Mastering Diversity Conference

Mastering Diversity Conference Bernie Davies MASTERING DIVERSITY & INCLUSION CONFERENCE & AWARDS WALES

19/09/2026

🎬💙 CELEBRATING OUR 2025 HEALTH CHAMPIONS!
2026 AWARDS NOMINATIONS- LIVE NOW!

Our 2025 winning lineup:

🥇 Emma Wootten — Age Connects Torfaen
🥈 Barbara Chidgey — Daring to Dream
🥉 Faith Walker and Ireoluwa — Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Cymru
🥉 Emma Jay Hopkins — Wellfinite
🌟 Sartha Rajoo — NHS
🚀 Athika Ahmed — Cardiff and Vale UHB

For 2026, Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust serves as Head Judge and category sponsor.

🚨 NOMINATIONS CLOSE 30 SEPTEMBER! 🚨

Who is tackling health inequality and helping people receive support with access, dignity and understanding?

🏆 NOMINATE NOW:
https://form.jotform.com/262104739572055

⏰ 11:59pm, Wednesday 30 September 2026
📍 Awards: 19 November, Senedd Cymru, Cardiff Bay

⭐ Sponsored by Shav Taj MS
🤝🏾 Joint Headline Sponsors: Vodafone Business and Leigh Day

Health equity changes—and saves—lives. 💙

Wales

THE OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS ARE HERE! 📸✨And what a story they tell.A room filled with leadership, courage, joy, challenge a...
12/09/2026

THE OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS ARE HERE! 📸✨

And what a story they tell.

A room filled with leadership, courage, joy, challenge and possibility. Eight specialist zones. Powerful voices. New relationships. An anthem of our own. A community choosing to move beyond conversation and towards action.

The Mastering Diversity Conference 2026 was never created by one person or one organisation. It was built by an ecosystem—and these photographs belong to all of us.

Our deepest thanks to our Joint Headline Sponsors Vodafone Business and Leigh Day, alongside:

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿NatWest
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Hugh James
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Howell’s School, Llandaff
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Transport for Wales
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Team Wales
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Cardiff Life Magazine
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿WCS Agency

Thank you to Sioned Williams MS, Deputy First Minister of Wales; keynote speakers Elaine Banton;Ammar Akhtar; Kelli Aspland; Laura Waters; host Molly Stephens; our Patrons Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE DL, Edward Watts MBE DL and Janey Howell OBE; and every speaker, panellist, Zone Lead, exhibitor and ambassador.

A huge thank you to Elsa Torres and the young Zone Marshals from Family Pathways, our wonderful volunteers and event team, Learning Wales, the Cathays Hub, ITV Wales, and the Welsh College of Music & Drama.

Thank you to Maryann Enereba for writing and performing the Mastering Diversity Anthem, Caleb Joshua for the musical arrangement and Charys Rehoboth Ossom for its production.

And thank you to Behind the Lens Media for capturing not only how the conference looked—but how it felt. 💜

💫Find the complete official gallery through the link in our bio or here:

https://clients.behindthelensmedia.co.uk/p/24726dsb/mastering-diversity-conference-2026
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💫Tag yourself and the people you recognise. Tell us your favourite moment—and let these photographs travel.

Because none of us changes the world alone.

We go together.

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11/09/2026

Great coverage of our 4th annual conference on GMB news 6.30, 7.30 and 8.30 this morning.

So grateful to everyone!

⏳ 12 DAYS TO GO!Wales is coming together. Will you be in the room?On 10 September, communities, businesses, educators, a...
30/08/2026

⏳ 12 DAYS TO GO!

Wales is coming together. Will you be in the room?

On 10 September, communities, businesses, educators, advocates, public services, young people and leaders will gather in Cardiff for the Mastering Diversity Conference 2026.

Eight interactive Zones. Powerful speakers. Lived experience. Practical learning. Meaningful connections—and conversations capable of becoming action.

We are proudly partnered with Vodafone Business, our Joint Headline Sponsor and Exclusive Telecommunications Partner, alongside our loyal Joint Headline Sponsor, Leigh Day.

A huge thank you to our conference and Zone sponsors:

🔸 NatWest
🔸 Hugh James
🔸 Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust
🔸 Howell’s School, Llandaff
🔸 Transport for Wales
🔸 Team Wales
🔸 Cardiff Life Magazine
🔸 WCS Agency
🔸 VodafoneThree Discovery

And to our brilliant Mastering Diversity Ambassadors: thank you for sharing the message, reaching into your communities and helping us bring more voices into the room. You are part of the heartbeat of this movement.

🎟️ FREE TO ATTEND
📅 Thursday 10 September 2026
⏰ 9:00am–4:00pm
📍 Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff

Register through the link in our bio.

Come with your voice. Leave with new possibilities.

We Go Together or Not at All™.

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📢 KEYNOTE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT!We are thrilled to welcome Ammar Akhtar, Founder and CEO of Finalrentals, as a Keynote Sp...
24/08/2026

📢 KEYNOTE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT!

We are thrilled to welcome Ammar Akhtar, Founder and CEO of Finalrentals, as a Keynote Speaker at the Mastering Diversity Conference 2026.

Ammar’s journey is one of courage, enterprise and global ambition—building an international car-rental technology company from its Cardiff headquarters and demonstrating what determined, purpose-led entrepreneurship can achieve.

🏆 Ammar received the 2025 Mastering Diversity Business Champion Meritorious Award.

🏆 Finalrentals is also the Head Judge and Sponsor of our 2026 Community Champion Award, recognising those creating trust, opportunity and belonging across our communities.

Join us to hear the real story behind the growth: the risks, lessons, resilience and leadership that glossy success stories often leave on the cutting-room floor.

📅 10 September 2026
🕘 9:00am–4:00pm
📍 Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff
🎟️ FREE—advance booking required.

Book through the link in our bio or visit:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1986076061965

With heartfelt thanks to our Conference Sponsors:

Leigh Day, Vodafone Business, NatWest, Hugh James, Commonwealth Games Team Wales, Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust, Howell’s School Llandaff, Transport for Wales, Cardiff Life Magazine and WCS Agency.

Thank you also to Final Rentals for supporting our 2026 Awards.

And to our brilliant Ambassadors:

Ammar Akhtar, Caroline Smith, Mubarak Ali, Nisha Harichandran, Nicola Noél, Benedicta Ademola, Kieran Jones, Dr Tipswalo Day, Jessica Shipman and Naheed Ashraf.

Your voices are helping us build more than a conference. We are building an ecosystem for lasting change.

We Go Together or Not at All™.

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24/07/2026

🎥✨ Our amazing Strategic Partners – NatWest Cymru!💜

It was a pleasure catching up with Emma Baynton and Nathan Martin from NatWest Cymru during our Mastering Diversity Community Activation at St David's Cardiff yesterday.

Hearing about the exciting developments taking place across Wales was inspiring, and we're proud to have NatWest continuing their partnership with us.

Please join me in congratulating the team and thanking them for their ongoing commitment to building a more inclusive Wales. 👏

We're delighted that NatWest will be co-hosting our Business Zone alongside Hugh James at the Mastering Diversity Conference 2026.

Come and be part of the conversations, the connections and the collaborations that are shaping the future.

📅 Mastering Diversity Conference 2026
📍 Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff
🗓️ 10 September 2026

🎟️ Book your FREE place
🔗 Link in bio or visit www.masteringdiversity.com

Together, we're proving that the strongest partnerships don't just sponsor change—they help create it.

We Go Together... Or Not At All.💜

Credits: Angelika Jasnos

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22/07/2026

🎥 Two young women. Two powerful voices. One conversation that stayed with us. 💜

As we prepare for tomorrow's Community Activation outside SEPHORA, St David's Cardiff, we're sharing this moving conversation with two young women who wished to remain anonymous—but absolutely wanted their voices to be heard.

They spoke honestly about race, equality and belonging, comparing life in the Welsh Valleys with the experience of living in the capital.

Their words are honest. Thought-provoking. Hopeful. Challenging.

✨ Watch and be informed.
✨ Watch and be moved.
✨ Watch... and become part of the change.

The conversations we have on our streets become the conversations that shape our conference, our communities and, ultimately, our future.

Join us at the Mastering Diversity Conference 2026.

📅 10 September 2026
📍 Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff

🎟️ Free tickets:
www.masteringdiversity.com

💜 Because every voice matters.

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