The two-day event will welcome 6,000 attendees, and expects to be the “largest podcast B2B and consumer show outside of North America”. Event features include industry panels, workshops, live podcasts, ‘In Conversation With’ discussions and exhibitor/partner activations. At night, venues around Islington will host fringe-style events and live shows.

The event features Lead Partner Spotify, as well as partners BBC Sounds, Acast, Audioboom, and Somthin’ Else. The Podcast Show has also signed the Equity in Audio Pact and “encourages and nurtures continued opportunities, including supporting gender balance, minority groups including LGBTQIA+ and ethnic diversity among panellists, speakers and those in attendance”.

We at Pod Bible are excited learn more, as details begin to be released. In the meantime, tickets will go on sale this October, so mark your calendars!

For more information, check out their website at http://www.thepodcastshowlondon.com/.

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This year’s programme will support Black women and non-binary people in the UK and Ireland, and is adapting to the global coronavirus pandemic. Twenty selected participants will receive computers, podcasting equipment and wifi access, along with other tools to ensure successful completion of the first four-week virtual course this fall. Afterward, participants will take what they’ve learned to create a podcast trailer, which will be submitted for participation in the second phase. From there, ten participants will travel to in-person training in 2021 to further develop their show.

The 2020 Sound Up submission period opens as Spotify releases research conducted among 1,000 Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic women in the UK, the findings of which include that 74% feel that BAME women are underrepresented in podcasting.

Courses like Sound Up continue to be important in elevating underrepresented voices in the podcast world, as the research also found that 50% say there is too much stereotyping of BAME women in podcasting. Spotify looks to combat the belief by 49% of respondents that there is a lack of strong BAME female voices in podcasting to look up to and serve as inspiration by staffing the educators and mentors of this year’s training with podcasters from the Black community.

The UK and Irish programme is open to Black women and non-binary people interested in sharing their stories through podcasting, even if they have no experience with the medium. Twelve of Spotify’s Sound Up participants have since launched their own shows, including Sangeeta Pillai of Masala Podcast.

Applications are open now at spotify.com/SoundUp through 4th August at 11.59 BST.

A previous version of this story erroneously stated the closing of application was 4th September.

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