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Global Conference 2024 highlights: How inclusive is disability inclusion across the globe?

Lara Davis, our Director of Communications and Marketing, 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 a particular challenge for organisations…

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Global Conference 2024 highlights: Building confidence through Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

Business Disability Forum’s Rebecca Elliott 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 excited for the “Building Confidence Through…

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Global Conference 2024 highlights: The European Accessibility Act (EEA): The knowns and the unknowns and what businesses need to do.

Matt Ewington, our Digital Marketing Manager, 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 their…

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Global Conference 2023 highlights: being the right amount of scared about AI 

Sam Buckley, our Policy Engagement Manager, shares highlights from the ‘Better Together with Tech’ panel at our Global Conference 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 1 November. But it was definitely the most optimistic.  …

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Global Conference 2023 highlights: “Just start” with inclusive recruitment

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…

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How do you tackle a job like global disability inclusion? Reflections from the Global Roundtable, 19 October 2023.

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…

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