Ministry of Testing Leeds - November 2019 - End of Year Spectacular

End of year spectacular! We are taking December off and to celebrate a great year of meetings we have some great MoT swag to give away along with a great talk from Bruce!

We can promise great food, talks and discussions as usual. Want to speak or need help to develop a topic? Would you like some feedback on an idea? Get in touch and we can help. We can cover travel and accommodation if you have to travel to speak at our meetup.

6.00pm - 6.30pm: Networking and food

6.30pm - 7.15pm: Big world, small company: A guide for diversity and inclusion in tech startups (Bruce)

7.15pm - 7.30pm: Break

7.30pm - 8.30pm: Results of lean coffee retrospective

8.30pm - Pub (Editor's Draft)

Big world, small company: A guide for diversity and inclusion in tech startups

Description
Diversity and Inclusion practices are easy to understand but hard to get right, especially when you're a small company or startup with no HR department. With a limited team, you'll often hear statements like: "I didn't have time this week"; "I couldn't find any information on it"; "we should just postpone"; and "how do we know we're doing the right thing?" This talk is about how we’ve been navigating those challenges, what lessons we’ve learnt and what we are all capable of doing in the community to make our working environments more inclusive.

Bio
Bruce is a QA at Fresh8 Gaming and an active member of the testing and LGBT+ communities in Bristol. Their job is testing products, but what he actually does is test people. She is never (read: constantly) afraid to talk about problems at all levels of the business, and has used this superpower to help Fresh8 make their work environment more inclusive.

Discussion - Results of last months lean coffee discussions on the future of Leeds MoT

We would like to go over the results of the discussion on the future of the meetup. Make sure we have captured the right things and that our ideas resonate

Ministry of Test Leeds is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all attendees. To discuss any additional accessibility requirements you may have, please contact office-leeds@inifinityworks.com.