Front End North Conference 2025 - Interview with Organisers Katie Fenn and Amy Benson

Katie Fenn and Amy Benson, organisers of Front End North, discuss their involvement in the Sheffield tech community and the upcoming Front End North conference. Scheduled for 10th July 2025 at Sheffield Hallam University, the event will feature eight talks covering a range of topics including design, software development, and accessibility. They emphasise the importance of an accessible, low-cost event to include a diverse range of attendees and speakers. The selection process for talks involved an anonymised system to ensure fairness. They also highlight their motivations for organising the event and why they want to put Sheffield on the map for this type of event. Amy is part-time Senior Software Engineer at Hive IT, and full-time Social Research student. Katie is Senior Developer at the Financial Times. She’s a member of The Green Party, LGBTIQA+ Greens, and Greens for HS2. She loves cycling, fiddling with bikes, and also has a collection of synthesisers! She gave a talk at State of the Browser in 2024 about making the music of Daft Punk using a browser and a MIDI controller!

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Front End North Conference 2025 - Interview with Organisers Katie Fenn and Amy Benson is an episode from Sheffield Digital Podcast by Sheffield Digital.

This episode is 31:57 long.

This episode was published on Jun 12, 2025.

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