Agenda

Caroline Dinenage, Minister of State for Digital and Culture in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, will welcome all attendees to Black Tech Fest and C:code.

Got an exceptional CV? An interactive portfolio? An Adobe XD guru to make your dreams come true? Well, we do! Join us to go one better - become an XD expert yourself! Join Adobe International's Anita-Mai Goulding and Jordan Barry in this brilliant masterclass. They'll give you the confidence to create interactive XD assets for amazing customer experiences. Learn how to make yours genuinely future-facing. Understand how to optimise creative workflows for incredible experiences through the single platform of XD, its plug-ins and the wider Creative Cloud ecosystem. For your CV, portfolio, presentations and apps, become an XD powerhouse.

This panel will address the various routes that students can take into tech (with a focus on Deepminds scholarships), the variety of roles within a technical career and how students can best prepare for this during their studies.

What does the industry really want? Why does Adobe want passion and authenticity? How can you get in and get on? Irisini Keappock and Eleanor Roddy are here to show you how to use your passion to build your personal brand, and identify and unleash the kind of skills Adobe is really looking for. They'll give you insight into the "soft" skills that really matter, show you how to tap into your inner rebel and stay authentic and be your best self all in a career you love.

Whitehat Apprenticeship Outreach Leaders will be discussing all things apprenticeships.

Tech changemakers share how they made their breakthroughs in tech without any coding experience. Coming from professional football, university dropouts, NBA and consulting, this panel will cover how the next generation of tech leaders is doing it all without a single line of code.

Just Eat employees speak about their various roles, what they do day to day, and share insights into their overall career journey.