Tech Event Host

BarCamp London Hackathon (BCLH) 2024

As a massive geek at heart, I specialise in livening up technology events, conferences and meet-ups. If you’ve ever sat in a grey tech conference hall you’ll know, some of them need a sense of humour.

Louie Christie on a stage holding a microphone. A screen behind him says 'challenges'. Several people are on stage laughing at something. Audience of geeks in the foreground. — BarCamp London Hackathon (BCLH) 2024

I have a masters degree in human-centred computer systems.

No, I’m not sure what that means either.
– Louie Christie

Join @louiechristie for the Deptford VR Hackathon 1pm to 5pm. All welcome. If you've never experienced VR come and join in or if you want to help make something bring your laptop and your skills@TheAlbanySE8 @HereandNow2020 https://t.co/scnqzbG3LH #aquestionforthepeopleDeptford pic.twitter.com/T2tPAxliFA
— Nigel Barrett (@nigelandlouise) February 22, 2020

Deptford VR Hackathon at A Party for the People of Deptford, The Albany Arts Centre, 2020. (Thanks to Nigel and Louise.)

I think my MSc is something to do with making computers user-friendly.

And goodness knows, we could all do with a bit of that.
– Louie Christie

One thing we know is that web developers come from different backgrounds. From teaching to consulting, design to accounting, and our alumni speakers are here to tell us about making that transition into software engineering tonight! @Introducing_SO @DavidJamesMitt1 @louiechristie pic.twitter.com/AYHgCCPR6q
— General Assembly London (@GA_London) February 3, 2020

Tech Presenter @ General Assembly, Relay Building (turn right at Silicon Roundabout), East London, 2020

Coding Coach

I’ve been a visiting coding coach at meet-ups like Codebar, Polyglot Devs and FreeCodeCamp. Touring various tech company offices in London from 2014-present.

I once did a course coaching coding to French students while half expecting the guillotine

🧑🏼‍💻 Coding Tutorials

Join us for an AMA with a panel of people took the plunge and changed their careers (with a little help from us) at 'So You Want to be a Web Developer' with @Introducing_SO, Mike Harris, @louiechristie and Davinder Kaur.
👉👉 https://t.co/6ZqEfouqdy #LifeatGA #CareerChangers pic.twitter.com/BmD9nx19pE
— General Assembly London (@GA_London) February 10, 2021

Tech Panel Speaker 2020

Tech Talks

When the tech doesn’t work so you end up putting a laptop under an overhead projector 🤣

I’ve never actually done a TED talk.

But I gave a bastard of a good tech talk at the last London Bar Camp unconference.

Much like the real-life Stefan Butler from Black Mirror Bandersnatch. 🖭

Upcoming

Live gig listing

Recent

Post it note stuck on a board says 'My adventures doing VR stand-up comedy. A talk by Louie Christie'. — My adventures doing VR stand-up comedy. A talk by Louie Christie, 2023

A glass wall office partition covered in post-it notes, and index cards in a grid. — My adventures doing VR stand-up comedy. A talk by Louie Christie, 2023

Past

🍓 Headless WordPress, Gatsby, and strawberry JAM (slides) @ WordPress Hooked (WP_Hooked) – Doggett’s Coat and Badge Pub 2020 (slides)

IT recruitment is f@!ked and how I’ve tried to life hack it @ BarCamp XI Unconference, The University of Law, 2019

Index card on a wall, surrounded by others, it reads IT recruitment is f@!ked and how I tried to life hack it — https://twitter.com/Chris_Hackett/status/1127508713990914049

Louie Christie in a computer server room, plugging in network cables. — Action shot: Louie Christie fixes The Internet

“I used to work in IT support… People on their desk would normally have a picture of the thing that is most important to them. Maybe their children, or their wife.
Some fuck had his Audi.” – Louie Christie

Online / Escape Room Host

Louie Christie dressed as Labyrinth's Hoggle with old worldy fantasy clothes and a string of key-rings around his neck.

In the past I’ve been characters in immersive events and team building games. My influences include Labyrinth’s Hoggle, Richard O’Brian in the Crystal Maze and Patrick Moore in Gamesmaster (1992).

During covid I was briefly a host of an online escape room on Zoom. But I can’t do a forced fun face.

People on zoom smiling with varying degree of authenticity — Online escape room host on Zoom “Office Party”, Play Foundry, 2020 (during covid)

In hindsight team building on Zoom was a terrible idea – but it was covid.

I now host regular events in Virtual Reality.