On 19 June 2025, Business Disability Forum brought together leaders, practitioners, and policymakers for its Annual Conference, exploring whether disability inclusion is truly embedded as “business as usual.” Sponsored by Microlink and hosted by EBRD in their Canary Wharf offices overlooking the Thames (what a view!), over 500 people joined this hybrid event to tackle…
By Val Proctor, Media Relations Officer at Business Disability Forum. Val reflects on the impact of the Disability Smart Awards 2025, sponsored by Freshfields, on 29 April. Hosts Diane Lightfoot, CEO of Business Disability Forum (BDF) and Simon Minty, BDF ambassador, disability trainer and TV personality, closed last week’s Disability Smart Awards 2025 on a…
By Lara Davis, Director of Communications and Marketing at Business Disability Forum. Lara shares highlights from the ‘How inclusive is disability inclusion across the globe?’ session at our Global Conference on 21 November (sponsored by HSBC). Disability workforce and pay gap data reporting is a hot topic, but not just in the UK. It’s also…
By Rebecca Elliott, Disability Business Partner at Business Disability Forum. Rebecca shares highlights from the Disability Networks and Employee Resource Groups session at our recent global conference, ‘Disability inclusion in a changing world’ (sponsored by HSBC). Of all the amazing sessions in our Global Conference on 21 November, this year I think I was most…
By Matt Ewington, Digital Marketing Manager. Matt shares highlights from ‘The European Accessibility Act (EEA)’ panel at our Global Conference on 21 November (sponsored by HSBC). “The European Accessibility Act, coming into effect in June 2025, will set a benchmark for accessibility standards not only in the EU but globally. Businesses that want to sell…
By Rebecca Elliott, Disability Business Partner at Business Disability Forum. It’s no secret that I’m passionate about working from home. I work full time from my home office, but the other week I travelled 100 miles to the BDF conference in London. The first session of the day gripped me because of the topic –…
Britain’s top EDI leaders, representing government and every industry sector, were among over 700 people meeting us in person or online for last Tuesday’s (2 July) Annual Conference on the theme ‘We can work it out – reasonable adjustments in a modern world’, which focussed on making the world more inclusive for everyone. Our host,…
By Rebecca Elliott, Disability Business Partner at Business Disability Forum. Rebecca looks back on the Disability Smart Awards Ceremony 2024, in partnership with Bloomberg, on 30 April. Stories connect people, and people connect with stories. Now in its tenth year, the Disability Smart Awards are all about celebrating the stories of those incredible individuals and…
Being the right amount of scared about AI At our Global Conference 2023, Sam Buckley, our Policy Engagement Manager, shares highlights from the ‘Better Together with Tech’ panel on 1 November (sponsored by HSBC). The ‘Better Together with Tech’ panel at our Global Conference wasn’t the only place people were discussing the impact of AI on…
Rebecca Elliott, Disability Business Partner at Business Disability Forum, looks back on the ‘Working together to tap into disabled talent’ panel discussions at our Global Conference on 1 November 2023 (sponsored by HSBC). As a Disability Business Partner, I spend a lot of time thinking about how to navigate the complexities of collaboration across different…
The Global Roundtable was kindly sponsored by HSBC. By Diane Lightfoot, CEO, Business Disability Forum I’m sure many of you will have asked – or been asked – a variant of an equally tough question, “How do we approach disability inclusion as a company when we have a hundred offices in a dozen different countries?”…
Andy Briggs, CEO of Phoenix Group, spoke at our Annual Conference: Back to the future on 28 June 2023 on the topic of retaining older disabled workers. Here are the highlights from his presentation and his recommendations for employers. Context The UK population is ageing, and so is the labour market: around 30% of the…
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