John Abel, Jean-Francois Perras and Phil Richardson held a number of sessions with students at Les Quennevais School, Beaulieu School and Highlands College to highlight various work opportunities in the industry.
Google also delivered a special event for Digital Jersey members, in which they discussed approaches to developing tech solutions to address real-life challenges and issues, hosted a CEO roundtable, which brought together senior digital and finance professionals, explored current trends in the fintech spaceand delivered a dedicated workshop session with the eight entrepreneurs taking part in Digital Jersey’s recently launched Tech Start-Up Bootcamp initiative.
They also met with Government officials to explain Google’s idea development process, with a specific focus on how digital solutions can support long-term efforts to meet the island’s carbon neutral and sustainability objectives.
Digital Jersey CEO, Tony Moretta said: “We have built up a strong relationship with the Google team over several years and I was really pleased to welcome them to Jersey to meet with and talk to a broad cross section of people here – from students and government officials to tech entrepreneurs and finance leaders.
“That is one of the things that Digital Jersey does best – connecting people and giving them access to the digital tools, frameworks and knowledge that can help them realise their ambitions and ultimately help shape Jersey’s future by adopting a digital-first mindset.”
Pictured top: The Google team running a session at Highlands College.