Draft - Work In Progress - Request For Collaboration
NHS Wales has many people and many good ideas. We want to create a get-together where our teammates can do lightning talks to showcase ideas.
A lightning talk event is a bit like a TED Talk event, typically with the talks being focused on a general area.
For example, our group's first lightning talk event focused on software engineering, including practices, tooling, source code, learning and growth paths, and the like.
If you would like to learn more about our lightning talks, or if you are curious about attending or presenting, then please get in touch with Joel Henderson ([email protected]).
Title: Lightning Talks on Agile, Analytics, Automation, AI.
Who: NHS Wales staff and consultants who are keen to learn about our innovation and progress.
What: Twelve fast talks to inspire our technical teams.
Where: GIG Cymru, Tŷ Glan-yr-Afon, 21 Cowbridge Road, East Cardiff, CF11 9AD, Cymru.
When: September 10. 10:00-12:00 for the talks, plus more throughout the whole day.
Why: Soft launch our new ways of working using our new conference area.
Capacity: 100 people in person. RSVP please.
Each talk is 6 minutes, then a few minutes for people to ask questions online, for a maximum 9 minutes total.
We want each presenter to have a few teammates in the crowd who are prepared with a few suitable questions, just in case no one else asks anything. In other words, we specifically want to seed questions, because this encourages more people to talk more.
The next presenter will start immediately at the 10 minute mark because we're aiming to keep things on track.
We want to aim for one theme = one
Meet and greet:
- 09:00 Meet and greet with coffee and donuts - presenters please come and test your slides
Morning lightning talks:
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10:00 Opening remarks
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10:10 Agile (talk 1)
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10:20 Agile (talk 2)
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10:30 Analytics (talk 3)
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10:40 Analytics (talk 4)
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10:50 Break for 10 minutes
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11:00 Midway remarks
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11:10 Automation (talk 5)
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11:20 Automation (talk 6)
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11:30 AI (talk 7)
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11:40 AI (talk 8)
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11:50 Closing remarks
Lunch:
- 12:00 Lunch hour with pizza. RSVP with your favorite pizza type and any dietary preferences and needs
Afternoon breakout sessions:
The afternoon breakout sessions are optional, and you can join whichever ones you wish. Each session is capped at 50 people in person so RSVP.
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13:00 = 1 p.m.: Agile breakout session (optional)
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14:00 = 2 p.m.: Analytics breakout session (optional)
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15:00 = 3 p.m.: Automation breakout session (optional)
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16:00 = 4 p.m.: AI breakout session (optional)
If you're considering becoming a presenter and you're seeking slide ideas, here are six slide ideas. You can even time your presentation to one minute per slide, which makes it easy to stay on track.
If you're considering becoming a presenter and you're seeking ways to make your presentation better, here are communication strategies. You can even practice these on your peers ahead of time.
These are work in progress.
Broadly we want the themes to go in order from user-facing orientation to implementation-facing orientation.
UX: User experience for software engineering:
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Example ideas for from-scratch: how to engineer UI/UX designs by using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, etc.
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Example ideas for tooling: as well as with design tools such as Figma and Canvas that can code-generate, and with sharable design systems such as GOV.UK and NHS-X, and sharable component systems such as DaisyUI and Tailwind.
QA: Quality assurance for software engineering:
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Example ideas for testing: how to do unit tests, functional tests, integration tests, benchmark tests, fuzz tests, mutation tests, test-driven development, system quality attributes, etc.
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Example ideas for CI/CD/CT: how to do continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous telemetry.
DX: Developer experience for software engineering:
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Example ideas for testing: how to do unit tests, functional tests, integration tests, benchmark tests, fuzz tests, mutation tests, test-driven development, etc.
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Example ideas for CI/CD/CT: how to do continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous telemetry, DORA metrics.
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Example ideas for tooling; git, containers, virtual environments, Windows Subsystem for Linux, devops, secops.
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Example ideas for topics: ways of working, make the work visible, upskilling opportunities, strong core with many postures.
AI: Artificial Intelligence for software engineering:
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Example ideas for creating software: how software engineers can use AI to improve software design, development, testing, deployment, telemetry, and the like.
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Example idea for upskilling: how to leverage AI for learning new skills, such as new programming languages, new software programming paradigms, new tooling, etc.