Edge Academy takes place all over Netlight – how to make your own working climate more inspiring!

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For the modern high-end company providing some kind of professional service or product – to have an inspiring working climate is one of your most important and valuable investment. 

Ok, but how to do it? 

There are million of ways and the sky is the limit. But firstly you must understand that this is important, and see investing in your inspiring working climate as a company success factor. Within Netlight we work with this a lot. The people, our competence and our experience, are our most valuable assets. And Edge Academy, is just one initiative we run. (for the record, our Edge Academy initiative provides value in many other areas as well). In addition we have our grandiose Edge Conference during our Edge Summit, our day-to-day competence sharing events, our Edge comptence communities and our Edge competence activity cells. (see a pattern?)

What is Edge Academy?

Edge Academy is the Netlight intimate technology festival run yearly, by consultants for consultants.
During the week of Edge Academy (w.8, Jan 17th-20th) we meet in our offices during the evenings for seminars, courses, workshops and labs, focusing on areas currently either challenging or areas providing great business opportunities to our clients, today and in the near future.
Personally, what I love the most with Edge Academy is the energy, the people, the engagement and dedication. And of course, all the fun and the immense value it provides to all (consultants directly and clients indirectly through us consultants). I see it as a smorgasboard of competence and experience where I can cherry pick what I want to listen to and participate in, completely based on my own interest as well as the interest and need of all the clients within my network.

How do one make it successful?

Something like Edge Academy must be arranged by us consultants, out there on the field. We are the ones knowing what to fill the conference with, which areas are Edge and important to our clients. And we are the ones knowing what we like. It must all be based on our will to share amongst each other – to create our own inspiring working climate. I don’t see any other way to do this if you want it to live and be real, not fake.

But isn’t it a lot of hard work? 

Of course it is, there are no shortcuts.

My personal contribution? 

I’m sponsor, participant and speaker. But most of all I’m the greatest of fan – I love to learn new things, I want to develop and I want to get the tools to continue challenge myself and Netlight, in favour of our clients and ourselves.
Spread over our offices in Stockholm, Oslo and Munich the following list of events (workshops, labs, seminars or courses) will be available during the week (to mention a few. ;-) Quite impressive I must say.)
academy.netlight.com

·       Delivering Video - the Next Big Thing Is Already Happening

·       Mobile Payments and Future Trends

·       An Introduction to Glimpse

·       Finding Simple Solutions to Complex Software

·       How to Build Trust and Grow Your Client

·       SQL Server Data Tools

·       Elephant Carpaccio Workshop

·       Bitcoins

·       CasperJS - Automatic Testing

·       Agile Contract-first Development of REST-APIs Using RAML

·       Java 8 - What's New?

·       Gender Perspective on Networking

·       Master Suppression Techniques

·       Demystifying Chrome Dev Tools

·       Continuous Delivery in Practice

·       Do It, Become It

·       Beat Fear. Be Fierce.

·       Feedback – What a powerful tool!

·       RESTful Web Services with DropWizard

·       Web vs Native

·       One Vagrant

·       UX-101 - A Hitchhikers Pocket Guide

·       JavaScript Framework Debate

·       Industry Challenges in Payment, Media and Banking

·       Integration Pattern with Apache Camel

·       High Availability: An Introduction

·       How to Edge ITIL?

·       Team Performance

·       Omni & Plan3

·       Battlefield 4 – one of the greatest games ever (insight experience)

·       Regulations in Financial Industry – Netlight Perspective

·       Talent Search – The artwork

·       Conversion 101

·       Introduction to Spring

·       Private and Hybrid Clouds With Windows Server

·       Event-driven Architectures with NServiceBus

·       Payment made easy

·       Spotifyprototype med QT Quick

·       UX-201 - UX and you

·       Modern PHP Development

·       Social Media 2014

·       Professionalism 2.0 - Equality for consultants

·       Quality – Trendreport within Testing

·       Tearing Down the Walls between Tech Operations and Development

·       Mobile Prototyping - Tips & Tools

·       Change Management - Lasting Effects by the Genuine Consultant

·       Hands on with node.js

·       Delivery in Focus

·       Develop iOS Like a Pro

·       A project gone Haywire

·       First Impression and Equal Consulting

·       The Web Goes Real Time and Responsive

·       Bitcoin - Not Your Usual Bank

·       Design Thinking Workshop – How to Solve Problems with Innovative Solutions



So I urge you all to start your own festival within your organisation – to get your own working climate more inspiring. It’s so much worth it.

Hope you feel inspired – sharing is caring!

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