STC plans to continue members’ weekly webinars beyond COVID-19 pandemic

Silverstone Technology Cluster

26th June 2020

STC members have now taken the lead in more than a dozen weekly webinars arranged by the Silverstone Technology Cluster which are advising its business network during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The webinars, on online discussion forum Zoom, take place at 11:00 each Thursday.

In each one, an STC member takes on the role of host as they apply their area of expertise to bring the audience up to speed on best practices in the workplace.

Click on each webinar below to play them again on the STC’s YouTube channel.

1. Furlough & Job Retention Scheme by Caroline Robertson, Actif HR
2. Force Majeure by Natalie Ingram, EMW Law
3. Business interruption loan scheme by Jon Corbett, Barclays
4. Business support funding & plugging the cash flow gap by Andrea Reynolds, Swoop Funding
5. To recruit or not to recruit by Julie Stewart, TD Group
6. ‘Doing good’ is good business by Richard Collins, CSR Accreditation
7. Hire the best people and keep them by Tony Priest, TD Group
8. Maximising cash flow by Nigel Corbett, CED Accountancy
9. How to master continuity planning by Natasha Teeling & Oliver Bridge, Grant Thornton
10. Cyber risks & opportunities in the supply chain by James Kench, CYSIAM
11. Get to grips with furloughing & redundancy rules
12. Building business resilience by George Patterson, Hexegic.
13. Demystifying Innovate UK Funding by Julian Bowrey, Innovate UK

CYSIAM’s James Kench commented: “The STC webinars are a valuable platform for organisations to share aspects of their expertise for the benefit of other members.

“The exercise of preparing a short, punchy 40-minute presentation prompted a useful distillation of the subject matter and it was a pleasure to present to a relevant audience from the high-tech business community who were keen to engage with the topic.”

And said STC CEO Pim van Baarsen: “The webinars are, as ever, in response to our members’ suggestions; the feedback shows they are not just popular but also really informative in keeping colleagues up to speed with latest trends and policy that have a real effect on the lives of staff.

“They are such handy tools to have that, ideally, we would like to keep them running beyond the COVID-19 situation.”