Open Tech Calendar

LawTech Roadshow Sheffield

Barclays have been working closely with CodeBase to run LawTech Bridge at Barclays Eagle Lab in Notting Hill. LawTech Bridge is a series of Meetups for law firms who want to innovate more effectively. It’s for cutting edge LawTech startups who want to do more than just pitch themselves in a beauty parade. More info at https://www.thisiscodebase.com/lawtech-bridge.

But why should London have all the fun? Barclays, The Law Society, DIT, MoJ and Codebase have partnered to bring the programme north of the border to 6 cities across the UK. We want to establish a greater LawTech ecosystem to get everyone together regularly to share their stories of what they're working on, the hard yards and magnificent successes.

Agenda

10:00 Registration, Networking and Caffeinated Beverages

10:10 Barclays Ventures - Introduction

10:20 Keynote: Steven Drost, CodeBase

10:55 LawTech Panel Discussion

12:00 Networking lunch of tasty food

13:00 Finish

https://www.kollider.co/whatson

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lawtech-roadshow-sheffield-tickets-85959612515

Wed 22nd Jan 2020 10:00am (Europe/London)

Wed 22nd Jan 2020 1:00pm (Europe/London)

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NYT: Digital Story Labs

Free workshops exploring live storytelling with new tech for 14-25 year olds

This January National Youth Theatre, Kurious Arts and alternate reality studio Megaverse are looking to discover a new generation of creative digital talent in South Yorkshire. Whether you’re a gamer, a performer, a designer, a digital specialist, artist or technician, these labs are for anyone interested in exploring how innovative new technologies like Virtual reality, volumetric capture and spatial audio can be used in theatre and live storytelling.

Enter a digital playground and learn how to 3D paint in a VR headset, shoot a 360 film and use cheap tech like Xbox Kinect sensors to create amazing live performances and experiences.

Join us to explore how to tell live stories using volumetric capture and virtual reality with Ben Carlin, founding director of immersive content studio Megaverse. Featuring live demo's of Flood an underwater VR adventure and Frankenstein, which will see 250 audience members in a theatre production of Frankenstein this autumn.

This is a FREE workshop and following the workshops there will be future opportunities to engage with National Youth Theatre's growing digital programme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zFh2C5672E

https://kurious.art/whats_on/nyt-digital-story-labs/20200125-1000-nyt-digital-story-labs

https://kurious.art/whats_on/nyt-digital-story-labs/20200125-1000-nyt-digital-story-labs

Sat 25th Jan 2020 10:00am (Europe/London)

Sat 25th Jan 2020 4:00pm (Europe/London)

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UX Sheffield: Design Systems, Not just Sketch files – by Iannish Posooa from what3words

Our first UX Sheffield event 2020 features Iannish Posooa who is a Senior Product Designer at what3words. His talk will cover:

What's a design system: We will cover a brief history and benefits of design systems. We will also frame it in today's context by linking design language and technical flexibility.

Choose the right framework: This is actually 30% of the job as the users, workflow and tools you use will dramatically affect the end outcome.

Building it: Most design systems are made from an atomic structure of Principles > Styles > Components > Patterns and here's why.

Sharing your design system: How do you make what you have created as accessible as possible Internally and externally.

https://uxsheffield.co.uk/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/design-systems-not-just-sketch-files-by-iannish-posooa-from-what3words-tickets-90174896543

Wed 29th Jan 2020 6:15pm (Europe/London)

Wed 29th Jan 2020 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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Games Education Summit 2020

Ground-breaking conference bridging the gap between games educators and the games industry returns in April 2020.

Influential games course leaders from further and higher education, leaders from prominent studios and technology companies, recruiters, 3rd sector organisations and students will continue last year’s animated debate about how the games industry and games educators could collaborate.

Innovators will share how they are tackling deep-rooted challenges with employability, diversity, skills, apprenticeships and work placements within the industry. This year’s theme focuses on developing practical and actionable solutions to many of these challenges and will showcase inspirational examples and innovative programmes from across the UK.

Join workshops, discussion sessions and debates with leading educators and industry figures. Collaborate to solve endemic problems facing these two sectors. The Summit will also spotlight students themselves, hearing from current and past students about how they bridged the gap between education and work.

http://thebgi.uk/gamesed20/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/games-education-summit-2020-tickets-81971516011

Thu 16th Apr 2020 9:30am (Europe/London)

Fri 17th Apr 2020 5:00pm (Europe/London)

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Welcome to GoSheffield! This is where the Go community in Sheffield meets once a month to talk about cool hacks and interesting technology.

The talks will start at 18:20, featuring:

* Automating the web with Go - Daniel Martí
* Kafka and Go - Ax Man
* Go and gRPC: why and how - Andrei Simionescu

Please get in touch with the organisers if you'd like to give one yourself. All topics and levels of experience are welcome!

Food and drinks will be provided for all attendees, courtesy of our sponsors. We will have them before the talks, at around 18:00.

We are always looking for more sponsors and venues - if you know someone that can help us keep our gophers fed and happy, please get in touch!

Please note that all attendees and sponsors are required to follow the Go code of conduct (https://golang.org/conduct).

Venue: http://www.shefftechparks.com/

Lean Coffee - Banned Words Edition

Happy New Year! 🎉

Is it too late to still be wishing people a happy new year? Maybe it is? Well at least I'm not kicking off with one of those terrible '20/20 vision' jokes!

Anyway... Yes... You may have noticed that we took a little break over the festive period. Apologies if you were there banging on the door on New Years day. It's time to kick off ShefTest '20 with our standard Lean Coffee style event to find out what you want to talk about this year.

If you don't know about Lean Coffee, all the info you need is here: https://leancoffee.org/

Ours comes with a twist. We know you all desperately want to know about Security, Performance and Automation. We'll certainly have some of that on the menu. We want to know what ELSE you want to talk about in 2020, so all of the popular subjects are banned!

Come along. Bring some ideas. We're all ears.

Wednesday February 5th. Tech Parks. Doors open 6:30pm. Fun & games begins at 7.

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Big thanks to our sponsors - Tech Parks for letting us use their wonderful meeting space. And Ministry of Testing for just existing and being awesome!

www.shefftechparks.com | www.ministryoftesting.com

As always, if you'd like to sponsor, host or speak at a future event then please do get in touch! And don't forget to keep an eye on the Meetup page or on www.twitter.com/steelbugs for details of upcoming events.

If you're a new member or concerned about arriving alone, drop the organisers a message and we'll keep our eyes peeled for you. :)

www.ministryoftesting.com/code-of-conduct

[Photo by Patrick Perkins on Unsplash]

https://www.meetup.com/Ministry-of-Testing-Sheffield/events/267873653/

https://www.meetup.com/Ministry-of-Testing-Sheffield/events/267873653/

Wed 5th Feb 2020 7:00pm (Europe/London)

Wed 5th Feb 2020 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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Can you write a simple bot to play the server at a classic game of connect 4?

This will be a hands-on session where we will get together to write a connect 4 bot, the session is aimed any skillset including people who want to learn C#. We actively encourage people to get involved if they're interested in coding.

You can use any programming standard you like to create a bot that can play connect 4!

Due to this being a hands-on event you'll need a laptop. (Windows, Linux or iOS - any operating system is fine)

We'll have a fairly relaxed agenda, but will follow:
- 🍕 Pizza
- 👋 Introduction / Housekeeping
- 🗣️ Round table introductions
- 👨‍🏫 Build a Connect 4 Bot
- 🎉 Closing
- 🍻 Social

The main connect 4 event will start at 6:30pm, we'll just be gathering before hand for a bit of socialising and eating pizza.

Can you write a simple bot to play the server at a classic game of connect 4?

This will be a hands-on session where we will get together to write a connect 4 bot, the session is aimed any skillset including people who want to learn C#. We actively encourage people to get involved if they're interested in coding.

You can use any programming standard you like to create a bot that can play connect 4!

Due to this being a hands-on even you'll need a laptop. (Windows, Linux or iOS - any operating system is fine)

We'll have a fairly relaxed agenda, but will follow:
- 🍕 Pizza
- 👋 Introduction / Housekeeping
- 🗣️ Round table introductions
- 👨‍🏫 Build a Connect 4 Bot
- 🎉 Closing
- 🍻 Social

The main connect 4 event will start at 6:30pm, we'll just be gathering before hand for a bit of socialising and eating pizza.

Research Seminar - Martin White, Visiting Professor and Managing Director of Intranet Focus Ltd

Enterprise search research – status, opportunities and challenges

Seminar abstract

Despite the ubiquitous use of search applications within organisations there are perhaps fewer than 30 peer-reviewed research papers published on this topic. In this seminar I will outline the key features of enterprise search, present the outcomes of research on user satisfaction, comment on the current extent of published research, identify opportunities for future research and consider the challenges that researchers might face in taking full advantage of these opportunities.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/discover-enterprise-search-research-tickets-89581684229

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/discover-enterprise-search-research-tickets-89581684229

Tue 18th Feb 2020 2:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 18th Feb 2020 3:00pm (Europe/London)

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Digital Twin

A digital twin is the culmination of connectivity, analytics, machine learning and visualisation - all technologies of Industry 4.0. But what role a digital twin has in a manufacturing business is often less clear.

Through this informal event, Digital Twin Lead at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), Jonathan Eyre, will explain what a digital twin is and where it plays a role in the future of manufacturing.

Additionally, Jonathan will detail the opportunities that can be created from working with the AMRC.

This session is part of the AMRC’s Digital Meet Manufacturing (DMM) campaign to lead the way in connecting digital and manufacturing together in a way that benefits both sectors.

http://www.amrc.co.uk/dmm

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-meet-manufacturing-digital-twin-tickets-75991780461

Wed 15th Jan 2020 12:00pm (Europe/London)

Wed 15th Jan 2020 1:30pm (Europe/London)

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Bitcoin Sheffield: Getting Started With Bitcoin

Are you interested in Bitcoin, but don't know where to start? Do you already have some bitcoin, but want to learn more about security?

Then this talk is for you.

The presentation will include live demonstrations, and will answer the most common questions involved in getting started with Bitcoin, such as:

* What is Bitcoin?
* What is a wallet and which one should I use?
* Where is the safest place to buy bitcoin?
* What happens when I make a bitcoin transaction?
* How can I keep my bitcoin secure?

Basically it's a complete introduction to using Bitcoin. It is aimed at beginners, but also aims to be useful for those who already have experience. And no, you don't have to be techy to understand the topics in this talk.

So if you're interested in learning more about Bitcoin, feel free to come along. Newcomers are welcome (and this is the ideal time to come if you're new)!

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Who's giving the talk?

My name is Greg Walker, and I've been working with Bitcoin for over 5 years. I've developed a variety of tools for Bitcoin, and I'm currently working on an educational website to explain how it works (https://learnmeabitcoin.com).

I am a website developer by day, and I've been fascinated by Bitcoin ever since I first used it.

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What do I need to bring?

Just yourself, no laptop needed.

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Will there be free beer and pizza?

No, but we will head to the pub afterwards.

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What time does it start?

The talk starts at 6.30PM. But if you arrive early the doors will be open from 6PM. Just push the buzzer and wait for reception to let you in.

The presentation should last about an hour.

See you there!

https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinsheffield/events/267807033/

https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinsheffield/events/267807033/

Wed 29th Jan 2020 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Wed 29th Jan 2020 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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Lightning Talks!

Following our continued success of the lightning talks, we are hosting another round! We will be having 6 speakers doing a 10-15 minute lightning talks, if you would like to get involved please message me on meetup or twitter.

A lightning talk is a very short presentation lasting only a few minutes, given at a conference or a similar forum. Several lightning talks will usually be delivered by different speakers in a single session, sometimes called a data blitz.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_talk)

Agenda:
👉 DevContainers in VS Code (@jonnyowenpowell)
👉 TBA
👉 TBA
👉 TBA
👉 TBA
👉 TBA

https://www.meetup.com/dotnetsheff/events/264613474/

https://www.meetup.com/dotnetsheff/events/264613474/

Tue 7th Jul 2020 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Tue 7th Jul 2020 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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Sheffield PHP - Hack your way into 2020!

Ready to start the New Year with a challenge? Join us next Thursday to test your whitehat hacking skills!

In order to build more secure web applications we must first understand how applications can be exploited. Taking vulnerabilities from the OWASP top 10 list this interactive workshop will pit two teams against each other to find the most vulnerbilities they can in 90 minutes.

Bring a laptop if you can (no additional software is needed).

After the event we'll head to a local pub for a chat with fellow attendees and a few drinks.

Our event is free to all but we ask that you sign up online so we have an idea of numbers for the venue. We love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future events either on Twitter or through the #SheffieldPHP channel on the Sheffield Digital Slack account.

6.00pm - 6.15pm

Arrive and take a seat.

6.15pm - 7.45pm

Team based hacking challenge

7.45pm - 8:00pm

Open mic

8:00pm onwards

Mingle and drinks at the local pub.

https://www.sheffieldphp.co.uk

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-php-hack-your-way-into-2020-tickets-89086075851

Thu 16th Jan 2020 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 16th Jan 2020 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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https://sheffield.digital/events/meetup-code-of-conduct/

Can you write a simple bot to play the server at a classic game of connect 4?

This will be a hands-on session where we will get together to write a connect 4 bot, the session is aimed any skillset including people who want to learn C#. We actively encourage people to get involved if they're interested in coding.

You can use any programming standard you like to create a bot that can play connect 4!

Due to this being a hands-on even you'll need a laptop. (Windows, Linux or iOS - any operating system is fine)

We'll have a fairly relaxed agenda, but will follow:
- 🍕 Pizza
- 👋 Introduction / Housekeeping
- 🗣️ Round table introductions
- 👨‍🏫 Build a Connect 4 Bot
- 🎉 Closing
- 🍻 Social

GoSheffield - February

Welcome to GoSheffield! This is where the Go community in Sheffield meets once a month to talk about cool hacks and interesting technology.

The talks will start at 18:20, featuring:

* Automating the web with Go - Daniel Martí
* Kafka and Go - Ax Man
* Empty Spot

Please get in touch with the organisers if you'd like to give one yourself. All topics and levels of experience are welcome!

Food and drinks will be provided for all attendees, courtesy of our sponsors. We will have them before the talks, at around 18:00.

We are always looking for more sponsors and venues - if you know someone that can help us keep our gophers fed and happy, please get in touch!

Please note that all attendees and sponsors are required to follow the Go code of conduct (https://golang.org/conduct).

Venue: http://www.shefftechparks.com/

https://www.meetup.com/GoSheffield/events/267718131/

https://www.meetup.com/GoSheffield/events/267718131/

Thu 6th Feb 2020 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 6th Feb 2020 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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Last Friday Club at Kollider

We are excited to present the first Last Friday Club of the decade at the Kollider Incubator powered by Barclays Eagle Labs.

This is a great opportunity to network with other digital & tech entrepreneurs, startups and organisations in Sheffield.

We'll be sharing details of upcoming events and you'll have the opportunity check out the development of the Kollider Incubator.

https://www.kollider.co/whatson

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/last-friday-club-at-kollider-tickets-88103920197

Fri 31st Jan 2020 4:00pm (Europe/London)

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Geek Brekky

Informal get-together to chat and enjoy coffee and breakfast

Fri 21st Feb 2020 9:00am (Europe/London)

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https://sheffield.digital/events/meetup-code-of-conduct/

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Fri 7th Feb 2020 9:00am (Europe/London)

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Fri 3rd Apr 2020 9:00am (Europe/London)

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Fri 24th Jan 2020 9:00am (Europe/London)

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Fri 28th Feb 2020 9:00am (Europe/London)

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Fri 14th Feb 2020 9:00am (Europe/London)

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Fri 20th Mar 2020 9:00am (Europe/London)

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Fri 27th Mar 2020 9:00am (Europe/London)

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Fri 13th Mar 2020 9:00am (Europe/London)

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Fri 6th Mar 2020 9:00am (Europe/London)

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SmartSheffield #15: Locking Down the Smart City

Our first meetup of the new decade will look at security and resilience in smart city systems

For all the benefits that the application of digital technolgies bring to the way cities are managed to make people's lives easier, if they inadvertently allow bad actors to disrupt these systems, steal data or even destroy physical infrastructure the risks may outweigh those benefits. From CCTV networks being co-opted to conduct denial of service attacks to swimming pool control systems being left open and unprotected on the Internet, we've all heard the horror stories, but what does the reality look like and are things improving?

We've got some excellent speakers lined up already, including John Clark, Professor of Computing and Information Security at the University of Sheffield, and Mark Davies, co-founder of cybersecurity firm Ioetec. Look out for more to be announced very shortly, but in the meantime do register and get the event in your diary, and get in touch if you have something you would like to contribute to the programme!

As always, there will be a meeting of the Sheffield Things Network beforehand at 5pm, please take a look at the TTN Sheffield community page for details, and register for the meeting by choosing the corresponding ticket type when you book for the main SmartSheffield meetup.

The SmartSheffield meetup is a free and inclusive open forum and social meeting space for anyone interested in 'smart cities' and urban innovation, and everyone is welcome.

A celebration of all of the great things that the creative and digital communities of Sheffield excel at.

The full schedule and opportunities to get involved will be released soon.

Be part of the festivities! We’re inviting individuals, companies and organisations to run your own events to create a week of fringe happenings leading up to the conference. It could be a meetup, some lightning talks, an exhibition, an open house, a film screening, a game-a-thon, a mini-hack, a debate - anything goes. If you need help finding a venue, or people to collaborate with, please get in touch and we’ll do our best to help. We’ll also be promoting all the fringe events through our Festival publicity efforts.

Support the event
If you're interested in helping support the event, please email jonny@field.studio or mel@sheffield.digital

A celebration of all of the great things that the creative and digital communities of Sheffield excel at.

The full schedule and opportunities to get involved will be released soon.

Support the event
If you're interested in helping support the event, please email jonny@field.studio or mel@sheffield.digital

Sheffield Digital Festival

A celebration of all of the great things that the creative and digital communities of Sheffield excel at.

The full schedule and opportunities to get involved will be released soon.

https://sheffielddigitalfestival.com/

Fri 15th May 2020 9:00am (Europe/London)

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CodeUp Sheffield January 8 2019

CodeUp Sheffield is a mentoring program for adults who would like to learn how to code for free. Once a month we get together to learn from each other, sharpen our skills and enjoy being in a space where everyone is immersed in code!

There are many resources out there that help you to teach yourself to code, but sometimes there is no substitute for the insight and guidance that another person can give. Our group consists of coders with a wide range of experience, and our aim is to facilitate mentoring between more experienced and less experienced coders.

All you have to bring is a laptop and some coding to get on with, such as a project, a book, or some online tutorials. If you are starting completely from scratch, we will try to guide you towards some learning resources. Please try to install any relevant software in advance, but if you need assistance with this, we are happy to help.

This month will have the standard format - just turn up and do whatever interests you most.

Please RSVP as soon as possible, using your full name (to make it easier for reception to check you in on arrival). If you have RSVPed and are subsequently unable to come, please change your RSVP so that someone else can have your place.

If you can't wait until the event to start sharing interesting coding stuff and learning from each other, you can join our Slack workspace at the below link! If you like, you can introduce yourself in the -intros channel.

https://codeupshf-slack.herokuapp.com/

Website: https://codeupshf.github.io/
GitHub: https://github.com/CodeUpSHF

Many thanks to Sheffield Technology Parks for providing the venue. Please leave them a review on Google Maps!

https://www.meetup.com/CodeUp-Sheffield/events/267641771/

https://www.meetup.com/CodeUp-Sheffield/events/267641771/

Wed 8th Jan 2020 6:00pm (Europe/London)

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Following our continued success of the lightning talks, we are hosting another round! We will be having 6 speakers doing a 10-15 minute lightning talks, if you would like to get involved please message me on meetup or twitter.

A lightning talk is a very short presentation lasting only a few minutes, given at a conference or a similar forum. Several lightning talks will usually be delivered by different speakers in a single session, sometimes called a data blitz.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_talk)

Agenda:
👉 AWS Lambda with C#- James Charlesworth (@jcharlesworthuk)
👉 Feature Management in .NET - Kevin Smith ( @kev_bite )
👉 Chrome DevTools Tricks - Danny Jones ( @dfjones )
👉 Polly - Michael Steele ( @steelemck )
👉 Automate all the testing - Chris Amery (@chrisamery_88)
👉 PlantUML in Azure DevOps - Jon Morley-Jones (@JMorleyJones)

🔧 Feature Management in .NET
Feature flagging is not a new concept. For decades development teams have utilized this concept by wrapping a section of code with a targeted if/else statement, allowing them to control its release to their end-users. We'll take a look at how we can achieve this in .NET with the upcoming feature management libraries.

🌐 Chrome DevTools Tricks
The Chrome DevTools provide an amazing set of tools to help you develop on the Web platform. Danny Jones will show you a few tips you might not know yet!

🦜 Polly
An overview of Polly, the .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library.

🧪 Automate all the testing
With automation testing becoming more paramount in software development, this lightning talk aims to equip you with the basics of Selenium, an invaluable automation tool, and how it can be leveraged into your continuous deployment process with docker.

📈 PlantUML in Azure DevOps
This talk will cover what is PlantUML and how to integrate it with your Azure DevOps instance.

Meeting every month, kick off in Jan!

BOLD Goals Circles offer a unique space for women to connect with themselves and each other through a series of monthly workshops and inspiration sessions. We focus on dreaming big, creating plans and then going out there and making it happen, all with the amazing support and accountability provided within a wonderful group of like-minded women.

- Clarification of what you really want in life
- A way to live an authentic life, following your real dreams
- An amazing community of like-minded, inspiring women, driven by dreams, adventures and goals
- A friendly accountability group to meet and support you throughout the year

Our kick-off session in January (Theme: Intention) wil explain everything

Meeting every month, kick off in Jan!
We are excited to launch our first BOLD Goals Circles programme for 2020 in Sheffield, after having run the programme for the previous 6 years in Oxford, London, and Hong Kong, and we are now looking for our first group of women to join the movement in Sheffield. If this sounds like your sort of thing, we'd love you to be part of the energy and excitement within this programme.
So, join us in 2020 if you are looking for:
- Clarification of what you really want in life
- A way to live an authentic life, following your real dreams
- An amazing community of like-minded, inspiring women, driven by dreams, adventures and goals
- A friendly accountability group to meet and support you throughout the year

Our kick-off session in January (Theme: Intention) wil explain everything

BOLD Goals workshop - January 2020

We are excited to launch our first BOLD Goals Circles programme for 2020 in Sheffield, after having run the programme for the previous 6 years in Oxford, London, and Hong Kong, and we are now looking for our first group of women to join the movement in Sheffield. If this sounds like your sort of thing, we'd love you to be part of the energy and excitement within this programme.
So, join us in 2020 if you are looking for:
- Clarification of what you really want in life
- A way to live an authentic life, following your real dreams
- An amazing community of like-minded, inspiring women, driven by dreams, adventures and goals
- A friendly accountability group to meet and support you throughout the year

Our kick-off session in January (Theme: Intention) wil explain everything

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bold-goals-circles-sheffield-membership-2020-tickets-84783111569?aff=ebdssbeac

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Thriving in Tech in 2020

New year – special venue – new speakers!

What would it look like for you to thrive at work (and not just survive) in 2020? Join us for a ShfWIT new year special where we will explore together how to flourish in the tech sector, prioritise wellbeing and level-up through training.

There will be space to reflect on your own goals for the year and opportunity to ask a panel of experts your work, wellbeing and training related questions e.g.

How do I ask for a raise?
How do I achieve that illusive work-life balance?
I’d like to get into programming – where should I start?
And as always there will be plenty of time for mingling and nibbles…

All welcome.

5:30 – 6:00 – Nibbles and mingling

6:00 – 7:00 – Panel discussion and Q & A – Thriving in Tech in 2020

7:00 – 7: 15 – Space for reflection and goal setting

7:45 – 8:00 – Break out areas and more mingling

Host: Anna Bollinger @apptanna: Founder and MD at Appt www.appt.digital

Panelists:

Bella Abrams @bellaabramsIT: Director of Technology at the University of Sheffield

Amelie De Candolle @BenrecCreative : Head of Creative at Benchmark Recruitment https://www.benchmarkrecruit.co.uk/

Andy Freeman @AndyFMusings: Founder of Space to Breathe https://spacetobreatheuk.com/.

Sponsors: Venue and nibbles kindly provided by WanDisco @WANdisco www.wandisco.com

https://shfwit.org/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thriving-in-tech-in-2020-tickets-86937573623?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Tue 21st Jan 2020 5:30pm (Europe/London)

Tue 21st Jan 2020 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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https://sheffield.digital/events/meetup-code-of-conduct/

Following our continued success of the lightning talks, we are hosting another round! We will be having 6 speakers doing a 10-15 minute lightning talks, if you would like to get involved please message me on meetup or twitter.

A lightning talk is a very short presentation lasting only a few minutes, given at a conference or a similar forum. Several lightning talks will usually be delivered by different speakers in a single session, sometimes called a data blitz.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_talk)

Agenda:
👉 Jonny - Dev Containers
👉 Feature Management in .NET - Kevin Smith ( @kev_bite )
👉 Chrome DevTools Tricks - Danny Jones ( @dfjones )
👉 Polly - Michael Steele ( @steelemck )
👉 Automate all the testing - Chris Amery (@chrisamery_88)
👉 PlantUML in Azure DevOps - Jon Morley-Jones (@JMorleyJones)

🔧 Feature Management in .NET
Feature flagging is not a new concept. For decades development teams have utilized this concept by wrapping a section of code with a targeted if/else statement, allowing them to control its release to their end-users. We'll take a look at how we can achieve this in .NET with the upcoming feature management libraries.

🌐 Chrome DevTools Tricks
The Chrome DevTools provide an amazing set of tools to help you develop on the Web platform. Danny Jones will show you a few tips you might not know yet!

🦜 Polly
An overview of Polly, the .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library.

🧪 Automate all the testing
With automation testing becoming more paramount in software development, this lightning talk aims to equip you with the basics of Selenium, an invaluable automation tool, and how it can be leveraged into your continuous deployment process with docker.

📈 PlantUML in Azure DevOps
This talk will cover what is PlantUML and how to integrate it with your Azure DevOps instance.

Django Girls Sheffield

Django Girls is a non-profit organization and a community that empowers and helps women to organize free, one-day programming workshops by providing tools, resources and support. We are a volunteer run organization with hundreds of people contributing to bring more amazing women into the world of technology. We are making technology more approachable by creating resources designed with empathy.

Join us on 6th and 7th March 2020 at the Pendo office in Sheffield for a workshop where you'll learn about programming, meet other motivated women and ultimately build your own website.

Django Girls Sheffield is a crash course that is aimed at total beginners. You don’t need to know anything about programming, just bring your own laptop and come down on the evening of Friday 6th March and all-day Saturday 7th March. Having a sufficient understanding of English is good so you’re able to follow our English tutorial.

https://djangogirls.org/sheffield/

Sat 7th Mar 2020 9:00am (Europe/London)

Sat 7th Mar 2020 5:30pm (Europe/London)

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https://djangogirls.org/coc/

Following our continued success of the lightning talks, we are hosting another round! We will be having 6 speakers doing a 10-15 minute lightning talks, if you would like to get involved please message me on meetup or twitter.

A lightning talk is a very short presentation lasting only a few minutes, given at a conference or a similar forum. Several lightning talks will usually be delivered by different speakers in a single session, sometimes called a data blitz.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_talk)

Agenda:
👉 Jonny - Dev Containers
👉 Feature Management in .NET - Kevin Smith ( @kev_bite )
👉 Chrome DevTools Tricks - Danny Jones ( @dfjones )
👉 Polly - Michael Steele ( @steelemck )
👉 Automate all the testing - Chris Amery (@chrisamery_88)
👉 TBD

🔧 Feature Management in .NET
Feature flagging is not a new concept. For decades development teams have utilized this concept by wrapping a section of code with a targeted if/else statement, allowing them to control its release to their end-users. We'll take a look at how we can achieve this in .NET with the upcoming feature management libraries.

🌐 Chrome DevTools Tricks
The Chrome DevTools provide an amazing set of tools to help you develop on the Web platform. Danny Jones will show you a few tips you might not know yet!

🦜 Polly
An overview of Polly, the .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library.

🧪 Automate all the testing
With automation testing becoming more paramount in software development, this lightning talk aims to equip you with the basics of Selenium, an invaluable automation tool, and how it can be leveraged into your continuous deployment process with docker.

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The Showroom Workstation Breakfast Club

A monthly business meet-up of creative, digital and cultural minds from Sheffield. This is a great opportunity to meet, share experiences and ask questions.

What should I expect?
Expect a mix of exciting speakers, engaging discussions and a platform to network with peers over breakfast provided by The Showroom Café Bar in an informal and friendly atmosphere.

Who is it for?
It's a meet up for the creative, digital and cultural industries but we welcome all those who support these sectors in Sheffield.

Guest speaker: Heather Chapman

Blogging - tips and tricks

Those of you who have met Heather Chapman, will know she is a wheelchair user. Just how and why she is in the chair is one of those burning questions people want to ask. You can find out more by attending this networking event, when Heather will be giving us an insight into the world of the disabled.

As a business, Heather is a blog writer. During this session she will also be showing us how to write a blog in the down and dirty sexy way! Yes, that’s right, you are not going to want to miss this! She will providing insider tips and tricks for helping your blog wing it’s way across the web.

Cost: £5 per attendee

https://www.showroomworkstation.org.uk/workstation/showroomworkstationbreakfastclub

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-showroom-workstation-breakfast-club-tickets-86652222129?aff=Website

Wed 15th Jan 2020 8:00am (Europe/London)

Wed 15th Jan 2020 10:00am (Europe/London)

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Following our continued success of the lightning talks, we are hosting another round! We will be having 6 speakers doing a 10-15 minute lightning talks, if you would like to get involved please message me on meetup or twitter.

A lightning talk is a very short presentation lasting only a few minutes, given at a conference or a similar forum. Several lightning talks will usually be delivered by different speakers in a single session, sometimes called a data blitz.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_talk)

Agenda:
👉 TBD
👉 Feature Management in .NET - Kevin Smith ( @kev_bite )
👉 Chrome DevTools Tricks - Danny Jones ( @dfjones )
👉 Polly - Michael Steele ( @steelemck )
👉 Automate all the testing - Chris Amery (@chrisamery_88)
👉 TBD

🔧 Feature Management in .NET
Feature flagging is not a new concept. For decades development teams have utilized this concept by wrapping a section of code with a targeted if/else statement, allowing them to control its release to their end-users. We'll take a look at how we can achieve this in .NET with the upcoming feature management libraries.

🌐 Chrome DevTools Tricks
The Chrome DevTools provide an amazing set of tools to help you develop on the Web platform. Danny Jones will show you a few tips you might not know yet!

🦜 Polly
An overview of Polly, the .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library.

🧪 Automate all the testing
With automation testing becoming more paramount in software development, this lightning talk aims to equip you with the basics of Selenium, an invaluable automation tool, and how it can be leveraged into your continuous deployment process with docker.

SmartSheffield #15

Locking Down the Smart City

Our first meetup of the new decade will look at security and resilience in smart city systems

For all the benefits that the application of digital technolgies bring to the way cities are managed to make people's lives easier, if they inadvertently allow bad actors to disrupt these systems, steal data or even destroy physical infrastructure the risks may outweigh those benefits. From CCTV networks being co-opted to conduct denial of service attacks to swimming pool control systems being left open and unprotected on the Internet, we've all heard the horror stories, but what does the reality look like and are things improving?

We've got some excellent speakers lined up already, including John Clark, Professor of Computing and Information Security at the University of Sheffield, and Mark Davies, co-founder of cybersecurity firm Ioetec. Look out for more to be announced very shortly, but in the meantime do register and get the event in your diary, and get in touch if you have something you would like to contribute to the programme!

As always, there will be a meeting of the Sheffield Things Network beforehand at 5pm, please take a look at the TTN Sheffield community page for details, and register for the meeting by choosing the corresponding ticket type when you book for the main SmartSheffield meetup.

The SmartSheffield meetup is a free and inclusive open forum and social meeting space for anyone interested in 'smart cities' and urban innovation, and everyone is welcome.

https://www.smartsheffield.city/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/smartsheffield-15-locking-down-the-smart-city-tickets-86286732941

Mon 13th Jan 2020 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Mon 13th Jan 2020 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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We employ Sheffield Digital's Code of Conduct and abide by the standards it lays down.

IR35 - What does it really mean for Contractors, Freelancers and Businesses in Sheffield's tech sector?

Join us and our panel of experts for an IR35 awareness event specifically for Sheffield’s tech sector. Contractors, freelancers and tech businesses are all welcome.

This informal Question Time style panel discussion and interactive Q&A will be accompanied with refreshments (beer, pizza, soft drinks and snacks) and followed by a networking opportunity.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ir35-what-does-it-mean-for-sheffields-tech-sector-tickets-80499645607?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=listing

Thu 23rd Jan 2020 4:30pm (Europe/London)

Thu 23rd Jan 2020 6:30pm (Europe/London)

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Coding for Justice | Year of Access To Justice - Kick-off Event

In 2020 we want to have in impact on Access to Justice in our community - and we need charities/lawyers/coders/students/everyone to help! Visit our tickets page to find out more.

https://sheffield.legalhackers.org.uk/#a2jyear

http://bit.ly/a2j2020

Wed 22nd Jan 2020 5:30pm (Europe/London)

Wed 22nd Jan 2020 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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Following our continued success of the lightning talks, we are hosting another round! We will be having 6 speakers doing a 10-15 minute lightning talks, if you would like to get involved please message me on meetup or twitter.

A lightning talk is a very short presentation lasting only a few minutes, given at a conference or a similar forum. Several lightning talks will usually be delivered by different speakers in a single session, sometimes called a data blitz.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_talk)

Agenda:
👉 TBD
👉 Feature Management in .NET - Kevin Smith ( @kev_bite )
👉 Chrome DevTools Tricks - Danny Jones ( @dfjones )
👉 Polly - Michael Steele ( @steelemck )
👉 Automate all the testing - Chris Amery (@chrisamery_88)
👉 TBD

🌐 Chrome DevTools Tricks
The Chrome DevTools provide an amazing set of tools to help you develop on the Web platform. Danny Jones will show you a few tips you might not know yet!

🦜 Polly
An overview of Polly, the .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library.

🧪 Automate all the testing
With automation testing becoming more paramount in software development, this lightning talk aims to equip you with the basics of Selenium, an invaluable automation tool, and how it can be leveraged into your continuous deployment process with docker.

THE QUICK VERSION
Our event is dedicated to providing a harassment-free event experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices. We do not tolerate harassment of event attendees in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate including talks, workshops, parties, socials, Twitter and other online media associated with the event. Attendees violating these rules may be expelled from the event at the discretion of the organisers.

THE LESS QUICK VERSION
Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion, technology choices, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.

Sponsors are also subject to the anti-harassment policy. In particular, sponsors should not use sexualised images, activities, or other material. Staff (including volunteers) should not use sexualised clothing/uniforms/costumes, or otherwise create a sexualised environment.

If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the event organisers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the event.

If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a member of event staff immediately.

Event staff will be happy to assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of the event. We value your attendance.

We expect participants to follow these rules at event venues as well as at any social events related to the event.

We also would appreciate it if any questions are left until the end of the talk during the Q&A segment (if the speaker is happy to do one) or during the social that follows the event. The exception to this rule is if a speaker welcomes such interruptions - they will inform attendees if this is the case at the start of their talk.

This Code of Conduct is adapted from http://confcodeofconduct.com/