PrimeConf // Best Of British
Event Information
Description
We want to celebrate the best of British digital technology talent at a one day conference at the Royal Institution, 13th June.
Full conf website > http://www.primeconf.com
Our conference is going to be a celebration of great British technology and technologists. Taking a countrywide approach we have invited guest speakers from around Britain to talk about what they know and what they do. We will also be live streaming the event so everyone who wants to can watch regardless of location.
Covering things such as: restarting computer science in UK schools, experiments in inventing products for the early majority, 21st century knitting patterns and things which feel like magazines from the 80s, growing a UK tech startup, 'Dating, Lies and Algorithms', and so much more.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
- Alice Taylor, MakieLab - LONDON
- Chris Thorpe, I Can Make - OXFORD
- Matthew Somerville, mySociety (& many other great things) - BIRMINGHAM
- Mazz Mosley, freelance technologist - LEIGHTON BUZZARD
- Ian Forrester, BBC R&D - MANCHESTER
- Amy Mather, MiniGirlGeek - MANCHESTER
- Dr Tom Crick, Senior Lecturer in Computing Science, Cardiff Metropolitan University - CARDIFF
- Priya Prakash, Founder, Design for Social Change - LONDON
- Gordon Hollingworth, chief engineer @ Raspberry Pi - CAMBRIDGE
- Herb Kim, Founder & CEO of Thinking Digital Limited - NEWCASTLE
We want to put a smile on your face and blow your noodles with home-grown awesome.
This conference will have a Code of Conduct in place (http://confcodeofconduct.com/) which will be in place on the site when it goes up in the next week or two. By coming along to the conference you agree to being a decent and lovely human being, which I know all of you are :-)