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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.

I'd been hearing about Ruby conference for years, with it being an annual highlight on my partner's calendar. This year, I finally got the chance to attend and see what all the hype was about.

In Sydney next month a bunch of people from underrepresented groups are going to RubyConf. In April over in Melbourne, you'll see fresh faces at CSSConf and JSConf.

Saturday 3rd February was Global Diversity CFP Day. It was a day to help underrepresented groups with talk topics and proposal writing. Workshops were held all around the world. The Sydney chapter was led by Kris Howard and a group of mentors from the Sydney community (including myself) was there to help out.

Australia is an amazing place to call home. We have so much to celebrate about our nation, and it's important that we acknowledge our achievements and celebrate as a nation. However, out of love and respect for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island community, we here at Lookahead Search believe that January 26th is not the right date.

We were delighted and honoured to attend to the AWS Startup Day event in Sydney. The talks were inspiring, the questions were thoughtful, and the crowd was engaging and welcoming.

We're stoked to be sponsoring Front End Center, which is a screencast series made by Glen Maddern. Glen puts a tonne of time into each episode and he's one of Australia's most skilled developers.

Over the last 2 years, Android has been the fastest growing technology that we have hired for.

Last night I spoke at a TAFE presentation night, alongside @CathJones0 and @geoffroh .

We're always on the lookout for reading material and we're going to start sharing what we find on our blog. Here's the first of many: