ACCU York [July 2026] - The Squiggly Career Path: a Personal Landscape

🕡 Doors open 18:30
📋 Intro and admin 18:50
🗣️ Talk by Graham Cook (🕖 start at 19:00)
“...Or how to escape from Management and get back to proper Development!”

This is one person’s journey through 30 years of the IT industry, in an unusually wide range of roles and disciplines. It looks at how to move up, down and sideways across the landscape of what it is we do, and what was learned along the way. So if you’re interested in learning from someone else’s mistakes, come and join me!

🔗 Finish off with Q&A, networking, and 🍻
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About the speaker: Graham Cook
Graham has spent many years in the IT industry, in a wide range of roles and sectors from defence and finance, to construction and TechForGood. For the last decade or so, he has been in Software Engineering in both the PHP and JVM spaces, and is particularly interested in 'how' things are done, instead of just 'whether' things are done - though that often tends to be a tricky ask!

Currently exploring Application Security, and how to integrate secure engineering practices into the creation stream, without blocking it…

You can find Graham on LinkedIn. He's also the creator of the Local History Group Hub, a project bringing web technology and collaboration together to help protect and promote local history and heritage. Please tell people about Local History Group Hub, Graham will be very grateful to get some wider exposure.
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Venue sponsor: Patch
Community sponsors: YorkDevelopers group, WiT York, Ministry of Testing York, Tech York, dotNet York, York Code Dojo, Leeds PHP, York Ruby, NYNE Games Dev Kitchen