TechMids Conf - Thursday and Friday 15-16th June 2023
All day, full stack conference
TechMids Conf is a two day full stack conference, on 15th and 16th June 2023, as a co-located event part of DevOpsDays Birmingham 2023.
Hear from world class speakers, engage in social chatter, and find out how to get involved with the community.
TechMids is made up of all your favourite meetups from Brum.js to Fusion, to Golang, to DevOps and everything in-between.
TechMids Conf is a community run, not for profit conference.
- Spaces
- Limited to 350 seats
- Venue
- Millennium Point
- Location
- Curzon St, Birmingham B4 7XG
Schedule
Your day will be composed of 30 minute sessions as well as 5 minute ignite talks, including plenty of time to chat.
Auditorium Day 2
08:30 - 17:00 BST
08:00AM - 08:50AM | Registration |
09:00AM - 09:15AM | Opening Welcome |
09:20AM - 09:50AM | Historical Context: Infrastructure as Code |
09:55AM - 10:25AM | Privacy Could Be The Next Big Thing |
10:25AM - 10:45AM | Morning Break |
10:50AM - 11:20AM | The Unconventional Engineer |
11:25AM - 11:55AM | DevOps for developers (or maybe against them?!) |
12:00PM - 12:30PM | (6 x 5 minute sessions) |
12:30PM - 12:45PM | Learn how open spaces work |
12:45PM - 13:45PM | Lunch |
13:50PM - 14:05PM | Afternoon Intro |
14:10PM - 14:40PM | Terraform Practices to Enable Infrastructure Scaling |
14:40PM - 15:10PM | Curating a Platform Experience |
15:10PM - 15:30PM | Afternoon Break |
15:30PM - 16:00PM | BumbleBee: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love eBPF |
16:00PM - 16:30PM | Why docs-as-code peer review should be part of your dev cycle |
16:30PM - 16:40PM | Closing Remarks |
ThinkTank Day 2
08:30 - 17:00 BST
08:00AM - 08:50AM | Registration |
09:00AM - 09:15AM | Opening Welcome |
09:20AM - 09:50AM | Operate Multi-Tenancy Service Mesh with ArgoCD in Production |
09:55AM - 10:25AM | Lean Startup |
10:25AM - 10:45AM | Morning Break |
10:50AM - 11:20AM | Branching strategies speeddating |
11:25AM - 11:55AM | Debunking The Myths Of Leadership |
12:00PM - 12:30PM | Git those passwords out your repos! - detecting leaked secrets at scale |
12:30PM - 12:45PM | Learn how open spaces work |
12:45PM - 13:45PM | Lunch |
13:50PM - 14:05PM | Open Space Planning |
14:10PM - 14:40PM | Open Space Session 1 |
14:40PM - 15:10PM | Open Space Session 2 |
15:10PM - 15:30PM | Afternoon Break |
15:30PM - 16:00PM | Open Space Session 3 |
16:00PM - 16:30PM | Open Space Session 4 |
16:30PM - 16:40PM | Closing Remarks |
Speakers
Come away inspired from a day of talks from experts, ranging from front end engineering, to cloud platforms and operations, with everything in between.

Antonio Cobo
Principal Consultant at Contino
5 Minute Ignite

Esther Barthel
Solutions Architect at cognition IT
5 Minute Ignite

Hila Fish
Senior DevOps Engineer @ Wix.com
30 Minute Session

Fawaz Ghali
Hazelcast, Principal Developer Advocate
30 Minute Session

Leon Adato
Principal DevRel Advocate for New Relic
30 Minute Session

Lin Sun
Director of Open-Source, Solo.io
30 Minute Session

Kris Buytaert
CTO Inuits.eu / Principal Yak Shaver o11y.eu
30 Minute Session

Kat Samperi
Tech Lead - Developer Experience @ Kaluza
30 Minute Session

Marcus Noble
Platform Engineer @ Giant Swarm
5 Minute Ignite

Becky Pauley
Solutions Engineer at Jetstack
5 Minute Ignite

Viktor Farcic
Developer Advocate
30 Minute Session

Dave Shepherd
Principal Platform Engineer, Wealth Wizards
5 Minute Ignite

Krisztian Fekete
engineer @ solo.io
30 Minute Session

Anais Urlichs
Open Source Developer Advocate at Aqua Security
5 Minute Ignite

Baruch Sadogursky
Principal Developer Productivity Engineering Advocate, Gradle
30 Minute Session

Daniel Oates Lee
Co-Founder, Punk Security
30 Minute Session

Ben Madley
Senior Software Engineer at Made Tech
5 Minute Ignite

Craig Box
VP Engineering & Co-Founder, ARMO
30 Minute Session

Carly Richmond
Developer Advocate @ Elastic
30 Minute Session

Andy Burgin
All-round DevOps nuisance
30 Minute Session

Hannah Mitchell
Director at The Fusion Group
30 Minute Session

Stuart Langridge
Director at Kryogenix
30 Minute Session

Max Woolf
Staff Engineer at Gitlab
30 Minute Session

Salma Alam-Naylor
Senior Staff Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify
30 Minute Session

Eli Holderness
Developer Advocate at Scaleway
30 Minute Session

Steve Heyes
Engineering Manager at Birdie
30 Minute Session

Joanna Suau
Developer Educator at Infobip
30 Minute Session

Omar Qureshi
Senior Devops Engineer at SEGA HARDlight
30 Minute Session

Zakariya Mohummed
Software Engineer
30 Minute Session

Elizabeth Lawel
Co-Founder, MTAM Group
30 Minute Session

Zarrah Belgian
Co-Founder, MTAM Group
30 Minute Session

Kat Cosgrove
Lead Developer Advocate at Dell
30 Minute Session

Amanda Brock
CEO of OpenUK
30 Minute Session

Louise Paling
30 Minute Session


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