DigiMarCon EMEA 2022 - Digital Marketing, Media & Advertising Conference
DigiMarCon EMEA 2022 - Digital Marketing, Media & Advertising Conference
Thu, Sep 8, 2022 9:30 AM EDT (-04:00)
US$247
CAAT Presents... It Starts Here Digital Conference 2021
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Online event
Join us for the first digital edition of our It Starts Here Conference, Taking place from Friday 19th March - Sun 21st March 2021!
About this event
** You may now book on to the specific panels and workshops that are of interest to you. Please book using the links below to ensure you receive the Zoom login details closer to the time for that specific panel or workshop. Failure to do so may mean you miss receiving the details to join the event **
Our It Starts Here Conference returns for another year - this time revamped!
Taking place from Friday 19th March - Sun 21st March, at the end of Israeli Apartheid Week, and with the Sunday being the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, we’ve designed an ambitious, exciting, and educational interactive programme which will bring together much of our work in previous years as we continue to understand the arms trade as inextricably linked to other intersecting issues.
And we’re taking things digital (of course!)
The 2019 edition of It Starts Here saw us gather in person at Resource For London (now that does feel like a long time ago!) to listen to panels and talks on issues as diverse and varied as anti-racism, migrant solidarity, climate justice and the arms trade; economics, jobs, ‘just transition’, nuclear disarmament, unions, austerity and the arms trade and we also focused on the London borough of Newham, where the DSEI arms fair takes place bi-annually. We also curated workshops and trainings in sustainable organising, using social media as an activist and of course Know Your Rights Tasters to name just a few.
Two years later - in a dramatically different socio-political landscape, it’s fair to say - you can expect some of the old familiars, alongside much that nods to CAAT’s commitment to grow and change as the world does.
We are excited to launch with an event on Friday evening which will be an opening panel marking 10 years of the Arab uprisings of 2011, drawing parallels with the Black Lives Matter Civil Rights Movements of 2013 to the present, with last year’s peak of activity sending powerful reverberations globally. Our speakers will reflect on the nature of repression worldwide and how the West continues to arm it. Other panels taking place across our Saturday programme will include taking a look at Scotland and its relationship to the arms trade; exploring how we demilitarise education; how we Rethink Security; and reflecting on the role of art and creativity in our resistance.
And as part of our commitment to capacity building and working with supporters and activists in a more decentralised way, on Sunday there will be a full day of workshops and trainings, aiming to upskill our activists to campaign in a digital world, while also preparing us to resume our in-person work once the world opens up again. Expect workshops in Citizen Journalism, Online Facilitation, Ad-Hacking, Media training and our hugely popular Arms Trade Research 101 as well as, of course, a Know Your Rights Taster.
The panel events will be livestreamed, as well as BSL interpreted, and there will be lots of breaks between sessions to help with any zoom fatigue!
Although there’s nothing quite like being together in the flesh and the ongoing challenges we all face are still a mountain to climb, we continue to take comfort in the opportunities this new way of working has brought us, as well as the many ways we’ve been able to engage with supporters across the UK and all over the world thanks to digital.
We are please to announce the full programme of panels and events!
As well as making your general RSVP on this page, you may now book on to the specific panels and workshops that are of interest to you. Please book using the links below to ensure you receive the Zoom login details closer to the time:
Friday 19th March, 6pm - 7.30pm
‘And still we struggle’: From the Arab Uprisings to Black Lives Matter
Saturday 20th March - Panels
10am - 11.30am: ‘Arms Trade 101 & Intersecting Issues'
12pm - 1.30pm: Profiting from Repression
2.15pm - 3.45pm: Real Human Security
2.15pm - 3.45pm: ‘Domestic Militarisation’: A Think-In on Policing & Borders (Spaces Limited)
4.15pm - 5.45pm: Scotland and the Arms Trade
4.15pm - 5.45pm: Demilitarising Education
** All Panels at It Starts Here 2021 will be BSL Interpreted**
Our BSL Team across the weekend are:
Nakisayi Laursen
Eze Ani
Omoyele Thomas
Rebekah Spencer
Sumayya Si-Tayeb
Sunday 21st March - Workshops & Trainings
10am - 10.45am: Chair Yoga with Kat Hobbs
11am - 12.30pm: Digital Activism 101 & Online Security with John Pegram, Bristol Cop Watch
1pm - 2.30pm: Citizen Journalism with Rainbow Collective
1pm - 2.30pm: 'Know Your Rights' Taster
1pm - 2.30pm: Media Training 101 with Andrew Smith, CAAT
3pm - 4.30pm: 'Disrupting Online Arms Fairs' with Kirsten Bayes, CAAT
3pm - 4.30pm: Arms Trade Research 101 with Ian Prichard & Sam Perlo-Freeman, CAAT
3pm - 4.30pm: Ad-hacking with Brandalism
5pm - 5.30pm: Closing Session
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** All Panels & Workshops during It Starts Here 2021 will take place on Zoom. Joining instructions will be sent to attendees a few days before the events take place **
** Please note the Closing Session on Sunday is not a ticketed event. All those who sign up to Sunday workshops will be invited by email to join the closing session using the relevant Zoom login details
** Our #ISH2021online events - as with all our events, meetings and workshops - will follow the CAAT safer spaces policy (which can be viewed in our ISH Digital brochure - linked below) **
Download the Full version of our ISH Digital Brochure HERE:
Fancy the Lite version, with key info? Download the Lite version of our ISH Digital Brochure HERE:
It Starts Here Digital Brochure – Lite Version
For more information about this panel or any other events across the weekend, email events@caat.org.uk.