Designing a Feminist Alexa: An Experiment in Feminist Conversation Design

Featuring Dr. Charlotte Webb

The Feminist Internet is a collective whose work pushes to create a fairer and more equal internet for all.

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Keynote: Closing the Skills Gap: Russ Shaw in Conversation with Sarah Luxford

Featuring Sarah Luxford and Russ Shaw

The tech sector has witnessed unprecedented growth in recent years and is of increasing significance to the performance of the UK economy. The pace at which the sector continues to expand means that demand for skilled digital workers is outstripping supply – tech companies are confronted with a...

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Altruistic Algorithms? Data for Good Done Right

Featuring Tom Wagstaff and Christine Henry

DataKind is a global network of pro bono data scientists, helping charities do good with data.

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Panel Discussion on Diversity and Inclusivity in Tech hosted by Nancy Evbuomwan

Featuring Nancy Evbuomwan

Join us for a panel session to discuss Diversity and Inclusivity in Tech hosted by Nancy.

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Lightning Talk: Putting Top Coding Challenge Solutions to Work

Featuring Angela Bates

Hurricanes, floods, wild fires, earthquakes and other natural disasters claim thousands of lives every year. Although you can not prevent natural disasters, in today's data-driven world, it is developers and technologists that hold the key to preparing for them and mitigating their...

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Lightning Talk: Quality Education for 25 Million Out of School Kids

Featuring Ali Chaudhry

Pakistan has 6th largest population of the world with more than 25 million out of school children. More than 50 million children study in government schools where the quality of education is below average with no focus on developing 21st Century Skills.

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How Continuous Learning Helps Closing the Skills Gap In Software Engineering and Development

Featuring Wendy Devolder

Wendy will share how a culture supportive of community-led continuous learning helps close skills and talent gaps in your engineering team.

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Inspire and Engage Digital Makers of All Ages and Backgrounds

Featuring Alan O’Donohoe

If you’re not already passing it on down - what sort of legacy will you leave?

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Hate Speech as a Service

Featuring Timothy Quinn

Moderating discriminatory user content is a significant challenge for many online communities, especially in today's climate of polarized ideologies and increased xenophobia. Timothy Quinn, technology lead at Hatebase, will discuss some of the ways Hatebase has devised to identify and analyze...

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Psychological Safety: Overprotection or Not?

Featuring Gitte Klitgaard

Psychological safety is being able to show and employ one's self without fear of negative consequences of self-image, status or career" (Kahn).

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Diversity in Tech: Throwaway or Here to Stay?

Featuring Emma Obanye

For every 1 of venture capital investment in the UK, just 1p goes to all-female led teams. Diversity initiatives and a government agenda are now in place to counter this long-lived trend. But do they have a backbone or are they just well-meaning Initiatives that only scratch the surface of the...

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Keynote: Digital Activism - Saving the World with Open Data

Featuring Jaya Chakrabarti MBE

Jaya will talk about her journey as a Norm Entrepreneur, from digital agency to tech social enterprise, and how we all need to go beyond tech to save the planet.

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Lean UX (User Centered Design) Workshops

Featuring Jay Suthar

Are you interested in learning more about the road map of user experience? Don't miss this talk by Jay Suthar at Civic Reactor!

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Civic Reactor App

Check out the progress of Civic Reactor's latest project: the Civic Reactor App!

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Meals on Wheels

Check out the latest work on the Meals on Wheels project and how you can get involved!

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Care Home Project

Have you wondered what became of the first Civic Reactor project? Check out this talk that explains where the Care Home project is at now!

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Robot Football

Local team not doing so well? Never mind, you need Robot Football instead! Check out Neil Lambeth's latest project!

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Arduino + Raspberry Pi + ESP8266 = Robot Teacher

How do you go about building a robot for teaching computer science? Michael Margolis will be telling us how arduino, raspberry pi and ESP8266 all working together does just that! Check it out

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Project Big Button

Barry Byford talks about his latest project using micro:bit and bluetooth to create a method of exchanging data between a number of Bluetooth Low Energy devices/sensors from a Linux hub. Don't miss it!

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BrightSign

Featuring Hadeel Ayoub

Join us for an evening of lightning talks, hardware products showcase, mentoring and networking! Hadeel Ayoub will be telling us more about "smart gloves" at this month's London Arduino

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