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Where Oxfordshire's tech people meet.
Humand convenes engineers, founders, product people and leaders across the region through technical and leadership meet-ups, panels, dinners and workshops.
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Previously at Humand
What we've been running
Talks, panels, workshops and dinners across Oxfordshire's tech communities. The full archive, newest first.
Status: Past eventOxLiT: Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (ED&I) Panel Discussion
- Date and time: 8 May 202518:00
- Location: Business and Intellectual Property Centre Oxfordshire (BIPC), Queen Street, Westgate, Oxford, OX1 1DJ
Oxford Leaders in Tech (OxLiT) at BIPC Oxfordshire: a panel discussion on equality, diversity and inclusion in technology organisations, with Dr Roshni Mooneeram of 1 World Consultancy among the panellists.
PHP Berkshire: Custom PHPStan Rules & OAuth 2.1: The Future of API Security
- Date and time: 30 Apr 202518:30
- Location: Zerodegrees Microbrewery Reading, 9 Bridge Street, Reading, RG1 2LR
PHP Berkshire, 30 April 2025 upstairs at Zerodegrees in Reading: Dave Liddament on custom PHPStan rules, and Rob Allen on OAuth 2.1 and the future of API security.
AI for Business - Oxford — April 2025
- Date and time: 24 Apr 202517:30
- Location: Business and Intellectual Property Centre Oxfordshire (BIPC), Queen Street, Westgate, Oxford, OX1 1DJ
AI for Business Oxford, 24 April 2025 at the BIPC: transforming startups with generative AI, and the business realities of introducing predictive AI.
DevOps talks: OpenTracing to OpenTelemetry & "I wouldn’t start from here.."
- Date and time: 22 Apr 202518:00
- Location: Business and Intellectual Property Centre Oxfordshire (BIPC), Queen Street, Westgate, Oxford, OX1 1DJ
Two DevOps Oxford talks at BIPC Oxfordshire: Yevhen Zavhorodnii, Principal SRE at Ticketmaster, on migrating 500+ services from OpenTracing to OpenTelemetry, and Carl Marshall on building a new DevOps team inside an established organisation.
Talk: The Security Gap That No One Talks About
- Date and time: 8 Apr 202518:30
- Location: CoreFiling, Osney Mead, Oxford, OX2 0FA
Java Oxford at CoreFiling: a talk on the security gap that no one talks about.
Golang Oxford talk: 'The Strengths of the 'weak' Package'
- Date and time: 3 Apr 202518:30
- Location: Black Cow Technology, Robert Robinson Avenue, Oxford Science Park, Oxford, OX4 4GP
Golang Oxford at Black Cow Technology: Sam Burns, Senior Software Engineer at Upmind, on the strengths of the 'weak' package.
Women in Tech Talks & Networking - hosted and sponsored by Viator
- Date and time: 2 Apr 202518:00
- Location: Tripadvisor Oxford HQ, 8100 Oxford Business Park, Oxford, OX4 2HU
Women in Tech Oxfordshire: talks and networking at Tripadvisor's Oxford headquarters, hosted and sponsored by Viator.
Oxford Video Games Meet Up: Talk on Gameplay and Compulsion Loops
- Date and time: 26 Mar 202518:30
- Location: St Aldates Tavern, 108 Saint Aldate's, Oxford, OX1 1BU
Oxford Video Games Meetup, 26 March 2025 at St Aldates Tavern: Stuart Maine on gameplay and compulsion loops.
Status: Past eventTalk: Building Static Websites with Sculpin
- Date and time: 20 Mar 202518:30
- Location: Global Initiative, 33-35 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2AY
PHP Oxford, 20 March 2025 at the Global Initiative offices on George Street: Oliver Davies on building static websites with Sculpin.
PeopleOps Oxford — March 2025
- Date and time: 18 Mar 202510:00
- Location: Business and Intellectual Property Centre Oxfordshire (BIPC), Queen Street, Westgate, Oxford, OX1 1DJ
PeopleOps Oxford, 18 March 2025 at the BIPC: positive energy - small actions, big impact - and future-proofing your career in a changing workforce.
OxLiT: Talks on Integrating AI, AI Ethics and AI Agents
- Date and time: 12 Mar 202518:00
- Location: Business and Intellectual Property Centre Oxfordshire (BIPC), Queen Street, Westgate, Oxford, OX1 1DJ
Oxford Leaders in Tech (OxLiT) at BIPC Oxfordshire: three talks on integrating AI, AI ethics and AI agents, from Chris Seymour, Iliana Grosse-Buening and Davide Zilli.
PHP Berkshire: 'Am I Your Type?'
- Date and time: 26 Feb 202518:30
- Location: Thirsty Bear Pub & Pizza Restaurant, 110 Kings Road, Reading, RG1 3BY
PHP Berkshire's first meetup of 2025, 26 February upstairs at the Thirsty Bear in Reading: David Yell on strict types and static analysis in PHP.
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