Registration for Kennedys-sponsored Dive In Festival opens

Registration for the 2024 Dive In Festival, the leading global event promoting diversity and inclusion in the business sector, is now open. The annual festival, scheduled for 24 - 26 September, will host over 130 hybrid events across a record breaking 48 countries, allowing participants worldwide to engage in real-time.

This year’s festival will feature prominent speakers, including five-time Olympic Champion, Laura Kenny and Maro Itoje, professional rugby player for Saracens and the England national team. Also speaking are Jelena Dokic, former world number 4 tennis player and resilience advocate; Xavier Ramey, CEO of Justice Informed; and Tracey Gendron, author and global speaker on age bias. With the festival expecting more participants than ever before, Dive In continues to expand its global impact, engaging professionals across the Americas, South Africa, Singapore, and beyond.

The 2024 theme, ‘A Sustainable Future: The Next 10 Years,’ focuses on cultivating inclusive cultures that drive innovation and address global challenges, particularly within the insurance industry. Reflecting its commitment to professional development, Dive In will once again offer Continuing Professional Development (CPD) accredited events through the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), allowing attendees to apply their participation towards annual CPD/Continuing Education (CE) hours.

Dive In remains at the forefront of discussing relevant D&I topics, with this year’s agenda exploring neurodiversity, ageism, gender equality, the impact of AI, sustainability, and mental health resilience in the workplace. Social mobility will also be a key focus, with countries like Mexico, the USA, and New Zealand leading discussions on this critical issue.

To further engage industry professionals, Dive In has introduced the ‘Nominate My Manager’ campaign, celebrating individuals who have made outstanding contributions to fostering D&I in their workplaces. The campaign will honour leaders in four categories: Advocacy and Leadership, Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, Communication and Engagement, and Innovation and Collaboration.

Supporting the festival’s theme, the ‘CEO Talking Heads’ campaign has also been launched, emphasising the importance of D&I in driving innovation and tackling global challenges such as cybersecurity, global health, AI, and climate change. This initiative features CEOs from a range of Global Festival Partners, highlighting the critical role of leadership in promoting D&I.

For the seventh consecutive year Kennedys is a proud global partner of this award-winning sector-wide festival, which was conceived by Inclusion @Lloyd’s, a collaboration between the Corporation of Lloyd’s, IUA, LIIBA, and the Lloyd’s Market Association.

Kennedys partner, and Executive Group member, John Bruce, says: “Kennedys proudly continues its support of Dive In, as a global festival partner, and this year’s focus on the cultivation of inclusive cultures to drive innovation and address global challenges is of huge importance to the firm and its clients. I strongly encourage you to register for the festival and sign up to attend what promise to be interesting, educational and enlightening events from the large array on offer around the world.”

For more information, and to register for Dive In 2024, visit the Dive In Festival website.

For further festival information and updates, see our Dive In website hub.