Tech Event Host
As a massive geek at heart. I specialise in livening up technology events. If you've ever sat in a grey tech conference hall you'll know, some of them need a sense of humour.
Tech talk @ Google London, Uncodebar, 2024
- Uncodebar is like an improvised TED conference, but with more Warhammer talks.
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Thanks to
Codebar, Google
, and thanks to Gabe Greenberg at
G2i
for recommending to me the academic paper I was talking about: 
Microsoft Research / North Carolina State University - Does stress
impact technical interview performance?
I host tech events & conferences in the UK. Including BarCamp London 13 (2024) for which I was also on the organiser team. I'd host in other countries if someone else pays for travel.
"I have a masters degree in human-centred computer systems.
No, I'm not sure what that means either.
I think it's to do with making computers user-friendly.
And goodness knows, we could all do with a bit of that."
- Louie Christie
Tech Talks
I've given tech talks at events, conferences and evening meet-ups. I'm looking to do more.
One thing we know is that web developers come from different backgrounds. From teaching to consulting, design to accounting, and our alumni speakers are here to tell us about making that transition into software engineering tonight! @Introducing_SO @DavidJamesMitt1 @louiechristie pic.twitter.com/AYHgCCPR6q
— General Assembly London (@GA_London) February 3, 2020
'So You Want to be a Web Developer' Tech Panel Presenter @ General Assembly, Relay Building (turn right at Silicon Roundabout), East London, 2020
Past Talks:
- There is an alternative to whiteboard technical job interviews - @ Google London, Uncodebar, 2024
- Bar Camp London Hackathon Intro, 2024
- My Adventures in VR Stand-up Comedy, @ BarCamp Unconference, 2023
- 🍓 Headless WordPress, Gatsby, and strawberry JAM (slides) @ WordPress Hooked (WP_Hooked) - Doggett's Coat and Badge Pub, 2020
- IT recruitment is f@!ked and how I've tried to life hack it @ BarCamp XI Unconference, The University of Law, 2019. (Where I met the real-life Stefan Butler from Black Mirror Bandersnatch. 🖭)
Coding Coach
I've been a visiting coding coach at tech meet-ups like Codebar, Polyglot Devs and FreeCodeCamp. Touring various tech company head offices in London from 2014-present.
I once did a course coaching coding to French students while half expecting the guillotine:
Online / Immersive / Escape Room Host
I've been a host & steward in immersive events and team building games.
My influences include Labyrinth's Hoggle, Richard O'Brian in the Crystal Maze and Patrick Moore in Gamesmaster (1992).
During covid I was briefly a host of an online escape room on Zoom. But I can't do a forced fun face. In hindsight team building on Zoom was a terrible idea - but it was covid.
On the other hand, I sometimes host fun events in Virtual Reality.