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To celebrate the launch of the 2022 Impact Report, the first hybrid 50:50 Festival was held in April. It brought together hundreds of ±«Óãtv teams and partner organisations who shared success stories and best practices to continue to drive change together.

Watch the events and hear from teams across the ±«Óãtv and external partners, including EMAP publishing, News UK, the Financial Times and the British Fashion Council, below.

50:50 Impact Report Launch

Hosted by the ±«Óãtv on 26 April 2022

Watch this year's 50:50 Project Impact Report launch with a message from ±«Óãtv Director-General Tim Davie and a closer look at the results of the 50:50 March Challenge and next steps for 50:50 The Equality Project.

Hosted by ±«Óãtv presenter Naga Munchetty and featuring 50:50 founder Ros Atkins, the ±«Óãtv's outgoing Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Miranda Wayland, and co-chair of the ±«Óãtv staff network RAISED, Rob Dowell.

Welcome and Beyond Broadcasting

The 50:50 team introduce the start of the first ever hybrid 50:50 Festival in the ±«Óãtv's New Broadcasting House, followed by 'Beyond Broadcasting', looking at how 50:50 applies to different industries. Panellists discuss the challenges and achievements of 50:50 partners across sectors, from finance and energy to fashion.

Hosted by Martin Quinn, EMAP and featuring Miranda Holt, ±«Óãtv 5050 Equality Project; Paul Fincham, London Stock Exchange Group, Head of Comms; Yvie Hutton, British Fashion Council; Lesley Babb, Ofgem Head of D&I.

Reframing Disability

Panellists from the ±«Óãtv and 50:50 partners News UK and Reed Smith LLP discuss what broadcasters and organisations can do to improve the representation of disabled contributors and talent in media content, including an update from Media Trust on our Reframing Disability programme

Hosted by Cerrie Burnell, the ±«Óãtv's first Disability Ambassador, and featuring Shelley Bishton, Head of Creative Diversity at News UK; Tanni Grey-Thomson, paralympian and parliamentarian; David Waters, Songs of Praise producer; Vaibhav Adlakha, Reed Smith LLP; Daisy Church, Media Trust; Sharmin Rahman, ±«Óãtv Reframing Disability Lead.

Missing Perspectives in News

Does the representation of women in News reflect reality? And how can we apply what we’ve learnt from our efforts to reach gender balance to other underrepresented groups? Panellists from the ±«Óãtv, the Financial Times and EBU discuss the difference diversifying your pool of contributors makes to News content around the world.

Hosted by Lara Joannides, ±«Óãtv 50:50 Creative Diversity Lead and featuring Francesca Scott, EBU 50:50 Lead; Wissam El Sayegh, ±«Óãtv Arabic 50:50 Lead; Kesewa Hennessy, Financial Times 50:50 Lead; and Justin Bones, ±«Óãtv Work and Money Salford Editor.

Hitting the Right Notes with 50:50

Our panel of diversity leads and music makers tackle the question - how can we improve representation of gender, ethnicity and disability from the boardrooms to the basements of the music industry?

Hosted by Chris Price, Head of Music for Radio 1 and 1Xtra and featuring Ellara Wakeley, Commissioning Executive at ±«Óãtv Radio 3; Nadia Khan, Founder of Women in CTRL; and Ben Price, from BPI and Harbourside Management.

50:50 Tracker Demo

Developed in partnership with Stanford University, the new 50:50 Tracker is a one-stop 50:50 shop for counting, tracking, and reporting all your diversity data. Meet the teams behind the tech and find out how it will work for ±«Óãtv teams and partners.

Hosted by ±«Óãtv Creative Diversity partner Nina Goswami and featuring Cheryl Phillips, Director of Stanford University's Computational Policy Lab; and Charlie Brown, Product Manager, and Chris Lismore, Business Advisor, from the ±«Óãtv's Northern Ireland Product Team.