This event will be a single talk about the .NET DI Container with Steve Collins
❗❗ 🌐 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
- 👨🏫 .NET DI Container
- 🍻 Virtual Bar
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.
❗❗ 🌐 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.
🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84444169066
🔑 TBA
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:
👉 Automatically finding and fixing bugs with git - Paul Michaels (@paul_michaels)
👉 Testing your ASP.NET Core APIs - Kevin Smith (@kev_bite)
👉 Database deployments - Giulio Vian (@giulio_vian)
👉 .NET 5 on the pi - Pete Gallagher (@pete_codes)
👉 Introduction to machine learning - Irene Sarigu (@WinnieIre)
👉 Getting started with Gatsby - John Kilmister (@johnkilmister)
Please note that this event is fully online, and the details are available once you RSVP. We will use Google Meet, which should work on any modern web browser without requiring a Google account.
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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 meetup call will run from 18:30 until 19:30 London time (18:30 to 19:30 UTC), featuring:
* Controversial Go proposals - Daniel Martí
* Making way for generics: some practical things you can do right now - Roger Peppe
Please get in touch with the organisers if you'd like to give a talk. All topics and levels of experience are welcome!
Since this meetup is entirely online, no food or drinks can be provided. Our online meetups will also be sponsor-free, given that there will be no expenses.
To participate in the discussion, join from a quiet room where you can speak clearly and be understood properly. You can also join the call a bit early to test your audio setup with others.
Please note that all attendees and sponsors are required to follow the Go code of conduct (https://golang.org/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.
❗❗ 🌐 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.
🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84444169066
🔑 TBA
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:
👉 Automatically finding and fixing bugs with git - Paul Michaels (@paul_michaels)
👉 Testing your ASP.NET Core APIs - Kevin Smith (@kev_bite)
👉 Database deployments - Giulio Vian (@giulio_vian)
👉 .NET 5 on the pi - Pete Gallagher (@pete_codes)
👉 Introduction to machine learning - Irene Sarigu (@WinnieIre)
👉 Introduction to Gatsby JS - John Kilmister (@johnkilmister)
Digital Her IWD Celebration Event by Manchester Digital
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We need more women in working in the digital and tech sector - and so Digital Her aims to inspire and encourage young women across Greater Manchester to consider digital and tech as their future career.
On International Women's Day we'll be looking back at our Digital Her achievements and learnings throughout 2020, and making a commitment to do more in 2021.
We'll be joined by an expert panel discussing the importance of inspiring more women into the digital and tech sector in our region, looking at what businesses can do to support this, and encouraging us all to make our commitments to do more in 2021.
The event will followed by a Q&A and a networking session.
This month we're hosting a basic skills workshop. We've got a few exercises lined up to sharpen your analytical and creative testing abilities.
All are welcome. Whether you're a complete beginner looking to learn some new skills, or a testing expert who thinks they know it all. 😉
Due to the serious lack of physical post-it notes right now (I never thought I'd miss them so much!) you'll need a device capable of editing boards on https://miro.com. It works in most popular web browsers and they have apps for iOS and Android. If you could create an account in advance that will speed things up a bit on the night. 👍
The rough running order for the evening will be:
6:30 - Virtual Doors open
7:00 - Fun & games begin
8:30 (or whenever we run out of steam) - Back downstairs to see what's on telly.
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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.
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.
International Women's Day #ChoosetoChallenge by Barclays Eagle Lab - Cranfield
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About this Event
Barclays Eagle Labs, Elbridge AI and Versus Arthritis are joining together for a new series of virtual events "Tech at Ten" to support individuals and businesses within Barclays Eagle Labs and techpreneurs more widely.
Our first event, on 8 March 2021 is on International Women's Day (IWD2021) so we're exploring what #ChoosetoChallenge means to UK businesses and putting the spotlight on one of a successful Eagle Labs alumni business.
We're excited to invite Razor and Snap Out to talk about tech innovation that changes perceptions, and OASIS to talk about expanding a successful start-up during the pandemic.
Jamie Hinton - Razor
Beginning his career writing scripts to automate his own job as a data uploader at one of Sheffield’s (then) largest technology agencies, it is this mindset of ceaseless innovation which gave life to Razor and its mission to always stay on the sharp edge of technology.
At Razor he challenges his team to think bigger. To harness the power of automation, VR, machine learning and focused design thinking to enhance business functions, experiences and intelligence beyond the client’s expectation.
Razor is a digital technology consultancy based in Sheffield. They apply passion, innovation and commitment to solving some of the hardest issues businesses and organisations face globally.
They pride themselves on starting everything they do with people, using cutting edge technology to achieve this, including everything from integrations to mobile apps and web applications to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Razor are also Microsoft Technology Specialists with a certified Microsoft Gold Partnership.
Dr Chloe Sharp - Founder of SnapOut
SnapOut is an innovation consultancy based company in Milton Keynes. Chloe has 15 years of qualitative research experience, across market, social, user and behavioural research. She works with tech SMEs to develop highly innovative products from AI assistants to RegTech products in emerging markets. Chloe puts technology to the test to understand motivations and triggers for using technology and how people use technology in real-life environments. She also works with tech SMEs to help them access governmental grant funding.
Anna Plaster - Founder of OASIS
As a typical entrepreneur, Anna Plaster wears many hats - two of which are CEO roles for OASIS & ADDIT. Both companies are (normally!) based at Cranfield Universities’ Eagle Lab, where a valuable network has been developed, encompassing government, academia and industry.
Both companies have an innovative Industry 4.0 focus which primarily revolve around the development and use of drone and sensor technologies. OASIS, an operational service delivery company, provides NDT inspections of high-value assets (e.g. wind turbines and aircraft) which have major benefits to companies. ADDIT is a SaaS start-up with an aviation focus, where the use of disruptive technology will upskill engineers toolboxes and deliver major cost and time-saving benefits to the sector.
Anna’s B/Sc in Ecological Sciences has given her the focus and expertise to ensure the businesses have a solid focus around sustainability.
Anna’s 20+ years of entrepreneurial expertise is a valuable resource for start-ups, female founders and anyone joining the drone sector - so if you need inspiration, a subject matter expert or ideas on how to get your tech project started, look no further!
The WebEx details to join will be shared with you an hour before the session.
How Far Can We Trust The Internet of Things? - by The SYNERGIA Consortium
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Are currently deployed IoT solutions futureproof? Will we ever be able to make them truly secure? And what are the implications for smart cities and other connected applications?
Led by the SYNERGIA consortium with an opening talk by John Moor of the IoT Security Foundation, this event looks to bring together businesses to discuss how we can address the potential security risks that leave current IoT devices vulnerable as the world becomes increasingly more connected.
SYNERGIA is a consortium dedicated to the development of a secure-by-design IoT platform for large scale networks of low-power, resource-constrained devices.
How can Humanities help you shape and share your organisation's narrative? - By Sheffield Innovation Programme
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Open to SMEs within Sheffield City Region, The Creative Intervention is a one-day series of 2-hour creative innovation workshops on March 11.
About this Event
How can you envisage new markets, new products or services, new staff practices without being able to imagine the unknown? Creativity is something that can be nurtured and developed. It can lead to innovation, growth, and change. In this online workshop, let us show you how creative techniques can help release your business potential.This series of informal workshops are designed to help staff and leaders explore creative ways to solve problems, develop solutions, and imagine new opportunities. The first set of workshops are below. We will be running additional creative innovation workshops according to demand.
In this series, we want to show how the way we think can help people in their business practices. We want to offer two tried and tested models (creative writing & applied theatre) that have been used successfully for other businesses and show that the soft skills expertise that Sheffield Hallam can offer is powerful and useful and useful as you grow, sustain, and develop your SME.
Schedule:
Session 1 – 11 March 11am – Communicating with staff on Zoom / Teams
Session 2 – 11 March 12pm – The Business Narrative
Workshops will be delivered by Ashley Barnes and Yvonne Battle-Felton and will be Zoom-based and no preparation is needed.
Programme Information:
Session 1 – (Applied Theatre) Communicating with staff on Zoom or Teams
Seminar focus: Verbal communication on Zoom / Teams, active listening, focus, self-consciousness and self-reflection
Who will benefit?
• Anyone who conducts meetings online, line managers, people with training responsibilities, HR, organisations that need to maintain excellent communication with clients
Our agenda will be interactive, collaborative and applied. We will:
• Do a quick demonstration of how the techniques work
• Invite you to sit back and watch, but also recognise the knowledge and skills that you can bring too
• offer some insights and models from research and practice to help you shape some training to your own organisation
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Session 2—The Business Narrative
Seminar Focus: reflecting and writing why you and your business do what you do, who you do it for, and what obstacles you’ve faced; and identifying potential obstacles.
Our seminar will be interactive, collaborative, and applied. We will
• Invite you to reflect on your business origin story
• begin writing your business narrative: the story you tell others, the story you tell yourself
• begin writing and imagining post-Covid business opportunities
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.
❗❗ 🌐 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.
🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86954701746
🔑 TBA
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:
👉 Automatically finding and fixing bugs with git - Paul Michaels (@paul_michaels)
👉 Testing your ASP.NET Core APIs - Kevin Smith (@kev_bite)
👉 Database deployments - Giulio Vian (@giulio_vian)
👉 .NET 5 on the pi - Pete Gallagher (@pete_codes)
👉 Introduction to machine learning - Irene Sarigu (@WinnieIre)
👉 Introduction to Gatsby JS - John Kilmister (@johnkilmister)
Inspiring women from the tech sector - Sheffield Chamber of Commerce
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Sheffield Chamber's Inspiring Women's Network returns for 2021 on International Women's Day. This virtual event is an opportunity to celebrate this year's International Women's Day and provides a space to champion greater equality and diversity in the workplace. The event offers a platform for both men and women to come together and network in an informal environment, share best practice, build new relationships, and promote equality.
The theme for this edition of Inspiring Women focuses on Sheffield's up and coming Tech Sector and we are delighted to be joined by two keynote speakers.
Anna Bollinger: Anna is Director and Founder of international award-winning digital agency Appt, who specialise in bespoke Web, App and Software Development and Digital Communications in the UK and China. Anna is a keen advocate for Women in STEM, a former winner of Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2019) and a candidate for Yorkshire Insider's 42 under 42.
Amber Jardine: Amber is the TwinklHive Accelerator Manager at Twinkl Educational Publishing which supports missional founders to scale and disrupt the technology sector.
The event will be co-hosted by Sheffield Chamber's Interim Director, Louisa Harrison-Walker and Non-Executive Director, Faaiza Ramji.
There will also be a chance to hear about the work Sheffield Chamber are doing to promote equality and diversity in the workplace and there will also be an opportunity to join breakout rooms to network with fellow delegates and the keynote speakers.
This event is FREE to all Sheffield Chamber members.
Otherwise it's £10.00 (ex VAT).
Joining details will be sent out the day before the event.
Shake your salad dressing and get comfy, Sheffield DM is back for another awesome lunch 'n' Learn!
Sheffield DM isn't just about exploring your standard series of digital channels - we want to dig into everything from strategy to tactics to the individual elements that make up your campaigns.
rAt this event, Billie Hyde will be sharing her experiences working with development teams as an SEO, the problems encountered along the way and how to supercharge your relationships with dev teams to get work done faster, better and stronger 💪
See you on the 4th!
Schedule
12.30pm - 12.50pm
🤝 SEO Professionals: How to cultivate a great relationship with your developers!
The most challenging part of SEO can often be convincing developers to implement your suggestions. When a developer turns down one of our suggestions it’s normally down to how we have communicated the issue. It’s essential for SEOs and developers to have strong two-way communication and to educate each other so we can both become better in our fields.
In this talk, we look at why your suggestions to developers may have been turned down in the past, what developers are actually looking for and how to better communicate going forward!
👤 Billie Hyde, Account Manager @ SEO Works
Billie is an Account Manager at the SEO works, where she splits her time between upskilling other SEO professionals and managing SEO campaigns for a wide range of clients. Billie has worked across high-growth startups and global brands from local charities to international publishers.
12.50pm - 1.00pm
Q&A
Sheffield DM is organised and sponsored by the team at Evoluted
TwinklHive Business Programme - Session 1: Identifying Business Opportunities
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Session Objective: Understand the types of business opportunities and understand how the course ahead will help you to develop the skills needed to refine and develop future ideas.
In this session, you will receive an introduction and overview of the TwinklHive Business Programme - 'Introduction to Entrepreneurship'. You will also develop an understanding of commerciality principles and how this relates to identifying future business opportunities.
This session is 1 of 8 as part of the TwinklHive Introduction to Entrepreneurship business programme.
TwinklHive Business Programme - Session 8: Pitching your Venture
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Session Objective: Learn the different funding options for your venture, such as start up business grants. Discover how you can share your entrepreneurial vision with external stakeholders by building and improving your business pitching skills.
In this session, you will bring together all your learnings from previous sessions to develop the skills needed to take your venture to the next step.
This session is 8 of 8 as part of the TwinklHive Introduction to Entrepreneurship business programme.
Session Objective: Develop the innovation techniques needed to test your solutions. You’ll also learn to implement continuous testing to your business idea or concept and consider how to build your MVP.
This session is 5 of 8 as part of the TwinklHive Introduction to Entrepreneurship business programme.
TwinklHive Business Programme - Session 4: Solution Ideation
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Session Objective: Learn the meaning of ideation and expand on your findings from session 3 by exploring the ideation process further and practising solution ideation techniques.
This session is 4 of 8 as part of the TwinklHive Introduction to Entrepreneurship business programme.
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.
❗❗ 🌐 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.
🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86954701746
🔑 TBA
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:
👉 TBA - Paul Michaels (@paul_michaels)
👉 TBA - Kevin Smith (@kev_bite)
👉 Database deployments - Giulio Vian (@giulio_vian)
👉 .NET 5 on the pi - Pete Gallagher (@pete_codes)
👉 Introduction to machine learning - Irene Sarigu (@WinnieIre)
👉 Introduction to Gatsby JS - John Kilmister (@johnkilmister)
The theme for 2 March is hearing from Internet of Things (IoT) technology start-up to scale-up businesses about their journeys.
Location:
The meeting will be held ONLINE using Blackboard Collaborate – the link to join will be sent to those who have registered via Eventbrite in due course.
Speakers: (5-15 min talks):
Mark Davies, Ioetec - Welcome
Keynote
Dimitrios Spiliopoulos, Senior IoT Go-To-Market Manager, EMEA, Amazon Web Services – How AWS is supporting the IoT ecosystem
Start-up to scale-up stories - from early to later stage:
Mark Davies, CEO and Co-founder, Ioetec
Aleksandra Sekowska, Chief Operating Officer, Proxigroup
Mauro Arruda, Chief Executive Officer, Smartia
Furqan Alamgir, Founder and CEO, Connexin
Regional updates
Steve Jubb and Oktay Cetinkaya– The Antennas Project, Pitch-In, enabling our regional IoT capability
Andy Saunders, Head of Partnerships, IoT Tribe- Connected Places Accelerator
Ceri Batchelder, Super Connector – TEAM SY project (Tech Ecosystem Acceleration and Market-making South Yorkshire), Capital Enterprise
Time permitting, we will host an open 5 minutes towards the end for anyone wishing to shout about their relevant IoT activity / events / interests.
Timings:
• 11:20 – JOIN BLACKBOARD COLLABORATE (link will be sent in advance)
• 11:30 – WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
• 11:35 – TALKS
• 13:15 – WRAP-UP
Our aims are to:
- Create a vibrant group around IoT and cybersecurity that enables individuals and organisations to share their capability and stimulate discussion and collaboration (sales-type pitches are discouraged).
- Enable real-world IoT applications, through facilitating technology research/development and commercial progress.
- Help position Sheffield as a leading IoT centre and lay the groundwork for larger events/activities that reinforce this reputation.
We will follow Sheffield Digital’s code of conduct for meetups. If you require any further information or support, please don't hesitate to contact: pitch-in-enquiries@sheffield.ac.uk
Join us for another Thursday afternoon Lunch 'n' Learn where we're joined by Collette Evans, sharing tips to impress with product photos!
About this Event
Sheffield DM #12
Grab your sandwich/salad/Greggs and get ready for another lunch and learn with Sheffield DM!
Join us for the second event in our new fortnightly lunch and learn series. We were humbled by how many of you chose to join us for our last event and we're really excited about this next one!
Sheffield DM isn't just about exploring your standard series of digital channels - we want to dig into everything from strategy to tactics to the individual elements that make up your campaigns.
In this event, Collette Evans, founder of Picture Perfect Photography will be sharing her experience on how to really make your product imagery pop across your digital campaigns to grab audience attention and create an emotional response to your ads.
See you there, yeah?
Schedule
12.30pm - 12.50pm
📸 Marketing Agencies: 5 Tips To Impress With Product Photography
Photography helps marketers to enhance the performance of their campaigns with creative and strategic imagery that captures online attention. In this talk you'll learn how to create impressive photos that stand out in increasingly crowded online marketplaces and how to organise your shoots efficiently. Collette will be sharing five key tips to impressing with product photos, helping create quality visual content for your digital marketing campaigns.
Collette Evans founded Picture Perfect Photography in 2012. Collette is British Photography Award Shortlisted 2020/2021 & has been a professional photographer since 2002. Collette has many years of photography experience across commercial, product and fitness sectors to name a few.
12.50pm - 1.00pm
Q&A
Sheffield DM is organised and sponsored by the team at Evoluted
Get notified about future Sheffield DM events by subscribing via our website: sheffielddm.co.uk
Join us for another Thursday afternoon Lunch 'n' Learn where we're joined by Collette Evans, sharing tips to impress with product photos!
About this Event
Sheffield DM #12
Grab your sandwich/salad/Greggs and get ready for another lunch and learn with Sheffield DM!
Join us for the second event in our new fortnightly lunch and learn series. We were humbled by how many of you chose to join us for our last event and we're really excited about this next one!
Sheffield DM isn't just about exploring your standard series of digital channels - we want to dig into everything from strategy to tactics to the individual elements that make up your campaigns.
In this event, Collette Evans, founder of Picture Perfect Photography will be sharing her experience on how to really make your product imagery pop across your digital campaigns to grab audience attention and create an emotional response to your ads.
See you there, yeah?
Schedule
12.30pm - 12.50pm
📸 Marketing Agencies: 5 Tips To Impress With Product Photography
Photography helps marketers to enhance the performance of their campaigns with creative and strategic imagery that captures online attention. In this talk you'll learn how to create impressive photos that stand out in increasingly crowded online marketplaces and how to organise your shoots efficiently. Collette will be sharing five key tips to impressing with product photos, helping create quality visual content for your digital marketing campaigns.
Collette Evans founded Picture Perfect Photography in 2012. Collette is British Photography Award Shortlisted 2020/2021 & has been a professional photographer since 2002. Collette has many years of photography experience across commercial, product and fitness sectors to name a few.
12.50pm - 1.00pm
Q&A
Sheffield DM is organised and sponsored by the team at Evoluted
Get notified about future Sheffield DM events by subscribing via our website: sheffielddm.co.uk
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.
❗❗ 🌐 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.
🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86954701746
🔑 TBA
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:
👉 TBA - Paul Michaels (@paul_michaels)
👉 TBA - Kevin Smith (@kev_bite)
👉 Database deployments - Giulio Vian (@giulio_vian)
👉 .NET 5 on the pi - Pete Gallagher (@pete_codes)
👉 Introduction to machine learning - Irene Sarigu (@WinnieIre)
👉 Introduction to Azure static web apps with the JAM stack - John Kilmister (@johnkilmister)
Managing remote working staff as an SME in the 'new normal' - by Sheffield Innovation Programme
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Dr Tony Bennett discusses innovative managing solutions for remote working staff
About the webinar
Please join us for the upcoming webinar to investigate innovative potential solutions for managing home working staff. Framed within a model of best practice for SMEs, we look at the key areas for effective team management of dispute resolution, employee wellbeing, employee engagement, online learning and leadership.
About the Speaker -
Dr. Tony Bennett
Tony was formerly a data engineer, then a manager, in the telecommunications sector before becoming a workforce development specialist at the TUC. He has spent the last 17 years in higher education and is currently a senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. His key areas of research expertise include managing workplace conflict and the role and value of mediation, equality and diversity, employee development and trade unions, and the impact of domestic abuse in the workplace. He has published papers in the Industrial Relations Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, Employee Relations Journal and Industrial Law Journal in addition to authoring works for Acas and Unionlearn. He is currently a visiting research fellow at the Lancashire School of Business and Enterprise. Tony is an accredited and practising mediator, fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an academic member of the CIPD. He is the co-author of the CIPD core text Managing Employment Relations (2020) with Richard Saundry and Ginny Fisher.
About Sheffield Innovation Programme
Sheffield Innovation Programme (SIP) is a regional initiative which aims to stimulate business growth and promote the development of long-term relationships with SMEs. This is achieved by providing access to a broad range of academic expertise and university facilities. The support is in the form of bespoke research and innovation-based consultancy, workshops, and other events.
SIP support is available to eligible businesses in the Sheffield City Region and the districts of Bassetlaw, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Derbyshire Dales & North East Derbyshire.
Please note- this is a free webinar delivered by the Sheffield Innovation Programme for SME businesses within Sheffield City Region. Prioty of places are given to those who meet this criteria.
Confirmation emails including Zoom details will be sent out 1 day prior to the event - these will be sent from Chelsea Bakewell at c.bakewell@shu.ac.uk - please contact Chelsea if there are any issues regarding registration.
Please note that this event is fully online, and the details are available once you RSVP. We will use Google Meet, which should work on any modern web browser without requiring a Google account.
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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 meetup call will run from 18:30 until 19:30 London time (18:30 to 19:30 UTC), featuring:
* Controversial Go proposals - Daniel Martí
* (available slot)
Please get in touch with the organisers if you'd like to give a talk. All topics and levels of experience are welcome!
Since this meetup is entirely online, no food or drinks can be provided. Our online meetups will also be sponsor-free, given that there will be no expenses.
To participate in the discussion, join from a quiet room where you can speak clearly and be understood properly. You can also join the call a bit early to test your audio setup with others.
Please note that all attendees and sponsors are required to follow the Go code of conduct (https://golang.org/conduct).
Collaborate with games studios and educators on best practice recruitment & education, and hear diverse young people's game career pathways
About this Event
READY, PLAYER… LEARN
Influential summit returns in 2021 with over 30 leaders from games studios, universities, colleges in a new interactive format.
The virtual event will feature inspirational sessions for studios and educators to collaborate and solve education and recruitment challenges heightened by the pandemic.
Covid has caused massive upheaval in education while recruiters have faced challenges in hiring and onboarding the finest new talent to maintain the games industry’s headlong growth.
With Brexit and new immigration rules, it’s never been more important for the UK games industry to nurture home-grown future talent.
The Games Education Summit will tackle these key issues – and more – during a two-day event uniquely curated for games studios, educators and recruiters.
On Day 1 you'll hear cutting edge best practice, with innovators and leaders in games companies and education sharing how they’ve successfully adapted their programmes to work during the pandemic.
On Day 2 students, interns and young developers will deliver valuable insights into their pathways towards careers in games, and what they need from educators and studios.
Topics and themes covered will include:
- Ready, Player... Learn - The future of learning in a post-Covid world
- Diversity: How games studios and educators are changing the profile of the workforce
- State of the art games recruitment: How studios have worked with educators to identify and hire new talent during the pandemic
- Covid course curation: Further & Higher educators at the cutting edge share their tips and tricks
- Pathways to games in a pandemic: New hires into games studios share how they transitioned into their jobs
- The new apprenticeships and Internships
- ‘My Student Journey’ – Students to feedback on their own experiences
GamesEd21 speaker highlights include:
Aurore Dimopoulos, Unity
Simon Nelson, Nord Anglia Education (former CEO of FutureLearn)
Errol Ismail, Studio Director, Fabrik Games
Carrie Warwick, Programme Leader - Design, Bolton University
Marcia Deakin, NextGen Skills Academy
Nick Duncombe, Playground Games
GamesEd21 is produced by the BGI, a charity for games culture, skills and diversity.
GamesEd21 is the third in an annual series of conferences to support games educators and developers, enabling more collaboration, dialogue and best practice sharing between Further and Higher Education organisations and the games industry.
GamesEd is one of scores of events that will run during Games Careers Week, created by the BGI, Grads in Games and Into Games.
Embracing Diversity & Inclusion in Business - online event hosted by Sheffield City Region Chambers
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Tips to help business focus on how bias, if left unchecked, may impair your decision making process.
In these challenging times, we are seeing the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people and have witnessed anti-racism protests around the globe.
As business leaders we have a responsibility to make Diversity & Inclusion business as usual, raising our consciousness of issues that affect our people, customers and communities, becoming less hesitant and more confident on issues that embrace agenda’s around Race, Disability, Age, LGBTQ & Gender.
This is not just the right thing for businesses to do, it's the smart thing – research shows that businesses that promote a diverse and inclusive workplace are more productive and more profitable.
Join the second event in this series for a conversation with Sonia Tate MBE DWP Race Equality Lead. This event is of general interest to everyone but is particularly relevant to those in your organisation who lead on D&I or have a role in recruitment.
Sonia will facilitate a discussion that will help you focus on how our bias if left unchecked, may impair your decision making process. Join other business representatives in a debate where we hope to share thoughts and feelings that will support you in finding ways to navigate bias so you can create a working environment that truly is inclusive.
Sonia Tate MBE, Race Equality Lead for the Department For Work and Pensions - Sonia has over thirty years of experience in the Civil Service and currently leads on issues of Race Equality for the Department for Work and Pensions. Her role sees her provide advice across the breadth of the UK’s largest government body, and beyond, into the wider communities that DWP serves. In 2015, Sonia was awarded an MBE to recognise the achievements of her outreach work with gangs, and affiliates in Southwark.
Event partners
This interactive discussion is hosted by Sheffield City Region Chambers in partnership with Business in the Community, the Department for Work and Pensions and Sheffield Business Together.
Join us to learn what diversity and inclusion is, why it matters and how to develop a diverse and inclusive workplace.
In these challenging times, where we are seeing the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black, Asian and minority ethnic people and have witnessed anti-racism protests around the globe.
Business leaders want and have a responsibility to act on diversity and inclusion within their organisations, being aware of the issues that affect our people, customers and communities around Race, Disability, Age, LGBTQ and Gender.
This is not just the right thing for businesses to do, it's the smart thing – research shows that businesses that promote a diverse and inclusive workplace are more productive and more profitable.
We are delighted to invite you to the first event in this series to help you understand how to move towards a more diverse and inclusive organisation.
This event would be suitable for leaders and HR or D&I leads in your organisations.
You will have the opportunity to hear from:
Sandra Kerr CBE - Business in the Community Race Equality Director, who will talk about the current diversity and inclusion landscape, the case for change and the practical steps you can take within your business.
A panel of businesses - Including representatives from Irwin Mitchell, Henry Boot and a number of other SME’s across South Yorkshire, who will share their approach, learning and the challenges they have faced on their diversity and inclusion journey.
Event partners
This interactive discussion is hosted by Sheffield City Region Chambers in partnership with Business in the Community, the Department for Work and Pensions and Sheffield Business Together.
Embracing Diversity & Inclusion in Business - online event hosted by Sheffield City Region Chambers
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Join us to learn what diversity and inclusion is, why it matters and how to develop a diverse and inclusive workplace.
In these challenging times, where we are seeing the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black, Asian and minority ethnic people and have witnessed anti-racism protests around the globe.
Business leaders want and have a responsibility to act on diversity and inclusion within their organisations, being aware of the issues that affect our people, customers and communities around Race, Disability, Age, LGBTQ and Gender.
This is not just the right thing for businesses to do, it's the smart thing – research shows that businesses that promote a diverse and inclusive workplace are more productive and more profitable.
We are delighted to invite you to the first event in this series to help you understand how to move towards a more diverse and inclusive organisation.
You will have the opportunity to hear from:
Sandra Kerr CBE - Business in the Community Race Equality Director, who will talk about the current diversity and inclusion landscape, the case for change and the practical steps you can take within your business.
A panel of businesses - Including representatives from Irwin Mitchell, Henry Boot and a number of other SME’s across South Yorkshire, who will share their approach, learning and the challenges they have faced on their diversity and inclusion journey.
Event partners
This interactive discussion is hosted by Sheffield City Region Chambers in partnership with Business in the Community, the Department for Work and Pensions and Sheffield Business Together.
We're delighted to have Courtney Kyle, UX Designer and Artist, and Tim Brazier, Founder of Sheffield Design School, joining us for our next formal meet up
ShfWIT seeks to be a friendly community where everyone feels welcome and safe.
During the event we will adhering to the Sheffield Digital Code of Conduct: https://sheffield.digital/events/meetup-code-of-conduct
As with all of our events there will be no obligation to talk to others, should you wish to leave your camera/mic off and simply listen that is totally fine.
Our regular informal meet-up for Sheffield folk who want to see more diversity in tech. Grab a cuppa and join us for a chat online.
About this Event
Grab a cuppa' and join us on Zoom for our regular informal meet-up. Whether it's your 1st or 30th time joining us, you will be most welcome. No agenda just a great opportunity to connect with and meet other folk who are passionate about #diversity in #tech.
Sign up and you'll get more info on how to join us on the day.
Do you want to learn more about Information Security Frameworks? Join the discussion - we would love to hear your thoughts, views and experience!
We will be asking the following: What frameworks are there? Which ones should organisations be looking at? PCIDSS? ISO27001? ISO27701? NIST? SANS 20? Who are UKAS? Do you need a UKAS certificate?
The YCSC is a professional network of Cyber Security practitioners and those with an interest in the industry. Created as part of the UK Cyber Security Forum to help cyber security experts and organisations across the region to collaborate and build a stronger standard of cyber security as part of a knowledge exchange collective.
Join the Yorkshire Cyber Security Cluster members and steering committee monthly for an open discussion around cybersecurity, data protection, privacy and cybercrime.
Why audio marketing strategy deserves space in your 2021 plan
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Sheffield DM has changed a little since you last saw us!
Rolling with the times, we've changed our format to bring you shorter, bitesize chunks of digital marketing knowledge sharing, perfect to stick on during a 30-minute lunch break!
As always, Sheffield DM is free to join so please invite your friends and colleagues to join too.
Kick back and relax, learn from some brilliant minds across the spectrum of digital, and connect with other marketers from the UK and beyond!
Schedule
12.30pm - 12.50pm
🎙 Listen Up! Why audio marketing strategy deserves space in your 2021 plan
Podcasting is going crazy and now everyone's joining Clubhouse! 2021 is quickly shaping up to the year of audio. In this talk, Podcast Strategist James Marriott will outline what an audio strategy is and why you need one. You'll get some great tips on podcasting too, of course.
👤 James Marriott, Podcast and Media Strategist (JAE Media)
James Marriott is a Podcast Strategist who runs his own business specialising in working with brands to develop their podcast and audio strategies, along with editing, production and other services. He also freelances for various radio stations around Yorkshire and the North East as a journalist and newsreader, having worked full time in radio until a couple of years ago.
12.50pm - 1.00pm
Q&A
Sheffield DM is organised and sponsored by the team at Evoluted.
