BBC North East Tech Hub Meet Up #13

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 the doors will open at 17:30, starting 18:00 running through to 20:00.

Agenda

How tech apprenticeships work at the BBC (Fayeq Choudhury & Callum Biggs - BBC)
This outlines how the apprenticeship combines academic study with practical, real-world engineering challenges.

Is AI making us Dumber? Effects on Human Critical thinking and Mental Health. (Chiranjeevi Sagi - LNER)
This presentation will explore the multifaceted impact of AI on human critical thinking, examining its effects on education, professional fields like programming, and our social and psychological well-being.

How we make high performing teams (Matthew Tinn - BBC)
In this talk, I’ll examine how we make our tech team high performing, while also leaving you with ideas on how to transform your own teams to get the best out of your people.