Over the Air is an annual 2-day mobile developer event with a mix of technical workshops put on by the community, a Hackathon to celebrate programming & making as a creative discipline, and Lightning Talks to entertain and inspire. Now in it’s 9th year, the 2016 edition will take place on the 25th & 26th of November, at St. John’s […]

The Workshop Submission Form is Now Open! Over the Air is a unique tech-agnostic event for and by the developer community, featuring technical workshops where attendees can roll up their sleeves and tinker with new development platforms, operating systems, APIs, SDKs, hardware and devices. Although it’s mostly about software development and hardware hacking, you don’t need […]

Hackathon

A major part of Over the Air is the Hackathon – which starts at the end of the Friday morning Keynote, and continues through the day and overnight until it is time for the Show & Tell on Saturday afternoon. We invite participants to be creative, without any pressure for their ideas to be commercially viable […]

Lightning Talks

On Friday evening, we invite everyone to gather together in one of the Marquees for a series of Lightning Talks, given by members of the community. In 2015 we were thrilled to welcome Melinda Seckington (an OTA regular) on the team to run that side of the event, updating our format away from the more rigid Ignite Talk format, towards a […]

Schedule

The two-day programme always opens with a Keynote talk for all participants in the Main Hall, after which the Hackathon and Workshop Programme officially start. Our Keynote Speakers in past years have included Sir. Tim Berners-Lee, Matthew Postgate, Dr. Sue Black, Ariel Waldman, and Howard Baker – ‘Godfather’ of the BBC Micro:bit. Four streams of workshops take place throughout […]

Venue

St. John’s Hoxton, London, UK. We’re back again at the same brilliant venue as OTA15 – St. John’s Hoxton in the North East creative hub of Hackney / Shoreditch / Old Street. St. John’s on Pitfield Street is an impressive oasis in bustling London, with an amazingly spacious building, and lots of room on the grounds […]

In memory of Luke Razzell

September 27, 2016Margaret Gold

We are very sad to have learned today of the passing away of our friend Luke Razzell, known to many of you as @weaverluke – a kind and creative man, always full of ideas, who designed the Over the Air logo for us. Words fail us, so we’ll use his, that he used to describe his inspirations […]

A big thank-you to Nexmo & Mozilla

September 15, 2016Margaret Gold

As many of you know, we had originally scheduled OTA16 for this coming Friday and Saturday. These past few days the weather has been stunning, which would have made for a fabulous OTA16, in the spirit of our first year at Bletchley Park – which was gorgeous weather. But with thunder-showers forecast for all day […]

GitHub is sponsoring Free Tickets to OTA16

September 13, 2016Margaret Gold

We’re thrilled to announce that GitHub is supporting the provision of Free Tickets to Over the Air 2016. The lovely people at GitHub are keen to help us lower the barriers to attendance by ensuring that we can continue to offer free tickets to students, freelancers, job-seekers, and anyone else whose budget is tight. GitHub is all […]

Website migration complete – pls Refresh

August 18, 2016Margaret Gold

We’ve completed our website migration (thank-you most excellent team at TsoHost!!) and all is right with the world again. But you might need to clear your Browser cache to get rid of the 404 Error messages if you’re still seeing them… Thanks for bearing with us.

Over the Air

Fri 25th & Sat 26th, November 2016

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