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Do you have an insightful topic or challenge you want to share with the FFConf community? Whether you’ve attended in the past and imagined yourself on stage, or you’re a fledgling speaker looking for your next big opportunity, we invite you to submit a proposal.

Seasoned presenters and fresh voices are equally welcome — so apply to speak today!

Lex Lofthouse spoke in 2022 and wrote a lovely speaker's-eye view of the experience, closing with:

I felt so looked after before, during and after the conference. Your passion and dedication blew me away, and I'm so grateful I got to be a part of it.

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Hellen also applied to our CFP last year and was selected to speak about 'Bias in our products: The case for diversity in tech'.

Her talk speaks to the unconventional routes into engineering that remain common for women and minorities, and how a legacy of historical bias and exclusionary job descriptions has produced a lack of diversity that surfaces in biased AI systems like facial recognition and discriminatory job-ad algorithms — making diverse teams essential at all stages.

If you can find yourself 30 minutes to watch it, it's well worth your time.

Community News

Seventeen years ago yesterday, Node.js was released (though the timeline is even longer. It was a privilege for Remy to be present at the first (and much-loved) JSConf.EU when Ryan Dahl showed the project in his talk. This was a key project for the web, that also allowed many front end devs to pass their skills to the backend too.

The UK's first talk on the subject was when Simon Willison spoke at our inaugural FFConf in 2009 (when in fact he was supposed to be talking about JavaScript mashups - it's still in the talk description!).

As a hat-tip to Node, here's just a few weird and wonderful projects we found:

• Real time monitoring system for an actual beehive 🐝
• The story of how node nearly went to space (though I know NASA's used Node before too) 🚀
• Brewfactory - the project that makes beer from code (sort of) 🍻

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