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Ada, the National College for Digital Skills' mission is to educate and empower the next generation of diverse digital talent. Offering a Sixth Form and Higher Level/ Degree Apprenticeships for those who are passionate about tech, Ada provides a pipeline of talent straight to the UK’s tech industry, with a key focus on improving diversity and equality within the sector. Apprenticeships We opened our doors in London in 2017, offering tech-savvy applicants a practical and career-focussed alternative to university. Our Degree Apprenticeships have been created with our industry partners to reflect the constantly evolving digital world. We currently train 200+ apprentices for 45 organisations from Google, Deloitte and Sainsbury's through to MHRA and the FT and have recently expanded to Manchester. Sixth Form Ada's Sixth Form provides an exceptional education for young people with an interest in digital skills, offering three distinct pathways: creative, technical, and entrepreneurial. Students take part in termly ‘industry projects’ where our partners such as King Games, Deloitte, Bank of America and Salesforce, tackling 'live-briefs' in small teams to better understand the agile working practises of modern businesses. Find out more about Ada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bERARaK-r0g&ab_channel=Ada%2CNationalCollegeforDigitalSkills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8O7mcar7_Y&ab_channel=Ada%2CNationalCollegeforDigitalSkills

The Institute of Coding (IoC), a consortium of universities and employers, with a mission to develop the next generation of digital talent at degree level and above. The IoC brings together the worlds of academia and industry with a remit to spread digital skills across the UK. The IoC organisation works specifically to develop specialist skills training in areas of strategic importance and boost equality and diversity in digital education and careers. This is delivered through degrees, degree apprenticeships, short courses, continuing professional development, innovative learning facilities and other outreach activities.

Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazons expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan, customers across all industries are taking advantage of our low cost, elastic, open and flexible, secure platform.

TechBio businesses are using data to transform healthcare and promote a more sustainable future. At Sana Capital, we are pioneering support in today’s TechBio ventures to build businesses that will shape our world tomorrow. We support TechBio ventures: data-driven life-science companies working at the interface of bio and tech that… …combine cutting-edge techniques from both sectors …develop IP …use data concerning patients, drug molecules, healthcare infrastructure or R&D …aim to deliver more personalised healthcare to more patients, more quickly and cost-efficiently, or …tackle issues relating to food, clean air, water or shelter impacting our health.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK-based charity with the mission to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies. Our vision Our vision is that every young person develops: • The knowledge, skills, and confidence to use computers and digital technologies effectively in their work, community, and personal life; to solve problems and to express themselves creatively • Sufficient understanding of societal and ethical issues to be able to critically evaluate digital technologies and their application, and to design and use technology for good • The mindsets that enable them to confidently engage with technological change and to continue learning about new and emerging technologies Our long-term goals 1. Education: To enable any school to teach students about computing and how to create with digital technologies, through providing the best possible curriculum, resources, and training for teachers. 2. Non-formal learning: To engage millions of young people in learning about computing and how to create with digital technologies outside of school, through online resources and apps, clubs, competitions, and partnerships with youth organisations. 3. Research: To deepen our understanding of how young people learn about computing and how to create with digital technologies, and we use that knowledge to increase the impact of our work and advance the field of computing education.

Every company has a mission. Whats ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesnt diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.

Ada, the National College for Digital Skills' mission is to educate and empower the next generation of diverse digital talent. Offering a Sixth Form and Higher Level/ Degree Apprenticeships for those who are passionate about tech, Ada provides a pipeline of talent straight to the UK’s tech industry, with a key focus on improving diversity and equality within the sector. Apprenticeships We opened our doors in London in 2017, offering tech-savvy applicants a practical and career-focussed alternative to university. Our Degree Apprenticeships have been created with our industry partners to reflect the constantly evolving digital world. We currently train 200+ apprentices for 45 organisations from Google, Deloitte and Sainsbury's through to MHRA and the FT and have recently expanded to Manchester. Sixth Form Ada's Sixth Form provides an exceptional education for young people with an interest in digital skills, offering three distinct pathways: creative, technical, and entrepreneurial. Students take part in termly ‘industry projects’ where our partners such as King Games, Deloitte, Bank of America and Salesforce, tackling 'live-briefs' in small teams to better understand the agile working practises of modern businesses. Find out more about Ada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bERARaK-r0g&ab_channel=Ada%2CNationalCollegeforDigitalSkills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8O7mcar7_Y&ab_channel=Ada%2CNationalCollegeforDigitalSkills