May Porto Tech & Creative Events

Ana Pinheiro
OPO.network
Published in
3 min readMay 3, 2021

For us, April was a fantastic month. The OPO.network Discussions went so good, that the positive feedback we received from our community motivates us to keep going.
This month, we hope to bring you more news.

Take a look at all the tech and creative events happening in Porto.

Upcoming Porto Events

❤ Here are the online events happening in Porto this month. Topics include JavaScript, Design, and pretty much anything creative or tech related.

May 4, 18h30–19h30

· design · Become A Conversational & Voice UX Designer
A taster session for anyone looking to switch careers into Voice Design (or Conversational Design) and learn the skills required.

May 5, 18h00–19h00

· dev · Operability and You Build It You Run It at John Lewis & Partners
A conversation with Simon Skelton, Partner & Platform & Operations Manager at John Lewis & Partners and Steve Smith, Principal Consultant
at Equal Experts.

May 5, 19h00–20h30

· dev · Let’s discuss BPT!
A session about Business Process Technology, also known as BPT, with Rui Barbosa.

May 6, 17h00–18h30

· dev · Back to the Future: The Agile argument
Shine a light on the rock-solid giants that support agile practices today with Bruno Teixeira, Senior Agile Coach at Talkdesk.

May 6, 18h00–19h00

· design · Asking better questions for better Product Design
With Philip Grother, the speaker, joining from Luxemburg.

May 11, 14h00–15h00

· design · The content-first approach: How to get a competitive edge through great UX
The next Nomensa Webinar, hosted by their Principal Content Designer, Steven Shukor.

May 27, 17h30–19h30

· dev · [Monthly] Global Agile Beer — EN Edition
A global community that always encourages experience exchange.

Monthly Must Read & Watch

We handpicked more articles and tools just for you!

KENT C. DODDS
Super Simple Start to ESModules in Node.js · dev
All supported versions of Node.js support ESModules now. Learn how to get started using them.

DMITRI PAVLUTIN
Solving a Mystery Behavior of parseInt() in JavaScript · dev
I help developers understand JavaScript and React.” — Dmitri Pavlutin

STEVE DENNIS
How to deprecate old components in Figma design systems · design
While this is written for Figma users, a lot of this will be useful for Sketch users also.

Podcasts

They tell you cool stuff!
Our selection made through great references from our community.
Contact us and share your tips/work as well.

EMMA BOSTIAN, SIDNEY BUCKNER, KELLY VAUGHN, and ALLI SPITTEL
Ladybug Podcast
Great discussions around how to start coding, the hot technologies right now, how to get your first developer job, and more!

STRIVING ARTIST
The Striving Artist
A podcast for creative people working towards BIG goals.

DEVCHAT.TV
React Native Radio
Exploring React Native together.

These are our suggestions for you to read and listen to in May.

Enjoy!

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