About Fabric Conference
Welcome back to FabriCon! This is our opportunity to take a day to learn from each other about Fabric's tech, development processes and future plans. We’re covering a wide range of topics, letting you recap on familiar topics and dip your toes into whole new areas. Please note that Teams meetings are grouped into blocks this year, so you won't need to quit and join a different meeting until after a break time or you want to switch tracks.
Schedule
Track 1 - Bar area
Track 2 - Ground Floor Boardroom
Luke Edwards
10:00-10:10
Introduction
Bar area
Guest Speaker: Andy Davies
10:10-10:55
Keynote: Andy Davies from Speedcurve
Bar area
This talk explores practical strategies to reduce the performance impact of third-party tags whilst maintaining their business value, plus lessons learnt from working with various publishers.
Hannah Johnson
11:00-11:20
A/B Testing
Bar area
This session provides an overview of how Immediate Media has implemented A/B testing across their digital platforms to optimise user experience and drive engagement.
Coffee break 1
11:20-11:40
Magda Glazewska, Joe Fitzhugh
11:40-12:10
The art and science of content curation in the age of algorithms
Bar area
This talk traces the evolution of content recommendation approaches from expert curation to algorithmic systems, presenting new research into how users actually perceive content relationships and introducing a novel solution that bridges user mental models with technical implementation.
Ray Khalid
11:40-12:00
Mobile development for non mobile developers (and others)
Ground Floor Boardroom
A brief overview of some the challenges and things that differentiate mobile development from the typical web SDLC.
Dinesh Gundam
12:00-12:20
Caching and Fastly
Ground Floor Boardroom
What is caching? What is Fastly? Why is it so important to us as a business and our end users?
Aimee Al-Dabagh, Rhiannon Smith
12:10-12:40
Access All Areas
Bar area
How do we integrate accessibility at every stage of the product life-cycle?
Discover actionable strategies and micro-habits to elevate your team’s approach to inclusivity, and empower us to create products everyone can enjoy
Discover actionable strategies and micro-habits to elevate your team’s approach to inclusivity, and empower us to create products everyone can enjoy
Andy Stubbs
12:20-12:40
The Editorial Front-End
Ground Floor Boardroom
This talk examines a major architectural overhaul of the editorial frontend, exploring the key problems that drove this significant change to the frontend stack.
More coffee. More Snacks
12:40-13:10
Nina-Che Bousquet
13:10-13:30
From SERPs to SGE: LLMs, Technical SEO, and the Next Era of Search
Bar area
This talk explores how the shift from traditional search results to AI-generated experiences is reshaping technical SEO strategies and practices in the age of large language models.
Juliana Boateng
13:30-13:50
RevOps
Bar area
This session talks about how Revenue Operations operates and collaborates with P&T at Immediate.
Laura Cushing
13:50-14:20
Product prioritisation
Bar area
Ever struggle to think about how and why some features are more important than others? Feel like you're handed a list of features with no clear sense of what’s important or why? In this session, we’ll break down why prioritisation is essential and how product team will prioritise features going forward. Regardless of your role, understanding the why behind the what will help us all build the right things.
Luke Edwards
14:20-14:30
Outro
Bar area
BBQ and Drinks!
14:30-16:30