About Us
TechNative Digital is the South-East’s hub for developing new tech talent.
We offer immersive, free to join, 16-week programmes that deliver brilliant tech professionals and future leaders straight into fast growing businesses in the South East.
Our TechNatives do not need any background or prior learning in Tech to apply, but must come with a passion for their subject, a zeal for learning and a drive to succeed.
Our 16-week programmes are:
- Fully immersive - Get ready for a fast paced and demanding journey from no code to Junior Dev!
- Free to join - Removing roadblocks to making that leap, to change direction or take that first step into your new career in Tech
- Sponsored by employers - This means our programmes are shaped by employers who and teach the skills needed for work
- A direct route into paid employment - Each place is linked to a live vacancy to lead directly into your first role in tech
Interested? Check out our latest opportunities…
The TechNative Academy
Launching October 2023: Full Stack Software Development Pathway
With our pilot programme launching this Autumn, our goals are simple:
- Provide our TechNatives with everything they need to be brilliant Junior Developers and successful in their new workplace.
- Provide businesses with fantastic new team members to help their business grow.
Taught by industry professionals and supported by our team of industry mentors, our programmes will teach so much more than technical skills. Our graduates will leave with a team mindset, an appetite for continuous learning and sharing. they will be problem solvers and teamworkers, great communicators and future leaders.
We will match our graduates into junior level roles in our Sponsor employers, but with continuous access to our community, mentorship and online learning, they will have the appetite and means to progress fast in their new roles.
Stay tuned…
Future Academy programmes will include Data Analytics, UX Designer, Product Management and more.
The Sector is Exploding
The Tech sector has been growing rapidly for a decade, but was turbo charged through the pandemic, which saw a boom in tech start-ups and scale-ups as nearly all businesses went online. Now every business is a tech business.
Today the sector in the UK is worth over $1TN, and there are more Tech Unicorns (£1b+ valued companies) in the UK than anywhere else in Europe.
Tech is the UK's biggest employing sector, with 2m vacancies in 2022. It has grown 10x in the last decade (and predicted to grow 4x again in the next), now employing around 5m people in the UK.
It's not all rainbows and unicorns, though.
100,000 vacancies go unfilled each month - businesses struggle to find the talent to fill all of the jobs available
The sector lacks diversity - Crucially without a more diverse workforce the sector will not have the number of people or diversity of thought to continue to grow at this pace
Tech grads aren't work-ready - traditional college and Uni courses cant keep up with the pace of change
…Employers are spending time, energy and money on training new staff themselves.
We will create a pipeline of diverse new talent to feed to the growing tech businesses in the South East. Working with career changers, returners to work or those who simply haven't yet found their career destination, we will deliver proactive, work-ready tech professionals right into work in the sector.
Join the revolution.
Don't just be a part of the tech revolution. Lead it!
Join the TechNative Academy today and transform the future of tech.
Diversity in Tech
We want to change the narrative about who can have a successful career in Tech.
Right now:
- 19% of the tech workforce is female (less at board level)
- 8% is from an ethnic minority
- 1% of venture capital funding in UK going to all-female teams
- 10% of digital apprentices are female
- 77% of starters on digital courses are white males
Research shows that companies with more diverse teams are more likely to be successful, more profitable and with happier staff. We're unlocking diversity in the sector to enable it to flourish and grow.
In order for businesses to be successful they will need a diversity of thought, background and approach. We are actively seeking to work with the next generation of tech leaders who:
- identify as female
- are from minority ethnic backgrounds
- are career changer or returners to work
- are neurodiverse
Be part of making that change happen and register your interest as a future TechNative or sponsor business
Led and supported by Industry
Our Advisory board of industry leaders and networks are supporting and guiding the development of TechNative to ensure we remain true to our purpose be industry led, diverse and to close the tech skills gap.
As well as supporting and advising as we grow and develop, they bring a wealth of experience, a wide network of employers and industry leadership. Their commitment to supporting our ethical and purpose led approach to closing the tech skills gap is invaluable.
Our Advisory Board is:
•Steve Rackley – Co-Founder of James Chase, Silicon Brighton & Diverse Sussex
•Mo Kanjilal - Co-Creator - Watch This Sp_ce
•Simon Pringle –CEO of Red River Software
•Will Callaghan - CEO of TechResort and Friendly Digital
•Catrina Baker-Bassett – Managing Director of DabApps
•Samantha Harland – Director of Innovation at Wired Sussex
As well as our brilliant Advisory board we have been supported by a range of organisations to bring TechNative to reality. These include:
Hatch Ideas - Creative Consultancy
A Squared - Impact Accellerator Programme
Plus X - Innovation Hub
BRITE Pioneers Programme - Support for purpose led businesses
The Missing Piece - Business Development Support