CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

This online conference took place on Thursday 16 July 2020. Conference talks and Q&A were held between:  11:00 - 13:00 BST (UK Time). Optional workshops: 14:00 - 15:00 BST and 15:30 - 16:30 BST.

The conference was free of charge to attend, due to the financial support of our event sponsors: Accenture, EDF Energy, Sellafield Ltd and UK Atomic Energy Authority.

Over 400 delegates joined the livestream of the conference talks. The engaged audience submitted a lot of questions during the event and there was insufficient time to answer them all. The team is currently working through the submitted questions and responses will be shared over the next few weeks on this website and via our Diversity and Inclusion in UK Nuclear social media feeds. 

CONFERENCE AGENDA

11:00 - 11:10 - Introduction and Welcome - Callum Thomas and Monica Mwanje

11:10 - 11:55 - Interviews with nuclear industry leaders, followed by live Q&A. View a recording of the interviews here: Interview Responses Video

11:55 - 12:05 - Break

12:05 - 12:30 - Fireside Chat with: Karen Wheeler CBE, Chief Executive Officer, Radioactive Waste Management Limited, Dr Sam King, Head of Technical Strategy,  Radioactive Waste Management Limited, Peter Welch, Business Services Director, Radioactive Waste Management Limited.

12:30 - 12:55 - Keynote: Frank Douglas, Non-Executive Director, City & Guilds Group and CEO, Caerus Executive.

View a recording of Frank's keynote here: Frank Douglas Keynote Video

12:55 - 13:00 - Summary and close

13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch / Break

14:00 - 15:00 - Concurrent workshops 

15:00 - 15:30 - Break

15:30 - 16:30 - Concurrent workshops (repeat sessions of the planned workshops, thus allowing attendees to attend a 2nd workshop if their diary permitted)

INTERVIEWEES

* indicates interviewees who joined the live Q&A

Adriènne Kelbie, Chief Executive, Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR)

Dr Rebecca Weston, Chief Operating Officer, Sellafield Ltd*

Corhyn Parr, Director of UK Waste Operations, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA)*

Marcia Ore, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Partner, UK Atomic Energy Authority*

Ellen Wildig, Growth and Project Manager, Jacobs*

Fiona Galbraith, Project Management Associate, KBR*

Patrick Herbert, Nuclear Engineer, nucleargraduates*

Andrew Steer, Lead Safety Case Project Correspondent, General Nuclear System Limited*

Lisa Stanger, Principal Consultant, Thomas Thor Associates

Dr Des Wright, Nuclear Authority, National Nuclear Laboratory*

WORKSHOPS

The scheduled workshops were:

• White Allyship - by Leyla Okhai

• Equality Pays - by Michelle Gyimah

• Active Bystander Training - by Scott Solder

• How do we get more people from working class backgrounds into the industry? - by Roger Harding

• How to develop a successful EDI Strategy - by Mac Alonge

  
  

Please note: the workshops were not recorded. This was to respect the privacy of participants during the sessions.  

CONFERENCE SPONSORS

CONFERENCE SUPPORTERS (listed in alphabetical order)

• Institute of Physics Nuclear Industry Group
• National Skills Academy for Nuclear
• Nuclear Industry Association
• Nuclear Institute
• Nuclear Institute Young Generation Network
• Office for Nuclear Regulation

You can find the official conference poster below 

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