Masterclass
Internal Tech Conferences
This masterclass provides practical advice on how to prepare run, and follow-up on an internal tech conference. Led by Victoria Morgan-Smith, author of Internal Tech Conferences (Conflux Books, 2019), you will gain:
Practical awareness of how and why to run internal tech conferences to help build a dynamic, learning organisation.
Structured, practical techniques to plan, shape, execute, and follow up on an internal tech conference, increasing engagement within teams.
Outline draft of plans for an internal tech conference that can help to kick-start activities after the workshop.
Internal tech conferences can make a significant impact on an organisation's level of sharing, learning, and communication by accelerating multi-team learning across technology departments. The pace of change in IT means that cross-department learning is essential, and many organisations have found that an internal tech conference is an excellent way to achieve this.
Audience
This masterclass is for people involved in technology leadership in some form: people in “official” positions of leadership (CIO, CTO, Head of Engineering, IT Operations Manager, etc.) and those in more informal technology leadership positions, such as team leaders, senior engineers, and people who simply like to lead by example.
About the facilitator
Victoria Morgan-Smith is Director of Delivery, Internal Products at the Financial Times, where she has been helping teams succeed since 2009. Before this she was a developer for 9 years,a background which fuels her interest in finding fun ways to coach, energise and motivate teams into self-organising units. She is passionate about collaboration beyond the team, adopting agile principles to get under the skin of what will deliver measurable business value around the organisation.
