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RailsCamp #24. Imagine yourself and a posse of like-minded ruby hackers* on a country retreat** with zero internet*** for a weekend of fun. You'll laugh, hack, eat, learn, trek, flying-fox and play boatloads of Werewolf.

Friday 30th November was the first ever Code Heart Design conference - a mini-conf bringing together designers, design system lovers and front-end developers. Lookahead Search was given the pleasure of being one of the sponsors of the event and I happily volunteered to go!

Sunrise Island is a conference hosted by Australia's leading venture capital (VC) firm Blackbird. The one-day conference is an opportunity to meet and learn from the very best people in the startup community and to support and grow the Australian startup community.

I was inspired watching RubyConf AU 2017 - Self learning is a marathon not a sprint, by Elle Meredith. I use the format Elle mentions in her talk for all kind of reflections, so why not for my first ever Lookahead blog post?

It's probably a fact well known to those willing to put in the hard research, but the world wide phenomenon that is Rails Camp actually originated here in Australia. Since then it's spread not just to our local neighbours in New Zealand, but further afield to Scotland, Germany, England and the USA to name a random few.

For many people, public speaking is one of the most nerve-racking things you can do. As Mark Twain once said, "There are only two types of speakers in the world: those who are nervous and those who are liars". However, it is one of the best things you can do for your career and personal growth.

This past Monday and Tuesday was the YOW! Data Conference in Sydney. Thanks to Dave Thomas, Kris Howard and the rest of the organising team for putting on a cracking good event. Some awesome speakers and great topics. Catching up with old friends and meeting new ones is always a fun and rewarding use of time.

Attending tech meetups is such a great way to learn new things and meet people in the industry. It's also a chance to network with people who might one day be your future employer or colleague!

Wednesday night was the inaugural launch of the Female CTOs & CIOs Meetup. The event was organised by Roisin Parkes, CTO of Gumtree Australia, and had a fantastic turnout of tech leaders from companies across Sydney.

Action packed, energizing and inspiring! Last week in Sydney, Amazon hosted its yearly AWS Summit and also presented a brand new event, Amazon Innovation Day, for "Leaders with a bias for action". It was 3 days of presentations, workshops and hearing from some of the most talented people in the technology industry.