• Promoting strategies to drastically increase the percentage of the UK’s tech workforce that are from lower socio-economic backgrounds*
• Discussing why social mobility is crucial for the UK tech sector to remain globally competitive and to deliver economic growth UK-wide.
• Delving into the work of Social Mobility Commission and charitable organisations who are helping to define and measure ‘disadvantage’, and deliver real solutions enabling opportunity and access for all

*currently just 9% meaning the tech sector is on a par with careers generally considered ‘elitist’ such as actors and high-court judges