Off Script - Episodes Tagged with “Leeds International Festival”

Episode 47: Behind the scenes of running a tech conference

Hey! Presents — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:30:00 +0100

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

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Episode 43: Future of software engineering leadership - Part 1

Hey! Presents — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000

"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

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Episode 42: Imperfect innovation

Hey! Presents — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0100

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

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Episode 40: Shifting security left

Hey! Presents — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000

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

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Episode 02: Running a conference

Hey! Presents — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 11:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Off Script, All Day Hey! co-founders Josh Nesbitt and Harry Roberts break down what it takes to run a conference and how it came to be. We discuss:

How All Day Hey! Came into existence and why we do it
The responsibility of hosting people and bringing them into the city
This year’s ADH lineup and how we curate it
Reflecting on an event

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