{"id":12240,"date":"2023-06-28T09:49:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T08:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee.yelkdev.site\/?p=12240"},"modified":"2024-12-09T22:48:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T22:48:03","slug":"unleash-the-geek-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equalexperts.com\/blog\/ee-life\/unleash-the-geek-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Unleash the geek!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Getting our geek on at the Equal Experts Geek 23 conference<\/h2>\n<p>As a global network of expert consultants, Equal Experts is always keen to explore new ways of sharing expertise and learning so as to stay up to date and support our customers with innovative business solutions. This year we\u2019ve started a new initiative, Geek &#8211; a specific event for, and led by, our Equal Experts community. Here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n<h2>Why geeking out is so important<\/h2>\n<p>Geek 23 saw twelve speakers deliver expert talks on a range of important technology areas including service design, developer experience, operability, leadership, distributed systems, testing, large language models, DevOps, mob programming and microservices.<\/p>\n<p>Why did we do it? Our technical community at Equal Experts is vast and prolific, but it rarely assembles en masse. Even before the Covid-19 Pandemic, it had been several years since we last held a large-scale, face-to-face event explicitly targeted at the technical members of our network. The goal was to support people to widen their network and context as they learned together and expanded their expertise. Geek 23\u00a0 was the perfect opportunity.<\/p>\n<h2>How we embraced our inner geek<\/h2>\n<p>Geek 23 started life as a spin-off from our global annual conference, which saw our largest gathering of experts ever in 2023. We knew we had a rich testing ground at the conference, so we ran a symposium to gauge appetite for a specialist conference in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The plan was to run a single track of six, thirty minute presentations on a range of topics including design, development, architecture, programming languages, algorithms and tools. We appealed especially to our community of designers, developers, data engineers, data scientists, DevOps and architects. Geek 23 was diverse, inclusive and devoid of any selection bias.<\/p>\n<p>What happened next surpassed all our expectations.\u00a0 Our call for speakers was so successful that we ended up changing the format to more than double the number of speakers hosted across two parallel tracks.<\/p>\n<h2>The power of trust and tiny improvements<\/h2>\n<p><iframe title=\"Sandwiches, trash and doing the little things right: Equal Experts Geek Conference 2023\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-wTfud7jjcU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And the upshot of Geek 23? Great talks! Here\u2019s the first in a seven part vlog series where we\u2019ll be releasing each of the talks. Sandwiches, trash and doing the little things right is a fabulous listen, presented by Munish Malik, Lead Product Consultant and Coach at Equal Experts. Click through to hear about the immeasurable value of building trust and human connection, the power of little habits and why we don&#8217;t need a dragon slayer (hero doing all the brave stuff) in our teams.<\/p>\n<p>Munish reminds us that successful transformations stem from trust. When we try to embed behavioural or process change too quickly, without first establishing trust, there is always a natural resistance. Conversely, when you have trust, change happens without the need to force it. Instead, transformation starts working in a pull mode with the team reaching out to the coach precisely because they see what\u2019s possible, and are motivated to learn new and better ways of working.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, there\u2019s a lot to be said for embracing your inner geek and paying attention to the detail. It&#8217;s very easy to ignore the impact of tiny improvements and write them off as boring, especially when there are fancy presentations to watch, or large-scale, top-down transformations to get to grips with. It doesn\u2019t take much for an organisation to get distracted by a dragon slayer. By comparison, a 1% improvement daily can go by unnoticed, but it\u2019s these daily habits that amount to big changes over time.<\/p>\n<p>Look out for the next in our series!<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.equalexperts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DSC01998.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.equalexperts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DSC01794.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>\n<p>Geek 23\u2019s limited edition speaker t-shirts and laptop computer stickers really added to the great feel of the day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a global network of expert consultants, Equal Experts is always keen to explore new ways of sharing expertise and learning so as to stay up to date and support our customers with innovative business solutions. 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