Future Rewired 2024

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Digital Greenhouse

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Our technology festival Future Rewired is back for 2024, and will run from 10am - 5:30 pm at the Digital Greenhouse with talks, workshops and showcases throughout the day!

The festival will bring Guernsey's tech sector together, 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 event will open with an innovation challenge run by the Digital Greenhouse Team with various prizes. The day will conclude with demos from a range of Guernsey's latest Tech Startups.

Tickets are for the whole day, come along and meet like-minded individuals in the digital sector!

Future Rewired 2024 Lineup

Ellen Armsden

Crewdentials

Building a Business To Scale

Ellen is a co-founder of MarineTech business Crewdentials and will be speaking about how to build a business with scale in mind.

Simon Bone

Leadella

Matthew Champion

Cortex Technologies Ltd

Memory management 101 and how Rust does it better

Memory management has historically been a tough thing to get right with dangling pointers, memory leaks and segmentation faults. This talk will go through the basics of memory management and look at the interesting ways that Rust does it better!

Damien Guard

Intracia

Nuxt: Ditching Wordpress for fast, modern, content-driven sites

Nuxt is a Vue-based engine for generating static and dynamic websites. Leveraging the static aspects as well as markdown-powered content and a lightweight CMS you can develop secure, fast sites that will scale for pennies!

Katie Inder

Concise

Storytelling with Data

Katie will review key concepts of how to present data that delivers key messages and outcomes to stakeholders. We'll review use cases for dashboard and dive into building an example in Tableau or Power BI.

Patrizia Kaye

Schlafender Hase GmbH

Introduction to Ovine Ciphers (Baah Codes)

Patrizia will dive into where barcodes came from, followed by a description of how certain common barcode types (as well as QR codes) are read, and some of the considerations involved in printing barcodes and QR codes. During the session, get hands-on and manually decode one or two barcodes to demystify the process.

Trevor Nicholls

EaseeDo

Experiments with locally run GenAI

Trevor is founder of EaseeDo and will be doing a deep dive into how he has been using locally run GenAI tools to streamline processes including image generation.

Ben Wratten

Digital Greenhouse/ Stage Portal

Growth Hacking Marketing

Join Ben for an exploration of growth hacking marketing, discover how this dynamic approach combines creativity, data analysis, and rapid experimentation to achieve rapid and scalable growth. Uncover the secrets behind identifying growth opportunities, leveraging data-driven insights, and crafting viral loops for exponential expansion. Learn how to gain initial traction faster and more cost-effectively than with traditional marketing methods, as Ben shares insider secrets, real-world case studies, and actionable strategies to grow your customer base.

Dave Wratten

Stage Portal

Simplifying Web Application Infrastructure with Azure Bicep

Join Dave to embark on a journey to streamline Web Application infrastructure provisioning with Azure Bicep.

Infrastructure as code enables you to automate and standardise your infrastructure deployments, leading to increased agility, scalability and reliability across your cloud environments.

Dave will go through the basics of Azure Bicep and its concepts as well as showing practical examples demonstrating the ease and efficiency of writing Bicep code.

10:15 - 10:45 Doors Open / Registration

Session 1 - Ideation

10:45 - 11:10

Future Rewired 2024 will begin with a talk from Wayne Soutter from Amazon Web Service. In this talk Wayne will be taking the audience through Amazon's culture of innovation.

Wayne Soutter, Principal Industry Solution Manager - UK and EMEA - Amazon Web Services

11:10 - 12:00

As you may know, all businesses begin with a brilliant idea. In this session, we will explore ideation skills and practical techniques to make your idea a reality!

Innovation Challenge, Digital Greenhouse Team

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

Session 2 - Building a Business

13:00 - 14:00

In this session, we will explore the many facets that can help you build your business, from key concepts of data presentation to using GenAI to streamline your processes

Story Telling with Data, Katie Inder

Introduction to Ovine Ciphers (Baah Codes), Patrizia Kaye

Experiments with locally run GenAI, Trevor Nicholls

Simplifying Web Application Infrastructure with Azure Bicep, Dave Wratten

Session 3 - Building at Scale

14:00 - 15:00

In this session, we will explore programs and processes that will enable you to grow your venture to new heights and manage it at scale

Memory management 101 and how Rust does it better, Matthew Champion

Building a business to scale, Ellen Armsden

Nuxt: Ditching WordPress for fast, modern, content-driven sites, Damien Guard

15:00 - 15:15 Coffee Break

Session 4 - Growing your Network Using Marketing

15:15 - 16:15

Knowing how to reach your ideal customers is vital to any successful venture. In this session we will explore dynamic marketing approaches, diving into data-driven experimentation that can provide many growth opportunities

Growth hacking marketing, Ben Wratten

Email marketing success in 2024, Simon Bone

Session 5 - Inspire Me! Product Demos

16:15 - 16:50

Get ready to be inspired by our lineup of innovative local businesses as they demo their Guernsey-built products

UniteVerse

The UniteVerse app is designed to revolutionise the way people discover and engage with nightlife and events. Their mission is to give users a more inclusive experience and safe environment for everyone to enjoy, review and improve nightlife.

Stage Portal

Stage Portal is a subscription-based platform, sitting as a central hub for live event management. Their mission is to give everyone in the industry the tools to bring to life the world’s greatest events.

Crewdentials

Crewdentials is a personnel onboarding and credential management platform specialising in the maritime sector. They are digitalising the collation, verification and management of seafarer credentials through their onboarding and compliance management tools.

EaseeDo

EaseeDo is a software platform for fostering independence and managing anxiety. It enables individuals to navigate daily challenges more effectively, unlock their full potential, and improve their overall well-being.

Koadx

Nionnet presents its system for a line of business code generation. They accelerate software development for any business, producing generated code that saves founders time and money, letting them focus on other areas.

16:50 - 17:00 Wrap up