ACEN Annual Anti-Racism Conference
Date: Friday 17th November 2023
Times:
Event address:
City of London School
107 Queen Victoria St
London
EC4V 3AL

Timetable – TEACHING STAFF
Start | End | Session | Title | Speakers/Facilitators | Location |
9.00 | 9.30 | Registration with refreshments | Main Hall Foyer & Main Hall | ||
9.30 | 09.40 | Welcome | Alan Bird, Head, City of London School | Main Hall | |
09.50 | 10.05 | Open | ACEN | Main Hall | |
10.05 | 10.50 | Keynote | A deep dive into bias – A personal story | Jahnine Davis, Director of Listen Up | Main Hall |
11.00 | 12:15 | Workshops | Why anti-racism efforts are failing | Dr Enya Doyle, Inclusion Consultant & former Director of Inclusion at Highgate School | David Mulae, Assistant Head Pastoral & EDI Lead at Cranleigh School | Aisha Sanusi, Director of ACEN | | Main Hall |
What we ‘really’ want you to know | Justice Aina, Facilitator of ACEN & ACEN’s Young People’s Advisory Group | Asquith Room | |||
12.15 | 13:15 | Lunch | |||
13:15 | 14:30 | Workshops | Why anti-racism efforts are failing | As above | Main Hall |
What we ‘really’ want you to know | As above | Asquith Room | |||
14:30 | 15:30 | Presentation | Deconstructing and understanding the backlash on EDI and anti-racism | Gardy Guiteau, Program Director of Glasgow Caledonian New York College | Tyler John, Head of DEI, St Paul’s School | Aisha Sanusi, Director of ACEN | Asquith Room |
15:30 | 16:00 | Open forum | Questions throughout the day | All presenters & facilitators | Main Hall |
Timetable – STUDENTS
Start | End | Session | Title | Speakers | Location |
15:30 | 16:20 | Student registration & corporate exhibitors | Atrium | ||
16:30 | 17:00 | Keynote | George the Poet | Main Hall | |
17:00 | 18:20 | Panel Talk | Personal insights, career advice, and why we recognise community | Kwesi Bimpong, Co founder of the Black Apprentice Network & Degree Apprentice at Goldman Sachs| Sagan Daniels, Youth, Inclusion and Community Programme Director and Co Founder of the Rugby Black List Abimbola Johnson, Human Rights Barrister and Chair of the Police Independent Scrutiny & Oversight Board Lavinya Stennett, Founder & CEO of The Black Curriculum George the Poet |
Main Hall |
18:20 | 18:30 | Close | Main Hall | ||
18:30 | 20:00 | Networking, corporate exhibitors with canapes | Atrium |