Last updated 17/09/2024
We hold our conference to enable our delegates to network and share ideas about the ever-changing world of Cambridge and Oxford College IT, and the common challenges that we face. To provide all participants – including delegates, invited speakers, sponsors, staff, and volunteers – the opportunity to benefit from the event, we are committed to facilitating a harassment-free environment for everyone.
We are strongly committed to diversity, equity, and the free expression of ideas as expressed in our Equality and diversity policy and Code of Conduct. We firmly believe in the value of freely exploring ideas and concepts through scholarly discourse – with a fundamental respect for the rights, dignity, and value of all persons regardless of actual or perceived gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, ability, socioeconomic status, age, or religion.
We aim to provide a conference environment in which diverse participants may learn, network, and enjoy the company of colleagues in an environment of mutual respect. We recognise the shared responsibility to create and maintain this environment for the benefit of all. Therefore, some forms of behaviour are unacceptable.
Unacceptable behaviours include:
- persistent and unwelcome solicitation of emotional or physical intimacy
- persistent and unwelcome solicitation of emotional or physical intimacy accompanied by real or implied threat of professional harm
- aggressive, intimidating, harassing, abusive, derogatory or demeaning speech or actions
- prejudicial actions or comments related to actual or perceived gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, ability, socioeconomic status, age, or religion that coerce others, foment broad hostility, or otherwise undermine professional equity
- deliberate intimidation, stalking, or following
- harassing photography or recording
- sustained disruption of talks or other events
- physical assault (including unwelcome touch and/or groping)
- real or implied threat of physical harm and/or professional reputational damage
All participants are expected to observe these rules and behaviours in all conference venues, whether real or virtual, and conference social events. This may include proactively helping to mitigate or avoid unacceptable behaviours if there is the potential for such harm to take place. Participants asked to stop a hostile or harassing behaviour are expected to comply immediately.