2024 CONFERENCE'S MAIN Sponsors
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FOUNDER BERNIE DAVIES TEDX SPEAKER NED edi ADVISER
DIVERSITY IS A HUMANITY MATTER!
With the right tools, platforms for key issues, and community engagement, we can debunk the myths!
This conference was created for the incredible potpourri of people, Nations, cultures, creeds, cognitions, and ways of being, which is the fabric of the Welsh landscape. Why do I want to focus on Wales? Wales is now my home and has been my home since 2006. But most importantly it is the place I became acutely aware of the importance of deliberate diversity. It is also the place where I came face to face with unconscious bias, discrimination, and racism. And it is also the place where I found true acceptance and where I found “no closed doors” for a very long time. Wales is the place, I felt and realised that being different was actually an advantage.
In a world where you can find hate separation discrimination and bias...in that same world, you can find acceptance, unconditional love, and togetherness.
This is why I wrote the book about mastering diversity and launched the Conference and Awards. And even more so why I will focus most of my anecdotal research evidence on Wales. Wales is now my home and there is a saying that charity begins at home. So my focus is not to heal the world. My focus is to heal my world. My beautiful, green, lush world…Wales. And to bloom where I am planted."
Paraphrased from Bernie's Mastering Diversity Amazon Bestseller
MORE About Mastering Diversity & Inclusion Conference WaleS
Conference Objectives
- Education: Impart knowledge and insights on diversity and inclusion.
- Inspiration: Motivate attendees through successful diversity and inclusion stories
- Personal Identity: Promote self-awareness and personal contribution to diversity and inclusion.
- Recognition: Honour individuals and organisations contributing significantly to diversity and inclusion.
Our 2024 Conference Line-up
Bernie handpicks each conference speaker for their expertise and innovative ideas ensuring that delegates are exposed to the latest EDI trends and thought-provoking insights. The inaugural Conference was opened with Speeches from Hon Mark Drakeford (then First Min) NATWEST, The Public Services Ombudsman for Wales, and the High Sheriff of West Glamorgan to name a few.
This year the event opens with a welcome address from WRU's CEO Abi Tierney, a panel discussion with Andrew Jenkins of BBC Traitors fame, and Glenn Webbe, the first Black Rugby player to represent Wales, award-winning period dignity campaigner Molly Fenton will inspire us. Hon Vaughan Gething MS and Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE, Commonwealth Champion and Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords will inspire as only they can. And Entrepreneur Toni Clarkstone will light a fire within us after lunch with how dyslexia has been her superpower!
Conference History
Founded by multi-award-winning EDI Expert Bernie Davies in 2023, and hailed as a historic event by the Welsh Government, the Mastering Diversity and Inclusion Conference Wales has since become a premier event in the industry, attracting top professionals and thought leaders from across Wales and the United Kingdom.
2024 VENUE HOST
Bernie is pleased to announce the Principality Stadium and WRU are the venue hosts for the 2024 Conference
2024 EVENT PARTNER
Bernie is pleased to announce the partnership with Cardiff Life Magazine and WCS Agency for the 2024 Conference
MASTERING DIVERSITY WALES DOCUMENTARY
DIVERSE VOICES - "We Go Together or Not at All!"
The Mastering Diversity Conference Wales is not a tick-box exercise. It was always the intention of the Creator, Bernie Davies to use the conferences as a means to get the best minds and expertise in one space, have conversations, learn, teach, craft, and re-imagine. Most importantly, the conferences are meant to inform pieces of work that the task force takes away and delivers.
I am so grateful that the Natwest Diversity Taskforce "It's About Time" has joined up with the Mastering Diversity Conference Taskforce.
Together with this incredible team of experts, we have produced a Conference Report in the form of a documentary which will showcase progress reports, case studies, recommended actions coming out of the findings within the Zone Rooms, and the overall activities. Georgios Dimitropoulos, Head of Swansea University's Media Suite and award-winning filmmaker is the Director.
He has interviewed organisations, stakeholders, and individuals directly.
The task force supports the development of clear actions and strategies.
At the Mastering Diversity Conference 2024, the Film will be launched with a showing of the Trailer and we will be reporting on the difference we all made TOGETHER in 2023-2024!
Georgios dimitropoulos
Award-winning Filmmaker and Head of the Swansea University Media Suite
WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN THE MASTERING DIVERSITY TASKFORCE?!
There's much to be gained from getting this message out into the Welsh communities. So, take your time, look around, and learn all there is to know about me and my work. Here's hoping you get inspired to support or be supported by me and my colleagues. Please take a moment to drop me a line. We need sponsors and more.
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2024 MARKETING & MEDIA PARTNERS
My gratitude goes out to Cardiff Life Magazine and WCS Agency
