Sharing, Influencing and Living in a Digital Scotland: A DigiFest 2024 event

Join us in Glasgow on Tuesday 29 October for this DigiFest 2024 event, designed in collaboration with the Digital Citizen Panel.

This in-person DigiFest event is being delivered by the Digital Health and Social Care Team at the ALLIANCE, in collaboration with the Digital Citizen Panel. This event will look at how collectively we can: produce accessible digital services, tackle the barriers to digital inclusion and support the workforce to become digitally enabled.

We welcome attendees to arrive from 9am, at the Radisson Blu , Glasgow on Tuesday 29 October for networking opportunities and refreshments. Pennie Taylor (the Chair) will be kicking the event off at 10am. Talks and presentations will end at 3pm, following this we welcome attendees to stay for “Networking and Nibbles” with the Digital Citizen Panel. We will also have a musical/storytelling performance by UNESCO artist-in-residence at the University of Glasgow – playwright, storyteller and musician – Tawona Sithole to mark Black History Month 2024. Entertainment and networking will conclude for 5pm.

We have speakers from across private, public and the third sector, including Scottish Government, TL Tech, Mhor Collective and citizens with lived experience with the aim of sharing learning, showcasing the successes and highlighting opportunities for citizen participation and coproduction.

Other key themes of the day include digital tools to support participation, and digital inclusion.

We will deliver a hybrid panel session in partnership with the Scottish AI Alliance, on the topic of Good Practice in AI in Health and Social Care: The Rights and Wrongs. This session will be hosted on Zoom, please get in touch to join this lunchtime session remotely on the 29 October 12:00pm-1:30pm. The panellists are: Dawn McAra-Hunter (Scottish AI Alliance), Peter McDade (Chair of the East Dunbartonshire Access Panel and Digital Citizen Panel member) and Sara Redmond (Chief Officer for Development, the ALLIANCE). Why not submit a question for an answer on the day?

The agenda for this event has now been published and can be found here.

The in-person has now reached capacity however we are running a waitlist in the event of cancellations.

Get in touch to register your place for the hybrid AI session, or be added to the waitlist for the in-person event via phone 0141 404 0231 or email: dhcscot@alliance-scotland.org.uk

The building is accessible, and the ALLIANCE will strive to make any required adjustments to support participation.

DigiFest24 will be celebrated from this date onwards, with more events hosted online in December. For more information on other events, see here.

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