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Global Sheffield: Broadening horizons, supercharging start-ups

Building on the success of last year's event, the British Business Bank is once again partnering with Sheffield Technology Parks, a key hub of innovation in the city's vibrant startup ecosystem. Together, we will host an inspiring breakfast event featuring the region’s most exciting founders, expert panellists, and keynote speakers focused on innovation and international business scaling.

Targeted at founders with a growth mindset and ambitions extending beyond Sheffield and the UK, this event will provide invaluable insights into scaling startups and seizing the opportunities available to take your business beyond Sheffield.

A panel of Sheffield founders will share practical advice and real-world examples from their recent experiences in scaling up and securing investment. Attendees will also have the chance to meet with trade advisors and investors, who will outline the support available to entrepreneurs with international aspirations.

Our speakers:

Cat Smith, Senior Manager, UK Network Yorkshire and Humber, British Business Bank

Chloe Hall, Investment Manager, British Patient Capital

Chris Ogden, Founder, Laser Partners

Heather Guile, International Trade Adviser, Department for Business and Trade

Mark Roberts, Entrepreneur/NED/Angel Investor, Red Line Foundry

Melissa Chambers, CEO & Co-Founder, Sitehop

Stephen Welton, Chair, British Business Bank

Tom Wolfenden, CEO, Sheffield Technology Parks


This event is part of Business Finance Week, hosted by British Business Bank.

Please be aware that this event will be filmed, and the footage may be used in British Business Bank's social media posts and online platforms.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-sheffield-broadening-horizons-supercharging-start-ups-tickets-936463526617

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-sheffield-broadening-horizons-supercharging-start-ups-tickets-936463526617

Tue 24th Sep 2024 8:00am (Europe/London)

Tue 24th Sep 2024 10:30am (Europe/London)

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The next Sheffield Devops event takes place at Kelham Island Musem on Thursday 12 March 2020 at 6pm.

Our event is generously hosted by our sponsors Affecto Recruitment with the first talk starting at 6:30pm.

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

6:00 - 6:30: Doors open

6:30 - 7:15: Dave Porter (CTO at Tutorful)

"Infrastructure-as-code for a scalable online classroom using AWS Cloud Development Kit"

7:15 - 7:30: Break

7:30 - 8:15: James Cutts (Senior Software Engineer at Hive IT)

"Building a new government service: devops in a small multidisciplinary team"


About the Speakers

Infrastructure-as-code for a scalable online classroom using AWS Cloud Development Kit

See code examples and learn about tools you can use to automate infrastructure in AWS. In this talk, Dave describes how Tutorful are building the infrastructure for an online classroom using Typescript and Cloud Development Kit to automate deployment in AWS.
Dave Porter is the Chief Technology Officer at Tutorful. Coding since childhood, a Computer Science degree, and 20 years building distributed risk calculation systems and leading global teams at investment banks in London and Singapore, Dave is now helping to shape the technology at Tutorful.

Tutorful is a Sheffield based EdTech startup. It is the UK's largest online marketplace for finding a tutor for in-person or online private tuition. Tutorful makes it easy to find and have lessons with a trusted high-quality tutor.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/porterde/
https://tutorful.co.uk
The Trusted Way To Find A Private Tutor - Tutorful
With 100% satisfaction guaranteed and over 9000 tutors, Tutorful is the UK's leading place to find hand-picked, private tutors for any subject, any age, anywhere.

Building a new government service: devops in a small multidisciplinary team

Hive IT has been working with the Department for Education on delivering a new service for the dissemination of statistics through discovery, alpha and into a soon to launch public beta.

In this talk we’ll look at the challenges, successes and lessons learnt from developing a new service with a small team, and how adopting some of the devops principles has enabled fast iterations in response to user research and feedback.

Working for somebody else means you don’t always have full autonomy over your toolsets, we’ll look at how technology choices have been influenced, informed and changed over the course of development. Expect a lot of Azure from databases to devops, why you don't need to have Kubernetes and how to compromise between the perfect solution and the one that’s good enough to get the job done.

James Cutts, Senior Software Engineer at Hive IT
https://hiveit.co.uk/our-team/james-cutts/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-march-2020-tickets-98388854713?aff=opentechcalendar

Sheffield Devops - March 2020

The next Sheffield Devops event takes place at Kelham Island Musem on Thursday 12 March 2020 at 6pm.

Our event is generously hosted by our sponsors Affecto Recruitment with the first talk starting at 6:30pm.

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

6:00 - 6:30: Doors open

6:30 - 7:15: Dave Porter (CTO at Tutorful)

"Infrastructure-as-code for a scalable online classroom using AWS Cloud Development Kit"

7:15 - 7:30: Break

7:30 - 8:15: James Cutts (Senior Software Engineer at Hive IT)

"Cool devops talk - TBC"


About the Speakers

Infrastructure-as-code for a scalable online classroom using AWS Cloud Development Kit

See code examples and learn about tools you can use to automate infrastructure in AWS. In this talk, Dave describes how Tutorful are building the infrastructure for an online classroom using Typescript and Cloud Development Kit to automate deployment in AWS.
Dave Porter is the Chief Technology Officer at Tutorful. Coding since childhood, a Computer Science degree, and 20 years building distributed risk calculation systems and leading global teams at investment banks in London and Singapore, Dave is now helping to shape the technology at Tutorful.

Tutorful is a Sheffield based EdTech startup. It is the UK's largest online marketplace for finding a tutor for in-person or online private tuition. Tutorful makes it easy to find and have lessons with a trusted high-quality tutor.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/porterde/
https://tutorful.co.uk
The Trusted Way To Find A Private Tutor - Tutorful
With 100% satisfaction guaranteed and over 9000 tutors, Tutorful is the UK's leading place to find hand-picked, private tutors for any subject, any age, anywhere.

Cool devops talk - TBC

James Cutts, Senior Software Engineer at Hive IT
https://hiveit.co.uk/our-team/james-cutts/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-march-2020-tickets-98388854713

Thu 12th Mar 2020 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 12th Mar 2020 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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www.sheffielddevops.org.uk

Sheffield Devops November 2019

The next Sheffield Devops event takes place at Kelham Island Musem on Thursday 14 November 2019 at 6pm.

Our event is generously hosted by our sponsors Affecto Recruitment with the first talk starting at 6:30pm.

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

6:00 - 6:30: Doors open

6:30 - 7:15: Lucy Davinhart (Automation Engineer at Sky Betting & Gaming)

"How We Accelerated Our Vault Adoption With Terraform"

7:15 - 7:30: Break

7:30 - 8:15: Manjit Sagoo (Chief Architect – IRIS Software Group)

"Something old, something new; Integrating legacy desktop systems with a modern AWS Cloud platform"


About the Speakers

How We Accelerated Our Vault Adoption With Terraform

"When we first started with Vault for secret management, we were the all powerful admins doing everything manually. This was an audit nightmare, and with increasingly more users, our workload became unmanageable. We could not let that stand. We have the word "Automation" in our job titles, after all. In this talk, I will outline how we started chipping away at the manual processes, keeping track of changes over time, and automating parts of our configuration. And I will show you where we are today, with Pull Requests, ChatOps, and Terraform. While our specific pipeline is not going to be the best for everyone, I hope you come away from this talk with ideas for how to manage your own Vault clusters.

Lucy Davinhart is an automation engineer at Sky Betting & Gaming, meaning their job is to maintain internal platforms and services (e.g. Vault), finding ways to do things manually as infrequently as possible, and supporting their internal customers using some of the HashiCorp toolset. Lucy is a non-binary trans woman. In their spare time, when not catching up on Netflix, they fiddle around with silly coding projects, sometimes live on the Internet where everyone can see their typos."

Something old, something new; Integrating legacy desktop systems with a modern AWS Cloud platform

"IRIS Software Group is the UK’s largest privately held software company serving over 650,000 SMEs, 21,000 accountancy firms and over 11,000 schools through our 16 office locations across the country. 12 months ago we embarked on an ambitious journey to modernise the IRIS software portfolio through a cloud based platform support a broad range of microservices. This talk will explore some of the challenges in lifting this project off paper and into the cloud!"

https://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-november-2019-tickets-80017226679

Thu 14th Nov 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 14th Nov 2019 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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https://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/code-of-conduct/