Diversity Matters with Jamie Knight and Mike Southgate

At this month's Diversity Matters, we are excited to be hosting Jamie Knight and Mike Southgate who will give an exciting talk about their experience in designing software for the fintech world with the added constraint of autism.

Don't miss this opportunity to gain rare insight into this topical issue from a unique perspective.

PROGRAMME

18:30-19:00 Sign-in and get settled
19:00-19:45 Jamie and Mike's presentation
19:45-20:00 Q&A

Designing Software Autistically

Constraints are great. Whether it be time, money, skills or finding a market constraints define boundaries and edges. Mastering the interplay between constraints and value is at the heart of agile working. In constraint comes opportunity and challenge.

At ERMI, we have another constraint. Autism.

This is a presentation about constraints and lenses. What happens when you apply an engineering lens to autism and an autistic lens to engineering. Covering topics from serverless to spoons, communication to containers, this presentation provides a different angle on the financial technology world. This talk leaves you with practical example of delivering at scale using tools such as AWS, docker, nodejs, gherkin and good old fashioned CSV. "

About the Speakers

Jamie Knight + Lion
Jamie and Lion are an autistic duo who live in Romford. They are not very good at writing third party bios and are a bit shy. If asked they would tell you about their work. Almost 10 years at the BBC working on everything from iPlayer Radio to children’s gaming. Jamie’s current job title is ‘senior research engineer’ within the digital accessibility team. Jamie’s research focus is VR accessibility looking at presence, interaction, narrative and facilitation. Lion’s BBC career has mostly been in antelope management. Outside of work Jamie has way too many side projects. He likes to make things and has a kit car and a number of custom built mountain bikes to his name. At the weekend he works on crime fighting software which currently monitors around $2bn of payments a week for fraud and money laundering. Jamie has been speaking about his autistic life for over 10 years and has presented at nearly 100 events both big and small. He’s also contributed to books, magazines and co-presented a podcast series for the BBC.

Mike Southgate
Mike is a former Director & MLRO of Google Payments and an expert on financial crime, money laundering and terrorism. Mike currently works for an investment bank and sits on the executive of AFEP, a trade body for payment firms.

FREE TICKETS

Attendance is free for registered delegates, and you can register here: https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/11795-diversity-matters

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

WHAT: Diversity Matters with Jamie Knight and Mike Southgate

WHEN: Monday 25th March

WHERE: Skills Matter, CodeNode

REGISTRATION(FREE): https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/11795-diversity-matters