Episode 31 of the Sheffield Digital Podcast is here and features an interview with Ben Atha, Director of MilkLab Media and founder of The Developer Academy. We talk to Ben about how the Academy offers Sheffield folk a new way to learn how to code and make a change in their career.

From pricing to the importance of face-to-face learning, Ben shares his approach to testing up The Developer Academy so far. He also covers the organisations aims and how the first crop of learners have taken to this new programme in Sheffield.

In part two of the podcast, Mel provides a marvellously concise overview of the recently announced Sheffield Digital Festival. If you don’t know what that is, put that right by reading the Festival’s launch post .

Other topics include:

Sheffield Digital Awards

Tech Nation’s 2019 report

Bright Doc Makerspace

Natwest’s report on female entrepreneurs

Good News Corner!

Upcoming events and meet-ups

It’s a packed show, so off you pop and get stuck in. Don’t forget, if you listen via an app that supports chapters, you can quickly move between sections of the show to get to what you want.

Thanks to Rebel Base Media This episode was recorded in the https://rebelbasemedia.io/studio/ (brand new podcasting studio) at https://rebelbasemedia.io/ (Rebel Base Media), based at https://www.shefftechparks.com/ (Sheffield Technology Parks). The studio is free to use until June and it’s got all the gear you need to produce a properly professional podcast. You should head over and give it a try.

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Notes and links Every episode comes with a list of links to all of the various people, companies and topics that we reference. Here is that list for episode 31.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-atha-5768b74a/?originalSubdomain=uk (Ben Atha | LinkedIn)

http://www.milklab.com/ (Milklab – Advertisement Technologies)

https://twitter.com/milklabmedia?lang=en (MilkLab Media (@MilklabMedia) | Twitter)

http://www.thedeveloperacademy.com/ (Home - The Developer Academy Ltd - Learn to code in Sheffield)

https://sheffielddigitalfestival.com/ (13 - 17th May, Kollider | Sheffield Digital Festival)

https://sheffielddigitalfestival.com/fringe (Fringe | Sheffield Digital Festival)

https://www.kollider.co/ko-host (KO-HOST at Kollider)

https://field.studio/ (Field | Print, Film, Digital and Spatial Design)

https://sheffieldcontent.club/ (Sheffield Content Club)

https://www.sheffielddigitalawards.co.uk/ (Home - Sheffield Digital Awards)

https://techshownorth.co.uk/ (Tech Show North | 8 - 9 May 2019 | Manchester | Register for FREE)

https://ecommerceshownorth.co.uk/ (eCommerce Show North | 8 - 9 May | Manchester | Register for FREE)

https://sheffield.digital/posts/25-exhibitor-discount-at-tech-show-north-and-ecommerce-show-north/ (25% exhibitor discount at Tech Show North and eCommerce Show North – Sheffield Digital)

https://technation.io/insights/report-2018/ (Tech Nation Report 2018 Home - Tech Nation)

https://brightboxmakerspace.com/ (Bright Box)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg (Rube Goldberg - Wikipedia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Heath_Robinson (W. Heath Robinson - Wikipedia)

https://natwest.contentlive.co.uk/content/rosereview (Natwest – The Alison Rose Review)

https://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/news/digital-news/2019/04/new-md-sumo-digital-it-reports-35-surge-revenue (New MD at Sumo Digital as it reports 35% surge in revenue Prolific North)

https://sheffield.digital/posts/birchenallhowden-ask4/ (BirchenallHowden merges with ASK4 subsidiaries – Sheffield Digital)

https://twitter.com/hydra_creative?lang=en (Hydra Creative (@Hydra_Creative) | Twitter)...