MKGN #49 will be held back in the Sky Room at MK Gallery on Thursday September 5th 2024. Doors open at 18.30 with our first speaker on stage around 19.30.
We have 3 fabulous speakers confirmed, details below 👇
The bar stays open until 22:30 - 23:00 so stick around for drinks and chat.
We're looking for sponsors to help support event costs for this not-for-profit community event. Take a look at our opportunities.
The Sky Room at MK Gallery
900 Midsummer Boulevard
Central Milton Keynes
MK9 3QA
The what3words address is ///trespass.abruptly.hurtles
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Topics, speakers & schedule
Alison Coward
Workshop Culture: a guide to building teams that thrive
Have you ever left a great workshop more connected, creative, and collaborative as a team, and wishing you could continue that feeling every day?
Alison will share principles and practical tips from her latest book "Workshop Culture: a guide to building teams that thrive" to show you how.
About Alison
Alison Coward is the founder of Bracket, a consultancy that partners with ambitious, forward-thinking companies to help them build high-performing team cultures. She is a team culture coach, workshop facilitator, trainer, keynote speaker and author of “Workshop Culture: a guide to building teams that thrive” and “A Pocket Guide to Effective Workshops”. Clients include: Google, Meta, Wellcome and the V&A. With 20 years’ experience working in, leading and facilitating creative teams, Alison is passionate about finding the balance between creativity, productivity and collaboration so that teams can thrive and do their best work together.
Dan Standish
Digital Fraud & Scams – Staying Safe
Dan will describe the growing threat of fraud and the techniques criminals now deploy onto their targets. He will then share best practice guidance as to the steps we should all be taking to protect ourselves.
About Dan
Dan has spent nearly 15 years delivering effective fraud strategies covering cards, digital security, direct channel servicing, authentication and scams. Taking a data-led approach he combines technical and functional solutions to address the evolving threats posed by fraudsters.
Si Jobling
How healthy is your team?
Find out how to measure and improve your team health with a simple but powerful framework called PETALS. Si Jobling will talk through the story of how PETALS grew from humble beginnings, how it’s been adopted across multiple teams and companies and what the future might hold for your team.
About Si
After more than two decades working in tech, from individual contributor in local government at West Midlands Fire Service to leader at a global scale at Alibaba, Si has seen the shift from colocated teams to remote first working and observed some of the habits that make a healthy, fully functional team.
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