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A Review of my Day at Exabytes19

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Welcome to my latest blog where I am going review my day at the fantastic Exabytes19 conference. I considered doing a top 5 highlights for this blog but it wouldn’t do it justice as I had more than 5 highlights! I first came across Exabytes19 from Alan O’Donohoe (@teknoteacher) who leads the Exa Foundation. Their mission is to ‘support computing education and promote safe, secure and appropriate use of tech.’ (@ExaFoundation). Alan messaged me and asked if I would share on my twitter the application form for presenting at ExaBytes. I shared the link and also successfully applied. Exabytes19 is the ExaFoundation’s 4 th annual conference. Throughout the year they also run smaller training sessions around the country called Exabits. When I began to research previous Exabytes, I came across so much positive feedback, with several people describing it as ‘the best CPD training I’ve had all year’. I liked the idea that the conference wasn’t enormous and there would only