Get Heard! Summer Short Talks

Just over four weeks ago, we ran the first in a public speaking workshop series. Our aim? To help women and non-binary people in tech formulate a full talk and perform it in front of a live audience. Here is the result.

We have four great speakers lined up for an evening of short talks.
They will cover topics ranging from code, to data, to tech leadership. Come along for an hour and support them!

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We will e-mail the Zoom link for this webinar to all attendees at 6.10pm on the day.

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Agenda:

6.20pm: Doors open.
6.30pm: Welcome and Ladies of Code London intro.
6.40pm: Short talks (10 minutes each):

1. Amy Boslam: "Anti-Patterns: A Java Programmer's Bad Habits"
2. Sabahat Iqbal: "Hiding in Plain Sight: Rescuing Data From Obscurity"
3. Isabel Costa: "How documentation and open communication leads to better collaboration"
4. Anna Del Prete: "Leveraging your own strengths for the good of the team"

7.45pm: Thank you and goodbye!

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Amy Boslam
https://twitter.com/AmyBoslam/
https://linkedin.com/in/amy-boslam-2077b7145/

"Anti-Patterns: A Java Programmer's Bad Habits"

When you're first learning to code, the emphasis is often on functionality and making your code do what you want it to. But once your code "works", are you really finished?

Meet the Anti-Pattern - the Software Developer's Bad Habit. Learning how to avoid Anti-Patterns is an easy way to level up your code: it will be easier to understand (Readability!), easier to extend and add new features to (Extensibility!) and will be easier to fix bugs in once it's been released (Maintainability!).

This talk will cover an introduction to some common Anti-Patterns, including examples of how to spot and fix them in your Java code.

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Sabahat Iqbal
https://twitter.com/sabahatiqbal/

"Hiding in Plain Sight: Rescuing Data From Obscurity"

Data allows us to build an objective view of the world. But how objective that view is depends on how transparent the data is - ie do we know who collected it, when, how often etc. Open Data is a concept upon which data transparency is built. By the end of this talk about Open Data, audience members will have an understanding of what open data is, why it is important for economic development and how it can be made useful, ie via data viz.

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Isabel Costa
https://twitter.com/isabelcmdcosta/
https://linkedin.com/in/isabelcmdcosta/

"How documentation and open communication leads to better collaboration"

It's a known issue that developers often don't prioritise documentation at work. Documentation and open communication are often related and critical in an open source project environment. By the end of this talk audience members will be enlightened about how accessible documentation and open communication leads to a more productive, autonomous and inclusive team. Also how we can apply these concepts at work having in mind an open source environment context.

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Anna Del Prete
https://twitter.com/Shilaghae/
https://linkedin.com/in/annadelprete/

"Leveraging your own strengths for the good of the team"

Did you ever ask yourself how to become that guy? The confident, overachiever who seems to be twice as fast/good as you? Bad news: you are asking yourself the wrong question. Good news: you don’t have to be that guy; by the end of this talk you will learn that everyone has different skills and strengths and our goal is to find and nurture our own abilities and only then we can bring that diversity that strengthens and improves the team. After all, what would be of the Avengers if they were all Iron Man?