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400 Conversations. 4+ Hires. 1 Weekend. Welcome to Silicon Milkroundabout

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Hiring top-tier tech talent is tougher than ever.

🚀 Recruiters are expensive – and don’t have access to large talent pools

🚀 Software engineers shun LinkedIn – it’s a complete turn off
🚀 Job boards only attract active job seekers—passive talent isn’t there.

And candidates? They’re tired of the endless application black hole, where they apply, get ghosted, and never hear back.



What do top engineers actually want?

They want to meet real companies, talk to real tech teams, and understand company culture before committing.

That’s exactly what Silicon Milkroundabout offers.



A direct hiring channel to London’s top tech talent

Silicon Milkroundabout brings together one of the UK’s largest communities of mid-to-senior level tech talent.

đź’ˇ Average experience: 5+ years
đź’ˇ Minimum experience: 2 years

Instead of skimming CVs, you’re having real, high-impact conversations with hundreds of software engineers, product managers and data folk over a single weekend.



Let’s talk ROI: Why companies keep coming back

A typical 5-person team space for the weekend costs ÂŁ6,300 (we do have other options)

What do you get for this?

📍 400 conversations (each company member connects with 40 people per day)
📍 4+ high quality hires (just from the top 1% – often it’s a lot more)
📍 A talent pipeline of 400 candidates emails for future roles
📍 Your employer brand in front of London’s top tech talent

The numbers speak for themselves

Even if a recruiter only charged 10% (good luck with that!), that’s £7.5K per hire (based on an £75K salary).

At Silicon Milkroundabout, one hire already covers the cost of attending – and you’re walking away with a pipeline of future hires and stronger brand awareness.



Better, more diverse hiring

Beyond cost savings, you also get:
âś… Faster, more personal hiring – assess cultural fit on the spot
✅ A stronger, more diverse pipeline—SMR attracts a broad mix of talent, including women and underrepresented groups in tech

The Bottom Line

Hiring great engineers is hard. But waiting months, paying recruiter fees / subscriptions and sifting through endless applications doesn’t make it easier.

At Silicon Milkroundabout, you cut to the chase and connect directly with the best tech talent in London.

And you get to speak to the real person, not their ChatGPT alias !

🚀 One hire covers the cost. The rest is upside.

Spots are limited—secure yours now!

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In conversation with…

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Samantha Burnham

Tell us a little about yourself. What do you do? What’s your job role?  

Right now, I’m the Product Manager for Tesco’s UK recruitment platform. In the coming  months I’ll bounce between our current platform and a new platform that’s being developed  with my colleagues as a global solution and ultimately, I’ll be Product Managing that platform when the current one is sunsetted.  

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An update about our NEXT GEN initiative

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A lot seems to have happened since we ran our first NEXT GEN event in Nov 2022, there’s no denying that it’s a particularly challenging time right now – we hope you’re all doing well. With this in mind, we wanted to give everyone an update on what’s been happening and our future plans for the NEXT GEN initiative.

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Key changes to our event on 13 + 14 May 2023: here’s what to expect

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Well, 2023 is turning out to be quite the year isn’t it, especially for tech! There’s no denying that it’s a particularly challenging time right now – I hope you’re doing ok. Based on this I wanted to give everyone an update on what this means for our next Silicon Milkroundabout on 13 + 14 May 2023 and some hopefully welcome improvements 🙂

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Introducing our Women In Tech Session

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Saturday 13 + Sunday 14 May 2023 | 11:30am – 1:00pm

A brunch session to celebrate, showcase and support women in tech

We’ve partnered with the incredible team from Triangirls who will be on hand to chat to you about the communities they’ve built to support women in tech and how you can get involved. Of course no networking session is complete without some refreshments so we’ll be serving up a tasty selection of brunch treats and mimosas while you make your way around the event.  

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International Women’s Day 2023

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We’re highlighting 7 incredible companies founded by women, building products + services for women… and guess what? They’re hiring!

Daye

Daye exists to bridge the gender gap in medical research and innovation. Their goals are to bridge the gender gap in medical research, and product innovation, by designing products rooted in science and inspired by women’s intuition.They strongly advocate for gender equality in healthcare, recognising that gynaecological health is a vital aspect of overall human health, despite historical bias in medical research towards male physiology.

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Sustainability at #siliconmilkroundabout

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We are dedicated to making sure the event is sustainable and produces as little waste as possible. We know we don’t have all the answers but we are keen to learn and understand what’s needed to do better. We always want to be transparent and share how we are making steps towards this.

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“It was a completely lucky occurrence.” How one developer found a new team at Silicon Milkroundabout

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After each edition of Silicon Milkroundabout lots of people leave knowing they’re about to start the next phase in their career and we wanted to shine a light on some of these individual stories . We’ve been catching up with the designers, engineers, data scientists, marketers, product specialists and all-round legends that came to our most recent edition to get their take on how to get the most out of the event.

Read on for our chat with Peyman Owladi, a Senior Developer who struck up a conversation with Bagboard at SMRapril19, before going on to accept an offer to join their engineering team.

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SMRapril19 roundup

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We had a blast bringing the seventeenth instalment of Silicon Milkroundabout to the Old Truman Brewery on 27-28 April 2019. Many thanks to the more than 3,000 of you who joined us, chatted to some innovative tech companies, grabbed a free coffee or beer, networked with some talented like-minded tech folk (then challenged them at street fighter), tried the best falafel in London courtesy of Imad’s Syrian Kitchen, were inspired by the speakers at our opening talks, and hopefully got some great leads on some exciting job opportunities!

We’ve pulled together some of our favourite moments from the event and some key stats so you can look back fondly or catch up on all the fun you missed! 🤙

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