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Future Sync 2019

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Plymouth University
Drake Circus, Plymouth, England PL4 8AA, United Kingdom
Future Sync is a tech conference keeping you in-sync with the latest digital trends.

The 2019 event took place on 25th April at Plymouth University, where we were joined by an audience of 250 developers, designers and business leaders from around the South West for a day of talks, networking and an interactive exhibition.
Talk #1

Business of Software - Lessons Learned So Far (and What I Wish I'd Known)

Chris is a software consultant, developer and director at Plymouth Software Limited. His goal in business is to end the waste of time and resources organisations spend developing unnecessary software, and help them optimise their process to deliver successful apps.

Chris works with business owners, organisations and software teams to implement lightweight agile practice, and build continuous improvement and delivery into their software development process. Today, Chris primarily helps teams building apps with Rails (Ruby), Android (Java and Kotlin), iOS (Swift), and Docker. He works with organisations such as The National Trust for Scotland and Plymouth University. Chris also works with early-stage businesses to help refine their software strategy, validate their ideas, and build great products.

Chris Blunt

Talk #2

Realtime with Vue.js

Paul Rose is an experienced Web Development & Technical Leadership Consultant providing technical consultancy to businesses of all sizes. He offers a range of services on a project or contract basis including Web Development, User Experience Analysis, User Interaction & Interface design and development, Technical Architecture & Operations, and Technical Leadership.

Paul's talk will be a live coding session building a real-time app with Laravel & Vue.js.

Paul Rose

Talk #3

Exoplanet Explorer: an Immersive Experience Beyond Reach

Julia Le Gallo is a Business Development and Marketing Manager at Engine House, an award-winning animation studio based in Redruth, Cornwall. Julia is Engine House's first point of contact for developing animation projects with their clients. She is also the driving force behind the company's direction, looking at ways to diversify their activities and let their creativity thrive in the best possible way.

Julia will talk about Exoplanet Explorers project and the challenges they faced designing the experiences, mainly finding the right software, techniques and making the visuals scientifically accurate. Julia will explain how translating scientific data into a visual immersive experience can be a powerful and inspiring outreach tool, and how designing high-end immersive projects like Exoplanet Explorers can provide limitless possibilities for visual and emotional experiences.

Julia Le Gallo

Talk #4

Changing our Relationship with Tech - Do we Have a Responsibility as Designers?

Tom is the Digital Planner at The Moment, having spent his career exploring the relationship between audiences, content and technology. In short, his experience has taught him that understanding the audience and being able to creatively inspire an emotional response through the right digital technology/channels ensures high engagement, and more importantly, dictates clear behaviour/actions. Tom has been responsible for a range of ‘digital’ projects, from major digital transformation for large corporations to activation projects for start-ups and new brands.

Every part of work and home lives is saturated with tech. But we’re no longer in control, our personal data has become currency and humans have become completely co-dependent on digital services. You could say that the inherent ‘design’ of social networks and online services is to encourage re-use, to reward addictive behaviour, to craft experiences that never end. In his talk, Tom will discuss if we have a responsibility as designers to change this and to help create a world where humans have a better, more positive relationship with tech.

Tom French

Talk #5

How to be a Web A/V artist

Ruth John is an award nominated digital artist, web consultant, keynote speaker and writer, with 15 years of experience in the digital industry. As well as being a Google Developer Expert, Ruth is on the board of directors for Bath Digital Festival and during her career has worked for many notable companies including O2 and BSkyB, as well as clients such as the BBC, NBC, Cancer Research UK, Heineken and Channel 4 among others. Ruth is one of the { Live : JS } founders, a collective which brings audio and visual code to life, in live performances across the globe.

Ruth John

Talk #6

Building Complex Layouts with CSS Grid

Michelle Barker is a front-end developer with a passion for CSS and a background in design, illustration and events management. By day she builds UX-driven experiences for Ordoo, a mobile ordering startup. She is a prolific writer on her blog, CSS {In Real Life}, and has authored articles for several other publications, including CSS Tricks, Smashing Magazine and the Pastry Box Project, to name a few.

When it comes to crafting layouts on the web, CSS Grid is more powerful than anything we’ve had available to us before. In her talk, Michelle will look at ways in which we can harness the power of Grid to build complex, responsive, two-dimensional components, taking advantage of some less familiar properties. Michelle will also demonstrate how we can use CSS variables to keep our Grid code DRY, reusable and maintainable.

Michelle Barker

Talk #7

Digital Tech the People and the Potential

DR RUPA CHILVERS is a Programme Manager at the South West Academic Health Science Network. She is an RSA Fellow, BPS Member and holds a doctorate in public health and policy. Rupa is currently focussing on digital health and care technologies with a strong interest in human factors and use of research in supporting care.

Rupa Chilvers

Talk #8

Is This the Age of Digital Enlightenment?

Rubi Kaur FBCS is a Senior Solutions Architect at Vodafone Group for Enterprise new product development. She has over 20 years industry managerial and technical lead experience from previous roles at BT, O2 and the UK Government.

In 2012 Rubi led her team to win the UK Business Green IT Team of the year and the UK Government Treasury Finance Award for Sustainability.

Rubi is a Fellow of the BCS (The British Computer Society – the Chartered Institute for IT). As a Trustee and advisory Council member to the British Computer Society Rubi works to ensure “Tech is Good for Society” so that the ethical and societal impacts of Technology are understood whilst ensuring the Tech profession is forever inclusive, diverse and progressive in a modern digital world. 
In 2016 Rubi was on the Judges panel for the judging the Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Women in UK IT awards.

Rubi Kaur

Talk #9

The Future of the Web Platform

DYLAN SCHIEMANN is a CEO of SitePen, co-founder of Dojo and an established presence in the JavaScript and open source communities. Under his direction, SitePen has become the definitive source for enterprise organisations that are focused on creating well-tested, highly performant and sustainable web applications. Dylan’s current initiatives include guiding development on Intern, TypeScript and Dojo 2. 

Dylan was the co-founder of the Dojo Foundation prior to its merger with the jQuery Foundation to form the JS Foundation. Dylan also helps organise the HalfStack meetup and conference and the Phoenix TypeScript meetup. When not actively engaged in bettering SitePen and demanding better developer tools, Dylan enjoys travelling and sharing his experience at conferences around the world. 

Dylan Schiemann

Talk #10

Preparing for a Natural Disaster Using Bots

NICK SCHWADERER is a Senior Ruby on Rails Developer at
OceansHQ, the world’s primary supplier of innovative and
visionary solutions for maritime administrations and related
businesses. 

Nick writes at https://schwad.github.io, the open source components of his work live at https://github.com/schwad, and he is also the creator of Mara.

@Schwad4HD14

Nick Schwaderer

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