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Meet the speaker – Derek Buitenhuis

Posted on 26th November 201826th November 2018 by admin

We’re privileged to have some amazing local talent who are willing to give up their free time to speak at our meetups. We asked Derek a few questions prior to his upcoming talk on Loading Balancing …. Name: Derek Buitenhuis Job role: Senior Video Engineer @ Vimeo Biggest passion: Codecs & Metal Twitter: @daemon404 / GitHub: dwbuiten / Freenode: Daemon404

Space Apps 20-21st Oct

Posted on 20th October 201828th October 2018 by admin

The NASA Space Apps Hackathon returned for its 7th year at the Met Office. This year TechExeter hosted the Exeter event for the worlds biggest hackathon – here’s our wrap up video: We ran it with our amazing partners The Met Office, and were generously sponsored by DesignSpark/RS components. More details including our winning teams can be found on the

October 11th Meetup

Posted on 11th October 201817th October 2018 by admin

NOTE: WE’VE PUSHED THIS MEETUP BACK ONE WEEK DUE TO VENUE CLASHES – WE’RE NOW ON THE 11TH AND AT THE CITY GATE HOTEL! Join us for a tear-down of the conference (full of juicy stats and feedback points!), plus we’ve got a lightning talk from @JordanTheCoder on her journey into tech! October Post-Conference and Pre-SpaceApps meetup! Thursday, Oct 11,

Annual Tech Conference, Sept 7th

Posted on 7th September 201814th September 2018 by admin

>> CONFERENCE IS OVER! << What an amazing day – thank you all for coming, and to our wonderful speakers, sponsors and VIPs! Photos are available here : https://www.flickr.com/photos/152171701@N07/sets/72157699636714201/ Some tweets from the day are available here : https://twitter.com/i/moments/1039591636576157697 Presentation slides are on slideshare and recordings will be uploaded soon. Friday 7th September, Univeristy of Exeter. Multi-track one day tech

August 2nd Meetup

Posted on 2nd August 201812th September 2018 by admin

A superb mix of lightning talks, discussion and networking / social – we return from our summer hiatus for this regularly programmed meetup. * Guy Buesnel – PNT Security Technologist, talks about Global Positioning Satellite (and GNS) security * Tom Powell – Met Office Informatics Lab, “Teaching Alexa about weather warnings” * Toni Oatway – We need STEM Ambassadors! August

Conference website update

Posted on 16th July 2018 by admin

We’ve added lots of juicy details to our conference website – including speaker bios and details of all the talks! Check it out: https://conference.techexeter.uk/schedule/

Join us on slack

Posted on 3rd July 20183rd July 2018 by admin

If you hadn’t seen, we’ve setup a slack workspace for you to join us! We’re also welcoming other tech based meetup groups to use our workspace – just create a channel for yourself, just like #exeter-python have done! Join here : https://join.slack.com/t/techexeter/shared_invite/enQtMzYxOTQzODQzMTI1LTg3NjAzZTcyMDUyMWU0ZmQ4ODk5YzI1MmE5OTgwNDNhODFjMmQwOGVjNWU3ZTQzNjNjNmQxM2YzNmNiM2FmMzU

Typeform Survey Data Breach

Posted on 2nd July 20183rd July 2018 by admin

We received a message that Typeform had a data breach, which affected one or more of the surveys that we published. Typeform reports that an external attacker managed to get unauthorized access to a partial backup of respondent data and downloaded it. The two forms affected were our Tech Survey and this year’s Conference speaker submissions. The good news is