Recent & Upcoming Talks

Speaking to around 400 first-year Lancaster University students in their “Professionalism in Practice” module, I discussed the lessons I’ve learned in my career journey so far. Particularly how volunteering for the BCS and Worshipful Company of Information Technologists’ has aided my personal and professional growth. I went on to touch on some core issues that software engineers can encounter when starting out, and how I’ve dealt with some of the challenges of working in industry.

Over a year into the war in Ukraine BCS talked to experts from IT Ukraine and the UK about what have we learned about IT resilience, what Ukraine is still able to offer, and the implications for the role of IT technology in society.

A guest lecture to Lancaster University Security & Risk students discussing the impact that COVID-19 has had on the Security Industry, highlighting my personal experience of joining the cyber security industry during a global pandemic.

Aimed at linguistics students and computer scientists alike, this talk introduces the basics of Natural Language Processing with NLTK, to provide practical skills that will prove useful for students from both disciplines. This talk was organised by the Computer Science Society in collaboration with the LAEL (Linguistics and English Language) society.

Aimed at linguistics students who are new to programming, this talk introduced programming using the popular language, Python 3, providing a demonstrative talk where students could follow along with their own laptop computer. This talk was organised by the Computer Science Society in collaboration with the LAEL (Linguistics and English Language) society.