Storytelling: Shifting the Culture Through Sharing Experiences

Featuring Bianca Sias

Join Bianca and learn how to understand how a great story can transform culture, craft an engaging narrative to communicate strategy and deliver information through stories.

The Role of Research in Building Mentally Healthy Workplaces

Featuring Lea Milligan

Lea Milligan, CEO of MQ: Mental Health Research, the UK’s leading mental health research charity, joins us to talk about MQ’s innovative new Workplace Mental Health Research Programme.

How To Make Loveliness

Featuring Bruce Lawson

Bruce Lawson, one of the co-editors of the HTML5.3 spec will take you on a magical treasure hunt around HTML, showing you marvellous gifts and hidden wonders that will also help future-proof your code and turn you into a time-travelling front-end superhero, adored by millions*.

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How to break into tech (from those who made it)

Featuring Alex Farrell, Kimberley Hendry, Charlene Jennett and Jennifer Kulendran

One of the most common questions asked at London Tech Ladies is "How can I get into tech? In this event, you'll hear from four successful tech professionals who will share their career stories and tips.

Techstinction : How Our Use of Technology Will be the Death of Us All, Unless We Act Now

Featuring Barry Chandler

In this talk, Barry Chandler (SEACOM lead) be drawing light on how our tech habits and working practices impact climate change and discuss what we can do now to reduce costs, improve our overall agility and bring us back from the brink of Techstinction.

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The Value of Communities of Practice

Featuring Amanda Light and Emily Webber

Have you ever worked in an organisation where you were disconnected from other people with similar roles or passions?

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Dynamic Reteaming

Featuring Chris Smith and Heidi Helfand

Whether you like it or not, teams come and go in the workplace or are subject to change in someway. This may be under your control, it may not.

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Team Topologies in Action

Featuring John Kilmister, Paul Ingles, Matthew Skelton, Ivan Krnic and Richard Allen

How Value Stream Management Supercharges your Teams

Featuring Richard Knaster

In this talk Richard Knaster introduces Value Stream Management (VSM), a set of lean principles and practices that optimizes people, processes, and technology to continuously improve business value flow, from ideation to customer delivery.

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Innovation in the Wild

Featuring Tao Baker, Riccardo Mariti and Gabrielle Benefield

Gabrielle Benefield introduces the innovation imperative, why innovation is a necessity, and how to create a sustainable innovation strategy. Joining her are two provocateurs to share their stories of pragmatic innovation in the finance and restaurant industries.

Tooling Up: Contract testing with Pact

Featuring András Bubics

Pact facilitates a workflow allowing testing & verification to happen on each side independently, ensuring that things can be deployed together. Join András Bubics to understand how you can speed up dev & deploy and abolish end-to-end tests.

Data is the 'Weakest Link'

Featuring Simone Steel

Many large organisations still struggle to go beyond local optimisation in functions and departments. In this talk Simone Steel explores how data connects those business and technology silos, and how surfacing data flows can help organisations move from local to system optimisation.

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HSBC: Delivering Value in Our New Way of Working

Featuring Simon Hall, Anna Luccock, James Chew and Chris Orson

Many organisations are experiencing shifts in the way both clients and employees expect to work —especially as a result of the global pandemic. In this panel, discover how HSBC has approached this via leadership culture, new tech, organisational design, and how it is delivering value to clients.

Agile Product Development in Practice

Featuring Lucy Broomfield

What are the fundamentals you need to know in agile product development?

Formal Verification of Subsets of the Rust Language

Featuring Bas Spitters

In this presentation, Bas will give a very brief introduction to interactive formal verification of programming languages before providing an overview of three projects that his team is working on at the CoBRA institute.

Rust at Concordium

Featuring Thomas Dinsdale-Young

In this talk, Thomas Dinsdale-Young will look at the use of Rust at Concordium. Three core components of Concordium's block-chain node are implemented in Rust: the peer-to-peer networking layer; cryptographic protocols, and the interpreter for their WebAssembly smart contracts.

Experimenting with Faster Elliptic Curves in Rust

Featuring Diego F. Aranha

In this talk, Diego F. Aranha discusses the results of experiments improving the efficiency of constant-time cryptographic algorithms implemented in Rust, with applications to faster Elliptic Curve Cryptography of practical interest.

JavaScript: The Grumpy Parts

Featuring Rob Richardson

No matter how much you love JavaScript, you've got to admit: it's weird. Why does this behave as it does? How does variable scope work? Why do we have such comical behaviour when comparing mixed types? In this talk, Rob Richardson pulls back the covers to explore how JS truly works.

Impactful Communication

Featuring Rosemarie Wilson

Communication is a building block for developing strong relationships with ourselves and others. Often we don’t take the time to review how effective our communication is and ‘yes’ that does include how we think and communicate with ourselves.

Product Research Rules

Featuring C. Todd Lombardo

This talk will lay out nine simple rules that combine user research, market research, and product analytics to quickly discover insights and build products customers truly need.