Conference 2016

Multi-disciplinary, grassroots tech conference with an inclusive, community ethos, and friendly, welcoming vibe.

Tech Exeter hosted its inaugural annual conference at the University of Exeter on Saturday 8th October.

»» This event has finished. Huge thanks to everyone who was involved!

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Conference done. You were amazing! Posted in: Conference 2016

Wow, that was amazing. Thank you so much to our sponsors, speakers, volunteers and everyone who attended – so much positive feedback. We look forward to the next one in 2017!

In the mean time, you can :

Just over a week to go until the conference! Posted in: Conference 2016, Events

It’s almost conference time!

We’re very excited here in the TechExeter office – we’ve got an awesome lineup for you for our very first conference, and we’d love to see you there.

This is a reminder that tickets are still available, PLUS we have some half-price tickets avialable for students (valid ID required).

Conference Talks Announced! Posted in: Conference 2016

Here it is – our conference lineup for Saturday 8th October 2016!

9:00am – Registration Opens
Track 1 Track 2
A John Kane – Fixing the Web with the Interplanetary File System Joseph Woodward – Going cross-platform with ASP.NET Core
B Jacob Tomlinson – Monitoring in a scalable world Annette Allen – The what, why and how of Unit Testing with SQL Server
C 1) Andy Mantell – Revitalizing your frontend workflow with pattern libraries
2) John Blackmore – Simplify, Isolate and Scale with RabbitMQ
Martin Thornalley – Data Science in the cloud with Microsoft Azure
LUNCH
D 1) Craig Buckler – The Future of Mobile: Native vs Progressive Web Apps
2) Rachel Prudden – Genetic Algorithmns
Ian Ames – Practical agile. Lessons learned the hard way on our journey building digital products.
E Andy Wood – enjoy the Vue.js Mike Dunn and Will Scott – Story mapping and sketching – humanising the requirements process
F Christopher Hunt – This Is Where We Where: A TIWWA @ Tate Modern Post Mortem
5:30pm – Closing Session

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Speakers and Talks Announced! Posted in: Conference 2016

We’ve just announced our 2016 conference speaker lineup – 14 awesome people from the South West and beyond, giving you a full days worth of tech talks covering topics including JS, HTML5, SQL, Azure, RabbitMQ, .net and more!

Here’s the full schedule for Saturday October 8th 2016:

9:00am – Registration Opens
Track 1 Track 2
A John Kane – Fixing the Web with the Interplanetary File System Joseph Woodward – Going cross-platform with ASP.NET Core
B Jacob Tomlinson – Monitoring in a scalable world Annette Allen – The what, why and how of Unit Testing with SQL Server
C 1) Andy Mantell – Revitalizing your frontend workflow with pattern libraries
2) John Blackmore – Simplify, Isolate and Scale with RabbitMQ
Martin Thornalley – Data Science in the cloud with Microsoft Azure
LUNCH
D 1) Craig Buckler – The Future of Mobile: Native vs Progressive Web Apps
2) Rachel Prudden – Genetic Algorithmns
Ian Ames – Practical agile. Lessons learned the hard way on our journey building digital products.
E Andy Wood – enjoy the Vue.js Mike Dunn and Will Scott – Story mapping and sketching – humanising the requirements process
F Christopher Hunt – This Is Where We Where: A TIWWA @ Tate Modern Post Mortem
5:30pm – Closing Session

Book your tickets now!

Call for speakers is now CLOSED! Posted in: Conference 2016

Speaker submissions for the TechExeter Conference on 8th October have closed – we’ve had over 30 submissions across a wide range of topics so thank you very much to all who submitted. We will be in touch over the next couple of weeks to let you know the result!