August 2022 Roundup: Diversity in tech & upcoming events 📆
By Sarah Cronk
The heatwave is over and the planes and the visitors have gone - phew! But wasn't it fantastic to see Eastbourne in all of its glory?
What’s on?
Summer may be on its way out, but the bank holiday is still to come! There are loads of events coming up over the next few weeks to look forward to...
Eastbourne Vintage Festival is back this bank holiday weekend in Gildredge Park with a Victorian funfair, live music and entertainment, and an open-air cinema on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights
The Feastival, a family food, music & culture festival, also runs this bank holiday weekend in Hampden Park
Eastbourne Steampunk Festival takes place on the Wish Tower Slopes on 3rd/4th September
Wyntercon IX, a family-friendly comic-con style event, returns to the Winter Gardens on 10th/11th September
Whoever said there was nothing to do in Eastbourne?!
And If industry-specific events are your thing...
Power Your Business with Modern Cloud Apps: Strategies and Best Practices, a 90-minute webinar from Google Cloud, Tuesday 30th August
How to negotiate anything and align with your sales colleagues, an express webinar for marketers from CIM, Tuesday 20th September
Unblind the Mind with Darren Harris, from Silicon Brighton and Diverse Sussex, Thursday 22nd September
Technology for Marketing is on at Excel London, 28th-29th September
Future-proof your security with Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), a webinar sharing real-world architectures of how to translate SASE to your own environment from AWS Marketplace, Thursday 29th September
And last but not least, add Thursday 20th October to your calendars for our very own Chalk event which will take place at FOUNDRY! More details to follow.
What’s new?
We responded to commonly-asked questions about our town.
Welcome, neighbours!
Watch Seb Cox's 'Are We Monsters' now!
First cohort from Digital Production, Design & Development course pass out - congrats, students!
How to organise the new Slack-like sidebar
Eastbourne-based engineer Russ Miles explains no design is "perfect”.
A Chat With: Grace Prior at Diverse Sussex
This month, Chalk spoke to Grace Prior, Programme Director at Silicon Brighton who led the Diverse Sussex initiative. Diversity, equity and inclusion have always been a passion and priority of Grace’s, so we caught up with her to find out about how this applies to the digital sector.
In our interview, we discovered...
📝 ...what education providers can do to try to bridge the DEI gap for young people
📈 ...how you can take small steps to make a difference
👨👩👧👦 ...what advice Grace would give to those in one of the underrepresented groups
Check out Grace’s interview for more on Diverse Sussex's work and plans for the future.
Silicon Brighton and Diverse Sussex are hosting dual Paralympian and England's most capped and decorated blind football player, Darren Harris, at "Unblind the Mind" on Thursday 22nd September in Brighton.
Come along to find out:
How technology can help people to push past the limits imposed on them
What your business can do to improve the recruitment, retention and progression of diverse talent
Who the next generation of technologists are and how you can inspire them
One last thing...
We have plans in store for a BIG event in May next year. Digital community, be ready... we will need your involvement!
