Tech Event Host

As a massive geek at heart, I specialise in livening up technology events, conferences and meet-ups. If you've ever sat in a grey tech conference hall you'll know, some of them need a sense of humour.

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

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 hiteboard 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. 🖭)

Louie Christie on a stage holding a microphone. A screen behind him says 'challenges'. Several people are on stage laughing at something. Audience of geeks in the foreground.

Coding Coach

I've been a visiting coding coach at meet-ups like Codebar, Polyglot Devs and FreeCodeCamp. Touring various tech company offices in London from 2014-present.

I once did a course coaching coding to French students while half expecting the guillotine

🧑🏼‍💻 Coding Tutorials

Online / Escape Room Host

Louie Christie dressed as Labyrinth's Hoggle with old worldy fantasy clothes and a string of key-rings around his neck.

Computer generated 3D image of a cartoonish character With green hair and a grey beard holding a microphone. Above his head says 'louie.christie' and behind him is a stage with red theatre seats and curtains and a banner 'The Unknown Theater'

In the past I've been characters 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.

I sometimes host events in Virtual Reality.