UCISA and Jisc are working with the developer community to create a unique event that combines continuing professional development with exposure to the latest in emerging technologies, and gives developers who attend the opportunity to showcase their creativity.
A full list of session descriptions is also available.
| Day One: | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Main room | Breakout 1 | Breakout 2 |
| 1000 | Arrival and registration WITH COFFEE | ||
| 1030 | Welcome and introduction | ||
| 1100 |
RESEARCH SUPPORT Chair: Chris Gutteridge, University of Southampton [1] The life academic - Chris Gutteridge, University of Southampton [2] A day in the life of a Research Software Engineer - James Grant, University of Bath [3] Cambridge vs. Oxford repository showdown! - Matteo Cancellieri, Open University |
TECHNOLOGY Chair: Martin Hamilton, Jisc [4] Create your first ARKit app in Unity3D - Suhad Aljundi, Jisc [5] Creating VR for Learning Spaces in Unreal Engine - Matt Ramirez, Jisc |
TECHNOLOGY Chair: Alex Dutton, University of Oxford [6] WordPress : getting started with the academic swiss army knife - Pat Lockley, Pgogy Webstuff [7] Behaviour Driven Development with SpecFlow and Selenium - Antony Jackson, London Business School |
| 1300 | Lunch | ||
| 1400 |
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE Chair: Chris Gutteridge, University of Southampton [8] Implementing Agile - John Paul Jones, University of Cumbria [9] Developing in the current higher education economic climate - Joseph Baxter, University of Nottingham [10] Test all the things! QA and CI at the OU - Mark Johnson, Open University [11] Dealing with Technical Debt - Christopher Gutteridge, University of Southampton |
TECHNOLOGY Chair: Martin Hamilton, Jisc [12] Getting started with AWS - Stephen Robinson, Lancaster University |
RESEARCH SUPPORT Chair: Alex Dutton, University of Oxford [13] How can we teaching coding to scientists - Matthew Brett, University of Birmingham [14] The Jupyter Ecosystem - Tony Hirst, Open University |
| 1600 | Break | ||
| 1630 |
Lightning talks: Chair: Martin Hamilton, Jisc [15] Accessibility of maths on the web - Christian Lawson-Perfect, University of Newcastle [16] The ORCID API for researcher identifiers - Monica Duke, Jisc [17] Student Checklist Manifesto - Arul Vaithilingam, York St John University |
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| 1845-1930 | Drinks reception and informal networking in Courtyard Lounge | ||
| 1930-2130 | Dinner in private dining room | ||
| Day Two: | |||
| Time | Main room | Breakout 1 | Breakout 2 |
| 0930 | Welcome and pitches for unconference sessions | ||
| 1000 | Unconference 1 | Unconference 2 | Unconference 3 |
| 1045 | Break | ||
| 1115 | Unconference 4 | Unconference 5 | Unconference 6 |
| 1200 | Lunch | ||
| 1300 | Welcome and pitches for sessions | ||
| 1315 |
TECHNOLOGY Chair: Anna Mathews, UCISA [18] Visualising your data in Unity3D - Erick Martins Ratamero, University of Warwick [19] SharePoint Migration using PowerShell - SharePoint Migration using PowerShell - Tristian O’Brien, University of Brighton |
TECHNOLOGY Chair: Giuseppe Sollazzo, St George's University of London [20] Mathematical e-assessment software - Christian Lawson-Perfect, University of Newcastle [21] Building a Learner Management System: a Just in Time approach - Jim Everett, University of Strathclyde |
TECHNOLOGY Chair: Martin Hamilton, Jisc [22] Introduction to Machine Learning - Juliette Culver, Open University |
| 1415 | Break | ||
| 1430 |
DEVELOPER COMMUNITY Chair: Anna Mathews, UCISA [23] Academic developer culture - Alex Dutton, University of Oxford |
TECHNOLOGY Chair: Giuseppe Sollazzo, St George's University of London [24] Using ‘the cloud’ to support international teaching - Stephen Robinson, Lancaster University |
TECHNOLOGY Chair: Martin Hamilton, Jisc [25] Knocking down silos: an introduction to the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) APIs - Claire Knowles, University of Edinburgh and Glen Robson, IIIF [26] Creating an e-Learning authoring tool for HE - Simon Date, King’s College London |
| 1530 | Wrap up and close | ||
| 1600 | Departures | ||