<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif"><div style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(102,106,115);font-family:&quot;Benton Sans&quot;,-apple-system,system-ui,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.5px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Hi all!</span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(102,106,115);font-family:&quot;Benton Sans&quot;,-apple-system,system-ui,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.5px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(102,106,115);font-family:&quot;Benton Sans&quot;,-apple-system,system-ui,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.5px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">This month, we have a very generous sponsorship from<span> dunnhumby, the global leader in data science, and a heavy adopter of Scala.</span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(102,106,115);font-family:&quot;Benton Sans&quot;,-apple-system,system-ui,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.5px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Dunnhumby will be providing refreshments (pizza and drinks, both alcoholic and non)!</span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(102,106,115);font-family:&quot;Benton Sans&quot;,-apple-system,system-ui,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.5px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(102,106,115);font-family:&quot;Benton Sans&quot;,-apple-system,system-ui,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.5px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><b>When</b>: Monday 16th July. 7pm for 7:05</span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(102,106,115);font-family:&quot;Benton Sans&quot;,-apple-system,system-ui,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.5px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><b>Where</b>: MadLab at Plant NOMA <a href="https://madlab.org.uk/find-us/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://madlab.org.uk/<wbr>find-us/</a></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(102,106,115);font-family:&quot;Benton Sans&quot;,-apple-system,system-ui,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.5px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><b>What</b>:  Lightning talks!  These are 10 minute talks about a variety of interesting topics about functional programming.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;color:rgb(102,106,115);font-family:&quot;Benton Sans&quot;,-apple-system,system-ui,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.5px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">This month we have lightning talks from Hakim Cassimally (<a href="https://twitter.com/techysquirrel" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="color:rgb(0,127,140);text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent;padding-top:0px">@techysquirrel</a>), Chris Bacon(<a href="https://twitter.com/chris__bacon" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="color:rgb(0,127,140);text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">@chris__bacon</a>), Sean Handley (<a href="https://twitter.com/code_sean" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="color:rgb(0,127,140);text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">@code_sean</a>), Sam Marshall (<a href="https://twitter.com/sjmarshy" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="color:rgb(0,127,140);text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">@sjmarshy</a>) and Alex Lynham (<a href="https://twitter.com/hipsters_unite" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="color:rgb(0,127,140);text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">@hipsters_unite</a>).</p><ul style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px 2em;list-style:disc;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Chris Bacon (BBC): <span style="font-weight:700;padding-top:0px">Using monoids to build UI</span><br></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px">Sean Handley (Stuart):<span> </span><strong style="font-weight:700;padding-top:0px">GraphQL in Elixir</strong></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px">Sam Marshall (Digital Bridge):<span> </span><strong style="font-weight:700;padding-top:0px">A Functional Programmer&#39;s adventures in OOP</strong></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px">Alex Lynham (Co-op Digital):<span> </span><strong style="font-weight:700;padding-top:0px">Serverless clojurescript in 10 mins</strong></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px">Hakim Cassimally (BBC): <span style="font-weight:700;padding-top:0px">Inform7, a declarative, &#39;plain English&#39; language</span></li></ul><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div></div><div style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Please sign up on EventBrite (FREE ticket) at <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lambdalounge-july-lightning-talks-tickets-47583879665">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lambdalounge-july-lightning-talks-tickets-47583879665</a></div><div style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">All the best,</div><div style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Hakim</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>