Colchester Digital Conference 2019
Colchester Digital's first Annual Conference showcasing local talent and some fantastic guest speakers
Details
When
Friday, May 10, 2019
Where
Curzon Colchester
Roman House, 19 Queen Street
Colchester
Essex
CO1 2PH
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On the day
08:30 - 09:00
Registration
Grab a lanyard and some goodies and head up to the First floor for tea and coffee, to meet other attendees and visit our sponsors and exhibitors.
09:00 - 09:20
A warm welcome to all attendees of Colchester Digital's first one day conference from one of the founding members of the group and what to expect today
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Karen Ainley
Digital Marketing
Mosaic
09:20 - 09:25
Intermission
Last chance to grab refreshements or a comfort break before we begin
09:25 - 09:55
Kerry shares her experiences of convincing organisations she's worked at to put content strategy at the heart of their web projects.
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Kerry Cole
Marketing Strategist
Green Emerald Marketing
10:00 - 10:30
Creative Director Frazer Merrick explains how Teaboy Games went from university graduates to featured app store developers in little over 6 months
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Frazer Merrick
Composer & Sound Designer
Teaboy Games
10:30 - 10:45
Morning Break
Take a break for refreshments
10:45 - 11:15
We'll look at how biometric technology can take UX testing to the next level by incorporating eye tracking, facial recognition and skin response.
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Michael Dravnieks
UX Consultant
Coast Digital
11:20 - 12:00
Design Systems are so hot right now, Stu discusses the parts that make up one and offers advice to help you start or maintain your current system.
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Stu Robson
Web Developer
Always Twisted
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch Break
13:00 - 13:30
Hosting at scale for pennies using Hugo and Amazon S3 with Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment as an example process
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Ric Harvey
AWS Evangelist
Amazon
13:35 - 14:05
Luke is going to attempt to share his experience (read: paranoia) for software security and how he makes sure commits in his name were definitely him
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Luke Oliff
Developer Advocate
Nexmo
14:05 - 14:20
Afternoon Break
14:20 - 14:50
Exploring the most modern protocols for communicating between applications and services such as JSON-RPC, pub/sub, gRPC and comparing them to much more
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Ashleigh Simonelli
Developer
Velocity Black
14:55 - 15:35
Rachel explores some of the things coming to CSS Layout, including the much requested subgrid feature, plus how to get how to get involved with CSS.
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Rachel Andrew
Web Developer
Perch