#BelfastBarCamp2024
#BarCampBelfast2024 is set to hit the Oh Yeah Music Centre this October as part of Belfast Tech Week hashtag #BTW2024 .
Our schedule for the event is
Main Stage Talks:
10:30 - 11:00: Stuart Lunn - The Value Of No-Worth Networking
11:10 - 11:40: Kieran Phelan - Robots in Numbers - Automation Today In Your Financial Tech Stack
11:50 - 12:20: Martin Neill - Why PAYFAC (payment facilitation) will be the end of software subscriptions
12:30 - 1:00: Kenny Galloway - 3 Tips to Building Revenue via Partnerships
Lunch Break With Finger Food Provided: 1:00 - 1:45 (The best bit of the day!)
1:45 - 2:15: Options Technology - Private AI
2:25 - 2:55: Jennie Wallace - Motherhood, Menopause & More: Life As A Female Entrepreneur (Panel)
3:05 - 3:35: Martin Neill - Tales of Investment - Experiences from the Trenches (Fireside Chat)
3:45 - 4:15: Carlos Latcham - What Is Product Development And Why Do We Need It?
4:30 - 5:30: Matthew Scott - Creators Strike Back!
Bar Stage Talks
10:30 - 11:00: Ruth Young ACIM - Social Media's Invisible Price Tag
11:10 - 11:40: Martin Gilchrist LL.B (Hons) - How to Build a Network to Change the World
11:50 - 12:20: Tina Calder - Using AI to Supercharge Your Entrepreneurial Journey
12:30 - 1:00: Loraa White - The Origin Story and What Success Looks Like to You
1:45 - 2:15: Ben Craig - Managing Net Zero: Are You Green or Obsolete?
2:25 - 2:55: Tanya Vacarda - Hungry For Love: Online Romance Fraud Tactics and Why They Are So Efficient
3:05 - 3:35: Susan Steele - Building a Strong Neuro Foundation for Technical Excellence
3:45 - 4:15: Gary Gates - From Chaos to Clarity: My Journey with Undiagnosed ADHD, Dyslexia, and those Pesky Co-Morbid Gremlins
4:30 - 5:00: Duncan Burgess - Creative Disruption in the Workplace
Other Highlights:
11:00 - 5:00: Michael McMahon from Options Technology - Building a Secure Messaging App in a Day (Computer Suite Room)
BarCamp Belfast is a user-generated unconference for founders, makers, builders, supporters, designers, developers, startups, creatives and anyone that wants to share and learn in an open environment.
There are no fees to register and attend and there are no invited speakers. Instead, the attendees volunteer to give talks making for an eclectic mix of subjects hosted by your peers.
Máirín Murray founder of TechFoundHer said it best when she said
"I'm a huge fan of unconferences. Why?
⭐ Because they're non hierarchical - unlike traditional conferences which literally put speakers on a pedestal and 'above' the attendees.
⭐ Because they're loose, unstructured chaotic - anything can happen.
⭐ Because they're about social learning - from your community and peers and you make more pals in the process!"
And while there will be some references to APIs and some such techie stuff, there will be just as much discussion on the business aspects of entrepreneurship with talks in the schedule so far on payment facilitation, using AI as a productivity superpower, why social media is never free, networking, accountancy tech, a panel on managing a business as a female entrepreneur and much more.
Marty Neill the co-founder of AirPOS Pay, the Oh Yeah Centre, Base Arcade and more and Martin Gilchrist from Gilchrist and Co accountancy are the driving forces behind this year’s event. They aim to emulate the success that events guru Andy McMillan had back in 2009, while respecting the groundwork laid by Andy and reflecting the good work done in the past.
Marty said, "With tech and entrepreneurial culture now very much shifting towards working from home we felt it was more important than ever to get the community together and Belfast Tech Week looked like the perfect time to do it.
BarCamps and BizCamps thrived back in the day as places to meet, spaces to learn and as environments where the sparks of starting something were lit. We're hoping that we'll see some of the older heads from the original events rubbing shoulders with the new generation of makers and builders, transferring knowledge, making contacts and hopefully sharing some collective wisdom over a pint or two."
See you at the bar!