Formidable & Friends Birthday Bash!

Hi there! You are hereby invited to join Formidable London's 1st Birthday Party.

Think of it like a meetup, but with cake. We've invited some of our friends to speak about React, Web and software development related topics, accompanied by food and drink. Oh, and did we mention cake?

• 6:30 Doors open for food, beverage and cake.

• 7:00 Kickoff from Jani Eväkallio (https://twitter.com/jevakallio)

• 7:05 Talks from Sara Vieira (https://twitter.com/NikkitaFTW), Oliver Turner (https://twitter.com/oliverturner), and a Special Mystery Guest Speaker

• 8:00 Time to chat, eat, and drink

Talks

CSS Hates You - Sara Vieira

In this talk we are going to have some fun on expense of CSS, because let's face it, sometimes it's like CSS hates us personally. We are going to look at some common pitfalls of CSS and how to fix them, or sometimes we are just going to laugh at them.

Sara is a Front-End Developer at @YLDio (https://twitter.com/YLDio), open sorcerer, maker of useless modules, Blogger, Drummer and horror movie fan girl.

The More You Give The More You Get - Oliver Turner

"Building a diverse team is hard", people say. Maybe, but with the right effort it happens. Oliver shows how a focused approach to diversity at Ticketmaster created a pipeline of high-performing engineering talent from under-represented groups.

Oliver is a Front-End architect at Ticketmaster, and a coach at Codebar, and probably the nicest person on tech twitter.

3 Tricks You Probably Didn't Know You Can Do With React 16 Array Returns - Special Guest

The humble "return []" is one of the most awaited features in React 16, but there's a lot more it can do than just remove annoying wrapper elements.

Our guest speaker prefers to fly by night. He works at Facebook, and there's a fair chance you're using some of his open source libraries right now. Why is he so secretive? Is he on a lam from the law? Only one way to find out: Come see for yourself.