The Sutton Trust, along with the University of Warwick and London School of Economics ran a weeklong summer conference for Pathways to Banking and Finance students from 3^rd – 7^th August. Students from both universities had a week of online activities including academic lectures, employment engagement, personal development sessions which were led by student ambassadors and social activities in the evening.   

The conference began with an inspirational talk from public speaker Kamel Hayman, which really set the tone for the week ahead. Despite being online, the number of students that attended the conference was really impressive with around 25 students from the University of Warwick cohort attending sessions throughout the week.

As the conference was online, this allowed for more of a variety of employees able to support. This year for the first time students had a session from Bloomberg, and got to see their stock a share platform which was really impressive.  

At the end of the conference, students had a virtual celebration event, and finally a reflective session, to go through everything that had been covered throughout the week. Below is a word cloud for words that students used to summarise how they felt their week had gone.