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SyncNorwich passes the February Tech & Agile conference baton to Norfolk Developers

Anyone who attended this year’s SyncConf, presented by SyncNorwich on 15th of February at the Open Venue will know just how successful the conference was and just how important it is that it continues year after year.


SyncNorwich is passing the February Tech & Agile conference baton to Norfolk Developers, the new tech group in Norwich for developers, created by Paul Grenyer, Dom Davis and Ben Taylor. The February conference will be known as Norfolk Developers Conference or NorDevCon for short.


NorDevCon will take place on Friday 28th February 2014 at the Kings Centre in Norwich. Building on the hugely successful Agile and technical tracks from last year’s SyncConf, NorDevCon will also feature an infrastructure track, a workshop track and a combined local speaker and equality in IT track.


You can follow NorDevCon on twitter, @nordevcon and the web site is nordevcon.com. If you attended this year’s SyncConf you will automatically be included on the mailing list for NorDevCon, so you won’t miss any of the announcements or the chance to get super early bird tickets. If you didn’t attend, you can join the NorDevCon mailing list below.

NorDevCon promises to be even bigger and better than this year's SyncConf. I hope you’re looking forward to it as much as I am!

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