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Digital Skills Festival Talent Day – Manchester Digital

When and Where?

13th – 16th February 2018 at the Lowry Hotel in Manchester.

Get Involved!

The Manchetser Digital Skills Festival is an annual, four-day event that includes a skills conference; the largest digital careers fair in the UK and opportunities for school children to learn digital skills in a practical setting.

Manchester has the ambition to become a leading digital city and in order to achieve this, we need a highly skilled digital workforce that is big enough to serve the needs of an ever-growing industry. We need a pipeline of talent that will leave school, college and university with industry standard, work ready, digital skillsets.

The annual Manchester Digital Skills Festival highlights and addresses the issues facing the sector as well as addressing them on a practical level by hosting the UK’s largest digital recruitment fair, offering tours of local digital businesses and opportunities for local school children to gain some hands on, practical experience of digital.

The Skills Festival is a great chance to showcase the amazing digital businesses we have in the North West and show students that there are wonderful digital career opportunities on their doorstep.

What’s on the Agenda?

Tuesday 13th February – Digital Skills Conference

Day 1 is an afternoon conference where we look at how industry engages with education, what businesses need to do to recruit and retain digital talent and how we are educating the next generation of digital talent.

Wednesday 14th February – Talent Day

Day 2 a large scale careers fair where over 60 businesses meet students from schools, colleges and universities across the North West. Members of the DriveWorks Team will be at the careers fair – make sure you say hi to us!

Thursday 15th and Friday 1th February – Experience Days

The Experience Days are a fantastic opportunity for students to learn how to build websites, how to write code, hacking skills and much more.