The Tech Meetup

Tramshed Tech is coming to Newport!

Over the past 5 years, our HQ in Grangetown Cardiff has become a thriving tech hub with over 50 businesses and 600+ members. We run monthly meetups, events and socials to include the much loved AI Wales, Cloud Native Wales and VR Wales.

To celebrate our move to Newport, we're kickstarting 'The Tech Meetup' - a Newport based Meetup that will take place every quarter on the beautiful Mezze (also known as the Glass Hall) in Newport Market.

This event will include elements from all our favourite Meetups to include topics such as cyber security, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, crypto currency, virtual reality and much more.

Who is this event for?
Anyone working in or interested in tech. This is a great opportunity to meet like-minded people and learn new things.

What to expect
A friendly bunch of tech enthusiasts sharing knowledge and ideas over pizza and a few beers.

Level: beginner

6:00pm | Even open
Welcome drinks

6:30pm | Lightning talks
6.30-6.50pm | An Introduction to VR with HTC's John Dabill & Harry Virdi
6.50-7.10pm | 'Explore, Embed and Enable' with Andrew Banks, Lead Data Scientist at the Data Science Campus
7.10-8.00pm | Beer & pizza

Attendees will get the opportunity to demo HTC headsets.

John Dabill: Director of Product Operations at HTC Vive for EMEA
John is part of the HTC VIVE EMEA Leadership team. Amongst his responsibilities, he leads the ISV (Independent Software Vendors) program across EMEA. A long-time technology veteran John has held senior positions across the tech sector over a number of years, most recently working at BlackBerry and Bullitt Group before joining HTC Vive in March of 2020.

Harry Virdi: Enterprise Sales Manager - UK & Ireland at HTC VIVE
Harry has been part of the HTC family for the past 13 years, holding key position within Marketing and sales. After launching the VIVE Brand across retail in Europe 2016, Harry was responsible for consumer sales in Nordics, Benelux and UK/Ireland.

Andrew Banks

With its headquarters in Newport, the Data Science Campus aims to be a leading light for data science in the public sector. Data scientists at the Campus help to build software and tools for the public good, work on projects that inform public policy, and drive best practise and innovation in the field of data science. The Campus also has a large workplan to build data science skills in the public sector.

Andrew will talk about the 'Explore, Embed and Enable' strategy of the Campus, and showcase project work that teams have been involved in.

Andrew Banks works as a Lead Data Scientist at the Data Science Campus in ONS. Andrew is responsible for leading a number of data science projects in the Campus and is interested in using innovative methods and data to produce new insights and support policy makers.

He joined the civil service as an economist in HM Treasury, before working on a range of topics at ONS including economic analysis, data science and data engineering. Prior to joining the Data Science Campus he was Assistant Deputy Director for household finances statistics.