Using Email Marketing to Turn Potential Customers into Happy Customers
Be imaginative and use email as a successful marketing tool. Learn how to build a community around your email newsletters and deliver long-term, sustainable business growth.
20th October / 9am - 10am
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Custom Properties: The Secret Ingredients for CSS Magic
Custom Properties are a great way to give our CSS superpowers! Not only can they help us write more concise, maintainable code, they also bestow upon us the ability to get truly creative with CSS.
20th October / 9:30am - 10:15am
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Utilising Video and Drones for your Brand
We hear people talk about video marketing a lot. With technology, you can easily create videos yourself using your phone and upload it to Facebook, Instagram, etc. However, does that mean it's promoting your brand in the right way?
20th October / 10am - 11am
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Find your Career Goals
Understanding what you enjoy in your job can help you take the next step in your career. Join us for a 60 minute session to explore what matters to you in your job.
20th October / 10:30am - 11:30am
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Social Media: How to Stand out on Social in 2020
Everyone likes ‘likes’. But visibility is vanity without measurable results. We'll be talking about the key ways your communications can become more targeted not only to show you to the world, but to shape the world with your message.
20th October / 11:30am - 12:30pm
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The Future of Work - Putting the Human Back into Human Resources
COVID-19 has significantly disrupted the workplace. How can we make the most of this opportunity and put the human back into HR.
20th October / 12pm - 1pm
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Women in Tech: Inspiring Future Generations Through Representative Role Models.
This panel session will discuss the experience of being a woman in tech, the pathways into the industry, potential challenges and solutions and the work that needs to be done to open up the South West’s cluster to diverse talent.
20th October / 1pm - 2pm
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Cyber Choices
This webinar addresses intentional and unintentional cyber activities which would be considered offences under the Computer Misuse Act.
20th October / 1pm - 2pm
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Think your Team Safe: How to use a Thinking Environment to Increase Psychological Safety & build high performing teams
This participative session is an introduction to psychological safety and why it’s important in your team & organisation. You’ll discover practical steps that you can take to build an environment where creativity & innovation thrive.
20th October / 2pm - 3pm
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Moving From Physical to Digital: an Artists’ Journey
Dr Penny Hay talks to artists who have been working with the Forest of Imagination, a festival that moved to a virtual platform. Penny will uncover what it has taught them about adapting their practice and how to engage with audiences online.
20th October / 3pm - 4pm
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The Future of Digitally Activated Cities
Technology has allowed us to revolutionise how we see and navigate our cities but how can we ensure the fourth urban revolution takes us in a direction that serves the public good.
20th October / 3pm - 4pm
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Everybody Plays Games, but are Games Made for Everybody?
Gaming is now one of the biggest global pastimes and most successful entertainment mediums, but is it as accessible and relatable as it should be in the 21st century?
20th October / 4pm - 5pm
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How to Start your Career in Digital Design
Are you a creative person? Are you interested in web and app design? This is the talk for you!
20th October / 4:30pm - 5:30pm
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Designing Powerful user Experiences with Psychology
Take a look at a framework that is a powerful way to understand the modern world we are designing for. How your website or app will be used in real life and to design for how people live their lives today.
20th October / 5pm - 6pm
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Wednesday
21st October 2020
How to Create a Bulletproof Blogging and Content Strategy
Ben will share how to develop a bulletproof content strategy to boost your social media activity and help you get found online through search engine optimisation.
21st October / 9am - 10am
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How to Embrace Pivotal Moments in Business and Make them a Success.
Join Storm’s CEO, David Kelly as he invites owners of Bath and Bristol's most renowned companies to talk about how they have turned key moments in their business into the success that they are today.
21st October / 10am - 11:45am
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Reportage Illustration in 2020
Talks with Tim about how digital technology enabled him to create a live reportage illustration during the Bath FC match in Twerton and the impact of recent changes on local businesses.
21st October / 11am - 12pm
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Prototyping – How to Move From Idea to Reality
Building a new product or feature is an incredibly exciting journey - vision, ideas and designs collide as you begin to assemble all the components you’ll need to launch. With so many features to pack in though, it can quickly become overwhelming.
21st October / 12pm - 12:30pm
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Bath Unlimited: Concept & Collaboration Over Digital Platforms
This event will provide insight on some of our key local businesses, how their workplaces are changing and what digital strategies are being adopted to enable talented professionals to thrive.
21st October / 12pm - 1pm
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Fail Fast, Learn Faster. Build a Better Digital Product with User Testing
It is no secret that well-executed UX can completely transform your business. User testing needn’t be a drawn-out complex process. This event will go through some techniques to include in your design process to help you fail fast and learn faster.
21st October / 12:45pm - 1:30pm
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Methodologies for Optimising Your Ecommerce Store
Picking which tests to run can be tricky. During this session we’ll go through the data-led methodologies that give you confidence in your testing roadmap.
21st October / 2pm - 2:30pm
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AI in Power BI – How Non-technical users can Access the Power of AI
Power BI is Microsoft’s data visualisation tool and is being adopted by many SMEs and organisations for reporting and analytics. Join this demo to learn more.
21st October / 2:30pm - 3:30pm
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Let’s Get Growing - Finding Funding During a Global Crisis
From adversity comes opportunity, if there is one thing that the UK is not lacking, it’s an abundance of innovative, disruptive firms ready to grab opportunity by the horns – from scale-ups & start-ups to businesses that have adapted quickly.
21st October / 3pm - 4pm
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How to Get Into Podcasting. And why it’s Harder Than you Might Think
Ed White and Ben Kinnaird will share their own experiences in podcasting and video broadcasting on the web.
21st October / 4pm - 5pm
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Stupid Cities: Using Digital Technology to Improve Social Equality in our Cities
This event will look at how Stupid Cities aims to improve the social equality of our cities by using place-making tools to highlight how their current design creates disability.
21st October / 5pm - 6pm
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Thursday
22nd October 2020
The Boardroom Toolkit
This masterclass has been developed from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Board Toolkit & South West Regional Cyber Crime Unit (SWRCCU) engagement with businesses and individuals that have been the victim of cyber crime.
22nd October / 9am - 10am
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Life Changing Digital Connections for the Learning Disabilities Community
Using everyday tech can drastically improve lives of people with learning disabilities.
22nd October / 9:30am - 10:30am
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8 Tips to Creating a Successful Website
Have you ever wondered if your website has the right foundations in place to help you meet your business objectives? Do you ever get so caught up in the wider marketing/business strategy that you’re not sure if your website even has the basics righ
22nd October / 10am - 11am
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2020 Proved the Importance of Branding...
This talk will look to give an overview of what we have all been through with 2020 and why it is now more important than ever to focus on building brand.
22nd October / 11am - 12pm
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The Future of Digital Technology in Advanced Engineering and Product Development
This event will look at how digital product development tools and technologies are transforming the way start-ups, SME’s and global brands are conceiving, developing and building products and services.
22nd October / 11am - 11:45am
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Why Respecting your Customer’s Privacy Makes Ethical Sense and Good Business Sense
Find out how you can respect your customers privacy and build a successful business without using cookies and tracking pixels.
22nd October / 12pm - 1pm
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Technology Solutions for Business - Reducing Human-to-Human Contact During a Global Pandemic.
A pandemic doesn’t need to mean complexity and reduced efficiency for all areas of business, in 2020 we have access to innovative technology and digital solutions that can be used to deliver efficiencies and increased safety for businesses.
22nd October / 12:15pm - 1pm
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How to Reduce the Environmental Impact of the Digital Technologies you are Responsible for
Did you know that the internet is thought to produce about the same carbon emissions as the aviation industry’s fuel consumption? Here's what you can do about it.
22nd October / 1pm - 2pm
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What a CTO Really Wants to see When you Apply for a Job in Their Team
We hire for cultural fit as much as we do for specific experience with our tech stack so it’s even more important that people put their best foot forward when they apply. Come and find out what we look for when recruiting.
22nd October / 1:30pm - 2:30pm
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How Digital Techniques can Transform Service Design in the Third Sector
Hear how the Carers’ Centre are using new approaches to improve their services both on and offline.
22nd October / 2pm - 3pm
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Using Google Tools to Drive Business Growth with Measurement and Insightful Reporting
Understand how to use Google Analytics, Google Data Studio and Google Tag Manager for useful analytics that will drive your business forward.
22nd October / 2:30pm - 3:30pm
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Exploring New Ideas for Digital Service Delivery in your Charity
During this interactive and informative session we will share, reflect and discuss as a group, how the process and mindset of design thinking can help you solve a whole manner of complex problems.
22nd October / 3pm - 4:30pm
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AI for Nervous Humans
In "AI for Nervous Humans” we will take a look at what Artificial Intelligence is, remind ourselves of the incredible things that people and machines can each do well.
22nd October / 4pm - 5:30pm
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Protecting Yourself Online
This presentation will provide foundation knowledge on how to protect yourself online, through the use of some easy concepts whilst also enhancing your awareness of current threats.
22nd October / 5pm - 6pm
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Third Thursday Festival Special
Join us for our monthly meet of creators, innovators and enthusiasts for a special Third Thursday gathering.
22nd October / 6:30pm - 8pm
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Friday
23rd October 2020
Protecting my Business: What Should I Prioritise?
Businesses that are in the early stages don’t have endless budgets to spend on legal advice. However, investing in some key protections for your business early on will ensure good foundations and processes are in place for future success.
23rd October / 9am - 10am
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Agency, Earthquake, PTSD, Coach
This is my story, from agency owner to coach, trusted by Google and Forbes to deliver coaching programmes and talks across the world. It's a story for anyone who lacks the belief they can't achieve their goals, and what to do about it.
23rd October / 10am - 10:45am
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Digital Business Models – Growth Innovations for a post-pandemic era
'Digital' is not 'tech'. It is a whole new way of doing business and a huge opportunity both for progressive old economy adopters as well as newer digital natives.
23rd October / 11am - 12pm
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How the Pandemic has Changed the Way we Support Customers
During this event Curo will discuss how they’ve been developing their digital platforms to support their customers and how they’ve adapted some areas of the business to digital only and the benefits.
23rd October / 11:30am - 12:30pm
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What is the Difference Between a Chatbot and a Conversational A.I?
What is the difference and why in the world should we care? Join Phil as he explains more.
23rd October / 12pm - 1pm
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Redefining Digital Experience with AI-Driven Products
We'll be looking at the existing process for design and discussing new methods of adapting for the introduction of AI with design.
23rd October / 1pm - 2pm
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Digital Transformation in Health and Social Care
Join us to hear from NHS and third sector leaders about some recent ground-breaking projects where digital has transformed the delivery of health and social care, improving lives.
23rd October / 2pm - 3pm
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The Future of Start-up and Early Stage Business Incubation
This talk looks at the future of start-up and early stage business incubation in relation to the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic.
23rd October / 2pm - 2:45pm
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Everyday Adventures In Augmented Reality
Join Kerry and Norts of Tiny Giant on a lively, mind-expanding journey through all that's possible with augmented reality.
23rd October / 3pm - 4pm
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Schools working with Trees of Hope and Forest of Imagination
Penny Hay and the team behind Forest of Imagination and Trees of Hope share their project and how they have been working with young people.
23rd October / 4pm - 5pm
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Phishing Masterclass
Phishing is one of the most common and damaging cyber threats facing all organisations. This interactive workshop will help you understand the tactics used in phishing attacks and why they work, so you can better defend your organisation.
23rd October / 5pm - 6pm
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Saturday
24th October 2020
The Big Pivot – Transforming the Future for Charitable Grant Making (available all week)
This talk will explore how vast waste and inefficiency can be easily overcome with smart matching technology and a shift in digital transformation for the UK’s third sector.
24th October
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We Must Be The Change - Virtual Choir (available all week)
We Must Be The Change' brings together 50 singers from around the world for a one-off virtual performance. Here's the final piece available for you to view during Bath Digital Festival week.
24th October
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Highlights from WOMAD At Home (available all week)
WOMAD At Home replaces WOMAD Festival this year and this event brings you some of the session highlights in a brand new immersive listening experience. Bring headphones for a unique 360 audio experience.
24th October
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Build an Online Mini Game with Code
Interested in learning to code? Find out how to build a simple computer game in just 2 hours using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. For ages 16+
24th October / 11am - 1pm
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Careers Advice Q&A
Hear from self-taught technologist, Jessica Rose about working in the digital tech world and how you too, can start your own path to a digital career.
24th October / 2pm - 3pm
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Introduction to Programming
Love problem solving? Software Development could be the challenge for you - learn the basics of programming in this workshop.