Hybrid: Vibe Coding: Building Apps at the Speed of Imagination

Schedule

Thu Jan 22 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Canterbury Christ Church University | Canterbury, EN

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You will learn more about vibe coding, what it is, how it's being used, the tooling, and driving quality code.
About this Event

Speaker

David Pearson



Synopsis

Artificial intelligence is being increasingly used as a tool to improve efficiency, innovation and drive outcomes more quickly at scale. The world of application development is starting to harness the emotional and create 'vibe' of developers.

In this session, you will learn more about 'Vibe Coding', what it is, how it's being used, the tooling, driving quality code and taking applications to production. A live demonstration will be provided and there will be time for questions and answers.



About the speaker

David Pearson MBCS CITP CEng has over three decades of client facing experience in IT consulting, solution architecture, software and sales engineering roles gained from his career with Lotus Development and IBM.

He now works at Red Hat in the UK as a senior technical architect. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Chartered Member of the BCS (CITP MBCS), where he also chairs the Open Source specialist group (OSSG). An active in a number of open source areas including automation, Python, Mobile Apps / Apple Swift, IBM Power & zSystem platforms and container storage solutions. Outside work, he lives in Kent (UK) loves Jaguar cars, football (West Ham United & England) and interested in parapsychology.

https://davpears.carrd.co/


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This event is brought to you by: Kent branch

Supported by Dorset branch and Hampshire branch


Agenda

🕑: 06:00 PM
Refreshments and networking (at venue)
🕑: 06:25 PM
Zoom meeting opens
🕑: 06:30 PM
Start
🕑: 07:30 PM
Questions and networking
🕑: 08:30 PM
End
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Where is it happening?

Canterbury Christ Church University, Room VH.0.04, Canterbury, United Kingdom

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