Sheffield StartUp is an investment in expanding your network, enhancing your understanding of startup ecosystems and discovering potential.
17:45 - 18:00
Arrival and Refreshments
The evening kicks off with a friendly hello at 17:45, where you can start mingling over some cool drinks.
18:00 - 18:15
Introductions and Icebreaker
Come 18:00, we'll all settle down, do a bit of intro and dive into some fun icebreakers to loosen things up
18:15 - 18:30
Lightning Pitches
At 18:15, it's time for Lightning Pitches - a stage for entrepreneurs to show off their, new ideas and current ventures or share how things are going. these are 60-second pitches so keep them tight.
18:30 - 18:45
Opportunity Spotlight
At 18:30, we'll roll into the Opportunity Spotlight, an open space for everyone to voice out what they're looking for, like a new workspace, hiring needs or tackling skill gaps.
18:45 - 19:30
The Dialogue
The chatter heats up at 18:45 with a lively panel debate on some of the biggest topics in the startup world today.
19:30 - 21:00
Networking
When we hit 19:30, we'll ease into laid-back Conversations, ramping up the networking vibe before heading out to a local pub for anyone keen to keep the night rolling.
Sheffield StartUp is an investment in expanding your network, enhancing your understanding of startup ecosystems and discovering potential.
17:45 - 18:00
Arrival and Refreshments
The evening kicks off with a friendly hello at 17:45, where you can start mingling over some cool drinks.
18:00 - 18:15
Introductions and Icebreaker
Come 18:00, we'll all settle down, do a bit of intro and dive into some fun icebreakers to loosen things up
18:15 - 18:30
Lightning Pitches
At 18:15, it's time for Lightning Pitches - a stage for entrepreneurs to show off their, new ideas and current ventures or share how things are going. these are 60-second pitches so keep them tight.
18:30 - 18:45
Opportunity Spotlight
At 18:30, we'll roll into the Opportunity Spotlight, an open space for everyone to voice out what they're looking for, like a new workspace, hiring needs or tackling skill gaps.
18:45 - 19:30
The Dialogue
The chatter heats up at 18:45 with a lively panel debate on some of the biggest topics in the startup world today.
19:30 - 21:00
Networking
When we hit 19:30, we'll ease into laid-back Conversations, ramping up the networking vibe before heading out to a local pub for anyone keen to keep the night rolling.
Sheffield Women in Tech are running a round table BYO lunch at Tech Parks on Thur 13th July to ask questions, share info and signpost.
We believe the answers are already there within the community, we just need to access great ideas and examples. Please join us for a lunchtime round table to ask questions, share your experience and join our community. This is a women only event, everyone welcome.
Get up and Pitch - South Yorkshire Incubator Accelerator Network (SIAN)
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Are you an entrepreneur looking to improve your pitch?
Join us at 'Get Up and Pitch,' a monthly event in South Yorkshire where you can practice your pitch and receive valuable feedback from experts in pitching and funding readiness. The event will be held every fourth Monday of the month at Sheffield Technology Parks, from 4-5:30pm. Here is the agenda:
4pm - 4.05pm: Arriving
4.05pm - 4.15pm: Networking and getting ready
4.15pm - 5.15pm: Pitching (Each entrepreneur will have 5 minutes to deliver their pitch, followed by 5 minutes for feedback and questions. There will be experts in the room to provide feedback.)
5.15pm - 5.30pm: Closing and networking
There are only 5 pitching slots available, so register now to secure your spot.
Don't miss this opportunity to hone your pitch and take your business to the next level.
Startup Meetup Sheffield is the flagship networking event for entrepreneurs, founders, and anyone interested in startups in Sheffield. This monthly event is a unique opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals, learn from industry experts, and get inspired to take your startup to the next level.
The event runs from 5-7pm and includes a mix of networking and open forum sessions. The agenda is as follows:
5-5:30pm: Arrival and networking
5:30pm-6:10pm: Open forum (Everyone is welcome to present themselves and share anything they want for up to 5 minutes)
6:10pm-7pm: Networking
Startup Meetup Sheffield is an extensive, well-organized event that has been running successfully since 2021. It's the perfect place to make valuable connections, learn from others, and get inspired to grow your startup. We hope to see you there!
Sheffield & South Yorkshire Incubator & Accelerator Network (SIAN) is a collection of organisations committed to supporting the startup ecosystem in South Yorkshire.
[🏫 In-Person] Domain Modelling & The Power of F# Collections with Ian Russell
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This event will be include two sessions with Ian Russell: Domain Modelling in F# and The Power of F# Collections
⚠️ This will be an in-person event, hosted in Sheffield at Sheffield Technology Parks, S1 2NS.
Agenda:
🍕 Pizza/Drinks (18:15 - 18:45)
🗣 Introduction (18:45)
👉 Domain Modelling in F# (18:45 ish)
☕ 10min break
👉 The Power of F# Collections (20:00 ish)
🍻 Social @ Pub (after talk)
👉 Domain Modelling in F#
F# has a number of simple built-in types that can be composed together to ensure the correctness of our design by making unrepresentable types impossible. We will discover how F# allows us to elegantly handle nulls, exceptions, and reduce our reliance on primitive values to represent actual types.
👉 The Power of F# Collections
If you like LINQ, you'll probably really like F# collections. We'll investigate what you can do with the structures that are available and where each one is best used.
Speaker: Ian Russell
Experienced developer who has worked on C# since version 1.1 and F# since 4.1. Experienced speaker at user groups and community conferences around the UK since 2009. Author of Essential F#, a free ebook that aims to get C# devs up and running in F# very quickly.
Information and guidance session for mentors particpating in the Sheffield Digital Mentoring Scheme.
Sarah will deliver a short guidance session about the Sheffield Digital mentoring scheme, including information on:
- our matching process
- setting up your first meeting and follow-up meetings with your mentee
- goals and accountability
- setting boundaries
- what to do if circumstances change or the pairing isn’t working
- closing the mentoring relationship when it comes to an end
- what to expect from the mentoring organiser
- resources available
- mentor meetups
There will be time for Q&A at the end.
Please note that this information session will focus on how Sheffield Digital is running the scheme. It does not involve any training.
We hope that the following people will attend:
- mentors who have already worked with mentees and plan to continue
- new mentors who have only just signed up
- anyone considering to join the scheme
BYO Lunch
Please bring your own lunch which you are welcome to eat during the meeting. Tea, coffee and water will be provided.
Guidance for mentors - Sheffield Digital mentoring scheme
Description changed:
Information and guidance session for mentors particpating in the Sheffield Digital Mentoring Scheme.
Sarah will deliver a short guidance session about the Sheffield Digital mentoring scheme, including information on:
- our matching process
- setting up your first meeting and follow-up meetings with your mentee
- goals and accountability
- setting boundaries
- what to do if circumstances change or the pairing isn’t working
- closing the mentoring relationship when it comes to an end
- what to expect from the mentoring organiser
- resources available
- mentor meetups
There will be time for Q&A at the end.
Please note that this information session will focus on how Sheffield Digital is running the scheme. It does not involve any training.
We hope that the following people will attend:
- mentors who have already worked with mentees and plan to continue
- new mentors who have only just signed up
- anyone considering to join the scheme
If you would like to attend but you can't make this session, please email sarah@sheffield.digital to make alternative arrangements.
BYO Lunch
Please bring your own lunch which you are welcome to eat during the meeting. Tea, coffee and water will be provided.
Get up and Pitch - An informal event to pitch and receive feedback by Entrepreneurial Spark
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Are you interested in honing your pitch?
That's only possible with a lot of practice and a lot of feedback received, applied and tested.
We decided to create an event in South Yorkshire where you can come, practice your pitch and receive valuable feedback from people with expertise in pitching and funding readiness.
We are looking for 5 startups to join us for a monthly 'Get Up and Pitch' event, every fourth Monday of the month starting at 4pm at Sheffield Technology Parks. Here is the agenda:
4pm - 4.05pm: Arriving
4-05pm - 4.55pm: Pitching (Every startup will get 5 mins to deliver their pitch and maximum 5 minutes for feedback and questions; there will be people in the room with expertise in pitching and funding readiness to give feedback)
4.55pm - 5.15pm: Closing (Popular vote and networking)
If this sounds like the event for you, register now as we only have 5 available slots for pitching! There will also be 10 audience tickets if you want to watch, ask questions and give feedback.
Welcome to GoSheffield! This is where the Go community in Sheffield meets once a month to talk about cool hacks and interesting technology.
We'll have two talks starting at 18:30:
What's coming to Go 1.20 - Daniel Martí
(spot available - reach out!)
Please get in touch with the organisers if you'd like to give a talk. All Go-related topics and levels of experience are welcome!
Pizza and drinks will be provided before the talks. We will continue after the meetup with a social at The Tap, the pub adjacent to the train station.
Katie Fenn (@katie_fenn) - Web Audio, Web MIDI, and what the Web does best
Katie Fenn takes a creative tour around the Web Audio and Web MIDI APIs by recreating 90s dance music with nothing but a web browser and a MIDI controller. The talk will reflect on what the Web is good at, and the enduring value of unlicensed standards.
Running order
6:15pm - Doors open (please sign in at reception)
6:30pm - Welcome
6:40pm - Talk 1
7:40pm – Open mic
7:45pm – Social (venue TBC)
Katie Fenn (@katie_fenn) - Web Audio, Web MIDI, and what the Web does best
Katie Fenn takes a creative tour around the Web Audio and Web MIDI APIs by recreating 90s dance music with nothing but a web browser and a MIDI controller. The talk will reflect on what the Web is good at, and the enduring value of unlicensed standards.
Running order
6:15pm - Doors open (please sign in at reception)
6:30pm - Welcome
6:40pm - Talk 1
7:40pm – Open mic
7:45pm – Social (venue TBC)
Get up and Pitch - An informal event to pitch and receive feedback by Entrepreneurial Spark
Description changed:
Are you interested in honing your pitch?
That's only possible with a lot of practice and a lot of feedback received, applied and tested.
We decided to create an event in South Yorkshire where you can come, practice your pitch and receive valuable feedback from people with expertise in pitching and funding readiness. We called it 'Deck' as pitch decks are an important part of the pitching process.
We are looking for 5 startups to join us for the first 'Deck' Pitching event on September 26th at Sheffield Technology Parks. Here is the agenda:
4pm - 4.05pm: Arriving
4-05pm - 4.55pm: Pitching (Every startup will get 5 mins to deliver their pitch and maximum 5 minutes for feedback and questions; there will be people in the room with expertise in pitching and funding readiness to give feedback)
4.55pm - 5.15pm: Closing (Popular vote and networking)
If this sounds like the event for you, register now as we only have 5 available slots for pitching! There will also be 10 audience tickets if you want to watch, ask questions and give feedback.
'Deck' will be the fourth Monday of every month for the rest of 2022. Join us, pitch your startup and improve it with valuable feedback.
Katie Fenn - Web Audio, Web MIDI, and what the Web does best
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This month we'll be welcoming:
Katie Fenn (@katie_fenn) - Web Audio, Web MIDI, and what the Web does best
Katie Fenn takes a creative tour around the Web Audio and Web MIDI APIs by recreating 90s dance music with nothing but a web browser and a MIDI controller. The talk will reflect on what the Web is good at, and the enduring value of unlicensed standards.
Running order
6:15pm - Doors open (please sign in at reception)
6:30pm - Welcome
6:40pm - Talk 1
7:40pm – Open mic
7:45pm – Social (venue TBC)
We're striving for Sheffield Devops to be an inclusive event that is open to all. We operate a Code of Conduct and are happy to meet & greet people on arrival. Please drop us a message on Twitter if you have any queries or would just like a chat ahead of the event.
Schedule
18:00: Doors open
18:30 – 19:15: Tom Hoyland - Metaphors, Monitoring and Metrics: How a Platform Team changed the way they communicated to change they way they delivered products and services
19:15: Socialising
Speaker
Tom Hoyland (@thatagile)
With a background in engineering, product development and service transformation, Tom gets under the bonnet of products, teams, and organisations to understand what makes them tick and how they could be better.
Tom is an Expert Agile and DevOps practitioner, Coach and Mentor at Sky Betting & Gaming and That Agile.
Previously Tom has led Agile and Digital Transformations, building teams, growing capabilities and promoting cultures that reduce the lead time to business impact at the UK Home Office and across UK Police Forces.
Talk
Tired of ‘Waterfall’ vs ‘Agile’? Fed up with simplistic plans for complex work? Are you an Agile Coach stuck on the reporting treadmill? In this talk, we’ll show you how a platform team wrapped up concepts from DevOps, complexity, metaphors and Clean Language into a tidy package to change the way they worked - challenging their biases, considering brain chemistry, and finding new opportunities for scaling along the way (no… it’s not SAFe).
In this talk, you’ll see how we took a Platform Team on a journey to change how they understood risk, managed complexity, and overcame their biases when building new products, services and platforms.
You’ll see how the team challenged the language they used to communicate progress and risks, incorporating DevOps concepts to reduce ambiguity, increase transparency, and changed the way decisions were made.
We’ll reveal how we stopped Scrum Masters, Delivery Leads and Agile Coaches from becoming relays for information, by using concepts such as Clean Feedback to reduce the distance between what people thought was happening and what the ground truth was, with a few bots thrown in there for good measure!
You’ll hear about memory, the crucial details we leave on the editing room floor, and how we overcame this with a pinch of technology and team games to re-remember events, counter biases and increase creativity.
Like metaphors? We’ll cover them too - exploring the role they play in how we think about work, what we believe is possible, what might happen next, and how our models of the world constrain the way we work - with some excellent drawings from kids and grown-ups!
And we’ll show you some of the games we played with our teams to counter biases, with concepts such as Red Teaming and Reverse Thinking, increasing creativity and leveraging neurodiversity within our teams - Small patterns scaled up - and not a mention of SAFe in sight!
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 participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery are not appropriate for any event venue, including talks, workshops, parties, Twitter, and other online media.
Event participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the event at the discretion of the event organisers.
What a year we've all had! Sheffield Women in Tech is taking a short break during August, so July will be our last event before the summer. We've booked Sheffield Technology Parks on 5th July from 17:30-19:30 for a special edition of Tech Tea: rebranded for one evening only as Tech Fizz!
As well as enjoying a glass of bubbles (non-alcoholic options available) and strawberries to get us in the mood for summer, we'll also be taking the opportunity to reflect on the events we've run over the past year, and look to the community to find out what you'd like to see us do in the coming year.
The event is open to all: come along, meet and chat with others, and have your say!
A big thank you to BJSS for sponsoring this event.
Join us for our final meetup before the summer break!
What a year we've all had! Sheffield Women in Tech is taking a break in August, so July will be our last event before the summer. We've booked Sheffield Technology Parks on 5th July from 17:30-19:30 and we'd love you to join us.
Come along, meet and chat with others. We're planning to use the time to reflect over the events we have run over the last year, and look to the community to find out what you'd like to see us do over the next year.
Roundtable discussion: making flexible working work for women
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For this months’ BYO lunch meetup, we’re delighted to have Dr Pamela Abbott from the Information School, The University of Sheffield joining us. Pamela is interested in how we design and implement flexible working policies and how hybrid workers cope with these new practices, and she’ll be facilitating a conversation over lunch. We know this is a big topic of interest for all of us and we’d love you to join us for a chat.
Places at this event are limited to 20 to ensure we can hear from everyone, so grab your ticket and join in the conversation. We’re thankful as always to Tech Parks for hosting this event.
Agenda:
Arrival 12.00 - Grab a drink and something sweet to go with your BYO lunch
12.15 - 13.30 - Informal conversation over lunch facilitated by Pamela
13.30 - 14.00 - We’ll wrap up but you’re welcome to stop back
ShfWIT seeks to be a friendly community where everyone feels welcome and safe. We want this to be a safe space for everyone and during the event we will be adhering to the Sheffield Digital Code of Conduct.
We’ll also be using the Chatham House Rule to allow information to be shared in confidence.
The SheffTechLeadership group is a discussion group. We will have a kick off from this sessions facilitators to explain the subject then break into groups to discuss, coming back together to share what we discussed with the full group.
This session's subject is "Leaders - Born or Made", facilitated by Neil Bizell:
In the past we were given a certain model of what a leader should look like and sound like (overwhelmingly white, male and middle aged). Thankfully and rightfully that model of leader is shifting as organisations wake up to the value of diversity. This gives us a great opportunity to diversify, democratise and improve leadership. If we have the opportunity to rethink what it means to be a leader what could it become?
Do you need to have the right psychological profile and background to be a leader? Or can we develop anyone into a leader?
How do we identify the right people to develop as leaders in our organisations? Should those who naturally assume power be excluded?
Is leadership the key factor or should the sometimes maligned management be seen as equally important?
The session will be hybrid with a Google Meet link up for remote attendees.
Leaders - Born or Made?
Tuesday, 15 March · 6:00 – 7:50pm
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/qmu-jtjh-cco
Or dial: (GB) +44 20 3956 1405 PIN: 659 583 656#
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/qmu-jtjh-cco?pin=1474637601573
Grab some food and a drink and join us online for our second Tech Lunch of 2022.
About this event
Our Tech Lunches are an informal opportunity to meet others in the Sheffield Women in Tech Community.
There is no set agenda but we will ask everyone to introduce themselves and generally be encouraging conversation around whatever you'd like to discuss!
Grab some food and a drink and join us online for our second Tech Lunch of 2022.
About this event
About this event
Our Tech Lunches are an informal opportunity to meet others in the Sheffield Women in Tech Community.
There is no set agenda but we will ask everyone to introduce themselves and generally be encouraging conversation around whatever you'd like to discuss!
The SheffTechLeadership group is a discussion group. We will have a kick off from this sessions facilitators to explain the subject then break into groups to discuss, coming back together to share what we discussed with the full group.
This session's subject is "Leaders - Born or Made", facilitated by Neil Bizell - more info to come!
The session will be hybrid with a Google Meet link up for remote attendees. Again, more information to come.
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