Geek in the Park

Geek in the Park is an all-day family event for web developers and designers, including a relaxing picnic and an evening of illuminating talks by web industry leaders.

Geek in the Park: 2011

Geek in the Park will return for the fourth time in 2011. The event will be held on Saturday 13th August in the beautiful Royal Leamington Spa. The Discussion features presentations from Andrew Disley, Paul Lloyd, Relly Annett-Baker and James Willock.

Visit the official 2011 event page for more details. You can also add yourself to the Lanyrd event page and follow @geekinthepark on twitter.

The Discussions

The evening will be full of presentations and discussions. This year you will find four top-notch speakers. Space is limited so you need to buy a ticket to ensure your place.

Andrew Disley

Don’t Forget the Doughnuts

Andrew Disley

Andrew is a Freelance Front-end Developer from the North with decade of industry experience. He has worked on many high-profile projects and began freelancing in 2008. He recently founded Need a service that connects companies and freelancers.

Relly Annett-Baker

Content is a Murderous Robot

Relly Annett-Baker

Relly lives in the Home Counties with her husband, Paul Annett, and their two small sons. Her principle employment is a content strategist and writer, runs dedicated workshops in-house with companies big and small and continues to procrastinate over the draft of her Five Simple Steps book ‘Content Creation for the Web’ due out in 2011.

Paul Lloyd

The Web Native Designer

Paul Lloyd

Paul is a Graphic Designer specialising in interaction design and front-end web development. Having worked for small design agencies in England and burgeoning start-ups in California, he quickly realised which he preferred, and now works for the user experience agency Clearleft in Brighton, England.

James Willock

Brain Science not Rocket Surgery

James Willock

James is a designer and hat wearer at Erskine Design. One day plans to unite the Internet under one TLD.

Geek in the Park: 2009

Friends and families enjoyed a very sunny afternoon picnic in Jephson Gardens the Royal Pump Room gardens on Saturday 15th August 2009. Followed by very interesting talks by Simon Collison on managing your own projects and Remy Sharp on the new and upcoming hot topic HMTL5. Attendance was great and feedback has been positive making the third annual event in Royal Leamington Spa a success.

Visit the official 2009 event page for more details…