{"id":617,"date":"2020-12-09T13:24:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T13:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/?p=617"},"modified":"2020-12-09T13:24:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T13:24:34","slug":"dorsets-festival-of-the-future-hailed-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/2020\/12\/09\/dorsets-festival-of-the-future-hailed-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorset’s Festival of the Future hailed a success"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our press release<\/a> has been issued summing up the October three-day Festival of the Future which took place online.\u00a0 You can catch up on the wealth of information as most of the sessions are available on the Digital Dorset YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Festival<\/p>\n

The Festival, which was part of national Digital Leaders week, has to be my highlight of the year.\u00a0 It was exciting, creative, busy and fun, with so many great sessions and learning resources as a result.<\/p>\n

We worked across teams\/services in the Council and with workforce leads in the Dorset NHS Clinical Commissioning Group to plan and deliver the event in just 7 weeks, I still miss my daily stand ups with this fab team.<\/p>\n

Like for many others this year it was the first time we had planned an event of this scale and delivered it entirely virtually.\u00a0 Initially we were only thinking of 10 or 12 sessions, but trying to consider our different audiences and reflect the breadth of digital resulted in over 60 sessions.<\/p>\n

On the whole the festival went well with only a couple of minor hiccups that led to one session not being recorded and people entering another session half an hour before the speaker.\u00a0Some learning we are thinking about for next year (oh yes the festival of the future will be back!):<\/p>\n