Turing Festival 2016

Event wise in the Scottish tech community two events stand out, EIE which was at the start of May and Turing Festival which is on again this year in August. The two day conference has a focus on Product/People on day one and the return of Full Stack Marketing on the second day. The Turing Festival pulls in speakers from around the world and is insanely affordable at £149+VAT for an early bird two day ticket.

Product/People

At Product/People, you'll hear leaders in technology talk about what it takes to create great digital products and build growth businesses around them. The Turing team are lining up founders, CEOs, technologists, product leaders and designers to talk about topics like:

• Product management
• UI/UX and design
• Hiring and culture
• Process and tools
• Engineering growth
• Architecture and scalability
• Data and analytics

Speakers include John Peebles of Administrate, David Cancel cofounder of Drift and Hilary Singer from Skyscanner.

Full Stack Marketing

Full Stack Marketing brings together digital marketers from a diverse range of backgrounds and disciplines for a sophisticated conversation about how the business and practice of marketing is changing in 2016.

You'll hear some of the biggest names in marketing and technology talk about how to create real, sustained growth in your business through smarter marketing. It's a full day of practical advice and cutting-edge insight, covering topics like:

• Content marketing
• SEO/search marketing
• Conversion rate optimisation
• Social and community
• Analytics and data
• Lead generation

Speakers include Rand Fishkin founder of Moz, Lexi Mills from PledgeMusic and Andy Young from 500 Startups.

Get your tickets

Tickets can be bought from the Turing Festival site and are currently for sale at an early bird discount. Venue is still to be announced as is the full speaker line up.