The Tech Factor!

We are teaming up with Barking and Dagenham College to conduct an educational event for London Technology week.

TLA Education

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<P CLASS="MsoNormal"><STRONG>London Technology Week</STRONG><SPAN> is this week! </SPAN></P>
<P CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN></SPAN>Working with Barking and Dagenham College, <STRONG>TLA Education Group</STRONG> is excited to announce our upcoming events <STRONG>The Tech Factor</STRONG> to be hosted at one of East London's leading <I>entrepreneurial</I> colleges <STRONG>THIS FRIDAY</STRONG>. </P>
<H2 CLASS="MsoNormal">Think like an Entrepreneur with: 10:00am - 12 noon STEM Centre</H2>
<P CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN>Martin Lucas, CEO Thinkology -  Activities focus on building up a </SPAN><STRONG>positive mind-set</STRONG><SPAN> and developing an entrepreneurial mentality.</SPAN></P>
<P CLASS="MsoNormal">Gosbert Chagula, Founder of How To Crew -  Introduces young talents to Life-Skills, importance of business branding and adapting a <STRONG>leadership mentality</STRONG>. </P>
<P CLASS="MsoNormal">Simon Jack - Innovater in Creative Skills -  Creature of Habit Workshops focusing on mental attitude, <STRONG>creative and successful thinking</STRONG>.</P>
<H3 CLASS="MsoNormal">THE TECH FACTOR! - </H3>
<H3 CLASS="MsoNormal">Sponsored by Qwizdom</H3>
<H2 CLASS="MsoNormal"><STRONG>THE TECHFACTOR – Do they have what it Takes? <SPAN>Conference Suite - </SPAN><STRONG>13:00 - 16:00 </STRONG></STRONG></H2>
<P>Barking and Dagenham College - <A TARGET="_blank" CLASS="c_nobdr t_prs" HREF="https://goo.gl/6BCMY9" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://goo.gl/6BCMY9</A></P>
<P><STRONG>RECRUITERS!</STRONG><SPAN> This is your chance to see if today’s young talents are REALLY attracted to your business organisation! Find out if your career and business opportunities </SPAN><I>really </I><SPAN>is attractive and engaging enough to the younger generation to even bother applying!</SPAN></P>
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<P>Between 14:00 and 16:00, we have mixed Technology with the X – Factor, bringing you the Tech Factor where each recruiter gets <STRONG>3-minute pitching opportunity in front of a Student Judge panel</STRONG>!</P>
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<P>This is the ultimate opportunity for Employers to<STRONG> pitch existing vacancies or business opportunities</STRONG> in front of 100’s of employable students.</P>
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<P>Pitchers will be put under pressure! The student judges will have their <STRONG>buzzers</STRONG> ready, buzzing off any job vacancies that does not appeal to them.</P>
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<P>The following companies will be pitching their oppotunituities to a pannel of student Judges:</P>
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<H3><SPAN>Chandreyi Saha - Skyline Marketing Solutions</SPAN></H3>
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<H3><SPAN>Stephanie Aldridge - Cyber Security Challenge UK</SPAN></H3>
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<H3><SPAN>Paul Irving - Diva Apprenticeships</SPAN></H3>
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<H3><SPAN>Paul Way - Bookibuddi</SPAN></H3>
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<H3><SPAN>James Fenton - JUST IT</SPAN></H3>
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<H3><SPAN>Daniel Baker - Azure Cloud Computing</SPAN></H3>
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<H3><SPAN>Saun Oshinaike - CEO, Digilab</SPAN></H3>
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<H3><SPAN>Rioch Edwards- Brown- CEO, So you wanna be on TV?</SPAN></H3>
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<H3><SPAN>Abdel Qaadir Ahmed - Kings College IT</SPAN></H3>
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<P><STRONG>Audience Tickets Available!</STRONG></P>
<H4 CLASS="MsoNormal"><STRONG>HACK-A-THON! With 13:00 - 16:00 - Icreate</STRONG></H4>
<H3 CLASS="MsoNormal"><I>Hackers Pitch to win the Dream!</I></H3>
<P>Within BDC’s iCreate and with the help of leading industry mentors,  45 young adult teams will be producing their own digital business ideas. Mimicking the mentality of the real working world, we are giving 45 young adults the opportunity to work within a digital environment. The day will consist of fun, action packed and interactive workshops that will build up the required skills and knowledge needed for a young individual to step into the digital industry today. By working with motivational and existing young leaders, the young adults will be working in teams to create, complete and win their very own Digital Business Idea! These ideas will be based around areas of Technology, Digital, Business, Creative and Media.  They will build and complete a prototype get it pitch-ready for The Tech Factor!</P>
<P CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN>Judging time - 16:00 - 17:00</SPAN></P>
<P CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN></SPAN>The Hack-a-thon teams will join the Tech Factor at 4pm to pitch their Digital business in front of young leaders and top employers, who have the power to bring their ideas to life!</P>
<P CLASS="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast">(Got what it takes to be a mentor? Can you handle and lead your very own team? Join our Team! Contact: <STRONG><I>– ellen@tlaeducation.org</I></STRONG><I> for further details!</I><STRONG><I>) https://goo.gl/PqsjQ3 </I></STRONG></P>
<H3 CLASS="MsoNormal"><STRONG>The Judges:</STRONG></H3>
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<H3>NEIL STAUNTON -Head od Sales - PIVIGO DATA SCIENCE</H3>
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<H3>OLIVIA LOCKYER – BBC MAKE IT DIGITAL</H3>
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<H3>ELENA CORCHERO - <SPAN>Founder @lostvalues</SPAN></H3>
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<H3>JEFF TIJSSEN – CEO  CAPCO</H3>
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<H3>ANTHONY IMPEY – CEO, OPTIMITY</H3>
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<H3>BEV JONES – CEO- CAREER COLLEGES</H3>
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<P><SPAN>An</SPAN><STRONG> interactive application </STRONG><SPAN>will also be made available that will allow the </SPAN><STRONG>audience to vote</STRONG><SPAN> and provide opinion throughout each pitch!</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN>INSIGHT AND RESEARCH:</SPAN></P>
<P CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN>TLA Education currently is focusing on closing the bridge between unemployment and the digital skills industry. <BR>The day will generate feedback and answer the following:</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN>“Why are so many digital employers struggling to find the right people for the job?”</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN> “Why are skilled young people not reaching into top business organisations?”</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN>“Is <SPAN>the </SPAN>real voice of students being taken in by employers and recruiters within industry?”</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN>“Do Top businesses need a younger perspective?”</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN>“Are businesses promoting their Career and Job Opportunities in the right way?”</SPAN></P>
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<H3 CLASS="MsoNormal"><STRONG><I></I></STRONG><I>24th June 2016 </I><I><BR></I><I>Barking and Dagenham College.</I></H3>
<P CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN>Are you brave enough? </SPAN></P>

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