Technicians: Inspiring, Innovating and Creating
We are very pleased to announce that we are preparing for this year’s conference to ensure it meets the needs of the technical community across all industries and sectors.
2024 PROGRAMME AVAILABLE HERE
IST Conference 2024 Leaflet
IST Conference Information Document
The IST Conference, its talks and workshops offer the opportunity for you to update your technical knowledge, skills and advance your career development, providing valuable networking opportunities to engage and learn from the technical community. The event is aimed at anyone who works in a technical position across higher education and industry, working in STEM, Creative Industries or Artificial Intelligence.
Workshop Themes:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Health and Safety
- Environment, Sustainability and Green Technology
- Creative Industries
- Technical Careers (See confirmed workshops below)
Delegate Rates:
- IST Members & Groups of 6 or more: £64*
- IST Non-Members: £78
- Lancaster Technicians/Staff: No Charge
- Accommodation on 9th Sept (Campus): £65
*Groups can be a mix of members and non-members.
Image Competition – NOW OPEN:
We are holding our image competition again this year and will be awarding 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes. Below are some examples of previous winning images. The image competition is open until mid-day on 2nd September. Good Luck!
Click here to find out more and enter the competition
Sponsorship / Exhibitor Opportunities:
Would you like to sponsor or exhibit at our conference?
Please get in touch with us at office@istonline.org.uk for more information.
IST Conference 2024 Sponsorship Form and Info
IST Conference 2023 Article Review (IST Journal excerpt)
Confirmed Workshop Titles and Themes:
- Whither Large Language Models
- Challenges faced by AI Practitioners
- We Should be Arguing About Unit Tests
- Delivering Capital Projects in the School of Digital Arts
- The Challenges for Creative Technicians in HE
- Professional Registration (an insight from our new registrants)
- Experimenting with Extreme Cold!
- Sustainability Projects – A Technical Perspective
- Helping Labs be More Efficient, Sustainable and Safe
- Safety at 50: Navigating Workplace Health & Safety since 1974
- Chemical and Safety Sheet Management
- Health at Lancaster
- Technical Career Pathways
- I’m Not a Teacher, I’m a Technician… or am I?
- Research Technical Professional Pathway at the University of Liverpool – 18 months on
- Mental Health Training and Support
Conference Organising Team:
- Terry Croft (Chair)
- Lucy Hudson (Secretary)
- Joan Ward (Finance Lead)
- John Dwyer (Lancaster University representative)
- Anthony Roberts (Previous years’ conference representative)
- Arthur Nicholas (Sponsorship Lead)
- Sarah Youde
- Graeme Shaw
- JP Ashton-Kinlin
- Marie Oldfield
- Russell Wilson
Do you want to be involved with organising the technical conference? If anyone would like to help or be part of the team, then please contact office@istonline.org.uk to register your interest. We look forward to hearing from you.