At SVG Europe Women Scotland’s third event in 2024, host of the evening, presenter and broadcaster Alison Walker, welcomes the crowd SVG Europe Women has announced that registration is now open for its first event of 2025, SVG Europe Women Scotland – Accessibility and Innovation, which includes speakers from the BBC and IMG. Taking place […]
At SVG Europe Women Scotland’s third event in 2024, host of the evening, presenter and broadcaster Alison Walker, welcomes the crowd
SVG Europe Women has announced that registration is now open for its first event of 2025, SVG Europe Women Scotland – Accessibility and Innovation, which includes speakers from the BBC and IMG.
Taking place in-person on Tuesday 25 February 2025 at The Exchange in central Glasgow in partnership with independent technical services provider, QTV, this evening of networking, discussion and inspiration will see us looking deeper into inclusion and accessibility.
Panellists will debate areas ranging from the dichotomy of how technology and innovation is lowering barriers to work in live sports broadcast in some areas while raising it in others, to making outside broadcasting environments sustainably inclusive places to work with lasting legacies.
We will once again be joined by sports broadcaster and journalist Alison Walker as our host for this evening in central Glasgow. Our first panel, titled ‘Tech dichotomy: Creating accessibility or shifting the problem?’, is the big debate. The first speakers announced for this session are: Purminder Gandhu, BBC R&D Edge Group Lead, technology transfer & partnerships manager; Charlotte Winter, IMG head of live technology; and Morag McIntosh, BBC solution lead for studio automation and gallery control.
Gandhu, Winter and McIntosh will discuss if the problem of inclusion and accessibility has simply been shifted to a different front, as while innovation and technology is allowing more people to be active members of the sports broadcasting community, it is also excluding others.
The next panel, called ‘Why, what and how: Making sports production sustainably accessible’ will dig into the fact that while technology is advancing and remote production hubs are opening doors for crew that need accessibility support in order to do their job, roadblocks continue to exist around outside broadcast trucks, stadiums and more. The panel will discuss how these barriers can be raised sustainably using technology and innovation, creating a lasting legacy, plus what is being done in the live sports broadcasting industry to help achieve this today.
All genders are very welcome to attend.
To find out more, and to register, go to: Innovation and Accessibility
The new venue for the 2025 SVG Europe Women Scotland event on 25 March, The Exchange’s Print Room in central Glasgow
