Edvent Heads to Glasgow

We are excited to announce that the Edvent team are heading up to Glasgow in September for the annual International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference (IEEC). The theme for the 12th IEEC is ‘Enabling Enterprise for All’ which is a topic very close to our heart. We are partnering with our one of our clients, BSEEN and jointly running a workshop on ‘The power of hackathons in enhancing diversity within enterprise education.’

We are extremely excited to be sharing our knowledge from running hackathons for the last year up and down the country at universities from London to Middlesborough, and everywhere in-between. Having worked with over 600 students since we ran our first pilot hackathon, we have experienced the power of hackathons in developing student employability, enhancing enterprise education and increasing diversity across campuses. To quote Sir Tim Bernes Lee, “we need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenge.”

We looking forward to running our workshop for delegates from universities across the UK and the world and sharing our best practices and tips for building a more inclusive student body and how this will enhance the enterprise education space within educational establishments.

‘We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.’ — Tim Berners Lee

If you are a student and are keen to bring Edvent to your university, then comment below and we will reach out to the university representatives when we meet them in Glasgow. If you are an enterprise educator or university staff member then let us know if you are attending the conference as we are keen to meet as many forward thinking universities as we can.

Look out for updates during the conference on our social channels and we will be putting up another post documenting our thoughts, experiences and lessons learnt from what should be a wonderful 3 days up in Scotland.

This article was originally posted on the UniHack News publication, our old Medium page.