As we emerge from the last two years, I’m sure many will reflect on just how important the role of community is to our social and professional lives. In the context of BCS, meeting together allows us to draw inspiration from each other and to help technology develop positively. It is through our interactions that we address ethical issues such as the digital divide, making sure we leave no one behind. It may seem like a daunting task, with so much happening in the world at present, but I feel it is the small droplets that create a lake – holding webinars, hosting live events, working with the BCS Policy team, and conversing on the new BCS Community platform – which allows us, as the BCS community, to come together to make IT good for society.
In the spirit of community and collaboration, for the first year ever we have published the plans of all member groups for the next financial year on the BCS Community along with a summary analysis by Jon Jeffery. We hope that by sharing these plans, we are able to inspire and learn from each other, utilising our scale as community for positive impact.
Alastair Revell Vice-President, Community
Important Notices
A BIG THANK YOU!!
It's Volunteers Week and we wanted to say a massive thank you to you all for everything you do as a BCS volunteer to help us make IT good for society!
If you're a member of BCS NeurodiversIT specialist group, or you're interested in what they do, you can now join the discussion on their new LinkedIn group.
NeurodiversIT support and advocate for neurodivergent individuals in the IT industry, while helping to raise awareness in the BCS community.
Committees have a target of attaining 100 new members to help with BCS membership growth. To date, you have attracted 56 new members via your member group discount codes.
Throughout June, BCS Pride will be hosting discussions for university students with successful and inspiring members of the LGBTQ+ community. Each week a new speaker will be sharing their stories, their successes and failures, and their tips on how you can succeed as an LGBTQ+ person in STEM. You can submit your Pride Month contributions on the BCS Community forum.
Join the Royal Signals and BCS for the annual Professional Engineering Institutions (PEI) Defence lecture as we be delving into the fascinating world of AI in the defence sector. Our distinguished speakers from the MOD, Industry and Academia will share their knowledge and experiences of AI, the ethical dilemmas around it and their predictions for the future.
BCS SPA (Software in Practice) specialist group is bringing the SPA Conference back in face-to-face format, and will be running a one day event this year, full of sessions on modern software development topics, in the best SPA tradition.
The conference will be a single track event, presented by a group of expert and engaging speakers, on 22 June at the St George's Centre, in the heart of Leeds.
The 27th Annual BCS INSPIRE International Conference, will be for the third time an e-conference, to encourage entries from UK and overseas, from academics and researchers, to post-graduate students and those from industry After the e-conference, the accepted papers, which had been presented at the conference, will be published, with ISBN as an e-proceedings, at no cost to authors, and will be freely available.
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