Events

Upcoming Events

Our regular lean coffees meetings are on the 4th Thursday of the month at 11.00-12.00. To get an invite please join the mailchimp list

Next Lean Coffee: Thursday 28th November 2024 from 11 am to 12 noon

We are planning a virtual short talk event in on 24th October 2024 10:00 - 12:00. Around the theme of recent Government Initiatives. We have speakers from CCDO Engineering Excellence, TechTrack and Top 75 services team. If you would like to know more or have something to present please contact us

We are pleased to invite you also to the in-person Cross Government Software Engineering Conference 2025!

Special Interest Groups

Here are the next meetings for the Heads of Engineering Special Interest Group:

• 30 January 2025 - Hybrid - 1-3 PM Career progression for Tech Tracks (Collaborative workshop)

• 6 Mar 2025 - In Person - Full day - venue TBC

If you wish to join this interest group, please contact us

Past Events

2022

• We ran an Unconference in November 2022
• When we have held lightning talks we store slides and opr video (where available) on our Gihub Community space. - so members of the group can re-watch / get them if they missed the section.

We held a lightning talk on Thursday 29th September 2022

• Elastic Cloud at the UKHO - Rossall Sandford Principal Software Engineer

We held a lightning talk on Thursday 30th Of June 2022

• Solid - A lightning talk intro to a new W3C standard for the storage and permissioned access of personal data for the next phase of the web. - Max Leonard (Inrupt)

We held Lightning talks on Thursday 24th March 2022

• Federated API discovery - Bethan Palmer (CDDO) and Jamie Tanna (CDDO)
• Get a fishing license service - Phil Benson, DEFRA
• Federated APIs - Michal Poreba, DiT

2021

• Our last facilitators meeting will be the 23rd of November 2021. Notes for members can be found on github.

We held lightning talks on Thursday 28 October 2021
With the following talks

• Welcome and community goals by David Heath (GDS) and Andy Poole (UKHO)
• Serverless security - Shaun Hare (DVSA)
• Facial recognition using AWS Serverless - Alexander Swann (Home Office)
• Supporting community-driven web annotations using distributed version control - John Moore (National Archives)
• Trunk based development and genuine continuous delivery - Kevin Keenoy (DLUHC)
• Overcoming decision paralysis - Ben Vandersteen (GDS)

The discussion afterwards included a short feedback session and other talks were suggested on slack, details and slides will be made available via the mailing list.