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Events

Online Events

We hope you are all staying safe ❤

We are aware that quite a lot of events have been cancelled or postponed so we wanted to update you on tech events that have instead moved online. We’d love to see you still get involved.

This page will be continually updated as we learn of new online opportunities in the South West.

To let us know of online workshops, livestreams or other activities that aren’t currently listed, please contact us

ThingsCamp

April 9th onwards
ThingsCamp is taking its Internet of Things (IoT) event online from April 9th for an experimental, virtual unconference over a few days. If you’re interested in taking part (it’s free) just fill in this form and they’ll be in touch with how it’ll work.
Edit: some more details posted here

Future Sync Conference

April 16-17th
“The event is switching to a hybrid conference for this year, one where the audience attends remotely. Our aim is to provide the exact same speaker lineup as already announced, through a blend of live and pre-recorded talks with supporting video content. This will be broadcast over the 16th and 17th April 2020, with live content on the 16th. “

Register (free) at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-sync-2020-distributed-tickets-99875694892

More details

Relive the moment!

Why not check out our 2019 TechExeter conference videos on our Youtube channel

2019 TechExeter Conference Playlist

Past events

FabLab Devon Online Workshops

March 27th
FabLab Devon are starting some online workshops for children to start learning some basic skills. The first 30 minute online workshop is Friday 27th March 11am. The idea is for them to watch the tutorial, have a go and then share their designs! If you have children, please join in.
The workshop will be on FabLab’s Facebook.

Digital Taunton Livestream

March 26th
Digital Taunton are live streaming their monthly meeting on YouTube as opposed to their usual in-person event. Their talks will be focused on working in this new COVID-19 climate, with talks about remote working, promoting online presences, crisis planning and wellbeing. Feel free to tune in Thursday 26th March 7:30pm.

Watch again here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9MZwQZjsn4

Events

Exeter College Coffee Morning

Join us at Exeter College, where we are engaging Exeter College students about the industry and making them aware of opportunities here in the South West. There will be three industry speakers presenting information about their job and their experience within their industry:

1. Jordan Peters, Independent Game Developer
2. Jacob Tomlinson from NVIDIA
3. Becky Lees from Greymatter

It is a chance for you to meet, interact and network with the college students (all specialising in IT or gaming), both before the presentations and afterwards during an hour networking session at the college café.

Exeter College Coffee Morning

Tuesday, Mar 3, 2020, 9:00 AM

Exeter College
Hele Rd Devon, GB

9 Members Went

This event is held at Exeter College in order to engage students about the industry, and also make them aware of opportunities here in the South West. There will be three industry speakers presenting information about their job and their experience within their industry. It is a chance for you to meet, interact and network with the college students…

Check out this Meetup →

  • Becky Lees
  • Jordan Peters
  • Jacob Tomlinson
  • Becky Lees
  • Jacob Tomlinson
Events, Partner Events

Trademark Workshop

Event Timing: March 10th 2020, 10am-2pm
Event Address: Kaleider Studios, 45 Preston Street, Exeter, EX1 1DF

Event Description:
Stephens Scown are running an innovative session exclusively for TechExeter and Digital Exeter members aimed to help tech businesses deal with a key issue which they often leave until too late: Trade Mark Registration. During this session they will walk you through the trade mark application process and you will have the opportunity to file your own application.

Many businesses do not realise the need to register their core business names, product lines and brand names as trade marks until it is too late. Not all marks are registerable so, before signing up, our expert team will be in touch to make sure you are eligible.

There is a one off cost of £200 plus VAT for this session (this is a massive 60% saving for our members!). Official filing fees will also need to be paid (£170 for the first class, £50 for each additional class); there is no VAT on official fees. Following the application, we will be appointed as your agent on the register and will keep you updated on the progress of your application

Please fill out the form linked below to register your interest and Stephens Scown will be in touch with further information.

https://forms.gle/zTcosnqedVZQjV8v6

Trademark Workshop with Stephen Scown

Tuesday, Mar 10, 2020, 10:00 AM

Kaleider Studios
45 Preston St Exeter, GB

4 Members Attending

TechExeter Stephens Scown are running an innovative session exclusively for TechExeter and Digital Exeter members aimed to help businesses deal with a key issue which they often leave until too late: Trade Mark Registration. During this session we will walk you through the trade mark application process and you will have the opportunity to file you…

Check out this Meetup →

Events

2020 Events Overview

Here’s a quick reference to all the events planned for 2020 that TechExeter and Digital Exeter are involved with (subject to change!)

January

Digital Exeter Meetup
21st Jan ENACT Meetup

February

TechExeter Meetup – Design
LGBT history month / PRISM
21-23rd Feb JUNCITON X Exeter (Hackathon)

March

3rd March Exeter College coffee morning
5th March Digital Exeter Meetup – My Favourite Hack
10th March Trademark Workshop
14-15th March Girls in AI hackathon

April

1st April TechExeter Meetup – Digital Ethics – Exeter Phoenix
16th April FutureSync Conference

May

Digital Exeter – Learn and Teach
Exeter Pride
11-13th May Pint of Science

June

TechExeter/DigitalExeter Summer Social
17-18th June Big Bang South West
19-21st June NOVA demoparty

July

Digital Exeter – UX
3rd-5th July GAME>PLAY festival / Exeter Festival

August

TechExeter Meetup – topic TBC

September

Digital Exeter – Apps
Conference – “2020 VISION”

October

TechExeter Meetup – Topic TBC
3rd-4th Oct SpaceApps

November

DigitalExeter – Brand
18th Nov international LGBTQ + Day

December

TechExeter Meetup – Topic TBC

Events

NASA Space Apps, Oct 19-20th 2019

Wow, what an amazing weekend! Check out our 60 second video:

Tech Exeter and The Met Office are proud to bring the NASA Space Apps Challenge to the South West. 2019 marks the eigth year that the Met Office has hosted a Space Apps event, and this year is going to be bigger than ever!

The weekend will be about meeting new people and solving interesting challenges together. Don’t let the ‘Apps’ part put you off, the best teams are often the most diverse teams in terms of age, skills and experience. We have seen great projects made entirely from cardboard!

The Space Apps 2019 site and registration links are available at https://2019.spaceappschallenge.org/locations/exeter-devon/

We had an amazing time last year!

Events

Big Bang South West

We had an absolute blast at the Big Bang South West event!

6,000 students descended onto Westpoint Arena on the 25th June for an event celebrating all things science, tech, engineering and maths (STEM) for 7 to 19 year olds.

Along with our friends at 2times.do , we setup our GAME>PLAY “PONG REWIRED” game where people could play using our wacky controllers, or build their own out of tin-foil!

We also had the Unity game sourcecode available and saw a variety of interesting edits to the game come from the students!

Events, Meetups

Exeter College Coffee Morning

We held our first ever mini meetup at Exeter College with speakers from TechExeter and Digital Exeter – we often struggle with engaging young people so we decided to take our meetup directly to the students!

Al Mclintock, Industry Placement Liaison Officer initially came to speak to TechExeter earlier in the year to talk about T-levels, and she was thrilled with the idea that we could run a version of our meetup aimed directly at the students

After an introduction from Al and Myself (centre above), we had talks from Sarah Marks (right) – Head of Marketing and Communications at Rezcomm, and Rick Timmis (left) – Engineering Manager for Dell Boomi.

After the talks, the students came along to a networking session where we had a dozen members of our tech+digital community available for students to talk to face to face.

It was a wonderful morning with a great buzz – our next one is in the autumn term and we hope to repeat the success of this joint venture between us and the college!