IPSWICH CORN EXCHANGE15TH MARCH 2019

CONFERENCE AGENDA

Main HallPeople and Teams

08:00 Registration

09:05Introduction

Emily-Jayne Crittenden • DIGITAL EAST ANGLIA

09:15Keynote: The Deep Craft of Leadership

Alex Pond • THE FABRIC

09:50Keynote: A Brief History of Test

John Nicholson • IJYI Gallery 3Bits and Bytes10:25 Small Break

10:40Crowd Sourced Smart Cities

Paul Foster • MICROSOFT

Bringing Silicon Valley Companies to Ipswich

Paul Graham • MATRIXX10:40

11:153 Friends +1

Bettina Rubek Slater • PYCOM

Security by Stealth

Gwen Diagram • MONZO BANK11:15

11:45Growing Tech Talent from the Grass Roots

Claire Riseborough • STEP INTO TECH

Design Systems, How We Pulled It Off and What We Learned in the Process

JP Nothard & Nico Turco • FOOLPROOF11:45

12:15 Lunch and Networking Lunch and Networking 12:15

Lightning TalksPackaging Your Application fo the IoT Era

Tom Barber • SPICULE13:00

13:00 The Ultimate Design Challenge • CODERUS

13:08 Databases On Kubernetes: Why You Should Care • COUCHBASE

13:16 Lessons from TV & Broadband Software • BT

13:24 Start Treating Candidates As Sales Prospects • BRISTOW HOLLANDDesigning Solutions Before Coding for Mere Mortals

Ralf Westphal • CLEAN CODE DEVELOPER SCHOOL13:30

13:32 Programming As A Design Tool • FOOLPROOF

13:40 The Virtues Of Augmenting Your Data Streams • SPICULE13:48 Betting at Light-Speed • DERIVCO

14:00Harnessing the Power of Subscription Technology

Juliana Meyer • SUPAPASS

GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere

Duncan MacGregor • ORACLE14:00

14:30 Small Break Small break 14:30

14:45Hit by a Bus: How and Why Teams Become Overworked

Charlotte Godley • DOTSCIENCE

A Practical Introduction to the

Keras API and TensorFlow Neural Networks

Edward Bullen • COMPANY85

14:45

15:15A Year in the Life of Creative Computing Club CIC

Matthew C. Applegate • CREATIVE COMPUTING CLUB

How to Secure Your Microservices

Andy Davies • COLLECTOR BANK FINLAND15:15

15:50Good vs. Evil: The Fight for Your Focus

Max Shelley • ECHOLEFT

On the Edge of the Real World: An Introduction

Bruno Verachten • WORLDLINE15:50

16:20 Small Break

16:35The Future of the Internet

Paul Hutson • PITNEY BOWES

17:05Keynote: Drinking from the Stream: How to use Messaging Platforms for Scalability and Performance

Mark Heckler • PIVOTAL

17:50 Finish

IPSWICH CORN EXCHANGE15TH MARCH 2019

Main HallPeople and Teams

08:00 Registration

09:05Introduction

Emily-Jayne Crittenden • DIGITAL EAST ANGLIA

09:15Keynote: The Deep Craft of Leadership

Alex Pond • THE FABRIC

09:50Keynote: A Brief History of Test

John Nicholson • IJYI Gallery 3Bits and Bytes10:25 Small Break

10:40Crowd Sourced Smart Cities

Paul Foster • MICROSOFT

Bringing Silicon Valley Companies to Ipswich

Paul Graham • MATRIXX10:40

11:153 Friends +1

Bettina Rubek Slater • PYCOM

Security by Stealth

Gwen Diagram • MONZO BANK11:15

11:45Growing Tech Talent from the Grass Roots

Claire Riseborough • STEP INTO TECH

Design Systems, How We Pulled It Off and What We Learned in the Process

JP Nothard & Nico Turco • FOOLPROOF11:45

12:15 Lunch and Networking Lunch and Networking 12:15

Lightning TalksPackaging Your Application fo the IoT Era

Tom Barber • SPICULE13:00

13:00 The Ultimate Design Challenge • CODERUS

13:08 Databases On Kubernetes: Why You Should Care • COUCHBASE

13:16 Lessons from TV & Broadband Software • BT

13:24 Start Treating Candidates As Sales Prospects • BRISTOW HOLLANDDesigning Solutions Before Coding for Mere Mortals

Ralf Westphal • CLEAN CODE DEVELOPER SCHOOL13:30

13:32 Programming As A Design Tool • FOOLPROOF

13:40 The Virtues Of Augmenting Your Data Streams • SPICULE13:48 Betting at Light-Speed • DERIVCO

14:00Harnessing the Power of Subscription Technology

Juliana Meyer • SUPAPASS

GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere

Duncan MacGregor • ORACLE14:00

14:30 Small Break Small break 14:30

14:45Hit by a Bus: How and Why Teams Become Overworked

Charlotte Godley • DOTSCIENCE

A Practical Introduction to the

Keras API and TensorFlow Neural Networks

Edward Bullen • COMPANY85

14:45

15:15A Year in the Life of Creative Computing Club CIC

Matthew C. Applegate • CREATIVE COMPUTING CLUB

How to Secure Your Microservices

Andy Davies • COLLECTOR BANK FINLAND15:15

15:50Good vs. Evil: The Fight for Your Focus

Max Shelley • ECHOLEFT

On the Edge of the Real World: An Introduction

Bruno Verachten • WORLDLINE15:50

16:20 Small Break

16:35The Future of the Internet

Paul Hutson • PITNEY BOWES

17:05Keynote: Drinking from the Stream: How to use Messaging Platforms for Scalability and Performance

Mark Heckler • PIVOTAL

17:50 Finish

ABOUT OUR SPONSORS

IJYI creates technology products and systems for transformational impact. Using our extensive software development experience, we make the complex simple. We’re experts in .NET & C# development, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), System Integration & DevOps Transformation.

From bringing a new idea to life, modernising systems and processes, and creating cutting-edge solutions we help our customers put their business ahead of the competition. As a Trusted Delivery Partner our role is to create technology that works seamlessly within your business.

As Microsoft Certified partners for Application Development, DevOps and Cloud, IJYI earned the highest standards of Microsoft’s widely-recognized partnership program. In addition IJYI are also AWS Consulting Partners. This allows us to work with customers to enable them to implement full, hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.

People work with us when they need a partner with technical expertise that will deliver success to their business eliminating the barriers that are holding them back.

From workshops that shape your ideas, to consultancy on how to approach a problem, through to full scale project design and development. We love delivering technology to successfully transform businesses.

Worldline [Euronext: WLN] is the European leader in the payment and transactional services industry. With innovation at the core of its DNA, Worldline’s core offerings include pan-European and domestic Commercial Acquiring for physical or online businesses, secured payment transaction processing for banks and financial institutions,

as well as transactional services in e-Ticketing and for local and central public agencies. Thanks to a presence in 30+ countries, Worldline is the payment partner of choice for merchants, banks, public transport operators, government agencies and industrial companies, delivering cutting-edge digital services. Worldline’s activities are organized around three axes: Merchant Services, Financial Services including equensWorldline and Mobility & e-Transactional Services. Worldline employs circa 11,000 people worldwide, with estimated pro forma revenue of circa 2.3 billion euros on a yearly basis. Worldline is an Atos company. worldline.com

Recognised as a significant tech cluster in the Tech Nation report and as the historic financial and administrative centre of Suffolk, Ipswich is one of the fastest growing urban centres in England and has huge potential for growth.

An hour from the heart of London’s digital and financial powerhouse at Liverpool Street Station, the Greater Ipswich

area is home to several world class businesses including BT’s Adastral Park, Willis Towers Watson, AXA, ABP’s Port of Ipswich and the country’s newest University (the University of Suffolk) alongside tech businesses including Derivco, Setl, IJYI, KCOM, HTK and ITO World as well as a tech community of over 100 tech businesses based at Innovation Martlesham.

These global assets, combined with its proximity to London and development opportunities linked to our Enterprise Zone sites make Ipswich a development location with huge potential.

Securing this potential is a major priority. The Council’s aim is to grow the already significant cluster of highly skilled finance, insurance and legal services firms and the fast growing telecoms and digital presence in the town through support for the Dev://East conference, the IWIC incubator space, Tech East and work with Suffolk County Council and the new Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership to develop the digital cluster in and around Ipswich.

As part of our commitment to support business growth, Ipswich Borough Council manage a unique collection of conference and event venues across the town and pride ourselves on being able to offer a range of flexible indoor facilities, picturesque outdoor spaces and specialist event support. As a special offer for delegates at Dev://East we are offering 25% off your first event at one of our venues in 2019 if you book before 30th April.

Find out more at www.venuesipswich.co.uk/launchoffer

Coderus is a software design engineering firm founded in 1998, based at the high-tech Innovation Martlesham cluster at Adastral Park, Suffolk. Specialising in embedded and mobile design, Coderus provides high performance, high resilience solutions to help businesses make the most of their hardware and tech. At Coderus we work to ensure the solutions we provide align with our clients’ brands and offer the ultimate user experience. Whether working with mobile, on iOS and Android devices, or for

embedded technologies, with Coderus there are no barriers to software development.

Coderus’ work includes app development, embedded software solutions, and creating state-of-the-art platforms and interfaces. Covering the entire project lifecycle, from prototype through to production. Coderus has attained many Design Service certifications with Apple’s MFI Developer, Cypress, Qualcomm and Microchip.

TEC Partners is a specialist technical recruiter company covering all disciplines within IT, Engineering, and Digital across East Anglia, Thames Valley and London.

Our established team of specialist Recruiters spread across our two offices in Norwich and Reading, specialise in their own technical space and within a set geographical location. This approach enables them to better understand both their

markets and candidate pools and allows them to fully embed themselves in their tech. We play to the strengths of each of our consultants rather than have a blanket approach, this allows them to work in a way which best suits their background and personality.

Our brand, which is now in its fourth year, is small enough to react quickly and tailor a specific approach to an individual clients’ needs, but also large enough to cope with big volumes and complex projects.

Our bespoke approach has enabled us to maintain excellent working relationships with household names such as Microsoft, Sky, Aviva, and British Gas to name a few, as well as close partnerships with a number of SMEs across East Anglia and the South East.

Are you receiving maximum value from your big data?

Big data is your most precious asset and if your business can automate and gather data more efficiently, you will gain invaluable insights into your organisation, your customers, and your competition. But, as modern technology has

evolved and data streams have become more varied and complex, harnessing the data you need to succeed has become more time consuming and expensive.

Until now.

With our flexible and simple-to-use data platforms customised to meet your specific business needs, Spicule have made gathering and utilising your big data easier and more cost-effective than ever. Our use of open-source technologies also means our platforms can be modelled and deployed on any cloud-based platform.

Since 2013 we have delivered high quality, specialist IT recruitment service to Ipswich, Colchester, Bury St. Edmunds and beyond. Our consultants possess in depth sector knowledge, specialising in each of the core areas of IT which means that you will always speak to someone who

intuitively understands your specific requirements. Our clients on both sides of the recruitment process value our experience, straightforward approach and the ease of doing business with Bristow Holland.

We look for candidates who share our values; who are trustworthy, driven, energetic and ambitious because we know they will bring something special to whichever team they join. Equally, we know that only businesses with an exciting vision for the future can attract these candidates. Bristow Holland works with top tier employers who understand they are competing for talent and demonstrate a solid commitment to attracting and retaining the best.

Couchbase is the NoSQL database for business critical applications available on-premise, in the cloud (Kubernetes) and on Mobile/IOT(Edge). Developer agility includes Full Text Search, Eventing, Real Time Analytics and a SQL Compliant query language on JSON.

An integrated a key value store (caching) along with Multi Dimension Scaling provides developers with unparalleled scalability and performance.

Couchbase customers include industry leaders like BT TV, Sky, Ryanair, Centrica, Tesco, Betfair, Amadeus, Fico, and ebay among many others.

For more information, visit https://developer.couchbase.com/

Derivco Sports are always looking for the brightest minds to join our evolving team. If technology is your second language please contact our recruitment team to discuss our exciting opportunities! Visit our website for more details; https://derivco.com/locations/

We’re hiring! Check out our opportunities... Ipswich: Client Developer, Senior Client Developer, Server Developer, Dev Ops Engineer, Senior Dev Ops Engineer, Automation Test Analyst, Product Owner, Full Stack Developer.

We also have opportunites in Barcelona, London and Stockholm! Get in touch to find out more or drop us an email along with your application if you’re interested in joining us! recruitment@derivco.co.uk

SimpleClick is an Ipswich-based technical agency which puts its clients and staff at the core of everything it does. The company has been providing a suite of marketing services for 10 years including; web design, software development, mobile app solutions, usability testing and digital marketing services.

The world of business and technology is ever-changing, and so are client demands. To meet these demands, SimpleClick has developed its own Content Management System (CMS), Doddle, which provides clients with the control and flexibility required to manage their website in the way they need.

No matter how complex the task may be, SimpleClick offers bespoke solutions when an ‘off the shelf’ system isn’t up to the job. Bespoke platforms come with many advantages and SimpleClick has worked on many projects that have offered clients a simpler and more cost-effective way of operating their business. From creating a tailored workflow management system for a leading motor insurance company, to developing a dedicated Online Booking Abandonment Conversion system for a client in the travel industry, SimpleClick has the know-how to turn business objectives into business achievements.

Collaboration and engagement is at the heart of everything SimpleClick does, and the company is often seen as an extension of its clients’ teams. SimpleClick knows its team is special, and recognises that it couldn’t accomplish what it does without the team’s talent, passion and creativity. SimpleClick is committed to providing a positive working environment and to its employees. The company has been able to grow at a sustainable rate, whilst retaining the talent it needs to reach its business goals. SimpleClick is proud of its low staff turnover, having not experienced a resignation since 2015.

The service offering is ever-evolving, providing clients with fresh and innovative ideas that encourage efficiency and profitability. To find out more about SimpleClick and its approach, visit www.simpleclick.co.uk or call 0844 736 2747.

IWIC is a cornerstone of the emerging innovation cluster on the Ipswich Waterfront. It is a place and community for entrepreneurs, innovators, young companies and tech professionals.

IWIC is delighted to sponsor dev://east as a landmark event in growing the digital sector in Ipswich.

IWIC provides hot-desks, meeting rooms and event space to support the formation and growth of innovative and scalable businesses that will raise the economic trajectory of Ipswich in the years to come. Flexible monthly packages for start-ups and full-time desk option also available for those firms that need a permanent base of operation until they are ready to expand into their own office space.

In addition to a contemporary co-working space, IWIC members have access to expertise and resources within the University of Suffolk including direct discussions with technical experts in the digital and ICT disciplines, specialist facilities and even student interns. Our space is also available for hire.

The additive manufacturing (AM) revolution offers huge savings in time and material costs to firms that design and make products. Businesses that adopt AM quickly will be at a competitive advantage over firms that are slow to change. Our 3D Productivity Suite is equipped with high resolution digital scanners, CAD design workstations, Virtual Reality (VR) optical systems and 3D Printers (FDM). We anticipate installation of industrial 3D printers able to produce components at extremely high resolution and in multiple colours and a wide range of polymers with different properties and colours. The 3D Suite forms an essential part of our design and prototyping capability and will help IWIC Members and businesses across the region to evaluate and adopt AM.

IWIC is also home to the Suffolk Centre for Female Entrepreneurship with a continuing programme aimed at encouraging and recognising entrepreneurial women. We also host regular tech network meetings including Suffolk Developers, SyncIpswich and others.

Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to learn about our events, seminars and networking sessions, newsletter and collaboration and funding opportunities.

To find out more about our upcoming events and what the IWIC can do for you, all dev://east attendees are welcome to join our IWIN network https://www.uos.ac.uk/content/iwin-network the OFFER: try out one of our IWIC hot desk for a full day FREE OF CHARGE by emailing iwic@uos.ac.uk and quoting DEIWICHOTDESK.

Degree Apprenticeships with Anglia Ruskin University (ARU)

ARU is at the forefront of the development of degree apprenticeships.

Degree apprenticeships are a route into higher education. They’re a collaboration between employers, apprentices and our University - and the benefits are clear. Employers can develop emerging talent, while maximizing the potential of the Government’s Apprenticeship Levy. And as an apprentice,

they’ll achieve a degree or a Masters alongside valuable work experience.

Our growing portfolio

From Digital Technology Solutions to Chartered Management, we have a varied and growing list of courses offering degree apprenticeships. Developed with local employers, in a range of fields, including supply chain management, digital and IT, marketing, engineering, management, construction and nursing, our courses are a cost-effective way for you to attract, develop and retain a highly-skilled workforce.

We can support your talent attraction activities by connecting you with prospective degree apprentices using our vacancy listings service.

Get in touch for an informal discussion with one of our expert advisers.

MATRIXX Software is committed to helping telcos reinvent themselves into leaders of the digital economy. The multi-patented MATRIXX Digital Commerce platform was built for next-generation IT architectures capable of powering rapid transformation. Through engineering, product, sales and deployment, MATRIXX Software empowers Communications Service Providers to deliver modern, digital experiences.

Uniotec are an IoT consultancy and service provider, based in Norwich. We work with organisations of all sizes to create bespoke IoT solutions to real world problems. From local authorities monitoring highways, scientists collecting data and charities managing rivers, right down to Scout groups organising large events, we have provided an end

to end service designed specifically to meet the client’s needs.

We can prototype, build, source, install and manage your sensors and gateways as well as providing innovative software solutions to access and understand your data. Our hub platform allows you to share data insights with your team and monitor your IoT infrastructure.

Our LoRaWAN networks and devices can give years of service on a single battery and up to 15km range. The radio signals also penetrate buildings well making LoRaWAN an ideal fit for facilities management and smart buildings systems. Community network deployments, such as The Things Network, mean you can get started with as little as one device.

Take a look at our website for some more examples of IoT use cases and get in touch to discuss your individual requirements.

X-on is a pioneering innovative Cloud based telecoms company based in Framlingham, offering a wide range of services to customers in the healthcare and finance sectors. A significant part of our competitive advantage is due to the unique, data-driven hosted platform developed in-house, which is deployed across our own data centres.

Our Surgery Connect product is rapidly becoming the telecoms system of choice for medical practices throughout the UK. Not just a phone system, we’re developing 3rd party integrations that introduce efficiency savings to all our customers. The systems we develop and provide are a critical part of primary care within the UK.

Our development team work collaboratively on projects from the initial concept right through to live deployment, liaising within the X-on environment to ensure commercial relevance and customer benefit.

We’re rapidly expanding and always looking for talented people with a passion for technology and innovation. If this sounds like you we’d love to talk.