SoCraTes UK

We organise this conference in the open, and you're very welcome to chat with the organisers to help, ask questions, give feedback, or simply to watch. You can reach us on the #ev_socratesuk slack channel (slack.softwarecrafters.org), on mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky, or by commenting on this post.

SoCraTes UK - Training Day We are resuming running an optional Training Day ahead of the open space (inspired by the Foundations day at SoCraTes Germany).

For more information on the training day, visit socratesuk.org/training_day...

Tickets are first-come, first-served, so book yours before we sell out!

#SoftwareCraft #Unconference #TDD #Refactoring

Trainers:
* @emilybache.bsky.social - Legacy code and approval tests
* Lisi Hocke - Secure development
* @claresudbery.bsky.social - TDD with LLMs/AI
* Jon Jagger - TDD with Cyber-dojo
* Duncan McGregor & Nat Pryce - Extreme refactoring
* @agile-otter.bsky.social - Value stream mapping (tbc)

Milton Hill House Hotel | Meeting & Event Venue Oxfordshire Manor house hotel, wedding & meeting venue near Oxford offering 20 flexible event, conference and meeting spaces, with onsite accommodation & leisure club.

We're meeting 18th to 21st June at our lovely countryside venue, Milton Hill House in Oxfordshire (www.miltonoxfordshire.co.uk). We're also delighted to announce the training day is back 👩🏻‍🏫. It'll be followed by our legendary open space event, with sessions from all participants.

SoCraTes UK - Tickets Join us for another year of SoCraTes UK happening on June 18th - 21st! The event is hosted at Milton Hill House, UK which is surrounded by 22 acres of landscaped grounds and forest, delivering…

Exciting news! We've confirmed @emilybache.bsky.social as a trainer for the training day at our event in June!

Have you made any plans for 2026 yet? Registration is now open for SoCraTes UK 2026!

Register: socratesuk.org/tickets.html

We organise this conference in the open, and you're very welcome to chat with the organisers to help, ask questions, give feedback, or simply to watch. You can reach us on the #ev_socratesuk slack channel (slack.softwarecrafters.org), on mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky, or by commenting on this post.

SoCraTes UK - Training Day We are resuming running an optional Training Day ahead of the open space (inspired by the Foundations day at SoCraTes Germany).

For more information on the training day, visit socratesuk.org/training_day...

Tickets are first-come, first-served, so book yours before we sell out!

#SoftwareCraft #Unconference #TDD #Refactoring

Confirmed trainers so far:

* Lisi Hocke - Secure development lifecycle
* @claresudbery.bsky.social - TDD with LLMs/AI
* Jon Jagger - TDD with Cyber-dojo
* Duncan McGregor - Extreme refactoring
* Nat Pryce - Extreme refactoring
* Tim Ottinger - Value stream mapping (tbc) @agile-otter.bsky.social

Milton Hill House Hotel | Meeting & Event Venue Oxfordshire Manor house hotel, wedding & meeting venue near Oxford offering 20 flexible event, conference and meeting spaces, with onsite accommodation & leisure club.

We're meeting 18th to 21st June at our lovely countryside venue, Milton Hill House in Oxfordshire (www.miltonoxfordshire.co.uk). We're also delighted to announce the training day is back 👩🏻‍🏫. It'll be followed by our legendary open space event, with sessions from all participants.

SoCraTes UK - Tickets Join us for another year of SoCraTes UK happening on June 18th - 21st! The event is hosted at Milton Hill House, UK which is surrounded by 22 acres of landscaped grounds and forest, delivering…

Have you made any plans for 2026 yet? How about giving yourself or a friend something to look forward to...

...because we have exciting news before the winter break: Registration is now open for SoCraTes UK 2026!

Register: socratesuk.org/tickets.html

Three orange post-its on a white background showing the date: "Thu 18th", "Sun 21st" and "June 2026", with the SoCraTes UK logo in the top right hand corner (a circle with blue and red quadrants and white symbols, surrounded by "SoCraTes UK - International conference for Software Craft and Testing")

Save The Date!

The next edition of SoCraTes UK will be between the 18th - 21st June 2026

This year, our training day returns on Thu 18th, followed by the unconference Thu 18th eve until Sun 21st lunchtime.

Registration will open soon, watch this space :)

green and red ying/yang , the logo of cyber dojo

red and green ying/yang on the left and text on the right: cyber-dojo, a place to practice programming

We'd also like to thank our sponsor this year: Cyber Dojo!

Sponsors are vital at keeping the conference running and are much appreciated 🙏🏻

Please check out their practice environment, which helps give you & colleagues experience programming together and improve everybody's skills.
cyber-dojo.org

One person standing and a dozen people sitting in a circle. The posters in the background explain the open space principles.

The Marketplace wall, populated with post-it notes detailing the sessions that the participants have proposed.

Thank you to everyone who made SoCraTes UK a great success a couple of weeks ago.

An open space conference only happens thanks to the participants, and the ideas that they bring to the conference:

There were 57 sessions over the two days. We'll highlight some of the sessions in the coming weeks!

#SoCraTesUK 2025 is happening in a little over a week, on 29th May - 1st June, once again at Milton Hill House Hotel near Oxford.

The hotel currently has a few more free rooms than expected, so if you want to come to the conference then you can still register: socratesuk.org

#SoCraTesUK

SoCraTes UK - Tickets Join us for another year of SoCraTes UK happening on May 29th - June 1st! The event is hosted at Milton Hill House, UK which is surrounded by 22 acres of landscaped grounds and forest, delivering…

There's still a few places available for SoCraTes UK, in 3 weeks!

Join a group of curious and passionate software practitioners. It's the ideal place if, for example, you'd like to practice a talk, get to the bottom of a gnarly bug, or connect with other people in tech.

socratesuk.org/tickets.html

Photo by Esko Luontola: Closeup of a whiteboard filled with post-it notes, each of which describes a conference session proposed by a member of the conference.

SoCraTes UK is happening from 29th May to 1st June 2025. It's an unconference, which means the agenda is created by us, the attendees, each morning!

It's a great format to combine ideas and refine discussions or workshops from one day to the next.

Join us! Registration is open: socratesuk.org

We are community-focused: a great opportunity to speak to and code with many curious and talented people in a very relaxed and beautiful setting.

The event is Thu evening to Sunday lunchtime, giving plenty of options to construct ideas and exchange.

Trees, grass and blue sky and clouds, bathed in a soft light coming from the right. It is the park of the venue where the conference takes place. Photo by Alexander Alemayhu

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We are an #unconference that takes place in the summer in the south of England.
It is a gathering of open-minded software makers (developers, testers, analysts, and others!) who want to improve their craft and the software industry as a whole.

socratesuk.org