Future Rewired 2023
Future Rewired is back for 2023, after a successful fourth year in 2022. The Technology Festival will run from 9 am - 5:30 pm at the Digital Greenhouse. With talks, workshops and showcases throughout the day.
The festival will bring together Guernsey's tech sector, where the audience will go under the hood with the technical deep drives, gain key tools in innovation workshops and meet like-minded people. The day will conclude with an innovation challenge run by the Digital Greenhouse Team with a range of prizes.
Tickets are for the whole day, come along and meet like-minded individuals in the Digital sector!
Take a look at the speaker profile below:
Speakers
Matthew Ball
How we built a discovery and visualisation solution for AWS workloads
This session will walk through how Matt designed and developed the Workload Discovery on AWS tool to help AWS users discover and visualise relationships between AWS services that make up their cloud workloads. Matt will discuss; the Workload Discovery on AWS tool and what it does, its architecture, and key areas of scalability.
About Matt
Matt has recently returned to Guernsey after 3.5 years in the UK working as a Solutions Engineer at AWS. His main responsibility was helping AWS and its customers architect and develop cloud-based solutions. The most successful being Workload Discovery on AWS. He led this project from its inception and built it into one of the most popular AWS solutions to date. As you may have guessed he loves all things Cloud.
Dave Wratten
How to make sure you’re building the right thing
Dave will be taking the audience through the process and covering several tools to use to ensure you are building the correct solution for your client.
About Dave
Dave Wratten is a Senior Solutions Developer at Resolution IT, since joining the Business Solutions team, Dave has gained an MCSD (Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer) accreditation, Azure Developer and DevOps Engineering Expert certifications as well as an Agile Project management qualification. His area of expertise is in the development of custom software and cloud solutions.
Dave joined Resolution IT from the public sector where he worked on ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems and other business software.
Dave Zak
Dive into Nion Net
Dave will talk about, and demonstrate, the immense power of Origin for software development. This technology represents a ‘giant leap’ in terms of software delivery.
You start with your requirements, expressed as a model of your system with its objects, relationships, and workflow. Then by running it through Origin, you get back the source code of a fully featured web application, including database, middleware, and API. In seconds.....
Get the work done and get home in daylight.!
About Dave
Dave is a highly experienced senior software developer, architect and team leader, delivering enterprise-scale systems, within the Microsoft technology stack.
Now as founder of NionNet and winner of the Guernsey Venture Challenge, 2022, Dave is building on his expertise, intent on delivering radical change in software development.
Bruce McDougall
Cyber Security for Web Dev workshop
Bruce and Joh will be taking participants through a cyber security workshop, covering key considerations to those building websites and web platforms.
About Bruce
Bruce is Governance Director. Senior Cyber and Information Security Consultant at Black Arrow Cyber Consulting.
Bruce leads Black Arrow’s work on Cyber Security Governance, helping clients to understand and manage their Cyber risks in line with leading practice. At Black Arrow, they firmly believe that Cyber Security requires the aligned controls across People, Operations and Technology underpinned by Governance by the Board. Bruce has experience in all those areas, but he is particularly passionate about Governance because without that, the rest can fall apart.
Bruce has several leading qualifications in Cyber Security, as well as in HR and Finance. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with EY before enjoying a career in management consulting and project management, during which time he extended into HR consulting. Later, his Finance and HR careers merged when he was responsible for governance and financial management for the regional HR teams in HSBC before moving into Cyber Security. Bruce has a master's degree in HR and is Chair of the Guernsey branch of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD); he is also a member of the Channel Islands Information Security Forum (CIISF).
Joh Harvey
Cyber Security for Web Dev workshops
Bruce and Joh will be taking participants through a cyber security workshop, covering key considerations to those building websites and web platforms.
About Joh
Joh is a local entrepreneur and founder of the Raw Store.
Sarah Hollingsworth
Networking with ease
This practical session focusses on the people skills individuals need within the technology sector, specifically on how you introduce yourself and meet others. Sarah will walk you through networking principles, strategic networking and your presence and impact, alongside some hands-on exercises to test out your networking skills.
About Sarah
Sarah leads the People & Organisation team at PwC, focussing on helping clients with future-proofing their workforce. This includes working on client projects such as full scale digital upskilling programmes, culture reviews and consulting on hybrid/innovative working approaches.
Damien Guard
Designing & implementing RESTful web APIs
REST APIs are a foundation for many mobile and web applications but getting them right can be tricky and getting them wrong can be a barrier to adoption. In this talk, Damien will go through the designing entities and endpoints and then cover versioning, security, rate limiting, error handling, caching and how to document all that with OpenAPI.
About Damien
Damien is an experienced engineer across many types of software including web, desktop and mobile applications as well as frameworks and developer tools. He has put his skills to good use on products for Netflix, Microsoft, Ricoh, Western Digital, Xbox and GitHub.
He loves well-designed systems and strives for a great user experience - software should delight those that use it.
Matt Champion
Make It Go Faster: Everything You Need to Know about Caching
Caching is a powerful tool for increasing responsiveness in your applications, but if used improperly it can cause more problems than it solves. This talk will cover the concepts behind caching, look at how to implement it effectively in your applications and discuss how to avoid common pitfalls!
About Matt
Matt is a software developer and consultant living in Guernsey.
You can often find him on Twitter and LinkedIn, talking about software development, security, design and accessibility.
He is a big proponent of open source software, focusing on C#, .NET and ASP.NET (plus .NET Core versions) along with some Python.
Matt loves teaching and you’ll often find him running local workshops and speaking at events (along with the occasional radio interview)
Patrizia Kaye
AI: Combining AAAAAAAAA and Intelligence
This will be an introduction to the foundations of AI, targeting an interested layperson. In this talk, Patrizia will cover key points such as:
- intelligence vs. rationality
- types of search algorithm
- searching for sudoku solutions playing games - naughts and crosses vs. chess
About Patrizia
Dr. Patrizia Kaye graduated from the University of Durham in 2008 with a Master's degree in Mathematics, having written her dissertation on machine learning and neural networks.
Patrizia began her professional career as a software engineer in the oil and gas industry, whilst simultaneously working towards a PhD in Computer Science, in which she developed new algorithms for 3D surface reconstruction and mesh alignment. She moved to Germany and joined part of Crytek GmbH, quickly taking the lead on revitalising their build and deployment systems and attempting to automate herself out of a job.
Having successfully done so, Patrizia moved to Schlafender Hase ("Sleeping Hare") GmbH, where she works on automated proofreading software for regulated industries, where she has learned more about barcodes than she
thought there was to know.
Patrizia has recently started studying for an MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bath and spends her free time playing video games, board games, and learning languages (currently French).
Tim Wyatt
Future of Process Orchestration
Tim will be taking the audience through the benefits of the developer tool, Camunda. Camunda's process orchestration platform allows developers to design, automate and orchestrate the microservices necessary to improve automated business processes.
About Tim
Tim is a transformation consultant with a proven track record in the delivery of technological change programmes. In the ever-changing world of IT, he has mastered his trade delivering change projects for over two decades.
Despite his experience in senior management at global organisations, Tim maintains his passion for the pure technical aspects of his specialisation and is as happy rolling his sleeves up as an engineer as he is running programmes and implementing process change.
He actively enjoys learning new skills and acquiring knowledge, reflected in his recent certifications as an AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS Solutions Architect and for good measure, Professional Scrum Master.
Krista Osborne
How to market your product
Krista and Chris from Black Vanilla will be talking about how new businesses can take the first steps to effectively get their message out to the public via social and traditional media.
About Krista
Krista has become well-versed in organising both consumer and corporate events, proving her organisation skills and ability to think on her feet. A number of local companies entrust their social media management to Krista, which is a testament to her skill and judgment. This also includes content creation, including film and graphics, for many clients in a number of different sectors.
Chris Leaman
How to market your product
Krista and Chris from Black Vanilla will be talking about how new businesses can take the first steps to effectively get their message out to the public via social and traditional media.
About Chris
Chris has accumulated an impressive knowledge of the Channel Islands’ financial services and B2B industry and has a keen interest in the sector. He applies these insights and expertise to a range of integrated communications campaigns for our clients.
He also leads Black Vanilla’s Bulb offering, applying his skills to help the island’s start-ups and enterprises to reach their potential.
Ben Wratten
Innovation Challenge
Ben and Jenny will be hosting the innovation challenge, where attendees will be given paper, pens and 15 minutes to create the best solutions to a given problem. With awards for the best idea, best drawing and funniest idea.
About Ben
Ben is the Programme and Engagement Manager at the Digital Greenhouse, looking after the range of programmes across upskilling, innovating and growing businesses.
Jenny de la Mare
Innovation Challenge
Ben and Jenny will be hosting the innovation challenge, where attendees will be given paper, pens and 15 minutes to create the best solutions to a given problem. With awards for the best idea, best drawing and funniest idea.
About Jenny
As the Digital Greenhouse's Development Officer, Jenny is responsible for the planning and delivery of a number of programmes, including startup business support, business bootcamps and mentoring. She enjoys running workshops and hackathons with a variety of stakeholders to help them develop business development skills.
