It’s been brewing for a long time now but after a lot of work and effort from the organising team and our speakers we finally have a final schedule for the conference!
FRONTENDNORTH 2018 FINAL SCHEDULE:
- 09:30 – Opening Remarks
- 10:00 – Night of the Living Style Guides
- 10:30 – OfflineFirst Apps with PouchDB and CouchDB
- 11:30 – Break
- 11:45 – Designing form validation the right way
- 12:30 – Reacting to change
- 13:00 – Lunch
- 14:00 – Agile working in a slow-moving world
- 14:30 – Build Anything With React
- 15:15 – Owning Innovation
- 15:45 – Break
- 16:00 – Selling the Front-end
- 16:30 – Automating Critical CSS
- 17:00 – Marty McFly Has A Lot To Answer For
- 17:45 – Closing remarks
FrontEndNorth Speaker Profiles
Sarah Semark
A designer, developer, and world-traveller. After running a business for eight years, she now works for Automattic designing and building WordPress themes.
When she’s not busy making things, Sarah likes obsessing over typography, collecting impractical footwear, and exploring new places.
Works as: Product designer at Automattic
Talk title: The Night of the Living Style Guides
A short intro: The line between design and development is getting blurrier, and our approach to web design is becoming more modular. How do we keep track of it all?
Style guides to the rescue!
Travelling from? Edinburgh
Rich Higgins
I cut my industry teeth in Leeds during the early noughties dotcom boom and finished my full-time agency career at design and advertising agency LOVE in Manchester.
Works as: Consultant web developer
Talk title: Automating Critical CSS
Short intro about your talk: How we approached automating critical CSS for modular, CMS driven websites at Co-op Digital.
Travelling from: Manchester
Ben Cooper
Currently working at Tombola, the UK’s biggest bingo site, I am a Senior JavaScript Developer with over 5 years experience working for some of the world’s biggest organisations, as well as managing and contributing towards a multitude of large front end architectures.
Works as: Front End Developer at Tombola
Talk title: Reacting To Change
Short intro about your talk: I’m going to talk about the ever changing landscape of JavaScript and attempt to provide some clarity on the shift we are seeing in what is the backbone of our projects, the programming paradigm.
Travelling from: Sunderland
Chris Marsh
I‘m a Senior Front-End Developer at the University of York. Before then I worked in agencies, and the difference is vast. I’m trying to change the culture of work in our marketing team to be more agency-like, so we can deliver better projects more quickly.
Works as: Digital Team Manager
Talk title: Agile Working in a Slow-Moving World
Short intro about your talk: Web development moves fast, and as a digital team we want to deliver the best work we can as quickly as possible. But universities, like other big organisations, are slow-moving: for every big decision there’s a committee or a steering group to deal with.
Travelling from: York
Jani Eväkallio
I’ve been writing JavaScript for 12 years. During that time I’ve seen technologies come and go, and I’ve never been as excited about any of them as I am about React.
Works as: Lead Engineer at Formidable London
Talk title: Build Anything With React
Short intro about your talk: This talk explores how we can use the universal React programming model to build applications across different platforms.
Travelling from: London
Craig Burgess
In this talk about design and front end development on the modern web, one thing will be guaranteed: he’ll stop talking in third person about himself.
Works as: Creative Director at Genius Division
Talk title: Marty McFly Has A Lot To Answer For
Short intro about your talk: In this talk, Craig will be travelling back in time to help you understand why the web can be better (and why Terminator 2 is the definitive Terminator movie).
Travelling from: Barnsley
Damian Nicholson
I’m the frontend lead at Conferize. We’re building a universal and social event solution to help event makers create the biggest impact. When I’m not doing that I’m either failing at pouring a rosetta in my coffee or out cycling.
Works as: Frontend lead at Conferize
Talk title: Build Anything With React
Short intro: What is inline validation and why it’s necessary. Why it’s very hard to do right but using React alleviates some of those problems
Travelling from: South Shields
Tejay White
A Product Owner at Tribal in Sheffield, responsible for web and mobile apps for teachers and students.
Works as: Product Owner
Talk title: Owning Innovation
Short intro: Digital innovation is a phrase that’s bandied around a lot, but what does it mean to innovate?
Travelling from: Sheffield
Lorna Mitchell
Lorna is based in Yorkshire, UK; she is a Developer Advocate with IBM Watson Data Platform, a published author and experienced conference speaker.
Works as: Developer Advocate at IMB
Talk title: OfflineFirst Apps with PouchDB and CouchDB
Short intro: Building an OfflineFirst application means creating something that works fast and well, regardless of whether your device is connected, experiencing a network glitch, or offline completely.
Travelling from: Huddersfield (via the mountains of Peru!)
Kimb Jones
Kimb is the founder of FrontEndNorth and this year will be doing a talk on how to sell Front-End to clients. Which, considering he’s also organising the event should be fun!
Works as: Managing Director at Make Do
Talk title: Selling the Front-End
Short intro: It might seem easy but selling the concept of how important this ‘Front-end’ thing is to clients is an increasing challenge and shouting out buzzwords and acronyms isn’t helping anyone.
Travelling from: Barnsley