2017) and a BILT Teaching Fellow supporting the embedding of innovation and enterprise into the curriculum. A former Head of Careers, Head of Enterprise Education, and Chairman and Director of Enterprise Educators UK (www.enterprise.ac.uk). Dave is a Fellow of the HEA, the RSA, and an Honorary Fellow of EEUK. He also writes a blog about enterprising ‘side projects’ at www.davejarman.co.uk/blog

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04aug5:00 pm5:45 pmChallenge Briefing #3: Generating ideas [Repeat]5:00 pm – 5:45 pm BST Event Type :Challenge Briefing

Time

(Tuesday) 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm BST

Location

The Workshop – https://live.remo.co/e/f4c20-the-workshop

URL: https://live.remo.co/e/f4c20-the-workshop

Event Details

In this session we look at all the insights you’ve gathered and try to both synthesise the underlying trends and ideate a range of creative responses to them.

Dave Jarman

Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship

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Your Future Career

Stay tuned for later in the programme for ‘Your Future Career’ sessions – for briefings and discussions with mentors and partners to help you develop a purposeful career in these challenging times.

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08sep8:00 am8:45 amYour Career Future #1: Careers in the 21st century8:00 am – 8:45 am BST Event Type :Your Career Future

Time

(Tuesday) 8:00 am – 8:45 am BST

Location

The Workshop – https://live.remo.co/e/f4c20-the-workshop

URL: https://live.remo.co/e/f4c20-the-workshop

Event Details

What does a career mean in the 21st Century?
What has changed in the assumptions made by the parents of today’s students entering the jobs market?
A career is for life but is a job for life? And how long might that life be?

David Leech

HR Director

Show bio +David has been a Human Resources Director since 1997. His career has included not only Human Resources but also retail banking, sales and marketing for a range of businesses and organisations including Lloyds Bank, EY, Investec, CMS Cameron McKenna, the Office of Fair Trading, Celerant Consulting and Hitachi Consulting. He is currently Global HR Director of RWS IP Services, a division of RWS Holdings plc.

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08sep5:00 pm5:45 pmYour Career Future #1: Careers in the 21st century [Repeat]5:00 pm – 5:45 pm BST Event Type :Your Career Future

Time

(Tuesday) 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm BST

Location

The Workshop – https://live.remo.co/e/f4c20-the-workshop

URL: https://live.remo.co/e/f4c20-the-workshop

Event Details

What does a career mean in the 21st Century?
What has changed in the assumptions made by the parents of today’s students entering the jobs market?
A career is for life but is a job for life? And how long might that life be?

David Leech

HR Director

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10sep8:00 am8:45 amYour Career Future #2: Managing your own career8:00 am – 8:45 am BST Event Type :Your Career Future

Time

(Thursday) 8:00 am – 8:45 am BST

Location

The Workshop – https://live.remo.co/e/f4c20-the-workshop

URL: https://live.remo.co/e/f4c20-the-workshop

Event Details

What do you want to do for a career?
How do you gain access to it? Promoting yourself.
What skills and abilities will you need? How do you acquire them?
How do you face the paradox of being a skilled practitioner or becoming a leader?
Employee or lone wolf? Or something in between?

David Leech

HR Director

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10sep5:00 pm5:45 pmYour Career Future #2: Managing your own career [Repeat]5:00 pm – 5:45 pm BST Event Type :Your Career Future

Time

(Thursday) 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm BST

Location

The Workshop – https://live.remo.co/e/f4c20-the-workshop

URL: https://live.remo.co/e/f4c20-the-workshop

Event Details

What do you want to do for a career?
How do you gain access to it? Promoting yourself.
What skills and abilities will you need? How do you acquire them?
How do you face the paradox of being a skilled practitioner or becoming a leader?
Employee or lone wolf? Or something in between?

David Leech

HR Director

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Meet Our Partners

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Festival For Change, 2020.

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