Activity

Community involvement, events and other out of work activities.

Event Founder

  • Director and Co-Founder of DDD East Midlands (2019 - 2025)
  • Women In Tech, Nottingham (2015 -2017)

    • Speaking

    Conferences

  • NDC Oslo - Norway - Stablising Eccentric Systems (2024)
  • NewCrafts - France - Stablising Eccentric Systems (2024)
  • NDC London - UK - Controlling Wildfires While Only Getting Singed. (2020)
  • ProgNet London - UK - Introducing a Culture of Monitoring (2019)
  • New Adventures Conference - UK - The Future is Cross-functional (2019)
  • NDC Porto - UK - A Practical Guide To Dashboarding (2019)
  • NDC Copenhagen - UK - A Practical Guide To Dashboarding (2019)
  • NDC London - UK - A Practical Guide To Dashboarding (2019)
  • London .NET User Group - UK - A Practical Guide To Dashboarding (2018)
  • NDC Sydney - Australia - Creating & Maintaining Impactful Dashboards (2018)
  • NDC Minnesota - USA - Creating & Maintaining Impactful Dashboards (2018)
  • WXG - UK - Creating & Maintaining Impactful Dashboards (2018)
  • NDC London - UK - Who needs Dashboards? (2018)
  • Dot York - UK - Who needs Dashboards? (2018)
  • WITConf, University of Birmingham - UK - Be A Great Engineer (2015)

    • Meetups

  • .TechFast - UK - STaming Pre-loved Systems and People (2024)
  • .NET SouthWest - UK - Learning Leadership (2021)
  • Notts TechFast - UK - A .NET Christmas Carol (2020)
  • Notts TechFast - UK - Speaking In A Virtual World (2020)
  • .NET Oxford - UK - Systems Are Like A Jigsaw Puzzle (2020)
  • School Of Code - UK - Tripping Through Technology (2020)
  • Notts Dev Workshop - UK - How to Talk Really, Really Good (2020)
  • Tech Fast - UK - How to Talk Really, Really Good (2020)
  • Derby Developers - UK - How to Talk Really, Really Good (2020)
  • NottJS - UK - How to Talk Really, Really Good (2020)
  • Digital Lincoln - UK - How to Talk Really, Really Good (2019)
  • Notts IoT - UK - How to Talk Really, Really Good (2019)
  • Women In Tech Nottingham - UK - How to Talk Really, Really Good (2019)
  • HACKSOC - UK - How to Talk Really, Really Good (2018)
  • Dot Net Notts - UK - How to Talk Really, Really Good (2018)
  • Derbyshire Dot Net - UK - How to Talk Really, Really Good (2018)
  • Hull Devs - UK - Who needs Dashboards? (2018)

    • Panel Discussions

  • Women Tech Makers Paris - France - Craft Culture Panel (2024)
  • MVPs Summit Imposter Syndrome: Panel (2023)
  • MVPs talking to Microsoft Employees about community: Panel (2022)
  • Led MVP Summit Code of Conduct Discussion Panel (2022)
  • Community Day - Session 4: MVP Programme + Community Panel (2022)
  • The Cloud Skills Show - Series 1 Episode 2 - Languages & Frameworks (2020)
  • The Cloud Skills Show - Series 2 Episode 2 - Hacktoberfest! (2020)
  • The Cloud Skills Show - Series 2 Episode 2 -.NET (2020)
  • ProgNET - UK - Have I Got .NET For You (comedy) (2019)
  • Trent Uni - UK - Women In STEM for International Women's Day (2018)
  • Lincs Tech Week - UK - The Future of Technology (2018)

    • Podcasts

  • Cloud Conversations Episode 49: Allyship, mentoring, & organising a conferences (2022)
  • Unhandled Exception Episode 32: Technical Leadership (2022)
  • Unhandled Exception Episode 6: The DDD Conferences (2020)
  • Side Hustle Success Podcast (2020)
  • .Net Rocks (2018)
  • Side Hustle Success Podcast (2018)

    • Certificates

  • TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture - Foundation (2025)
  • TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture - Practitioner (2025)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (2020 - 2023)

    • Awards

  • Microsoft Most Valuable Professional - Developer Technologies (2019 - 2025)
  • Finalist - Team Leader Award Category - FDM EVERYWOMAN AWARDS (2020)
  • CODEFIRST:Girls Ones To Watch (2018)
  • Winner of the Rising Star Category Women In IT Awards (2018)
  • Shortlisted for the WeAreTechWomen TechWomen50 Awards (2018)

    Volunteering

    .NET Foundation

  • Member of the .NET Foundation Board of Directors (2022 - 2024)
  • Chair of .NET Foundation Membership Committee (2022 - 2024)
  • .NET Foundation Membership Committee (2019 - 2024)
  • .NET Nomination Committee (2020 - 2023)

    • Master of Ceremonies

  • Dev Around the Sun (2020)

    • Conference Crew

  • NDC Oslo - Norway (2017)
  • NDC London - UK (2017)

    • Event Organisation

    Meetups

  • .NET Nottingham Meetup (2020 - present)
  • Women In Tech, Nottingham (2015 - 2017)

    • Agenda Committees

  • NDC London Agenda Committee (2019, 2020, 2023 and 2024)
  • ProgNET (2019)

    • Other Event Organisation

  • Organised for a team to represent the Women In Tech Nottingham meetup to take part in Hack24. (2017)
  • Arranged a charity cinema screening of Hidden Figures to raise money for Code Club East Midlands (2016)

    • Mentoring

  • Supporting Second Year Projects for The University of Nottingham (2018 - 2020)
  • Q&A Sessions & advocacy for School Of Code (2019 - 2023)

    • Publications

  • Featured in The Guardian Graduate Section (2018)