Join us for the nor(DEV):con 2019 Business Sessions on Friday 22nd February! Get your Early Bird tickets here before the price goes up after Friday! Running a business is hard John Gostling Running a business is hard….harder when you don’t have much experience of running a bu...

A couple of weeks ago I was honoured to be asked to judge and present the overall winner of the DevelopHER Awards 2018. There are a number of categories in the awards, including TechStar which I also judged, and the overall winner is chosen from the winners of the other categori...

Sync The City is an annual event that brings together budding entrepreneurs and developers to pitch and build a start-up in just 54 hours. This year our Director Paul Grenyer was a mentor for one of the teams and they had great success with their idea ‘Seren’, taking home one of...

When: Friday 16th November 2018 5.30pm to 6.30pm Where: 69 King St, Norwich, NR1 1QW RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/bnbrkqyxpbvb/ Many of us need more exercise! We've booked a court and will play doubles from a team of 6. £2 towards the Court. ...

When: Monday 12th November 2018 5.30pm to 6.30pm Where: The Library Restaurant, 4A Guildhall Hill, Norwich, NR2 1JH RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/251982755/ How the employer voice can influence technical & vocational training and apprenticeship...

When: Thursday 8th November 2018 6:15pm to 9:00pm Where: Modality Systems, Rosebery Court, Central Ave, Norwich, NR7 0HS RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/252504253/ Azure Sphere: Intelligent Edge (plus an update on Norfolk network and smart sensor...

When: Wednesday 7th November 2018 6:30pm to 9:00pm Where: Mills & Reeve, 1 St James Ct, Norwich NR3 1RU RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/252504253/ The Very Slow Time Machine with Jez Higgins Archangel is a joint project involving University of S...

Deep Tech sounds like a character from the X-Files right? While it’s not a covert government agency, Deep Tech is affecting people’s lives without them even knowing it, but it’s not something we need to be afraid of. There are lots of very technical and wordy definitions of Deep...

Sync the City is a great event in which you can promote, share and test your API's, Tools and Services. You could provide the vital ingredient that helps the startup teams Build & Launch a Startup in 54 Hours, and win the amazing cash prizes on offer! Sync the City 2018 is a 54...

When: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 @ 6:30pm to 9:00pm Where: The Elms, 300 St Faith's Rd, Norwich, NR6 7BJ RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/253056604/ How to be a Rockstar Developer Phil Trelford You’ve seen the adverts from agents seeking rock ...

This event DOES NOT contain Tech! (It will contain lots of fun though!) Norfolk Developers and Barclays Eagle Lab Norwich present The nor(DEV):biz Big Dinner When: Monday 1st October, 2018 @ 6.30pm to 9.30pm Where: The Library Restaurant, 4A Guildhall Hill, Norwich, NR2 1JH ...

When: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 @ 7:30am to 8:30am Where: The Maids Head Hotel, Tombland, Norwich, NR3 1LB How much: £20 RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/qqwhznyxmbgb/ John Gostling is Managing Director of Breakwater, an IT services provider off...

When: Monday, September 3, 2018 @ 5:30pm to 6:30pm Where: 4A Guildhall Hill, Norwich, NR2 1JH RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/253538565/ Anthony will cover topics like tax efficient profit extraction, research and development tax credits, budgeti...

When: 5 Septemeber, 9am to 4.45pm Where: The Kings Centre, Kings Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH How much: £150 RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/250241910/ WordPress is the world’s best and most popular website builder and this hands-on course takes you...

nor(DEV):con 2019 Call For Speakers Thursday 21st to Saturday 23rd February 2019 Kings Centre 63-75 King Street Norwich NR1 1PH nor(DEV):con, the Norfolk Developers Conference is back for 2019 and stronger than ever with new tracks and an updated format. nor(DEV):con is Norfolk...

the most fantastic thing about the Norwich scene is the amount of support and events available for young people https://norwichgamingfestival.com/ @NorwichGFest https://www.facebook.com/NorwichGamingFestival When talking tech we often think of software development in a commerc...

We love the MigSolv data centre out at Bowthorpe in Norwich. This was nor(DEV):’s second visit and they always make us very welcome. Walking into what feels like a massive Blakes 7 set and getting the tour,including the retina scanner and massive server hall, is incredible and...

NorDevCon 2016 was yet another resounding success for Norfolk Developers. With an impressive array of speakers and workshops we had more attendees than any previous year. This year, for the first time, we had students and teachers attending from some of the local schools and aca...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times Captain Kirk, Wrath of Khan 1982.** From a Norfolk Developers, Naked Element and a personal point of view NorDevCon 2016 was a huge success. We had the largest number of attendees we’ve ever had by a significant margin. The Th...

We thought you'd like to know that Microsoft and the Guardian have joined the NorDevCon 2016 line up! Building applications using the Universal Windows Platform (Friday) Paul Foster (Microsoft) Windows 10 introduces the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), which further evolves t...

NorDevCon 2016 is bigger and better than ever before and here is why… Thursday 25th February 2016 We have some amazing pre-conference workshops for you to participate to get you in the mood for Nor(DEV):con on the 26th.An Exploration of Symbiotic Design Practicefrom Michael Fe...

Following the success of last year’s Norfolk Developers Conference(nor(DEV):con), which attracted an unprecedented 263 speakers, delegates and sponsors, nor(DEV):con 2016 promises to continue the record breaking trend. Run by Norwich-based web, mobile and enterprise software ser...

When we speak to people about NorDevCon, do you know which speaker we get asked about the most? Jon Skeet! This is why we are delighted to be able to announce that Jon Skeet is back for NorDevCon 2016 and will be doing a regular 45 minute conference session on C#. The changing...

We’re a week late, but the NorDevCon 2016 agenda is now live on the NorDevCon website and you can view it here: http://www.nordevcon.com/agenda/ Highlights this year include keynotes from Michael Feathers, Jon Jagger and Richard Astbury. Other highlights include Dom Davis, Jo...

We’re delighted to be able to announce our keynote speakers for Nor(Dev):con 2016, which is taking place at the Kings Centre, King Street Norwich, 25-27th February 2016. Michael Feathers Friday (26th) Opening Keynote Too often as software developers we take features as given ...

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD), which include Asperger’s Syndrome, have been at the centre of documentaries, an oscar winning movie starring Dustin Hoffman and a best selling novel that even went on to take Broadway and the West End by storm. But most research so far has focuse...

Tickets for the 2016 nor(DEV):con are now on sale, so if you want to get ahead of the game and grab a Super Early Bird ticket now's your chance! Growing in popularity and still attracting visitors from across the country, as well as the world, nor(DEV):con has expanded to run o...

We're gearing up for nor(DEV):con 2016 with the release of our sponsorship packages. We have various levels of sponsorship available for companies who would like to support Norfolk's tech conference and reap the benefits, in February next year, and now that the main conference i...

As nor(DEV):con continues to grow and attract higher numbers of attendees, we began to consider running the conference over two days. To find out if this was something the tech community would be interested in, we conducted a survey of nor(DEV):con 2015 visitors. We were very p...

Tonight we were treated to an extra session, as Liftshare opened their office (and their slide) for a special Sync Norwich evening. The office was secreted away in a huge, mainly disused building in Norwich city centre, the door to which many people probably walk past daily with...

Bristow Holland had some kind words: We were delighted to be involved NorDevCon 2015 as a sponsor, the format was excellent with a range of topics and subject matter for everyone, we particularly enjoyed the business track which offered really accessible insight into the busines...

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It was great being at this years NorDevCon event in Norwich. Held at the Kings Centre in central Norwich it attracted an amazing amount of creative people and business opportnuities. We believe it is the event to be at for local tech businesses wanting to be seen and take part i...