Speakers

  • Ade-Lee Adebiyi

    UX/UI Designer @OrchidSoftware. Fashion Enthusiast and all round nice guy.

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  • Alex Newman

    Alex is 20 years old from Newcastle and is a frontend developer at Bede Gaming. He loves clean, semantic and reusable code and has an addiction to pizza. He uses Sass and Less along with…

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  • Ali Sheehan Dare

    Ali is 22, went to Newcastle University, created a failed startup, and now works at Scott Logic as a software developer. He enjoys everything front-end, including React, Redux, CSS, and any…

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  • Alistair Duggin

    Alistair Duggin is Head of Accessibility at the Government Digital Service and is responsible for making sure that GOV.UK is as accessible as possible. He was a frontend developer at the…

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  • Andrew Humphreys

    Andrew is currently Javascript Architect at Bede Gaming, overseeing their various JavaScript projects and heading up their HTML5 games studio. He is a core team member of the MarionetteJS project…

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  • Andrew Khan

    Andrew Khan is a full-stack developer who recently moved to the North East from Brighton. He has been in the industry since 2010, and during that time has put an emphasis on writing high…

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  • Andrew Willis

    Andrew Willis is a Platform Engineer at Gospelware who likes tinkering with the front-end on occasion. He enjoys travelling and listening to a strange mix of different types of music. He also…

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  • Andy Kelly

    Andy is a digital designer from Belfast, living in Newcastle. When he isn’t working on a design project he is probably making cocktails for drunk students. In his spare time he enjoys photography,…

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  • Ashley Baxter

    Ashley Baxter is currently building Jack, business insurance on a first name basis. She is also Director of Brokers…

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  • Aswini Dasika

    Nearly 14 years into application programming and architecture, love to experiment and eager to learn new things. Currently working as a Principal Software Engineer/Technical Architect at DWP…

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  • Ben Cooper

    Ben is working at tombola, the UK’s biggest bingo site, where he is a Senior JavaScript Developer. He has over 5 years experience working for some of the world’s biggest organisations, as well as…

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  • Ben Holliday

    Ben is Head of User Experience at the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP). He’s previously worked for FreeAgent, the Government Digital Service (GDS), and has worked extensively with…

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  • Ben Sterling

    Besides programming and being near the soothing light of a monitor at all times, he loves a good debate — It’s the best way to learn and understand other people’s opinions.

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  • Bethan Vincent

    I’m an award-winning technology marketeer, podcast host and speaker based in the beautiful city of York. I’m extremely passionate about creating exceptional tech products and crafting…

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  • Brendan Dawes

    Brendan Dawes is a UK based artist exploring the interaction of objects, people, technology and art using form and code with an eclectic mix of digital and analogue materials. Author of two books…

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  • Catherine Hopkins

    Former Graphic Design Apprentice and now a recent Digital Design graduate from Newcastle College. Catherine is an aspiring UX/UI designer with a focus on apps, an amateur coder and a hobby artist…

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  • Chris Coyier

    Chris is a web designer and developer. He created CSS-Tricks, a website all about building websites. Going strong for nearly 10 years, it’s a community with a…

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  • Chris Kemper

    Developer, author, Nandos lover and a gamer.

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  • Chris Price

    Chris Price is based in Newcastle upon Tyne and works as a Software Engineer at Scott Logic. He spends his days developing desktop/tablet/mobile web apps for…

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  • Christos Matskas

    Ever-learning software engineer @ Microsoft working on Azure and developer technologies. Advocate of Open Source & platform-agnostic tools. ‘Future maker’

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  • Damian Nicholson

    I’m the Frontend Lead working remotely for Conferize - a Danish startup specialising in building a digital platform for events of all shapes and sizes. When I’m not doing that I’m either failing…

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  • Dan Edwards

    Dan has been working as a designer for over 8 years with clients such as O2, Badoo, First Round Capital and Sharp. He won Young Designer of the…

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  • Danielle Stone

    Danielle

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  • Dylan Schiemann

    As CEO of SitePen and co-founder of the Dojo Toolkit, Dylan Schiemann is an established presence in the JavaScript and open source communities. Under his direction, SitePen has become the…

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  • Gavin Elliott

    First and foremost Gavin is a Dad to Addison and Nyah, he is also Canny Food‘s rock and greatest supporter. He is also the Head of Interaction…

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  • George Allsopp

    I am an aspiring graphics artist with a passion for creativity. American Football crazy, GO PATRIOTS!! When I’m not working or playing football I’m watching films (Anything scary suits me).…

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  • Jack Franklin

    Jack is a Developer Evangelist at Pusher, based in London. He spends most of his time writing and talking about JavaScript and front end web development. He’s the…

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  • James A Lambert

    James is a Web Developer for Virgin Money currently working mainly on a new design system. With nearly 10 years experience mainly for design agencies working on sites from small startups to large…

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  • Jamie Barton

    Jamie is a Developer Evangelist at Moltin, a headless commerce API born in the North East. He enjoys talking, writing, recording videos and building applications with modern web development…

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  • Jamie Bradley

    Jamie is a web developer and runs a small agency in Middlesbrough called Endeavour Digital. He enjoys building Front End Applications with React and is an advocate of JAMstack. When he…

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  • Jamie Hurst

    Director (developer) at @HurstDEV; married to @YajunHurst; commonly found listening to daft music and attending pubs. Eternal optimist.

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  • Jessica Kelsall

    Jess is a full-stack developer working at KOMODO in Newcastle, focusing on JavaScript development through React and Node.js. She is a transgender rights advocate, Formula 1 fanatic, and enjoys…

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  • Jo Franchetti

    Jo is a Web Developer Advocate for Samsung Internet who is passionate about VR, Web Bluetooth, PWAs and great CSS. She’s got 6 years experience as a front end developer and has worked in various…

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  • Jo Hardy

    Currently studying Digital Design at Newcastle College, Joanne is due to commence the BA(Hons) Creative Enterprise course in September, with a goal to developing a career within front-end app…

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  • Joe Hart

    Joe is mid twenty-something software engineer, he studied at the University of Southampton and then Goldsmiths College. Nowadays he builds sites for the BBC, from back end databases to front end…

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  • Joe Norman

    Joe is a 25 year old software developer from Newcastle (originally Malvern), currently working as a JS developer at Bede Gaming; focused on backend JS development using Node.js. Outside of…

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  • Jonathan Steele

    Jonathan is a UI designer and front-end engineer, working with teams around the world to build ambitious web applications. Previously at Blooie, Jonathan is an advocate for modular CSS and…

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  • Jonny Hamilton

    You can’t spell Hamilton without HTML, Jonny is a web developer at Accenture specialising in front end development.

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  • Kaspars Zarinovs

    Kaspars is originally from Riga (Latvia), but moved here to do a masters degree in Newcastle University. He now is the Lead Developer in Gospelware - a Newcastle based digital agency, where he…

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  • Katie Fenn

    Katie is an engineer at npm. She’s the co-organiser of @frontendsheff, a volunteer at @scotlandjs, a diver, cyclist, and (excellent) speaker.

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  • Kerry Gallagher

    Kerry is a developer with a specialism in all things front-end. She adores animals, and owns a GSD called Rupert, 6 pet rats and numerous fish. Outside of that she’s passionate about photography,…

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  • Lee Border

    Lee is a recent graduate from the digital design course at Newcastle College. His main focus lies in the user experience side of projects where he likes to focus on the bigger picture before…

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  • Lewis Cowper

    Lewis is a front end developer at MoneyMap, based in Berlin. He’s passionate about web performance, clean code, and offline first. He loves component based systems, and enjoys speaking about…

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  • Liam Defty

    Recent Digital Design graduate, Liam Defty, is an aspiring Front End Developer with a background in Graphic Design. For the past six months, alongside his studies, he has been on an internship…

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  • Libby Léonard

    After working as a designer and front end dev for 6 years, Elizabeth fell into teaching. She currently works as a lecturer at Newcastle College, teaching Digital Design at degree and FE level…

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  • Lily Dart

    Lily is Head of Design Systems for Lloyds Banking Group. Before Lloyds she was working to transform government as the Design Director for the Department of International Trade. She’s worked as a…

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  • Luke Bonaccorsi

    Luke has been building stuff for the web since the early 2000s as a hobbyist before starting his development career in 2012. Currently a software engineer at Sky Betting & Gaming, he’s also…

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  • Luke Jackson

    Luke Jackson has been a web developer for about seven years. He studied one year of electronic engineering and three years of computer science at Newcastle University, followed by a one year…

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  • Martin Beeby

    Martin Beeby has been a developer since he was 16. Having no garage, unlike his American counterparts, he began developing small sites, apps and hacks from the comfort of his bedroom. Today…

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  • Martin Underhill

    Martin is a front-end developer/designer, father of one and husband of another. He runs tempertemper, a tiny web design studio in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he designs, builds and maintains…

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  • Micheal Harker

    Micheal is a 19 year old developer from Durham currently working at iResources, doing a mixture of frontend and backend web development. Outside…

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  • Niels Leenheer

    Niels is a developer working on web applications for Salonhub and is a self-professed browser geek. He is the creator of HTML5test.com, which is used more than a…

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  • Nikos Tsouknidas

    Nikos studied Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in Athens then moved to Japan for an MDes in Design Strategy. For the past seven years he has been working for the BBC as an engineer and…

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  • Patrick H Lauke

    Patrick H. Lauke works as Accessibility Consultant for The Paciello Group. In a previous life he was a Web Evangelist in the Developer Relations team at Opera.…

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  • Peter Grainger

    Peter Grainger works on the Business Cloud Accounting product at Sage. He has over 10 years coding experience from low level satellite communications to modern front-end frameworks. He spends most…

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  • Phil Sherry

    Phil’s been building things for the Web for twenty years, which makes him really old. In that time, he’s had some web development books published, built social networks in Stockholm,…

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  • Rachel Andrew

    Rachel Andrew is a front and back-end web developer, author and speaker. Her books include the recent

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  • Richard Carter

    Web designer and frontend developer with 10+ years of experience. Boss man-child at Peacock Carter. LEGO & Earl Grey tea obsessed.

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  • Richard Powell

    Richard is a UI developer and designer with 8 years industry experience. He’s in charge of the product UI at Server Density, a complex Single Page Application built in Backbone &…

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  • Rob Walker

    Rob is CTO and co-founder of tech startup Papertrail.io, where he has been creating industry leading health and safety software. He is currently enjoying learning AngularJS and spending…

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  • Robin Hall

    Digital Content Editor at Virgin Money. Trans, book worm, and class clown.

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  • Ryan Taylor

    Ryan has been a developer for over 10 years. He has worked with clients such as ITV, Electric Ireland, Breast Cancer Care and Guru. He is a contributor to

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  • Sam Beckham

    Sam is a front-end developer at GitLab, and co-organiser of Frontend NE(you might have heard of it). He’s always on…

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  • Scott Walton

    Scott is the lead developer at Pebble - a Newcastle-based company specialising in Income Generation for Schools. His experience ranges across back-end Django apps, DevOps, and front-end…

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  • Sean Cotterill

    Sean

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  • Sophie Koonin

    Sophie is a full-stack web engineer on the Web Platform Team at Monzo, building internal tooling in React and Go. A mentor at Node Girls London and keen tech blogger, she featured on the Makers…

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  • Stephanie Stimac

    Stephanie is a Program Manager and Designer Developer for Microsoft Edge Developer Experiences and the open source project webhint.io. Her design work is focused…

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  • Stephen Cook

    Stephen is a Frontend Engineer at Thread. He works hard by day, saving up to fulfill his true dream of playing Mario Kart professionally.

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  • Steve Higgs

    Steve writes internet things in node, c# and others. In previous lives he has developed content management systems, factory control software, gambling apps, sold his soul to a consultancy, escaped…

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  • Steven Roberts

    Steven is a Frontend Designer and Developer from Teesside, England. He’s spent the last 10 years building the web while working for a number of SMEs and agencies in the North East of…

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  • Stuart Holmes

    Stuart works for Newcastle Building Society as a software developer building internet banking software. He specialises in front end development and advocates accessibility and user experience in…

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  • Stuart Robson

    Stuart is a front-end consultant and design systems advocate who for the last 5 years has helped companies and organisation with the front-end of their design systems. He also curates the the

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  • Surya Teja Pulakhandam

    https://twitter.com/psuryateja111

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  • Tim Bryan

    Tim

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  • Vic Bell

    Making things, mainly sandwiches

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