{"pageProps":{"page":1,"posts":[{"date":"2019-02-03T11:43:32Z","layout":"post","title":"Join us for the nor(DEV):con 2019 Business Sessions: Running a business is hard!","author":["paulgrenyer"],"hero":"/static/images/pages/posts/2019-02-03-join-us-for-the-nordevcon-2019-business-sessions-running-a-business-is-hard/hero.jpg","tags":["NorDevCon","Announcement"],"excerpt":"Join us for the nor(DEV):con 2019 Business Sessions on Friday 22nd February! Get your Early Bird tickets here before the price goes up after Friday! Running a business is hard John Gostling Running a business is hard….harder when you don’t have much experience of running a busine...","body":"\nJoin us for the [nor(DEV):con 2019](http://nordevcon.com) Business Sessions on Friday 22nd February! Get your Early Bird tickets [here](http://nordevcon-2019.eventbrite.com) before the price goes up after Friday!\n\n## Running a business is hard\n\nJohn Gostling\n\nRunning a business is hard….harder when you don’t have much experience of running a business! 6 years ago I joined Breakwater IT as a Systems Engineer, I quickly realised there was so much potential that had yet to be tapped into, and every day since then my focus has been on releasing this, creating a better company to work with, and to work for. It’s been a constantly evolving journey, 2 steps forward, one step back (sometimes two!), but things are finally starting to fall into place.\n\nThis is a very open self-appraisal of the how we have transformed a loss making company into one that turns a profit and is currently growing at 20% year on year.\n\n### Crack the motivation code!\n\nCassandra Andrews\n\nImagine if you knew precisely what motivated each member of your team, how motivated they were and what you could do to improve their motivation!\n\nCassandra Andrews interactive workshop focuses on motivation in the workplace and introduces ‘motivational maps’, an incredibly accurate and user-friendly tool which enables us to unlock and measure employee motivation.\n\nUnderstanding exactly what motivates individuals in an organisation can be used with significant impact to support business growth and profitability by maximising employee and team motivation, retain employees and recruit the right people to complement existing teams.\n\nAt the workshop you will discover how to create high performing teams by learning:\n\n- What motivation is, how it can be measured and how it impacts the workforce.\n- About the nine motivators identified in motivational maps.\n- How to increase team performance by identifying conflicts in motivation.\n\nTo enable all delegates to get their own ‘wow’ moment from the workshop, there will be an opportunity for four attendees to win a complimentary individual motivational map with feedback/insight session and discounted motivational maps available for other attendees.\n\n### Developing an app to promote emotional resilience\n\nUEA\n\nSince summer 2017, Dr Laura Biggart and Dr Kamena Henshaw, from the School of Psychology, have been working with UEA computer science students and Steve Jones and Adam Ziolkowski from JoziTech to develop a student support app. Currently the app is focused on supporting students’ transition into Higher Education. In this session we will talk about the development of the app, the research background to the features, and the feedback since our launch in September 2018. We will conclude with a discussion of our future plans, including evaluation of the app and our plans to work with other organisations to develop bespoke OpenUp apps\n\n### Don’t fall over like Elon Musk did – How to stay energised and disrupt an industry\n\nIan Hacon\n\nElon Musk is one of the most famous workaholic cases in recent years. So much so, many others quoted him as a badge of honour when they too worked too hard. In 2018, his wheel fell off, forced to take a total break due to exhaustion. This session will help you understand how looking after your own energy is good for business and you will leave with some easily implementable steps to do so.\n\n### Orchestrated Mobility – Changing The Way We Move\n\nJohn Fagan\n\nBy late 2030, its predicted that 95% U.S. passenger miles travelled will be served by on-demand vehicles owned by fleets, not individuals, in a new business model Transport-as-a-Service (TaaS).\n\nCitizens will pay a monthly fee to go anywhere they wish, much like we do today using on demand services for music and video, like Spotify and Netflix.\n\nTaaS will unify public, private & autonomous transportation into an efficient service and is predicted to deliver a largely carbon-free road transportation system.\n\nIn this talk i will…\n\n- Vision of Transport as a Service\n- Key Drivers (Technologies, Autonomous electric vehicles, ride sharing, costs and barriers)\n- Impacts on society, economics and the environment\n- Who should be the Netflix for Transport?\n- Examples of use cases and disruption happening today\n\n### Harnessing the power of subscription technology\n\nJuliana Meyer\n\nThousands of professionals are discovering ways to transform the way they work and the way they earn a living. Leveraging the skills we each have, the talk uncovers how anyone can can build their own subscription business using the knowledge and talents they already have.\n\nI’ll go deep into the steps needed, opportunities available, the how and why, and what has worked and not worked for others. This has already been a game changer for others who learnt this from my previous talks which then transformed their lives, their living, and their opportunities.\n\nGiven the key trends of subscription, technology and self-education, I’ll explore and explain how anyone can successfully launch their own apps from home to generate a passive income and lift the lid on exchanging time for money.\n\n***\n\nGet your tickets here: ","path":"/posts/2019-02-03-join-us-for-the-nordevcon-2019-business-sessions-running-a-business-is-hard"},{"date":"2018-11-04T14:19:22Z","layout":"post","title":"Badminton","author":["paulgrenyer"],"hero":"/static/images/pages/posts/2018-11-04-badminton/hero.jpg","tags":["Announcement"],"excerpt":"When: Friday 16th November 2018 5.30pm to 6.30pm Where: 69 King St, Norwich, NR1 1QW RSVP: Many of us need more exercise! We've booked a court and will play doubles from a team of 6. £2 towards the Court.50p entry for non-members of the sports centre.£1 for racket hire. Free Car ...","body":"\n**When:** Friday 16th November 2018 5.30pm to 6.30pm\n\n**Where:** 69 King St, Norwich, NR1 1QW\n\n**RSVP:** \n\nMany of us need more exercise! We've booked a court and will play doubles from a team of 6.\n\n- £2 towards the Court.\n- 50p entry for non-members of the sports centre.\n- £1 for racket hire.\n\nFree Car Parking is available within the Blue Zone of the Centre's Car Park, see the map for directions.","path":"/posts/2018-11-04-badminton"},{"date":"2018-11-04T14:16:35Z","layout":"post","title":"How the employer voice can influence technical & vocational training","author":["paulgrenyer"],"hero":"/static/images/pages/posts/2018-11-04-how-the-employer-voice-can-influence-technical-and-vocational-training/hero.png","tags":["Announcement"],"excerpt":"When: Monday 12th November 2018 5.30pm to 6.30pm Where: The Library Restaurant, 4A Guildhall Hill, Norwich, NR2 1JH RSVP: How the employer voice can influence technical & vocational training and apprenticeships in the digital and IT skills sector over the next 5 years. Ruth Royle...","body":"\n**When:** Monday 12th November 2018 5.30pm to 6.30pm\n\n**Where:** The Library Restaurant, 4A Guildhall Hill, Norwich, NR2 1JH\n\n**RSVP:** \n\n### How the employer voice can influence technical & vocational training and apprenticeships in the digital and IT skills sector over the next 5 years.\n\n**Ruth Royle & Roz Hicks**\n\nThe Government’s agenda for the wider field of technical and vocational education alongside apprenticeships is changing. As a large FE College and apprenticeship provider we believe that employers are central to this process and our aim this evening is to start meaningful dialogue into how we can enable employers to both support and challenge us as we launch the new T Level curriculum and apprenticeship standards. We want to hear from you about the challenges you have in recruiting employees and how we can work together to fill the gap and make a difference to the next generation.\n\nThe goal of the session is to begin to investigate where local businesses could help us trial the industrial placement model and how we can develop our working relationship over a number of years and ask you as employers what should our curriculum look like?","path":"/posts/2018-11-04-how-the-employer-voice-can-influence-technical-and-vocational-training"},{"date":"2018-11-04T14:14:09Z","layout":"post","title":"Special: Azure Sphere: Intelligent Edge & Logging is Hot Again (with free food!)","author":["paulgrenyer"],"hero":"/static/images/pages/posts/2018-11-04-special-azure-sphere-intelligent-edge-and-logging-is-hot-again-with-free-food/hero.png","tags":["Announcement"],"excerpt":"When: Thursday 8th November 2018 6:15pm to 9:00pm Where: Modality Systems, Rosebery Court, Central Ave, Norwich, NR7 0HS RSVP: Azure Sphere: Intelligent Edge (plus an update on Norfolk network and smart sensor concepts) Industry largely underestimates the critical societal need t...","body":"\n**When:** Thursday 8th November 2018 6:15pm to 9:00pm\n\n**Where:** Modality Systems, Rosebery Court, Central Ave, Norwich, NR7 0HS\n\n**RSVP:** \n\n### Azure Sphere: Intelligent Edge (plus an update on Norfolk network and smart sensor concepts)\n\nIndustry largely underestimates the critical societal need to embody the highest levels of security in every network-connected device – every child’s toy, every household’s appliances, and every industry’s equipment. High development and maintenance costs have limited strong security to high-cost or high margin devices. Azure Sphere brings together the best of Microsoft’s expertise in cloud, software, and silicon—resulting in a unique approach to security that starts in the silicon and extends to the cloud. This session will give a short brief on two projects I have been working on for some time. Azure Sphere and the Norfolk wide deployment of The Things Network LoRaWAN. Both present enormous opportunities for technology solutions and broad societal impact. And honestly, I can make this fun and entertaining – I promise!\n\n**Paul Foster**\n\nSince joining Microsoft in 1994, Paul Foster has worked across a wide range of sectors and customers, providing a mix of technical and strategic guidance around the creative use of technology in relation to their business needs. Paul is currently a senior software engineer at Microsoft, focused on the building of next generation sensor webs which automate the gathering of data from disparate sources, and how to enable the creative analysis of this data to start a new era of perception. He is the initiator of The Things Network Norfolk community group. For a short-time Paul was a member of a high-wire flying trapeze circus troupe, is a keen roboticist and an international marathon runner.\n\n### Logging Is Hot Again - Gael Fraiteur (PostSharp - postsharp.net)\n\nIf you think logging is boring, stop yawning and think again.\n\nDesigned for the ages of monolithic synchronous applications running in data centers or on the desktop, traditional text-file-oriented logging frameworks such as log4net or nlog are becoming obsolete. New tools, best-practices and standards are emerging to make sense out of massively distributed and asynchronous applications that run in the cloud, in containers, or in mobile devices. Solutions for a world where storage and computing power are cheap and can be provisioned within minutes.\n\nStarting with the question:\n\n> “What do we want to log and why?”\n\nThis talk gives a bird’s eye overview of the new logging landscape. It introduces open-source solutions like Elasticsearch, Fluentd or OpenTracing, and commercial services like Application Insights. On a code level, it shows how PostSharp can help to generate highly detailed logs with minimal efforts.\n\nThe key takeaway of this talk is a broad understanding of the business of logging and application instrumentation, so you’re ready to make choices on your own.\n\n**Gael Fraiteur**\n\nGael Fraiteur has been passionately programming since childhood; building and selling his first commercial software at age 12. He is Founder and Principal Engineer at PostSharp Technologies based in Prague, Czech Republic. Gael is a widely recognized expert in aspect-oriented programming and pattern-aware compilers. He speaks at developer conferences in Europe and the United States.","path":"/posts/2018-11-04-special-azure-sphere-intelligent-edge-and-logging-is-hot-again-with-free-food"},{"date":"2018-11-04T14:12:18Z","layout":"post","title":"The Very Slow Time Machine with Jez Higgins & Me TV with Russel Winder","author":["paulgrenyer"],"hero":"/static/images/pages/posts/2018-11-04-the-very-slow-time-machine-with-jez-higgins-and-me-tv-with-russel-winder/hero.jpg","tags":["Announcement"],"excerpt":"When: Wednesday 7th November 2018 6:30pm to 9:00pm Where: Mills & Reeve, 1 St James Ct, Norwich NR3 1RU RSVP: The Very Slow Time Machine with Jez Higgins Archangel is a joint project involving University of Surrey, The National Archive, and The Open Data Institute, investigating ...","body":"\n**When:** Wednesday 7th November 2018 6:30pm to 9:00pm\n\n**Where:** Mills & Reeve, 1 St James Ct, Norwich NR3 1RU\n\n**RSVP:** \n\n### The Very Slow Time Machine with Jez Higgins\n\nArchangel is a joint project involving University of Surrey, The National Archive, and The Open Data Institute, investigating how we might help ensure the long-term integrity of digital documents stored in public archives.\n\nWhen an archive produces a physical artefact, its relatively easy to establish that it is indeed the original document, preserved unaltered since it was first deposited.\n\nBut a \\_digital\\_ artefact?\n\nA digital document can be infinitely copied without degradation, but can also be undetectably altered, inadvertently or deliberately, both with benign or malign intent.\n\nHow can we be confident that what we've presented with is, in fact, identical to the document that was first stored in archive?\n\nArchangel is trying to address this problem, and in this talk I'll describe some of the approaches and technologies we're using.\n\nSpoilers: Yes, it includes blockchains, but it's about the only blockchain application you'll hear of that doesn't immediately make you feel dirty. It might also include machine learning, but it's machine learning for justice.\n\n**Jez Higgins**\n\nYou may know Jez from such talks as A Browse Through ES6 or Chris & Jez's Old Skool Artisan Software Workshop. He's currently working for West Midlands Fire Service as software grandad-in-residence and on Archangel as a researcher, although by the time this talk rolls round he'll be looking to start filling his 2019 diary.\n\n### Me TV – a journey from C and Xine to Rust and GStreamer, via D with Russel Winder\n\nWhilst the Web and streaming has more or less stopped people being interested in watching OTA television on a computer, it remains a fun problem to work on. Me TV started life when creating software PVR and media centres was \"a thing\". MythTV and Kodi won that race and Me TV faded into obscurity. But I wanted a Freeview (UK DVB T2) player, not a PVR.\n\nThis presentation skims through some of the technical fun and hassles of picking up a \"dead project\" and working on it as a personal project, and then discovering there are users. There will be commentary on evolving vs rewriting codebases, some programming languages, some APIs and their bindings, and tool support.\n\nAssuming there is TV signal in the venue, there will be demonstrations.\n\nOh, and there will be code.\n\n**Russel Winder**\n\nEx-theoretical physicist. Ex-UNIX systems programmer. Ex-computer science academic. Ex-author. Ex-analyst. Ex-expert witness. Ex-Trainer. Not yet an ex-human being. Still interested in programming and programming languages. And concurrency and parallelism. And build.\n\nStill helps organise the ACCU conference ","path":"/posts/2018-11-04-the-very-slow-time-machine-with-jez-higgins-and-me-tv-with-russel-winder"},{"date":"2018-10-13T16:19:02+01:00","layout":"post","title":"Calling Companies - Showcase your Tech at Sync the City 54 Hour Startup event","author":["paulgrenyer"],"hero":"/static/images/pages/posts/2018-10-13-calling-companies-showcase-your-tech-at-sync-the-city-54-hour-startup-event/hero.jpg","tags":["SyncTheCity","Announcement"],"excerpt":"Sync the City is a great event in which you can promote, share and test your API's, Tools and Services. You could provide the vital ingredient that helps the startup teams Build & Launch a Startup in 54 Hours, and win the amazing cash prizes on offer! Sync the City 2018 is a 54 H...","body":"\nSync the City is a great event in which you can promote, share and test your API's, Tools and Services. You could provide the vital ingredient that helps the startup teams Build & Launch a Startup in 54 Hours, and win the amazing cash prizes on offer!\n\nSync the City 2018 is a 54 Hour event that brings together local entrepreneurs, developers, business managers, marketing gurus, graphic artists, students to pitch ideas for new startup companies, form teams around those ideas, and work to develop a working prototype, demo & final pitch (to win cash prizes).\n\nMore details [syncthecity.com](http://syncthecity.com)\n\nIn the past, we have had companies providing free access to address lookup API's, customer surveying services, hosting services, sentiment analysis API's and much more. Its a great opportunity to publicise your own SDK / APIs / Products to be used at the event, and put them to the test and get direct feedback.\n\nIf you are interested in getting involved, then email [syncthecity@norfolkdevelopers.com](mailto:syncthecity@norfolkdevelopers.com).","path":"/posts/2018-10-13-calling-companies-showcase-your-tech-at-sync-the-city-54-hour-startup-event"},{"date":"2018-08-14T21:45:09+01:00","layout":"post","title":"How to be a Rockstar Developer by Phil Trelford & Kayleigh Hall on Vue","author":["paulgrenyer"],"hero":"/static/images/pages/posts/2018-08-14-how-to-be-a-rockstar-developer-by-phil-trelford-and-kayleigh-hall-on-vue/hero.png","tags":["Announcement"],"excerpt":"When: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 @ 6:30pm to 9:00pm Where: The Elms, 300 St Faith's Rd, Norwich, NR6 7BJ RSVP: How to be a Rockstar Developer Phil Trelford You’ve seen the adverts from agents seeking rock star and ninja developers, but what does that even mean? In this session,...","body":"\n**When:** Wednesday, September 5, 2018 @ 6:30pm to 9:00pm\n\n**Where:** The Elms, 300 St Faith's Rd, Norwich, NR6 7BJ\n\n**RSVP:** \n\n**How to be a Rockstar Developer**\n\n[Phil Trelford](https://www.linkedin.com/in/philliptrelford/)\n\nYou’ve seen the adverts from agents seeking rock star and ninja developers, but what does that even mean? In this session, we’ll look at what it takes to be a true rock star developer and we’ll also venture into the space of rock star data scientists. Like true rock stars, we’ll eschew software development and instead focus on attitude, volume, tone and to a lesser extent skills.\n\nExpect a light hearted rock ballad in the key of F#, that explores the present as well as the future of rock star software development. Can your musical rock star skills be used not just in the current metaphorical sense, but also literally, to write code and explore data using type providers? Leave your laptops at home and bring in your guitar or uke instead to find out! _Spoiler alert: actually quite negative on Rockstar Developers._\n\n**Vue**\n\n[Kayleigh Hall](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayleigh-hall-35157614)\n\nTBC","path":"/posts/2018-08-14-how-to-be-a-rockstar-developer-by-phil-trelford-and-kayleigh-hall-on-vue"},{"date":"2018-08-14T21:28:45+01:00","layout":"post","title":"The nor(DEV):biz Big Dinner","author":["paulgrenyer"],"hero":"/static/images/pages/posts/2018-08-14-the-nordevbiz-big-dinner/hero.jpg","tags":["Announcement"],"excerpt":"This event DOES NOT contain Tech! (It will contain lots of fun though!) Norfolk Developers and Barclays Eagle Lab Norwich present The nor(DEV):biz Big Dinner When: Monday 1st October, 2018 @ 6.30pm to 9.30pm Where: The Library Restaurant, 4A Guildhall Hill, Norwich, NR2 1JH How m...","body":"\n**This event DOES NOT contain Tech!** (It will contain lots of fun though!)\n\nNorfolk Developers and Barclays Eagle Lab Norwich present\n\n## The nor(DEV):biz Big Dinner\n\n**When:** Monday 1st October, 2018 @ 6.30pm to 9.30pm\n\n**Where:** The Library Restaurant, 4A Guildhall Hill, Norwich, NR2 1JH\n\n**How much:** £20\n\n**RSVP:** \n\nJoin the best Norfolk and Norwich tech companies for dinner and hear about the new nor(DEV):biz subscription model. Hear from Barclays Eagle Labs Norwich and about the amazing work carried out by the Anchorage Trust while enjoying good food and great company. To round off the evening we’ll be hearing from Jon Bradford.\n\n**About John Bradford**\n\nJon Bradford is a highly experienced early stage investor. Jon was previously the MD of Techstars London, co-founder of F6S and tech.eu, and an advisor to Dubai Future Accelerator. Jon is the Director of the John Bradfield Centre. More: \n\n**About nor(DEV):biz**\n\nThe aims of nor(DEV):biz (Norfolk Developers Business) are:\n\n- to be the go-to group for local businesses requiring a technology solution.\n- to facilitate and increase referrals and collaboration among Norfolk’s tech businesses.\n- to help close the digital skills gap.\n- to facilitate better collaboration between technology businesses and academic institutions.\n- to have a great meal with great company","path":"/posts/2018-08-14-the-nordevbiz-big-dinner"},{"date":"2018-08-14T21:10:36+01:00","layout":"post","title":"Breakfast with John Gostling - Managing Director of Breakwater IT","author":["paulgrenyer"],"hero":"/static/images/pages/posts/2018-08-14-breakfast-with-john-gostling-managing-director-of-breakwater-it/hero.jpg","tags":["Announcement"],"excerpt":"When: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 @ 7:30am to 8:30am Where: The Maids Head Hotel, Tombland, Norwich, NR3 1LB How much: £20 RSVP: John Gostling is Managing Director of Breakwater, an IT services provider offering solutions and support to a variety of organisations, from charities t...","body":"\n**When:** Tuesday, September 4, 2018 @ 7:30am to 8:30am\n\n**Where:** The Maids Head Hotel, Tombland, Norwich, NR3 1LB\n\n**How much:** £20\n\n**RSVP:** \n\n[John Gostling](https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gostling-a461401a/) is Managing Director of [Breakwater](http://breakwaterit.co.uk/), an IT services provider offering solutions and support to a variety of organisations, from charities through to professional firms, leisure and tourism and the education sectors.\n\nBreakwater takes the approach that by identifying a ‘platform’ of technologies that work together, standardising networks and procedures, real efficiencies and increased productivity can be created. Of course, staff are the most important element and Breakwater really believe that investing in staff and culture are key to performance.\n\nJohn has been working within the IT industry for 20 years and is invested in creating a knowledge-driven team that understands their client needs. John will talk about his journey at Breakwater and the exciting innovations that have enabled their client-base to strengthen their IT infrastructures. He will give us an insight into some of the world-leading technologies partners Breakwater works with and the security, cloud and disaster recovery solutions.","path":"/posts/2018-08-14-breakfast-with-john-gostling-managing-director-of-breakwater-it"},{"date":"2018-08-14T20:55:37+01:00","layout":"post","title":"FREE Workshop: Tax and accounting for owner managed businesses","author":["paulgrenyer"],"hero":"/static/images/pages/posts/2018-08-14-free-workshop-tax-and-accounting-for-owner-managed-businesses/hero.jpg","tags":["Announcement"],"excerpt":"When: Monday, September 3, 2018 @ 5:30pm to 6:30pm Where: 4A Guildhall Hill, Norwich, NR2 1JH RSVP: Anthony will cover topics like tax efficient profit extraction, research and development tax credits, budgeting and forecasting techniques, key performance indicators etc. The aim ...","body":"\n**When:** Monday, September 3, 2018 @ 5:30pm to 6:30pm\n\n**Where:** 4A Guildhall Hill, Norwich, NR2 1JH\n\n**RSVP**: \n\nAnthony will cover topics like tax efficient profit extraction, research and development tax credits, budgeting and forecasting techniques, key performance indicators etc. The aim of the session would be for attendees to be able to take some knowledge away that they can actually use themselves in their business.\n\n[Anthony Brice](https://www.ajbriceaccountancy.co.uk/)","path":"/posts/2018-08-14-free-workshop-tax-and-accounting-for-owner-managed-businesses"}],"total":11,"tagSlug":"Announcement"},"__N_SSG":true}