web01.fireside.fm Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:54:17 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Off Script - Episodes Tagged with “Events” https://off-script.fireside.fm/tags/events Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:30:00 +0100 Hosted by CTOs Josh Nesbitt and James Hall, Off Script brings you unfiltered conversations about the highs, lows, and lessons of working in tech today. From leading engineering teams and scaling companies, to tackling burnout, bad bets, and breakthrough ideas, this is the show where raw honesty meets experience. Alongside one-on-one conversations between Josh and James, you’ll hear from leaders, builders, designers, and entrepreneurs who aren’t afraid to share what’s really going on behind the scenes — the conversations usually left for DMs, side chats, and after-hours drinks. Whether you’re building your first product or leading a fast-growing team, Off Script gives you a raw and refreshing perspective on the challenges and creativity that shape modern tech. New episodes every few weeks. Subscribe and join the conversation. en-gb episodic Where raw honesty meets experience. Unfiltered conversations at the edge of tech, leadership, and creativity. Hey! Presents Hosted by CTOs Josh Nesbitt and James Hall, Off Script brings you unfiltered conversations about the highs, lows, and lessons of working in tech today. From leading engineering teams and scaling companies, to tackling burnout, bad bets, and breakthrough ideas, this is the show where raw honesty meets experience. Alongside one-on-one conversations between Josh and James, you’ll hear from leaders, builders, designers, and entrepreneurs who aren’t afraid to share what’s really going on behind the scenes — the conversations usually left for DMs, side chats, and after-hours drinks. Whether you’re building your first product or leading a fast-growing team, Off Script gives you a raw and refreshing perspective on the challenges and creativity that shape modern tech. New episodes every few weeks. Subscribe and join the conversation. yes Technology leadership, CTO podcast, Creative technologists, Product development, Engineering culture, Software teams, AI and product, Startup stories, Agency leadership, Honest tech conversations, Scaling tech companies, Tech industry insights, Tech News Hey! Presents offscript@heypresents.com Episode 47: Behind the scenes of running a tech conference https://off-script.fireside.fm/47 7a17263e-5d46-4c7d-9222-866aece2e973 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:30:00 +0100 Hey! Presents full 2 Hey! Presents How do you structure and run the perfect tech conference? What things are involved behind the scenes that attendees don’t see? What advice would you give to someone looking to start their own event? We’re glad you asked! This episode is an All Day Hey! Special where hosts, Josh and James spill the beans on what goes on behind the All Day Hey! conference curtain, how we can collectively safeguard the future of events and what makes running a tech conference like this so special. Join us in Leeds on Thursday, 1st May for this year’s All Day Hey! Tickets and schedule at https://heypresents.com/conferences/2025 21:17 yes How do you structure and run the perfect tech conference? What things are involved behind the scenes that attendees don’t see? What advice would you give to someone looking to start their own event? We’re glad you asked! This episode is an All Day Hey! Special where hosts, Josh and James spill the beans on what goes on behind the All Day Hey! conference curtain, how we can collectively safeguard the future of events and what makes running a tech conference like this so special. Join us in Leeds on Thursday, 1st May for this year’s All Day Hey! Tickets and schedule at https://heypresents.com/conferences/2025 00:00 How to run a conference 01:00 Why start a conference? - The aim behind All Day Hey! 02:00 What do you want to provide for the audience? 03:00 Avoiding trends and providing backed knowledge 04:00 How to plan the day of talks to keep people engaged? 05:00 Dealing with technical blunders 07:00 Process of picking speakers and who to contact 08:00 Avoiding talks being sponsored ads 11:00 Getting diversity of topic and idea 12:00 All Day Hey! is community focussed - how to create this? 13:00 How to open up the networking and make it welcoming 14:00 How to close a conference to provoke questions 15:00 Tips for other organisers 16:00 Investing in production quality 17:00 Setting up a conference in 2025 19:00 Keeping the indie conference alive Find out more about Stac and Parallax: * https://stac.works (https://stac.works) * https://parall.ax (https://parall.ax) development, web, tech, technology, cyber security, conferences, events, organising, hosting, running a conference, leeds international festival, leeds, curating a conference, css, front-end development, How do you structure and run the perfect tech conference? What things are involved behind the scenes that attendees don’t see? What advice would you give to someone looking to start their own event?

We’re glad you asked! This episode is an All Day Hey! Special where hosts, Josh and James spill the beans on what goes on behind the All Day Hey! conference curtain, how we can collectively safeguard the future of events and what makes running a tech conference like this so special.

Join us in Leeds on Thursday, 1st May for this year’s All Day Hey!
Tickets and schedule at https://heypresents.com/conferences/2025

  • 00:00 How to run a conference
  • 01:00 Why start a conference? - The aim behind All Day Hey!
  • 02:00 What do you want to provide for the audience?
  • 03:00 Avoiding trends and providing backed knowledge
  • 04:00 How to plan the day of talks to keep people engaged?
  • 05:00 Dealing with technical blunders
  • 07:00 Process of picking speakers and who to contact
  • 08:00 Avoiding talks being sponsored ads
  • 11:00 Getting diversity of topic and idea
  • 12:00 All Day Hey! is community focussed - how to create this?
  • 13:00 How to open up the networking and make it welcoming
  • 14:00 How to close a conference to provoke questions
  • 15:00 Tips for other organisers
  • 16:00 Investing in production quality
  • 17:00 Setting up a conference in 2025
  • 19:00 Keeping the indie conference alive

Find out more about Stac and Parallax:

]]> How do you structure and run the perfect tech conference? What things are involved behind the scenes that attendees don’t see? What advice would you give to someone looking to start their own event?

We’re glad you asked! This episode is an All Day Hey! Special where hosts, Josh and James spill the beans on what goes on behind the All Day Hey! conference curtain, how we can collectively safeguard the future of events and what makes running a tech conference like this so special.

Join us in Leeds on Thursday, 1st May for this year’s All Day Hey!
Tickets and schedule at https://heypresents.com/conferences/2025

  • 00:00 How to run a conference
  • 01:00 Why start a conference? - The aim behind All Day Hey!
  • 02:00 What do you want to provide for the audience?
  • 03:00 Avoiding trends and providing backed knowledge
  • 04:00 How to plan the day of talks to keep people engaged?
  • 05:00 Dealing with technical blunders
  • 07:00 Process of picking speakers and who to contact
  • 08:00 Avoiding talks being sponsored ads
  • 11:00 Getting diversity of topic and idea
  • 12:00 All Day Hey! is community focussed - how to create this?
  • 13:00 How to open up the networking and make it welcoming
  • 14:00 How to close a conference to provoke questions
  • 15:00 Tips for other organisers
  • 16:00 Investing in production quality
  • 17:00 Setting up a conference in 2025
  • 19:00 Keeping the indie conference alive

Find out more about Stac and Parallax:

]]> Episode 43: Future of software engineering leadership - Part 1 https://off-script.fireside.fm/43 7160fe6a-6d8b-4e5d-96f9-faf91abdfa53 Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000 Hey! Presents full 2 Hey! Presents Dive into the modern challenges and the future direction of leadership in software engineering in this episode of Off Script! 27:56 yes "It's not enough just being right. You've got to actually convince people of your way of thinking and take other people on the journey". Off Script is back with Josh and James hosting the first episode in a massive two-parter! They take lessons and hot topics from the recent Off Script Live event in Leeds. Dive into the modern challenges and the future direction of leadership in software engineering in this episode. Part 2 out soon! Subscribe so you don’t miss it. Recorded: 27th November 2024 Recap re:invent festival AI announcements Event themes Remote & Hybrid working Slack working dynamics Methods of communication Importance of communication Huddle to convey tone of information Reduce crosstalk and chatter Mandating behaviour vs Encouraging participation Sarah Wells Talk - Nudge Theory - LINK Make it easy for people to do the right thing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Hiring policies Soft Skills in hybrid working Empowering vs washing hands of decisions AI Important to understand the black box Using AI for leadership decisions Reference * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxcgywwC4u8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxcgywwC4u8) Find out more about Stac and Parallax: * https://stac.works (https://stac.works) * https://parall.ax (https://parall.ax) development, web, tech, technology, cyber security, conferences, events, organising, hosting, running a conference, leeds international festival, leeds, curating a conference, css, front-end development, "It's not enough just being right. You've got to actually convince people of your way of thinking and take other people on the journey".

Off Script is back with Josh and James hosting the first episode in a massive two-parter!

They take lessons and hot topics from the recent Off Script Live event in Leeds. Dive into the modern challenges and the future direction of leadership in software engineering in this episode.

Part 2 out soon! Subscribe so you don’t miss it.

Recorded: 27th November 2024

  • Recap
  • re:invent festival
  • AI announcements
  • Event themes
  • Remote & Hybrid working
  • Slack working dynamics
  • Methods of communication
  • Importance of communication
  • Huddle to convey tone of information
  • Reduce crosstalk and chatter
  • Mandating behaviour vs Encouraging participation
  • Sarah Wells Talk - Nudge Theory - LINK
  • Make it easy for people to do the right thing
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
  • Hiring policies
  • Soft Skills in hybrid working
  • Empowering vs washing hands of decisions
  • AI
  • Important to understand the black box
  • Using AI for leadership decisions

Reference

Find out more about Stac and Parallax:

]]> "It's not enough just being right. You've got to actually convince people of your way of thinking and take other people on the journey".

Off Script is back with Josh and James hosting the first episode in a massive two-parter!

They take lessons and hot topics from the recent Off Script Live event in Leeds. Dive into the modern challenges and the future direction of leadership in software engineering in this episode.

Part 2 out soon! Subscribe so you don’t miss it.

Recorded: 27th November 2024

  • Recap
  • re:invent festival
  • AI announcements
  • Event themes
  • Remote & Hybrid working
  • Slack working dynamics
  • Methods of communication
  • Importance of communication
  • Huddle to convey tone of information
  • Reduce crosstalk and chatter
  • Mandating behaviour vs Encouraging participation
  • Sarah Wells Talk - Nudge Theory - LINK
  • Make it easy for people to do the right thing
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
  • Hiring policies
  • Soft Skills in hybrid working
  • Empowering vs washing hands of decisions
  • AI
  • Important to understand the black box
  • Using AI for leadership decisions

Reference

Find out more about Stac and Parallax:

]]> Episode 42: Imperfect innovation https://off-script.fireside.fm/42 9fdaacef-caba-4a5b-8cc2-02748ef07192 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0100 Hey! Presents full 2 Hey! Presents The historically popular development process of “move fast and break things” has got the biggest companies in the world far. In the age of AI, can we still take these risks in the name of progress or are the potential repercussions too great? Josh and James are joined by guest Jack Sails to discuss. 48:08 yes The historically popular development process of “move fast and break things” has got the biggest companies in the world far. In the age of AI, can we still take these risks in the name of progress or are the potential repercussions too great? Josh and James are joined by guest Jack Sails to discuss. Recorded: 17th July 2024 02 Open AI fearless implementation 03 Is developing in a vacuum worse? 04 Google move fast and break things becomes more dangerous 05 OpenAI haven't lost trust yet 06 How did OpenAI get its data - Mira Murati 09 Scraping the internet for data 10 A open internet vs private companies 10 ARC browser hover LLM description 11 Imperfect innovation, where does it come from? 11 Innovating to solve a problem vs innovation into unknown areas 12 Microsoft Copilot AI 13 ChatGPT taking over Google as the go-to for questions 16 Kodak & digital images 18 Humans bring value and craft 19 The iPhone was a ipod killer 20 Fearing innovation and protectionism 21 Nokia's lack of smartphone innovation 25 Theranos - Fake it till you make it in medicine 28 Now no one will touch the Metaverse 29 Zoe smart patch and gut tracking 35 Lime Scooters late night testing for alcohol 36 Innovation that's not required 37 Coke's new flavour 39 Segway 42 Cars 43 Napster's innovation Find out more about Stac and Parallax: * https://stac.works (https://stac.works) * https://parall.ax (https://parall.ax) development, web, tech, technology, cyber security, conferences, events, organising, hosting, running a conference, leeds international festival, leeds, curating a conference, css, front-end development, The historically popular development process of “move fast and break things” has got the biggest companies in the world far. In the age of AI, can we still take these risks in the name of progress or are the potential repercussions too great? Josh and James are joined by guest Jack Sails to discuss.

Recorded: 17th July 2024

  • 02 Open AI fearless implementation
  • 03 Is developing in a vacuum worse?
  • 04 Google move fast and break things becomes more dangerous
  • 05 OpenAI haven't lost trust yet
  • 06 How did OpenAI get its data - Mira Murati
  • 09 Scraping the internet for data
  • 10 A open internet vs private companies
  • 10 ARC browser hover LLM description
  • 11 Imperfect innovation, where does it come from?
  • 11 Innovating to solve a problem vs innovation into unknown areas
  • 12 Microsoft Copilot AI
  • 13 ChatGPT taking over Google as the go-to for questions
  • 16 Kodak & digital images
  • 18 Humans bring value and craft
  • 19 The iPhone was a ipod killer
  • 20 Fearing innovation and protectionism
  • 21 Nokia's lack of smartphone innovation
  • 25 Theranos - Fake it till you make it in medicine
  • 28 Now no one will touch the Metaverse
  • 29 Zoe smart patch and gut tracking
  • 35 Lime Scooters late night testing for alcohol
  • 36 Innovation that's not required
  • 37 Coke's new flavour
  • 39 Segway
  • 42 Cars
  • 43 Napster's innovation

Find out more about Stac and Parallax:

]]> The historically popular development process of “move fast and break things” has got the biggest companies in the world far. In the age of AI, can we still take these risks in the name of progress or are the potential repercussions too great? Josh and James are joined by guest Jack Sails to discuss.

Recorded: 17th July 2024

  • 02 Open AI fearless implementation
  • 03 Is developing in a vacuum worse?
  • 04 Google move fast and break things becomes more dangerous
  • 05 OpenAI haven't lost trust yet
  • 06 How did OpenAI get its data - Mira Murati
  • 09 Scraping the internet for data
  • 10 A open internet vs private companies
  • 10 ARC browser hover LLM description
  • 11 Imperfect innovation, where does it come from?
  • 11 Innovating to solve a problem vs innovation into unknown areas
  • 12 Microsoft Copilot AI
  • 13 ChatGPT taking over Google as the go-to for questions
  • 16 Kodak & digital images
  • 18 Humans bring value and craft
  • 19 The iPhone was a ipod killer
  • 20 Fearing innovation and protectionism
  • 21 Nokia's lack of smartphone innovation
  • 25 Theranos - Fake it till you make it in medicine
  • 28 Now no one will touch the Metaverse
  • 29 Zoe smart patch and gut tracking
  • 35 Lime Scooters late night testing for alcohol
  • 36 Innovation that's not required
  • 37 Coke's new flavour
  • 39 Segway
  • 42 Cars
  • 43 Napster's innovation

Find out more about Stac and Parallax:

]]> Episode 40: Shifting security left https://off-script.fireside.fm/40 26851b4c-6673-428f-8dbe-8b456f5f3f4f Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Hey! Presents full 2 Hey! Presents Inspired by reading ‘Investments Unlimited’ and other books built around the principles of storytelling, James and Josh dive into DevSecOps and the bigger picture of shifting security left in this new episode of Off Script! 24:50 yes Inspired by reading ‘Investments Unlimited’ and other books built around the principles of storytelling, James and Josh dive into DevSecOps and the bigger picture of shifting security left in this new episode of Off Script! In this episode: * 00:00 Fictional Bugs - Investments Unlimited * 01:00 DevSecOps * 02:00 Moving security testing to the beginning * 03:00 Reducing the friction of releases * 04:00 Go through pain points early * 05:00 Strict linting, function length, no unused variables * 06:00 Early automated tests to prevent Git leaks * 08:00 Making it easy for the developer * 10:00 Bearer * 11:00 Concise reporting * 12:00 Dependabot * 13:00 Secret Management * 14:00 Making it easy to do the right thing * 16:00 Having pride in your security * 17:00 What if your language doesn’t have much security support? * 19:00 Dynamic & Static languages * 20:00 Language agnostic tools * 21:00 Key takeaways References: * https://itrevolution.com/product/investments-unlimited/ (https://itrevolution.com/product/investments-unlimited/) * https://www.bearer.com/ (https://www.bearer.com/) * https://github.com/dependabot (https://github.com/dependabot) Find out more about Stac and Parallax: * https://stac.works (https://stac.works) * https://parall.ax (https://parall.ax) development, web, tech, technology, cyber security, conferences, events, organising, shifting security left, devsecops, hosting, running a conference, leeds international festival, leeds, curating a conference, css, front-end development, Inspired by reading ‘Investments Unlimited’ and other books built around the principles of storytelling, James and Josh dive into DevSecOps and the bigger picture of shifting security left in this new episode of Off Script!

In this episode:

  • 00:00 Fictional Bugs - Investments Unlimited
  • 01:00 DevSecOps
  • 02:00 Moving security testing to the beginning
  • 03:00 Reducing the friction of releases
  • 04:00 Go through pain points early
  • 05:00 Strict linting, function length, no unused variables
  • 06:00 Early automated tests to prevent Git leaks
  • 08:00 Making it easy for the developer
  • 10:00 Bearer
  • 11:00 Concise reporting
  • 12:00 Dependabot
  • 13:00 Secret Management
  • 14:00 Making it easy to do the right thing
  • 16:00 Having pride in your security
  • 17:00 What if your language doesn’t have much security support?
  • 19:00 Dynamic & Static languages
  • 20:00 Language agnostic tools
  • 21:00 Key takeaways

References:

Find out more about Stac and Parallax:

]]> Inspired by reading ‘Investments Unlimited’ and other books built around the principles of storytelling, James and Josh dive into DevSecOps and the bigger picture of shifting security left in this new episode of Off Script!

In this episode:

  • 00:00 Fictional Bugs - Investments Unlimited
  • 01:00 DevSecOps
  • 02:00 Moving security testing to the beginning
  • 03:00 Reducing the friction of releases
  • 04:00 Go through pain points early
  • 05:00 Strict linting, function length, no unused variables
  • 06:00 Early automated tests to prevent Git leaks
  • 08:00 Making it easy for the developer
  • 10:00 Bearer
  • 11:00 Concise reporting
  • 12:00 Dependabot
  • 13:00 Secret Management
  • 14:00 Making it easy to do the right thing
  • 16:00 Having pride in your security
  • 17:00 What if your language doesn’t have much security support?
  • 19:00 Dynamic & Static languages
  • 20:00 Language agnostic tools
  • 21:00 Key takeaways

References:

Find out more about Stac and Parallax:

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