**The Human API: An Evening of Debugging How Your Team Talks** **Thursday 12 November \| 6pm–9pm \| AND Digital\, Birmingham** You can build infrastructure, automate deployments and troubleshoot Kubernetes at 2am. But how good are you at explaining an idea, handling an awkward conversation, speaking in front of a room or simply connecting with someone you’ve never met before? On 12 November, **Steve Wade is taking over DevOps Society Birmingham for the evening**. No panel. No conveyor belt of speakers. One keynote, one interactive talk and one hands-on workshop designed to get engineers away from their laptops and actually talking. **Want to get better at communicating, presenting and thinking on your feet? Register and join us.** **Meet Steve Wade** Steve is the Founder of Platform Fix, a Kubernetes Ambassador for DevOps Society and someone who has spent the last 15 years working in production infrastructure. He started working with Kubernetes back at v1.2. He's a former Flux maintainer and Istio contributor. He has trained more than 6,000 engineers on cloud-native tooling worldwide and has spoken at conferences including KubeCon and DevOps Pro Europe. This will be Steve's **68th talk**, but this one is going to be a little different. Rather than spending three hours sitting down listening to slides, you'll be getting involved. **Why are we doing this?** Technical teams spend huge amounts of time improving tooling, infrastructure and processes. Communication often gets nowhere near the same attention. Yet it's involved in almost everything engineers do. Explaining an architectural decision. Giving feedback. Running a stand-up. Challenging an idea. Presenting to leadership. Asking for a promotion. Speaking to someone you've never met at a meetup. Being technically strong matters. Being able to communicate what you know can make that technical ability considerably more useful. And no, you don't need to be a natural public speaker. In fact, if the thought of getting o

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