SoCraTes UK 2025 trip report
In May 2025 I attended my third SoCraTes UK conference . SoCraTes events are run as an Unconference, where the sessions are planned out on the day that they happen. sessions can be run by anyone attending, so there's no divide between speakers and attendees. Everyone is an attendee, and everyone is a speaker. In previous years, there has been a training day, but that didn't happen this year. This was a shame, but it was still an amazing conference. It takes place at Milton Hill House in rural Oxfordshire, and we all gathered there on Thursday evening. One thing I love about the conference is that it still takes covid seriously, and everyone gets daily covid tests and masks. This year, one of the attendees immediately tested positive for covid, and isolated. So we were all spared a dose of covid! I tend to suffer pretty badly from covid, so I am very pleased with this policy. Once we'd all done our covid tests, we gathered for an introduction session. As usual, the event w...