Hosted by: Digital Youth and MindTech 

Date: Thursday, 13th November 

Location: County Hall, London’s Southbank*

*this event is in person and will not be available to watch online

Registration:

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Event Description:

Be part of shaping a better digital future for young people’s mental health.

Join Digital Youth and MindTech for an inspiring event packed with insight, innovation, and collaboration.

Take part in:

• Discovering key findings from the Digital Youth programme.
• Hearing from leading experts in child and adolescent mental health, including Dr Amy Orben and Professor Cathy Creswell.
• Shaping the future of digital mental health initiatives through interactive discussions.
• Interactive workshops that spark creativity and drive meaningful collaboration including innovative methods in research and how to effectively partner with industry.
• Exploring the Digital Youth Network and how it can support your work.
• Connecting with key stakeholders in digital mental health.
• Collaborating with young voices, including the Young Person’s Advisory Group, Sprouting Minds.

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and lead change.

Programme:

The event will consist of a variety of talks in the morning and seminars and networking opportunities in the afternoon.

Download the programme here

10:00 Welcome address - Professor Chris Hollis and Professor Ellen Townsend

10:10 Moving beyond screen time in DIORA: The importance of specific digital activities and the reactions they induce as predictors of adolescent mental health - Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Dr Kasia Kostyrka-Allchorne and Eliz Azeri, Sprouting Minds

10:30 The effectiveness of a socially assistive robot for improving emotion regulation among LGBTQ+ youth experiencing self-harm thoughts - Dr Petr Slovak, Dr A Jess Williams and Lucy Martin, Sprouting Minds

10:50 When SPARX fly: Lessons learned from a gamified digital CBT intervention for low mood in young people - Professor Chris Hollis, Dr Mathijs Lucassen, Dr Camilla Babbage and Stuart Dodzo, Sprouting Minds

11:10 Refreshments, exhibition, demonstrations

11:45 Keynote 1: Fixing the science of technology harms - Professor Amy Orben, University of Cambridge

12:05 Spotlight on policy: Panel discussion in response to keynote, chaired by Professor Peter Fonagy CBE - Baroness Hilary Cass and Professor Bernadka Dubicka

12:25 Lunch, exhibition, demonstrations and networking

13:25 Interactive Workshops

1. Cultivating participatory (or creative) processes in research
2. Building effective industry partnerships: strategies, principles, and practice
3. Challenges and solutions to designing, developing and implementing digital platforms to support remote assessment and monitoring
4. Using large data sets to help identify factors that might protect or mitigate against the negative impacts of harmful online experience

 14:55 Refreshments and exhibition

15:20 Panel session: ‘Bridging the valley of death’- moving research to implementation and commercialisation, chaired by Professor Chris Hollis - Professor Ed Watkins, Robert Higginson, Barnaby Perks and Dr Aaron Kandola

16:00 Keynote 2: Taking digital interventions for youth from research to practice - Professor Cathy Creswell, University of Oxford

16:20 Next steps and closing comments

16:30 Event close

This event is a unique opportunity to be part of the conversation and contribute to the future of mental health for young people. Mark your calendars and join us for a day of learning, networking, and inspiration.

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