Events - Diverse Sussex

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Brighton CTO Networking

Wednesday 1st March @ 6:00pm - 9:45pm - Come join a group of local CTO's/Engineering Leads to network and discuss our challenges and issues. We meet regularly in a local pub for a general chat, make connections and share our experiences.

Published: Wed, 01 Mar 2023

Codebar Workshop

Tuesday 7th February @ 6:30pm - 9:00pm - Free coding workshop for women, LGBTQ, and people belonging to underrepresented ethnic groups in tech. Hosted by MPB, the world's largest online marketplace for photography/videography equipment. 18:30 Pizza and networking/socialising 19:00 Coding 21:00 Pub (optional) Local developers volunteer as coaches. All welcome - from complete beginners to students needing help on personal projects. Please bring [...]

Published: Tue, 07 Feb 2023

Brighton Cloud: Azure Networking 101

Wednesday 22nd February @ 6:00pm - 8:00pm - Networking, the marmite of the IT world; people do truly love it or hate it. Luckily Jack Tracey, our speaker this month, is on the 💙 love it 💙 side of the table. Moving to the ⛅ cloud ⛅ doesn't mean networking goes away - in fact it becomes even more important as it's how everyone [...]

Published: Wed, 22 Feb 2023

Game Dev Drinks

Friday 24th February @ 7:00pm - 10:00pm - Are you a game developer? Want to meet other developers in the Brighton area? Come along to Game Dev Drinks, a monthly networking and social get-together hosted by Justin French (Founder, CEO and Creative Director of Dream Harvest). Join the Facebook community.

Published: Fri, 24 Feb 2023

JavaScript Brighton #10

Thursday 16th February @ 8:00pm - 10:00pm - We have the tenth of our JavaScript Brighton events happening at The Walrus pub in Brighton, Thursday February 16th at 8pm! Come along and meet like minded individuals, to discuss any and / or all aspects of the JavaScript world 🙂 There are tables booked in the main bar area, at the far end of [...]

Published: Thu, 16 Feb 2023

Async: Alexa to the rescue of inaccessible websites

Thursday 2nd February @ 7:15pm - 9:15pm - The Web is over 30 years old, yet some websites are still not accessible. This is the tale of how Alexa, with a little bit of help, came to the rescue of a blind person who could not get access to local news. In this talk, Alex Nicol speaks about accessibility, web crawling, tech-for-good, Alexa, [...]

Published: Thu, 02 Feb 2023

Marketing Talk: Does advertising work? Evaluating long term impact of our marketing investments

Friday 3rd February @ 12:30pm - 2:00pm - Welcome back, marketers! We're delighted to share that for the first time in Marketing Talk history, we'll be hosting this event in-person and online! To kick-off our inaugural hybrid meetup, we'll be joined by Jeremy Horne (Founder & Director of Datacove) for his talk, 'Does advertising work? Evaluating the long term impact of our marketing investments'. It’s [...]

Published: Fri, 03 Feb 2023

PHP Sussex: Clean, Concise, Collaborative Code

Wednesday 8th February @ 6:00pm - 8:00pm - After a small break in January to make resolutions we won't keep, we're back with our first 2023 event! This month, Christopher Miller is showing us how to make our code "Clean, Concise, and Collaborative". Chris is an experienced full-stack developer working at Jump24 and who is no stranger to PHP Sussex, since he already gave a talk a little while [...]

Published: Wed, 08 Feb 2023

UX Brighton: Show & Tell

Tuesday 14th March @ 7:00pm - 9:00pm - The UX Brighton Show & Tell is a low-key event. A supportive environment for sharing, advice and discussion. Whether you’re a UXer of many years’ standing, new to UX or UX is only part of what you do, so much the better. A mix of skills and backgrounds enriches the conversation. It’s free. Sign up [...]

Published: Tue, 14 Mar 2023

Brighton Blockchain: General Crypto Chat

Wednesday 1st February @ 7:00pm - 10:00pm - This is an informal social event where we can meet like-minded people and chat about the exciting world of blockchain over a drink or two. Let's discuss crypto, and everything happening in blockchain! There's no real structure, just a chance to meet other people and chat. We'll inevitably stray into other similar areas and break [...]

Published: Wed, 01 Feb 2023

Brighton JUG: Today’s Special – Apache Tika Masala!

Thursday 23rd February @ 6:00pm - 8:00pm - Apache Tika is an awesome open-source tool which can be used for search indexing, sentiment analysis, detecting the true mime type of a file, or language detection. But Tika can also add some spice to a workflow by helping to highlight threats. This talk will show Tika’s general use cases and how developers can benefit [...]

Published: Thu, 23 Feb 2023

People & Culture Club: The Flex Revolution – Why you can’t afford to not be flexible

Wednesday 8th February @ 10:00am - 11:00am - With news that the UK Government plans to promote flexible working by giving employees the right to ask for flexible working from the first day of a new job, we can finally breathe a breath of relief that legislation is (finally) catching up. But is a company that forces you to submit a formal request [...]