Summary

Christmas is just around the corner and to celebrate over the last few years we've hosted a Lightning Talks Competition. It's a fun pack festive celebration of community tech. public speaking. If you haven't been before you've definitely missed out on an opportunity to be inspired. We've an amazing line up a speakers and topics, some significant prizes plus plenty of food and fun.

Programme

Agile ADHD: How Scrum saved my relationship
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Sally Bridgewater
My name is Sally Waters, and I’m the author of the Home Scrum blog. You will learn quite a lot about the experiences of my husband Francis and me by reading it, but in short, all you need to know is that Francis has ADHD and I have perfectionist anxiety, and we both struggle a lot to get things done and to coordinate as a team in our household life. I have found taking the Scrum framework and applying it at home has really helped, and so Home Scrum came to be.
How the MVP is misunderstood, misused and abused, and how to do MVP properly!
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Gary McAdam
Gary is an experienced Full-Stack Developer with a proven track record of delivering robust web applications and services. Skilled in JavaScript, with a particular expertise in NodeJS and React. Eager to expand knowledge and explore new opportunities in different languages and technologies.
Enterprise Architecture versus Agile Delivery: Let them fight
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James Scanlan
Technical design and agile delivery management of complex systems involving Windows, Linux, C#.NET, Databases (MSSQL & Oracle), NoSQL, Messaging, Eventing. Getting the job done in the right tools in the right way.
User Needs Lead Leadership
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Eva Barabas
Eva Barabas, Software Engineer preferring Ruby @ NHS Choices. Passionate about the tech community, medical and educational tech spaces and keen to mentor and coach people who want to enter this space. Occasional hackathon attendee and organiser.
Agile Architecture at SkyBet
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Andy Butcher
Solutions Architect at Sky Betting & Gaming I feel strongly that software development is about people. I'm fascinated by how we can build teams and systems that we feel proud to be involved with.
Agile Smells
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Bernard Jauregui
Bernard Jauregui is a seasoned technical strategist with expertise in leading teams and driving innovation. He specializes in product development and network security, with experience in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Bernard is committed to delivering impactful solutions and holds several industry certifications.
Big Numbers and the 1Hz CPU
Working with computers means working with big numbers like "3 billion". Humans suck at big numbers, so to make sense of them let's see how long things would take using a CPU running at 1Hz instead of 3GHz (3 billion hertz!)
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Tom Hudson
I'm from Bradford in the UK. I like to fix things, make things, and teach people things.
The Future
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Geoff Bowden
Geoff Bowden is a developer and scrum master working for Egton Digital making websites, intranets and mobile apps for corporate and NHS customers. After spending 20 years as a Waterfallian developer and planner he ran out of fingers and toes on which to count his experience and transitioned to agile methods.
The web would be better if we all spoke english
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Brian Teeman
Co-founder Joomla! As a co-founder of Joomla! and OpenSourceMatters Inc I've never been known to be lacking an opinion or being too afraid to express it.