Open Tech Calendar

Please join us for an empowering event designed to connect and inspire Women in Technology (WiT)!

This skills exchange is more than just a learning opportunity but a chance to build a supportive community where Women in Tech can come together to share skills, knowledge, and experiences. Whether you are looking to change technical careers, gain a fresh perspective or build new collaborations, this event promises to be a place of networking and professional growth. Connect with like-minded women, expand your network and leave feeling inspired to take your career to the next level! This event is organised in partnership with BCS South Yorkshire, Sheffield Digital, Home Office Digital Data and Technology WiT and our sponsors PA Consulting.

AGENDA
17:00 - Event start and ice-breaker activity to kick off the event!

17:30 - Lightening talks

19:00 - Light refreshments and networking

19:30 - Event close*

*There's an opportunity to unwind and continue networking after the even...

Informal get-together upstairs or outside at HowSt on Howard Street next to Sheffield Hallam’s Owen Building, to chat over coffee and breakfast from 9am. Everyone is welcome. No registration is required.

Join us for a cosy winter get-together to connect with fellow volunteers, trainees, applicants, participants for our Basic online skills course, and alumni from our Sheffield community. This event is also open for family and friends from our community and/or people interested in joining a tech-for-good community in Sheffield.

About CodeYourFuture:
Code Your Future, is a free code school for refugees and other people excluded from education. All our classes are free, and all our teachers are volunteers. We are a registered charity in the United Kingdom. Since 2016 we have supported over 290 engineers into great jobs in tech, and we are growing every year.

CYF students are trained in web development by volunteers from the tech industry, putting a strong emphasis on collaboration and product development through tech projects.

Date: Friday, November 22nd
Time: 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Location: Learn Create Sell - 108 The Moor, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 4PD

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Marketing a startup is hard. Shoe string budgets, competitive markets, and seemingly never enough time.

How can you cut through the noise effectively? How can you min-max your efforts and get your innovation out there whilst reaching the right people?

Join us to hear from some of the brilliant Founders who’ve launched and executed exceptional marketing campaigns despite limited resources. Learn from the best to understand how you can follow in their footsteps and emulate their successes.

Speaker list announced soon.

Meetup #4 at Electric Works (in front of the coach station and just up the road from the central train station).

We're still working on speaker selection but expect an exciting mix of sessions on your favourite analytics topics along with good food and company.

Doors open from 5:30 to give you time to grab a drink and chat to fellow attendees. Talks running from 6 and a break for food provided by sponsors Simpsons Associates.

Close at 8:30 with a chance to continue conversations at the Sheffield Tab by the train station.

After a somewhat unintended extended summer break (sorry about that!) AWS Sheffield is back this November. Join us for our meet up where we'll be kindly hosted by Airwalk (airwalkreply.com) @ electric works (www.electric-works.net). We've got 2 fantastic speakers, a great venue, food & drink and the opportunity to meet & network into the evening. Full details coming soon...

Our event is free and inclusive; we welcome people of all backgrounds and experience levels to join. If you require any accommodations please reach out and we will do what we can.

Rough Schedule
6.00pm - Doors, food, drinks
6.30pm - Welcome
6.40pm - Speaker 1
7.10pm - Break
7.20pm - Speaker 2
7.50pm - Open Mic/Community News
7.55pm - Continue the conversation at the Sheffield Tap (sheffieldtap.com).

🛠️ Charles Boisvert - How Visual Functional #programming can make software dev more accessible to non-experts.
🧪 @glenathan - Glenn shows us what a recent migration to the @playwrightweb testing tool looks like.

Come celebrate six years of Sheffield DM with us! 🎉

Featuring a lineup of incredible talks, free food and drinks, and plenty of extras to celebrate our special day; we hope to see you there.

Featuring AMAZING speakers, our talks are to-the-point, with actionable takeaways and appropriate for anyone involved in marketing, regardless of background, skill or experience level. From marketing directors through to media students, Sheffield DM is a diverse and welcoming place for everyone who loves marketing.

Socialise with industry experts and other members of the Sheffield marketing community, gain valuable insights, and stay ahead of the curve in the world of digital marketing.

Oh, and did we mention the free food and drink? 😉

Sheffield Startup Meetup is back with a refreshed format and a new location!

Founders at every stage of the journey join us month in, month out to learn and meet fellow founders. Whether you’re a new founder looking for inspiration and advice or a seasoned veteran looking for community and support, join us for a hot chocolate (with or without Baileys) at Bullion's new Chocolate Bar in Leah's Yard.

Every month we'll bring you a short but sweet, punchy mix of panel discussions, founder interviews, and group thought experiments.

Are you a Christian working in tech, or just someone curious about the relevance of faith to tech? FaithTech is a community of like-minded people who love Jesus and love tech. Join us for a social evening of community building. All are welcome.
November meetup

We will be meeting again at Sheffield Technology Parks, located in the heart of the city centre. Free pizza included! 🍕 As always, our FaithTech meetups are structured into three distinct sections:

1) Meet: Arrive any time from 18:00 to meet, mix and mingle over free pizza and soft drinks.

2) Learn: From 19:00 we’ll dive into a talk or discussion exploring the intersection of faith and technology.

3) Build: The final section of the evening will focus on what we can do to help. We will spend time praying and also talking about current labs projects.

There is a hard limit on how many people the meeting room at Sheffield Technology Parks can hold so please book early. Also, if you find that you’re unable to attend, p...

Informal get-together upstairs or outside at HowSt on Howard Street next to Sheffield Hallam’s Owen Building, to chat over coffee and breakfast from 9am. Everyone is welcome. No registration is required.

Informal social meetup for individual and freelancer members of Sheffield Digital. Bring along a friend or partner.

A table has been reserved for Sheffield Digital. Sarah Lister and Emma Marshall will be there.

Become a member here: sheffield.digital

Invitation to employers to join the annual Degree Apprenticeship Fair by Sheffield Hallam University on Wednesday 4th December, 16:00 to 19:00 at city campus. It's free to attend and catering is provided.

The event gives an opportunity to network with prospective candidates ahead of their 2025/26 intake. You will also be able to meet with apprenticeship leads across different departments to discuss course content/delivery.

Informal get-together upstairs or outside at HowSt on Howard Street next to Sheffield Hallam’s Owen Building, to chat over coffee and breakfast from 9am. Everyone is welcome. No registration is required.

Informal get-together upstairs or outside at HowSt on Howard Street next to Sheffield Hallam’s Owen Building, to chat over coffee and breakfast from 9am. Everyone is welcome. No registration is required.

December is a time for winding down, so we're planning on getting together and having a few drinks and food for the last month of the year.

Feel free to join us for drinks and/or food.

6:30pm - Drinks
7:30pm - Restaurants TBC
9:00pm - Most likely the next pub

Container-based development for C# developers with Tobias Fenster

❗❗ 🌐 This is an online event, we'll be hosting the event on Zoom, the link for the meeting is below, however, we'll only announce the password just before the event.

🔗 TBA
🔑 TBA

📅 Agenda

👋 Welcome
🗑️ Housekeeping
👩‍🏫 Container-based development for C# developers with Tobias Fenster
🍻 Virtual Bar
👩‍🏫 Container-based development for C# developers

Containerization has taken the world of software development and application operation by storm in recent years. And the basics of "somehow" doing containerization are also easy and quick to learn and implement. But what are the pitfalls, how do you really get your own container images ready for production and can I actually develop directly in containers? This session answers all these questions using practical examples with a focus on C# / .NET

Informal get-together upstairs or outside at HowSt on Howard Street next to Sheffield Hallam’s Owen Building, to chat over coffee and breakfast from 9am. Everyone is welcome. No registration is required.

This event will be a single talk on Evil Tech: How Devs Became Villains with Sergès Goma

⚠️ This will be an in-person event, the venue is TBC.

Agenda:

🍕 Pizza/Drinks (18:15 - 18:30)
🗣 Introduction (18:30)
👉 Evil Tech: How Devs Became Villains with Sergès Goma (18:35ish)
🍻 Social @ Pub (after the talk)
👉 Evil Tech: How Devs Became Villains
Once upon a time, developers were the unsung heroes of our world. The stereotypical developer, with glasses perched on the nose and an innate talent for science, even inspired the alter egos of superheroes.

However, today, software engineers often find themselves under scrutiny for their roles in creating data-gathering apps, facial recognition software in CCTV systems, and the constant tracking of citizens through GPS, among other issues.

From being heroes to becoming modern-day Dr. Frankensteins, tech creators face an unenviable dilemma: to embrace malevolence or strive for heroism.

During this talk, we will delve deep into th...