Fusion Meet-up

Welcome to Fusion Meet-up!

Come join us at Studio Venues for an exciting evening of networking, thought provoking and inspiring talks, with some great food and sweet treats thrown in for good measure! This in-person event is the perfect opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals in the industry. Share ideas, gain insights, and make valuable connections that can help you grow both personally and professionally.

Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, Fusion Meet-up is the place to be. Don't miss out on this chance to expand your network, learn something new, and have a great time doing it. We can't wait to see you there!

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SPEAKERS

Stuart Day - Head of Quality @ Capital One

Talk: Achieving Continuous Quality Through People, Process, Tools & Culture

In today's fast paced technological world, organisations are striving to deliver value to their customers faster and faster to stay ahead of their competitors. Finding the right balance between speed and quality isn't easy however, and quality is not something that can be simply "tested in" at the end of a development cycle. To be successful, quality needs to be built in continuously throughout, and that starts with firstly understanding what quality really means. To help kick start things, in this talk, Stuart will describe how through people, process, tools and culture you can start building the foundations to achieving continuous quality and really understand what quality means to your organisation and customers, along with how you can start to measure it.

My Socials:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-day-77155330

Quality Talks Podcast LinkedIn page -

https://www.linkedin.com/company/quality-talks-podcast/

Quality Talks Podcast YouTube -https://youtube.com/@QualityTalksPodcast?si=M7A1OpgKo07hnat7

Floor Dees - Head of Education at Tembo

Talk: Supporting Extensions, but really now

I have experience with the extensibility of a software being its strength coming from Rails and Ruby. Many language communities have their package managers, plugins, gems, JVM, npm, and architectures these days are typically modular.

All these ecosystems have similar challenges too. Dependencies maintained by the proverbial single individual in Nebraska, lack of documentation, infrequent security patches, malicious actors...

Joining Tembo in July this year, I have ramped up my knowledge of the larger ecosystem, in no small part thanks to David Wheeler's "State of the Postgres Extensions Ecosystem" / "Extension Ecosystem Mini-Summits" work. Now I want to look at Postgres' challenges from that broader perspective again.

Before we can tackle challenges we need to truly understand what's preventing maturity, and we need to measure the work we do to make the stuff we rely on more robust. What would an annual State of the Extensions look like? I have asked different stakeholders and can't wait to share my recommendations.

Socials: Floor (@DevOpsBarbie) / X

Beckett LeClair - Head of Compliance at 5Rights

Talk: Why trustworthy AI is everyone's responsibility (even yours!)

You are probably tired of either the existential doom or the utopian marketing speak both dominating the conversation on AI. What's the real situation? How can we create better conversations that see past this polarised thinking? And what can we as individuals do to make the future of AI one that's more ethical and trustworthy? Hopefully by the end of this talk, you'll be able to start thinking about answers to those questions, and what you can do next.

Socials: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beckett-l-687b7713b/

4th Speaker TBC - Updates to follow!!

It's time to meet the sponsors!....

Host or Publisher Hannah Mitchell