July’s Speakers Confirmed

[Alistair MacDonald]

We have 3 great speakers lined up for this week’s SuperMondays’ event,
mixing up How to Run a Workshop and Why You Should Get Involved,
Stories from the User Group Frontline and Lean eCommerce, Using
Shopify and Working Internationally from the North East.

Check it out, spread the word and sign up at http://supermondays.eventbrite.co.uk/
.

>> Richard Powell – Running Workshops: The Benefits, How To and Get Involved

Richard will be talking about running workshops, he has run 4 jQuery
workshops and wants to inspire you to run your own. Perhaps you
already blog, perhaps you present… that’s great but Richard believes
giving a workshop can be even better.

Richard will:

* Talk about the benefits to you and the community when you run a
workshop
* Show you how to run a workshop
* Share his personal experiences.

Richard, like us, would love to see a thriving workshop community in
the north east and a number of people are already working to make one…
we want you to be a part of it.

>> Ryan Foster – Lean eCommerce, Using Shopify and Working Internationally from the North East

Ryan Foster is a User Experience Designer with over 12 years
experience developing web sites and web applications. Since setting up
Ryan Foster Design in 2009, Ryan has worked with bootstrapped and
venture backed startups across the US and UK, specialising in the
design and build of ecommerce and SaaS. He is also a consultant and
module leader on the eCommerce Business Program at Hyper Island. Ryan
will talk about Lean eCommerce, rapid prototyping and testing your
assumptions, learning as quickly as possible what your customers
really want to buy online. He’ll discuss his experiences working with
Shopify and some of the most talked about startups of the last 12
months including DODOcase and Pebble, the customisable smartwatch that
raised over $10million on Kickstarter.

>> Andrew Westgarth – Stories from the User Group Frontline

With over six years of experience running User Groups and Community
Events both locally and nationally, Andrew will be giving back the
benefit of his experience. In this session he will cover some of the
elements of how to run a successful and popular user group based on
the experience gained over the years with VBUG, NEBytes and DDD
Events. We’ll look at key decisions to make and how they can affect
the running of your group.

Andrew Westgarth (@apwestgarth) is an Microsoft Most Valuable
Professional (ASP.Net/Internet Information Services), Co-founder of
North East Bytes (@NEBytes), a free User Group covering the North East
and Cumbrian regions of the United Kingdom having technical meetings
covering Development and IT Pro topics every month, and Principal
Organiser behind Developer Developer Developer North Events
(@DDDNorth). He is a Technical Architect at Sage (UK) Ltd working on
large scale web applications.

Andrew is very active in the UK Developer Community, attending and
speaking at multiple events, supporting users and other User Groups.
In the past he has spoken at the Irish Microsoft Technology
Conference, VBUG’s National Two Day Conference; Developer Developer
Developer Day 5 and local User Group meetings. Andrew has experience
in VB6/.NET; C#; ASP.NET; MCMS 2002 and Internet Information Services.
Andrew’s current technical interests include IIS 7.0/7.5 and IIS
Extensions; Personal Performance Improvement and Best Practices.

Richard will be talking about running workshops, he has run 4 jQuery
workshops andwants to inspire you to run your own. Perhaps you already
blog, perhaps you present…that’s great but Richard believes giving a
workshop can be even better.