Colchester Digital - Meetup for Digital Professionals

🎉 Colchester Digital – April 2025

Theme: Open Source Magic & Live Vibe Coding
📍 New Room! We're in the Café this time – same venue, bigger room!
🍕 Free Entry | Free Pizza | Great People

Join us for another fun and inspiring evening with Colchester’s digital community! Whether you're a seasoned developer, curious creative, or just love tech and good pizza, you're very welcome.

📍 Important: We’ve moved to a bigger space (the Café) to keep up with growing interest – thanks to all of you!

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### 🗓️ Event Schedule

6:30 – 6:50 PM
🍕 Grab a slice, say hi, and get a drink (alcoholic or non-alcoholic available at the bar)

6:50 – 7:00 PM
👋 Welcome & quick intros

7:00 – 7:30 PM – Talk 1
🎤 "There’s an Open Source Project for That"
Ric Harvey – Developer Advocate, Raspberry Pi blogger & international speaker – shares some of his all-time favourite open source projects and how they’ve inspired developers around the world.

7:30 – 7:40 PM
⏸️ Quick break to refuel (more pizza, anyone?)

7:40 – 8:10 PM – Talk 2
🧠 "AI Coding – Live Vibe Coding!"
Luke Oliff – Senior Developer Experience Engineer at Deepgram – returns to Colchester Digital with a live coding session. He’ll demo how AI can power new creative apps right before your eyes. This is a Colchester Digital first, and not to be missed!

8:10 – 8:30 PM
🤝 Final bit of networking before we wrap

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🎟️ This event is 100% free, but please RSVP on Meetup (use the free option!) or Eventbrite to help us plan the pizzas.

We can’t wait to see you there – come for the tech, stay for the people (and pizza)!

👋 See you in the Café!