Open Tech Calendar

ProductTank Sheffield Meetup

Join us for 2 awesome talks from local product aficionados and some lovely seasonal food & bevies to warm you up.

🎙️ Speaker 1: Tom Brooks | Business Analyst Capability Lead | BJSS
Tom is an experienced Business Analyst at BJSS where he leads the BA Capability. He has experience in pensions, banking, healthcare and aviation. When not talking to groups of product people about psychology, he can be found falling over on trail runs or chasing his toddler around a park.

'Exploring cognitive bias in product'
Everyone has cognitive biases, and they affect how we think and behave every day. This is an interactive discussion to help us understand cognitive biases in general, and ones that affect us as product people in the tech industry in specifically What are cognitive biases?
Examples
Practical exercises
Resources to learn more

🎙️ Speaker 2: Phil Hornby | Found & Directer | for product people
Phil is a highly experienced and passionate product management professional. Helping thousands of entrepreneurial product people and teams to be successful. He has a proven track record and broad industry experience, having helped product people and teams across most industries.

Why (most) roadmaps suck!
Most roadmaps are bad because of a few fundamental things. So, there is a good chance yours isn’t great. As the cohost of Talking Roadmaps I’ve seen a lot of them and spoken to many experts and practitioners about the problems. I want to share the key insights I've gathered to help you create a great roadmap and guide your product to success.

➕ More reasons to come
FREE festive drinks and snacks to keep you going
Network with local product people (last time we had 45+ attendees!)
Opportunities to sign up to talk at future events or host a producttank

👩‍💻 All are welcome
Product Managers, Designers, UXers and anyone else in Sheffield’s product community, we want you here. Whether you're a seasoned product leader, an ambitious newcomer, or someone curious about the field.

https://www.meetup.com/producttank-sheffield/events/296887250/

https://www.meetup.com/producttank-sheffield/events/296887250/

Thu 30th Nov 2023 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Thu 30th Nov 2023 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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ProductTank Sheffield (The Revival)

🥳 ProductTank returns to Sheffield
Calling all product people from Sheffield and local areas. We are thrilled to announce the revival of ProductTank Sheffield! We have a great event lined up to kick things off...

🎙️ Talk: Emily Tate | 'What makes a "great" Product Manager anyways?'
Emily Tate is the Managing Director of our very own Mind the Product community, with almost 15 years experience as a Product Manager and Product Consultant.

In this inspiring talk she'll be diving into the different flavours of product manager, what makes each one great, along with some tips on how to grow into your own career.

➕ More reasons to come

FREE drinks and nibbles
Network with local product people
Opportunities to sign up to talk at future events
👩‍💻 All are welcome
Product Managers, Designers, UXers and anyone else in Sheffield’s product community, we want you here. Whether you're a seasoned product leader, an ambitious newcomer, or someone curious about the field.

📍This is a FREE in person event.

https://www.meetup.com/producttank-sheffield/events/294574616/?_xtd=gqFyqTM3NTQ3OTkzM6Fwo2FwaQ%253D%253D&from=ref

https://www.meetup.com/producttank-sheffield/events/294574616/?_xtd=gqFyqTM3NTQ3OTkzM6Fwo2FwaQ%253D%253D&from=ref

Thu 21st Sep 2023 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Thu 21st Sep 2023 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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Engineering Leadership: Killing Meetings With Asynchronous Collaboration

Hosted by WRK Digital (wrkdigital.co.uk) after two successful events in Leeds we are taking the next Software Engineering Leadership meetup to Sheffield this March.

The aim of the meet up is to bring the immensely talented Yorkshire Software Engineering leadership community together to support each other with meaningful connections.

We have a brilliant evening lined up hosted by James Charlesworth - Snr Engineering Manager with Pendo.io

James will running his talk on Killing Meetings With Asynchronous Collaboration and sharing a framework for more effective, and therefore fewer, meetings. Then we will follow up by discussing our own individual tips and pitfalls in a structured and actionable way.

https://www.linkedin.com/events/softwareengineeringleadership-w7031898404909641728/comments/

https://www.linkedin.com/events/softwareengineeringleadership-w7031898404909641728/comments/

Thu 30th Mar 2023 7:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 30th Mar 2023 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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Code of Conduct

All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at our meetups are required to agree with the following code of conduct. Organisers will enforce this code throughout the event.

We expect cooperation from all participants to ensure a safe and inclusive environment for everyone.

Our meetup is dedicated to providing a harassment-free meetup 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 meetup participants in any form.

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/