Getting to the Unconference

The venue is BVSC in Birmingham City Centre, 5 minutes walk from New Street and Moor Street stations, as well as the new Digbeth Coach Station. Being a Saturday there is some free on-street parking nearby, although there are plenty of paid car parks nearby. BVSC has a small number of free spaces for disabled people visiting by car, these need to be booked in advance. Maps and more details are on the BVSC site.

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What’s an Unconference?

If you’ve not been to an unconference before then this site has some good advice on how they go — in essence we will create the agenda for the day as we go along, with people volunteering to lead sessions and groups splitting up and forming as necessary.

Schedule

9am – Registration and breakfast
9:25am – Welcome
9:30am – 10:45 am Residents University Discussion
10:45am – 11am Session planning
11am – 12pm Morning session 1
12pm – 1pm Morning session 2
1pm – 2pm Lunch break — see this map for the many options nearby
2pm – 3pm Afternoon session 1
3pm – 3:30pm Coffee Break & networking
3:30pm – 4:30pm Afternoon session 2
4:30pm – 5pm Wrap-up

What do I need to bring?

Yourself, a laptop if you want to use one (there will be free wifi) and anything that you may want to use in a session. We’ll have a projector if anyone needs one, but we expect the day to be a bit more informal than that.

If you’d like to make sure there’s an audience for a session you’d like to run, or would like to collaborate — or even organise to share transport on the day why not use the comments here. Look forward to seeing you on the 23rd.

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