London
March 14, 2018
This is your chance to meet experts, share work, and contribute to the future of software—together.
Part 1: At Work
This one-day event brings together team leaders and entrepreneurs to discuss what (and how) they’re using GitHub at work.
Part 2: Explore
Hear from the area's top tech and community leaders, and meet fellow builders at this one-of-kind community conference. We’ll spend an evening exploring what’s new, what’s to come, and how you can get involved.
Register for the event that fits your interests—or join us for both!
Part 1
At Work
Part 1 Speakers
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Jay Harrison
SRE Lead
Centrica Hive Ltd
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Jay Harrison
SRE Lead
Centrica Hive Ltd
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Andrew Merrell
Principal Software Engineer
Sky
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Andrew Merrell
Principal Software Engineer
Sky
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Mark Ison
Principal Software Engineer
Sky
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Mark Ison
Principal Software Engineer
Sky
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Nigel Abbott
Sales Director
GitHub
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Nigel Abbott
Sales Director
GitHub
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Vitor Monteiro
Solutions Engineer
GitHub
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Vitor Monteiro
Solutions Engineer
GitHub
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Brent Beer
Solutions Engineer
GitHub
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Brent Beer
Solutions Engineer
GitHub
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James McLeod
Software Engineer Lead
Lloyds Banking Group
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James McLeod
Software Engineer Lead
Lloyds Banking Group
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Scott Henson
Infrastructure Software Engineering Manager
Improbable
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Scott Henson
Infrastructure Software Engineering Manager
Improbable
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Syed Humza Shah
Senior Software Engineer
Deliveroo
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Syed Humza Shah
Senior Software Engineer
Deliveroo
Part 2
Explore
Part 2 Speakers
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Heidy Khlaaf
Research Consultant
Adelard LLP
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Heidy Khlaaf
Research Consultant
Adelard LLP
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Edward Thomson
Senior Programme Manager
Microsoft
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Edward Thomson
Senior Programme Manager
Microsoft
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Eleanor Harding
Senior Product Designer
Twitter
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Eleanor Harding
Senior Product Designer
Twitter
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Joe Nash
Student Program Manager
GitHub
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Joe Nash
Student Program Manager
GitHub
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Keith Cirkel
Application Engineer on Web-Systems
GitHub
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Keith Cirkel
Application Engineer on Web-Systems
GitHub
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Debs Durojaiye
Founder and Co-Organiser of Afrotech Fest
Afrotech Fest
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Debs Durojaiye
Founder and Co-Organiser of Afrotech Fest
Afrotech Fest
Schedule
At Work
Wed March 14
Doors Open
Welcome
One Billion, One Hundred, and One
Eleanor Harding, Twitter
From the challenge of designing at scale for the next billion people, through to the dynamics of design collaboration in a global team, down to the nuance of designing for one person as wonderful and complex as you - learn secrets from Twitter about scale and abstraction in design.
Eleanor Harding
Senior Product Designer
Microsoft loves Open Source - Becoming the Biggest Contributor
Edward Thomson, Microsoft
A few short years ago Microsoft called Open Source a cancer and likened it to communism. Today Microsoft is the organization with the most contributors to open source projects on GitHub. Learn how Microsoft transformed its business to embrace and extend open source technologies like the Git version control system - but not extinguish them. Learn how that led to Microsoft open sourcing key development tools, like the .NET Framework. Finally, learn how their success with open source led them to adopt open source workflows within the company - a strategy called inner source.
Edward Thomson
Senior Programme Manager
Microsoft
Afrotech Fest and the intentionality of alternative tech spaces
Debs Durojaiye, Afrotech Fest
This talk looks at the importance of creating intentional, alternative spaces for those often on the fringes of the wider tech conversation.
Debs Durojaiye
Founder and Co-Organiser of Afrotech Fest
Afrotech Fest
Determining Software Safety in Critical Systems
Heidy Khlaaf, Adelard LLP
Safety-Critical systems are prevalent in our everyday life. Yet, despite the increasing use of software in these systems, the tech community as a whole is largely unaware of issues, processes, and standards, that reign and govern them. This talk will thus provide an introductory overview of safety-critical systems, and how the software used within them can be assured and verified up to standards that ensure our safety.
Heidy Khlaaf
Research Consultant
Adelard LLP
Web Systems
Keith Cirkel, GitHub
A talk about GitHub's Web Systems team, and the way they help GitHub delivering features and keeping high quality code.
Keith Cirkel
Application Engineer on Web-Systems
GitHub
Networking
Close
Explore
Wed March 14
Doors Open + Lunch
Welcome and Product Direction
Using All Tentacles of an Octocat - How Deliveroo automated workflows using GitHub features
Syed Humza Shah, Deliveroo
Deliveroo has been one of UK's fastest growing tech companies. Such growth comes with software challenges. Syed Humza Shah will go over three of these challenges, how Deliveroo solved them, and certain GitHub features that helped with the solutions.
Syed Humza Shah
Senior Software Engineer
Deliveroo
Github at Hive - Good ideas and not so good ideas
Jay Harrison, Centrica Hive Ltd
Lessons learned from using Github.com for a large software endeavour for 6 years.
Jay Harrison
SRE Lead
Centrica Hive Ltd
Coffee Break
From 0 to 3500 plus repos in 5 years - What do we do with repo 1?
Andrew Merrell, Sky
Mark Ison, Sky
We will discuss our journey from GitHub private to business and some of the challenges around discoverability but also some of the new capabilities centralising our repositories into a single location enables. We will cover some of the tools we created in the private (repo limited days) that assisted us in managing our org (some of this now no longer needed with SAML) and also auditing. How this data can enable us to ask questions such as - What’s our scala adoption rate?, Which libraries/frameworks are we adopting?. But we’re onto our next big challenge, with 3500 plus repos viewable, how we’re addressing some of the discoverability challenges to cut through the mess and find the diamond.
Andrew Merrell
Principal Software Engineer
Sky
Mark Ison
Principal Software Engineer
Sky
To the Dream of One Repo Hosting Tool
Scott Henson, Improbable
Scott Henson
Infrastructure Software Engineering Manager
Improbable
Enabling InnerSource at Lloyds Banking Group
James McLeod, Lloyds Banking Group
As Lloyds moves into a world communities, guilds and organisational learning, James McLeod explains how GitHub Enterprise brings engineers together in an ecosystem of InnerSource collaboration.
James McLeod
Software Engineer Lead
Lloyds Banking Group
How GitHub does DevOps
Brent Beer, GitHub
Brent Beer
Solutions Engineer
GitHub
Closing keynote
Networking Drinks and Partner Showcase
London
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FAQ
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Do I need my ID for entry?
An email confirmation is all you need to check you in.
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What language will the events be in?
Constellation London presenters will be speaking in English.
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Will parking be available?
We highly encourage attendees to take public transportation or ridesharing services to events. Parking is not provided at the venue but can be found in the general area.
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Will there be a place for me to store things?
Yes, we’ll have a coat check area. Please don’t leave any valuables.
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Where do I go if I lose something?
Find a GitHub team member if you lose something while at the event. Email events@github.com if you realize you lost something after.
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Do you provide meals?
We’ll provide light bites and beverages at Explore, and breakfast and lunch will be served at Align.
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Do you accommodate special dietary needs?
Gluten free and vegetarian options are always provided at our events. If you have additional dietary needs, please let us know at least 48 hours in advance and we’ll do our best to accommodate you.
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Will non-alcoholic options be available at the meetup?
Yes.
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What if I don’t want my picture taken?
Please let a GitHub team member know upon check-in. You’ll be provided with a red lanyard to let our photographer know.
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