Category: Events

Space Apps Exeter 2017

Wow, what a weekend! Huge thanks to all of those who came and congratulations to the winners, who were: Best Mission Control: @squirrelsquadco for their response to the “Trace Invaders” challenge Best use of hardware: Twisted Fire Stoppers Highly Commended:@flashhookedpla1 for their innovative combination of computing and crochet! And of course, thanks to all our sponsors, including the Met Office,

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VR/AR event with One Planet MBA

On Tuesday 14th March we held a Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality event at the University of Exeter Innovation Centre with our good friends at the OnePlanetMBA. We had a great mix of people – students, lecturers, and of course the awesome TechExeter community. There were lots of smiling faces and great feedback from people who were trying out Google

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Met Office+TechExeter to host Space Apps Exeter 2017

We’re super-excited to announce that we’re officially sponsoring this year’s Space Apps* Exeter 2017! This year we’re teaming up with the Met Office and we plan to make Exeter the best UK host city for the international Space Apps Challenge. Running on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th of April, teams of designers, thinkers, artists and programmers will descend on the

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Secure South West 8

SSW8 is scheduled for Tuesday 7th February 2017 and builds on the strength of it’s previous events attracting delegates from public and private sector organisations from across the south west region. If you’re interested in all things security, this FREE EVENT is the place to be! http://www.securesouthwest.com/ Secure South West 8 is jointly organised by Plymouth University and Plymouth City

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Graphical Web at The Met Office

Graphical Web is an annual, global conference that showcases the many new open source technologies available for presenting visual information on the web. The conference showcases best practice, new opportunities and future directions in the fast-changing world of web graphics and will appeal to a variety of professionals throughout the technology, data visualisation and graphics industries. Tickets can be found

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Coding Dojo at Exeter University

The University of of Exeter is holding an occasional series of ‘Coding Dojos’, starting on Thursday 3rd November, with the first one on the subject of Graph Databases, hosted by Gerry McNicol, co-founder of Big Consultancy and long-time data-scientist and developer. The topic: Relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL don’t really store relationships. We’re going dive into the alternative world of

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