Battle of the Beards

Help fight male suicide at the Battle of the Beards

Last year we raised £1,000 and we’ve got another event coming soon!

Pssst... you don't need to be bearded to support this cause!

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29 March 2017
Online
Tickets are £5, with the option to add a further donation to CALM.

Breadth is the new black

Our (mostly) bearded wonders are giving talks that everyone can get something out of. Learn about infrastructure, software craftmanship, data visualisation, and front-end coding. Come learn a little about a lot!

Do something good

Attend to have a good time and raise funds that will support CALM, a male suicide awareness and prevention charity. Your support will help them offer vital emergency counselling services.

Why Battle of the Beards?

Steph, our lead organiser, has been organising events for more than 5 years. She wanted to spice things up a bit and keep her user group events interesting. Battle of the Beards was one of the crazy ideas she came up with and launched. It’s been running for years but this is the first time as a conference. Read more in our History.

Do I need a beard?

Nope! Speakers need a beard, real or artificial, for the funsies, but attendees need only bring themselves along. We’re committed to a fun event, not a bearded one. We want to ensure everyone has a good time and there will be a Code of Conduct in place.

Register

Talks

Check out the talks from awesome people

Powershell: A Beards Favourite Shell

Rob Sewell

JS Calendars - The Long Way

Alan Lavender

Upgrading your CSS with PostCSS

Matt McCabe

It’s (still) okay to be pragmatic!

James Harvey

Thinking Securely

John Martin

Static Code Analysis: What the Tool Vendors Don’t Want You to Know…

Rod Chapman

Making a Men’s Health Data Viz…

Paul Brennan

Mood-logging the home workspace

Patrick Barry

Jekyll and Hub

David Parr

Shaven, Not Stirred - Hacking SQL Server

Andre Melancia

Citizen Data Science with Microsoft

Jan Mulkens