hope you’re all recovering from NorDevCon and that you enjoyed the conference. Despite a packed conference, it’s Norfolk Developers as usual in March with our regular evening event on the 16th, a hands on JavaScript full day workshop also on the 16th and the fourth NorDev breakfast on the 23rd. Details below.
JavaScript Starter Kit – Beginners Full Day Workshop
When: Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 9:00am to 4:45pm
Where: The King’s Centre, King Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH
Prerequisites: Laptop with wifi, modern browser, text editor
This day-long workshop aims to cover enough ground to give you a broad base from which to start your quest. We’ll use plenty of practical exercises to explore the language. We’ll cover some of the tricky parts which often mystify people – especially handling asynchronous code, which is one of the language’s great strengths. We’ll spend most of our time in the browser, but we’ll also play around with node.js, JavaScript’s foremost server-side environment. There’ll be time to survey some of the different tools and frameworks which are popular with JavaScripters at the moment. As well as all this we’ll explore JavaScript’s history, its culture and community, and the factors behind its explosive growth. Perhaps most importantly we’ll introduce a set of resources which’ll help you continue your learning independently.
How email works… and why you should care – A brief history of some of the aged protocols that underpin the internet and email in particular, a look at the security implications of the way email works, and some steps you can take to improve your safety.
Which cloud is best for the enterprise? – As public cloud adoption continues to gather pace, MigSolv Norwich has a Cloud platform to rival both Amazon and Microsoft Azure. In the session we’ll cover the different available cloud environments, how to set up your portal, manage your servers and billing system and look at the help and support options.
Aspirations of the current and future generations of school students in rural areas is at an alarming low. Norfolk is no exception to this phenomena. The presentations objective is to outline these challenges and how we all, jointly, can strategically change the East of England region’s Employment, Skills, Education and Aspirations landscape by creating a world renowned Centre for Knowledge Engineering i.e. AI and Deep Learning, Data Analytics, Bio-Informatics and Cyber Security. The East of England has now 3 world leading regional research hubs creating major breakthroughs in search engine technologies, Bio Med and food research but still not seen as a ‘powerhouse’. The objective is for the East of England to become the UK’s powerhouse of the Knowledge Engineering sector.
A breakfast seminar for HR professionals and business owners covering essential recent and forthcoming developments in employment law, to be heldat The Targetfollow Room, Theatre Royal, Theatre Street, Norwich NR2 1RL
Registration and coffee will be at 7.45am; a selection of bacon, sausage and vegetarian sausage baps will be served promptly at 8.00am. The briefing will start at 8.30am and will finish no later than 10.00am.
Cost: £30 + VAT per person (second place available for £15 + VAT).
Please RSVP to Georgina Harris, Marketing Apprentice by Monday 7 March (01603 598000 or [email protected]), advising of any dietary or other special requirements at time of booking.
The BUILD Charity provided around 250 social, leisure or learning opportunities to people in Norfolk with disabilities last year through around 3,500 individual engagements. We want to do that again this year, and make more people with disabilities feel safe, valued and part of their their communities. We need the Norfolk business community to help us, by putting their best foot forward by encouraging, and supporting their employees, and families to join our Whitlingham Walkathon on Saturday 21st May, where in return for a £5 donation, and as much sponsorship as you can gain, we will host a walk around as many of the 2.25 mile laps of the Whitlingham Broad as you can manage, and give you a completion certificate, and our thanks that your support will have made a difference.
Our picture shows Rose, Rodney and Heather taking part in this event in 2014. Rose has learning disabilities, but has been sucessful, with our support, to gain a job in retail working in Norwich and is a Trustee of this charity. Heather attends our Wednesday Club where she meets friends, and enjoys a cup of tea, gets involved in craft activities and our games nights. Rodney, sadly passed away last year, but despite using a walking frame, turned out to do his bit for the organisation that gave him a real chance.
You can enter individually, or as a team taking on a relay challenge, starting and finishing any time between 10.30am and 4.30pm. You can walk, run or cycle, and bring your dogs on a lead too. To find out more contact James Kearns at [email protected]
With presentations from Birketts and Great Yarmouth College on the value of Apprenticeships. If you would like to attend please email [email protected]. Attendance is free to GYC Business Partnership Members. Includes a full English breakfast. Spaces are limited so booking is essential.
Coaching has become the buzzword. There’s usually a reason for that because it works! We employ people because they have the skills to do the job and then micromanage them and wonder why they get disaffected and leave. Coaching recognises that people have the answers within themselves. This results in happier people and happier workplaces (and more productive too)!
The workshop will cover the following:
What coaching is
Why you should take this approach – why your business should take a coaching approach
Why you should take this approach NOW – why your business should take a coaching approach NOW (ie in a post-COVID-19 world)
Why it works in business (as well as at home with the children)!
The power of coaching and a strengths-based approach
Who benefits from having a coach
Some coaching techniques and tools to get started
About the presenter
Rebecca White is the CEO and Founder of Your Own Place CIC. As a qualified secondary school teacher with years of experience working with people from all backgrounds as well as commissioners, politicians, business people and leaders, Rebecca exemplifies the successful combination of operational, strategic and business experience. What really drives Rebecca is social inequality. By the roll of a dice a person’s life chances are dramatically altered. Homelessness is just one manifestation of this and until people have equality of opportunity Rebecca will work tirelessly to champion disadvantaged people.
Rebecca volunteers as a mentor for HMP Warren Hill and as Enterprise Adviser at The Locksley School.
Your Own Place CIC is an innovative and solution-focussed social enterprise, driven by its values. We are committed to finding new solutions to old problems with the prevention of homelessness as our impact.
Cancellation policy
We only have a maximum of 10 places on this event. If you book a place and are unable to attend, please ensure you cancel your place to allow others to attend. Cancel in writing to [email protected]
Larking Gowen and Adnams invite you to their tourism survey seminar to discuss the results of their 10th annual tourism and leisure business survey.
Speakers from Adnams, Visit East Anglia, Larking Gowen and business owners like you will share their insights and discuss the issues affecting the sector.
Who should attend? Tourism and leisure business owners in Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex who are interested in understanding the bigger picture in the tourism and leisure sector.
Where and when? Wednesday, 20 April 2016 – 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Octagon Barn, Hospital Rd, Great Plumstead NR13 5FH
Registration commences at 3.00pm. A full afternoon tea will be served promptly at 3.30pm. Guests are invited to join us for networking and drinks between 5.00pm and 6.00pm.
Leading research company Ipsos MORI has taken a journey into the minds of the region’s business leaders to discover their concerns and strategies for growth. The research, commissioned by Price Bailey, also reveals how business leaders feel about EU membership and international trade, uncovers their perceptions of leadership and explores the challenges of maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
MORI and Price Bailey will be presenting the full results of the research at Dunston Hall on Tuesday, 26th April at 5:30pm
They will be joined by an expert panel of business professionals including James Sproule of the Institute of Directors; Tim Pike, Deputy Agent for South East and East Anglia at the Bank of England; and Maxine Dolan, formerly Group Leadership Development Director at Tesco who will offer valuable insight into the findings from this bespoke, real-time research and provide their expert opinion on the economic landscape for the region.
The event will also provide a valuable opportunity to network with other regional business leaders.
Ian Massingham of AWS returns to Norfolk Developers to give his cancelled NorDevCon 2016 session. Building Serverless Applications with AWS Ian Massingham (@IanMmmm)
It is important that you spend as much time as possible on what differentiates the application or service that you are building. Managing infrastructure can detract from this goal. Attend this session and learn how you can let AWS do the undifferentiated heavy lifting for you whilst you focus on building a robust, scalable and highly available applications and services by utilising AWS services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3 and more. Forget about infrastructure and focus on your code and the outcomes that you want to achieve.
Ian Massingham
Ian Massingham is a Technical Evangelist at Amazon Web Services and has been working with cloud computing technologies since 2008. In his role he works to increase the awareness of AWS cloud services and works with customers of all sizes, from start-ups to large enterprises, to help them benefit from the adoption of AWS.
Ian has more than 15 years’ experience in the IT industry, covering operations and engineering within hosting and cloud service providers.
Hackathon 101 – Lessons Learnt Tom Morgan (@tomorgan)
If you’ve never been to a hackathon before, the concept can be daunting. A deadly combination of technical snobbery and social awkwardness? Who wants to spend their free time doing that?! I’ve finally confronted my worst fears and attended my first hackathon – and it was not at all what I expected. Now, I’d like to dispel what I believe are commonly-held myths by those who have never been, as well as dispense some advice to first-time attendees. I’ll keep it light and (hopefully) entertaining, and will cover what I think our team did well, what we could have done better, who we should have listened to, and what was completely different to what I expected.
Tom Morgan
I’m a Skype for Business MVP, working for Modality Systems, a software development company in Norwich. In March, I took part in the Hacking Health hackathon together with a team of other devs and QA from Modality, plus some pharmacy students and business experts we meet at at the event. Our solution (MediPhone) won the People’s Choice award.
Frustrated by not enough hours in your day? Annoyed that you don’t get everything done on time? Over committed? Drowning in email? Procrastinating when you don’t want to? Not making progress on the really important projects at home or at work?
Ermine has stepped in to replace the speaker who cancelled. This hands on session will help you work out how to take control of your time management hell. If you were at Ermine’s sold out session at NorDevCon, come for a top up and be ready to make a plan to succeed this spring.
If you didn’t go to NorDevCon, then you may have heard Ermine got rave reviews. You’ll be provoked into thinking about where time goes and some practical steps to take to get back into control and improve your results.
Ermine’s no nonsense approach makes this session suitable for everyone – from founders and CEOs to new hires. Her good humour and deep understanding of how the human psyche plays games means you’ll have fun too.
Conference at the King’s Centre, Norwich on Friday 13th May
Norfolk has one of the oldest population profiles in the UK. This conference explores the economic opportunities presented by the ‘silver pound’, and aims to inspire local businesses and entrepreneurs to take advantage of this growing market with innovative products, services and collaborative ventures.
The event is FREE to attend and includes refreshments and a light lunch. Please note there will a £25 charge if you sign up but don’t attend.
Speakers include:
George Freeman MP, Minister for Life Sciences, a passionate advocate of the importance of technology in caring for older people.
Haidee Bell, Head of Design Programmes, Design Council, discussing their Design Challenges which have stimulated innovative design for older people, and have led to projects to support entrepreneurs to bring their designs to market.
Jackie Eveleigh, from the East of England European Partnership, will present the EU policy picture and discuss the EU funding potential around the Silver Economy.
Entrepreneurs at different stages of developing new products and services aimed at older people share their stories and experiences.
There will be a group discussion on potential business opportunities, and we hope to develop an ongoing network of collaborating businesses.
The Conference is helping to deliver the Norfolk Rural Development Strategy, which identified the ageing population in Norfolk as an important economic opportunity to drive rural growth.