Past Speakers

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2023

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Matt Brunt

KEYNOTE: Dungeons, Dragons & Developers

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Soumaya Erradi

Evergreen skills for software developers

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Marcus Noble

Managing Kubernetes without losing your cool

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Matt Hunt

Microservice Mistakes I Made and Survived

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Eli Holderness

You Shall Not Password: Modern Authentication for Web Apps

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Martyn Kilbryde

The Art of the Bad Code Review

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Dan Clarke

Git - Under the Covers

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Jamie Tanna

This talk could've been a blog post

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Gosia Borzęcka

Don't panic - AI will not take your job

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Ashley Smith

Don't go chasing waterfalls

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Paul Bailey

How to create the conditions where happy people do their best work

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Marc Steele

Hacking Your Home Network from a TV Broadcast

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Connell Sharp

Good Microservice Boundaries

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Rachel Breeze

Accessibility: Building and Deploying Accessible sites

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Shaun Lawrence

Choose your own adventure

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Sean Farmar

Choose your own adventure

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Poornima Nayar

Minimal APIs in .NET

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Mark Goodwin

Building Robots for Complete Beginners

2021

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Tania Allard

KEYNOTE: Open source for fun and for profit

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Lex Lofthouse

Design for Developers

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Connell Sharp

Onion Architecture with DDD and CQRS

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Dylan Beattie

There's No Such Thing As Plain Text

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Simon Painter

SOLID Principles in 5 Nightmares

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Steve Collins

The [Source Code] Generation Game

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Stephen Haunts

Hacking Humans

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Manu Magalhaes

Nitty-Gitty: Master Git from the Inside

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James Croft

Should you write UI tests?

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Matt Whetton

We need to talk about technical debt

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Clifford Agius

3D printed Bionic Hand a little IOT and a Xamarin Mobile App

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Poornima Nayar

REST, GraphQL and gRPC : A Comparison

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Tom Morton

Open Banking vs. DeFi; The technological future of finance?

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Kojo Hinson

Embracing Skynet - An exploration of GPT-3 and its potential applications

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Stephen Jackson

Senior By Default

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Rizwana Akmal Khan

Good Writers Become Better Developers

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Leke Sholuade

Why do we need a Black Valley

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Jennifer Mackown

How to ruin kid's games with machine learning

2019

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Dylan Beattie

The Art of Code

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Matt Brunt

Think like a hacker

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Jessica Salisbury

The Power of the Feedback Loop

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Anthony Dang

Cache me outside - Caching Methodologies and Architectures

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Cara Holland

Draw UX (or how to get your visual thinking groove on)

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Mark Towndrow

How to be a better developer - without learning another JavaScript framework

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Galiya Warrier

Deep Learning in the world of little ponies

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Robin Ninan

Ditching the test pyramid in a microservices era

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Ian Johnson

Reasonable Code

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Samathy Barratt

This is a talk about Nothing

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Ian Cooper

How to Escape The Distributed Monolith

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Helen Joy

Whose Design is it Anyway?

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Joel Hammond Turner

You're the Tech Lead - *you* fix it!

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Zac Braddy

All the mistakes I've made trying to implement Microservices

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Neil Oconnor

CTO secrets: How to get the best companies fighting to hire you

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Simon Painter

Hacking C#: Development for the Truly Lazy