Tech Nott July 2018: Dungeons, Dragons & Developers and Making The World Better

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NOTE THE CHANGE OF DATE!
Tech Nottingham has now moved to the second Monday of each month

Full event details: https://www.technottingham.com/events/tech-nottingham-july-2018

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This month we have two fantastic talks from Leicester-based thought leaders in their fields, Matt Brunt (https://twitter.com/Brunty) and Will Ellwood (https://twitter.com/fragmad). Plus we've got free food and drinks provided at the event thanks to our sponsors Capital One, Cordius, Experian and MHR

Everyone is welcome and there are no tickets required. Just turn up - it's free!

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Dungeons, Dragons & Developers
by Matt Brunt

You enter the dungeon, as the echoes of your footsteps sound around you, something catches your eye - is that… oh, oh no.

You grab your trusty sword and with your fellow adventurers, you seek to overcome the mighty challenge that lays ahead of you: building software.

This talk is a look at some of the parallels between Dungeons and Dragons, and software development.

We’ll see how lessons learned through delving into dungeons and fighting monsters with a party of adventurers can help teams of developers when building software in the real world.

Are you ready to join me in a mighty quest for better software?

About Matt

Matt Brunt is a Senior Software Engineer with Viva IT where he leads and mentors a team of developers, helping them to learn and grow into their full potential.

In his spare time, he's an organiser for the PHP East Midlands user group, and the PHP East Midlands yearly Unconference. When not tinkering with code he can be found reading comics, fighting monsters in dungeons and dragons, or drinking tea and eating jaffa-cakes.

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Small Steps To A Better World: Content Warnings And Socially Responsible Practice

by Will Ellwood

How do you market technology in a world of technology addicts, and how should technology companies be utilise their marketing teams to achieve the best results?

This talk focuses on how to approach marketing both niche and broad technology products, and talks about how technology businesses can better support their marketing teams, improve how they communicate and be better at reaching their customers.

About Will

Will is a Linux System Administrator for GoDaddy and site administrator for the online speculative fiction magazine Strange Horizons. He has previously worked at a large retail company as a infrastructure engineer and also volunteered as "DevOps" for Worldcon 75 in Helsinki, Finland.

Will is always tired, drinks too much coffee, and will probably die in a book avalanche.

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Full event details: https://www.technottingham.com/events/tech-nottingham-july-2018