Unconference 2026
Theme: who are we?
The KIND network is a big and diverse group without a single standard professional identify. This year’s unconference is about who we are, what we do at work, and who makes the case for us and what we do?
- What’s your professional group/personae?
- “office-spreadsheet person”
- digital leader
- data scientist
- admin person
- “gang aft agley” - how did you get here?
- what was your career path to your KIND-ish role?
- what’s your SFW-passion project? What are your rabbit-holes?
- where are your successes?
- Where do we sit? Are we frontline? Back-office? Somewhere in the middle?
- What do we do at work all day?
- What would your professional time use dataset look like?
- “That’ll only take five minutes…” - how do you estimate how long tasks will take?
- What do you think you should be doing at work?
- from collecting and describing to modelling and intelligence
- what are your barriers (infrastructure) and opportunities (digital tranformation)
- who values your work, and how do you find that out?
Info
- our annual community day of chat, presentations, and discussion
- Thursday 17th December 2026 09.30-16:30
- entirely free and flexible: drop in for ten minutes or come for the whole day
- live on Teams
- free and open to all - here’s the registration link
- no recordings because everything is a social session, but will disseminate any shareable materials via the network
Schedule
- 09:30-10:00 welcome and chat
- 1200-13:00 Lunch
- 15:00-15:30 Break
- 16:00-16:30 What do you want from the network next year?