BBC North East Tech Hub Meet Up #12

Background

The BBC has been broadcasting from Newcastle for over 100 years. Now it's also the base of our North East Technology Hub and home to teams from the BBC's Product Group, responsible for developing world-beating services like iPlayer, Sounds, Sport and Bitesize.

The event is informal, and will start around 17:30 and run through to 20:00.

Agenda

Tail vs Trail Product Development (Jack Sheriff - BBC)
Teams must consider many aspects to succeed, one of these include how to balance development speed with planning and researching. We’ll cover the pros and cons of both and how to find the right balance.

Rethinking AI in development: avoiding the hidden pitfalls (Marek Grzebyk - Utility Warehouse)
While AI tools promise to revolutionize how developers write code, blindly trusting their output can introduce subtle, yet critical, vulnerabilities and bugs into our systems. The rapid adoption of AI in every corner of software development, from smart editors to automated code generation, presents new challenges for maintaining code quality and system integrity. This presentation will expose common, often overlooked, pitfalls developers face when leveraging AI for coding tasks.

Lessons from Satisfactory for Software Engineers (Karla Carreon - BBC)
This talk explores the intriguing parallels between software engineering and the popular factory-building game, Satisfactory. We will examine key gameplay mechanics such as modularity, optimisation, debugging, and iterative design, and discover how skills developed through playing the game can meaningfully enhance your day-to-day engineering tasks.