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Tuesday, November 7
 

6:00pm CST

DeveloperWeek Austin VIP Reception (Invite Only)

The DeveloperWeek Austin 2017 VIP Party & Reception is INVITE ONLY. It will take place at Embassy Suites by Hilton Austin Downtown Town Lake, in the VIP Room on Tuesday, November 7 from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM. There will be complimentary beer and wine!

Note: You must be registered separately for this event. All PRO, Speaker, Sponsor, & Press pass holders are invited. 


Tuesday November 7, 2017 6:00pm - 8:00pm CST
Embassy Suites SOCO Bar + Resturant 300 S Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78704
 
Wednesday, November 8
 

8:00am CST

Registration Opens - Day 1
Wednesday November 8, 2017 8:00am - 6:00pm CST
Palmer Events Center 900 Barton Springs Rd, Austin, TX 78704

9:00am CST

FEATURED Talk: Building Mobile Apps, APIs, and Chatbots on AWS
Speakers
avatar for Dennis Hills

Dennis Hills

Developer Advocate - Solutions, Yubico
Dennis Hills is a Mobile Developer Advocate for Yubico and a University of Washington graduate in Computing Software & Systems. He has nearly two decades of web service experience ranging from client support and networking to software development across various platforms and languages... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 9:00am - 9:25am CST
Main Stage

9:00am CST

OPEN Talk: Using Watson Services and PubNub Functions to Build Cognitive Apps
This webinar will cover how to make real-time apps using IBM Watson services with PubNub Functions. Watson services allow you to implement powerful cognitive APIs, like sentiment analysis, into your applications without having to roll your own machine learning solutions. You can access these innovative Blocks, built on serverless PubNub Functions, in the PubNub Blocks Catalog.

Speakers
avatar for Amara Keller

Amara Keller

Developer Advocate, IBM
Amara Keller is a Developer Advocate with IBM on the San Francisco City Team. Before her step into developer relations, she was an enterprise web application developer focusing on line of business applications and assisting developers across various teams on implementing proprietary... Read More →
avatar for Bhavana Srinivas

Bhavana Srinivas

Solution Architect, PubNub
I have been working in the realtime communication space for over three years, and work with prospects building the next big Realtime Application. Whether it is multiplayer games, chat and collaboration or IoT , I have worked with software that can help you get started in these ve... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 9:00am - 9:50am CST
Expo Stage

9:00am CST

Lessons Learned - Continuous Deployment with Docker
Most companies are adopting or evaluating container technology - Docker in particular - to speed up application deployment, drive down cost, ease management and make application delivery more flexible overall. As with most new architectures, this dream takes a lot of work to become a reality. Even when you do get your application componentized enough and packaged properly, there are still challenges for DevOps teams to making the shift to continuous delivery and achieving that reduction in cost and increase in speed. In this talk, Stefana Muller will share the journey her engineering team took to continuously deploy their containerized application over the past year. Highlighting the pitfalls and lessons learned so that you too can adopt these best practices to app deployment. If you are working to adopt containers or find yourself patching together script after script to automate your deployment pipeline, this talk is for you.

Speakers
avatar for Stefana Muller

Stefana Muller

Vice President, Opsani
Stefana Muller is Vice President of Datagrid Systems and Founder of Long Island Women in Tech. She is a DevOps expert bringing almost 20 years of experience delivering enterprise software to the Fortune 1000. Currently Vice President at Datagrid Systems, she works with software and... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 9:00am - 9:50am CST
Workshop Room 1

9:00am CST

Tools in the JS Ecosystem
Speakers
avatar for Patrick Daly

Patrick Daly

Lead Technical Mentor / Software Engineer, HackReactor
Patrick Daly is the Lead Technical Mentor at Hack Reactor Austin, an immersive full-stack development program. Throughout Hack Reactor's 12-week program, students master advanced HTML and CSS, front-end JavaScript frameworks like React and Angular, server development with Node, and... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 9:00am - 9:50am CST
Workshop Room 2

9:00am CST

Expo Open
Wednesday November 8, 2017 9:00am - 5:00pm CST
Palmer Events Center 900 Barton Springs Rd, Austin, TX 78704

9:00am CST

DeveloperWeek Austin Hackathon Day 1
Wednesday November 8, 2017 9:00am - 6:30pm CST
Palmer Events Center 900 Barton Springs Rd, Austin, TX 78704

9:25am CST

OPEN Talk: Building a Culture of Collaboration
Building a strong culture is critical to the success of any organization. Positive cultures that have taken years to build can quickly become negative cultures in a matter of months. Many people are afraid that their peers or managers will judge them for speaking up. How can you as an individual contributor or manager help ensure your team and organization are building not only quality products but building a strong culture of collaboration? In this session, Justin Collier discusses the challenges that many teams face and how to overcome them. Justin talks about software quality, swaying the naysayers and the benefits of collaboration. Join Justin for a candid conversation about what works and what does not, including: - Negativity and the impact it has - What it takes to create a software quality culture and owning the process - Tools that assist with collaboration - How to overcome objections

Speakers
avatar for Justin Collier

Justin Collier

Director of Product Management, SmartBear


Wednesday November 8, 2017 9:25am - 9:50am CST
Main Stage

10:00am CST

OPEN Talk: 'What Would You Say...You Do Here?': Measuring Success as an Engineering Manager
Have you ever been asked what you do as an engineering manager? Have you ever wondered it yourself?

Moving from developer to manager can lead to a sense of loss of productivity. At the end of a week as a developer you could look back and say, "Look at all the things I accomplished this week". As a manager, it's too easy to say, "Look at all the things my team accomplished this week, but what did I do?"

I believe that there are two simple areas that engineering managers can focus to measure their success, frame their activities, and regain their sense of productivity. In this talk, I'll discuss these areas (results and retention), some of the activities that encompass a typical manager's day (1:1s, parleying with areas of the business competing for your team, recruiting, etc.), and the path to management.

If you're a developer interested in management or a manager struggling to articulate what value you bring to the table, then this talk is designed for you!

Speakers
avatar for Erik Barbara

Erik Barbara

Senior Engineering Manager, Duo Security
Erik Barbara has led engineering teams at several SaaS startups. He’s currently a Senior Engineering Manager at Duo Security where he leads the Data Engineering team. Erik is interested in the pendulums of technology and management and studies software and business classics to glean... Read More →



Wednesday November 8, 2017 10:00am - 10:25am CST
Main Stage

10:00am CST

OPEN TALK: IBM & Server-Side Swift - Making Your Mobile Devs Full-Stack
IBM & Apple have been working together on the open source Swift programming language since 2015. One week ago, IBM announced the next version of their Swift HTTP framework Kitura, with some exciting new tools, support, and a considerably easier way to write Swift on the Server. Join David Okun as he walks through the latest with Kitura and how you can get started with Swift on the cloud right away.

Speakers
avatar for David Okun

David Okun

Developer Advocate, IBM
David Okun is a Texan software developer with IBM specializing in Swift & Node.js. He has an extensive background in mobile development, previously leading the mobile division of IDscan Biometrics Ltd. in London. He now brings his experience in low level client-side processing, cross-platform... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 10:00am - 10:25am CST
Expo Stage

10:00am CST

DevOps and ChatOps in the Enterprise
Collaboration, shared visibility, and accelerating feedback loops are key tenants of DevOps. ChatOps embodies all of these – and is quickly becoming the new strategy to help ensure your DevOps transformation is successful. With “conversation-driven” development and operations, ChatOps helps accelerate application releases, shift-left testing, monitoring and diagnosing, and can even be used for self-healing of Production failures. In this session, we will share how you can easily integrate open source ChatOps integrations (Hubot) with a free DevOps Automation tool (ElectricFlow) and Docker, to orchestrate your entire delivery pipeline and enable on-demand automatic deployments, environment provisioning, on-going monitoring, troubleshooting, and more. We will share our architecture, tips and best practices, as well as integrations with common data sources and point tools – including defect tools, SCM, CI, Test automation, environment monitoring and management, reporting and graphing tools, etc.

Speakers
AL

Angelo Lynn

Solution Engineer, Electric Cloud
Angelo Lynn is a Solution Engineer at Electric Cloud where he helps enterprises support DevOps and release velocity at scale. Prior to his current role at Electric Cloud, Angelo worked as an engineer at IBM to enable clients to accomplish their IT goals. Angelo holds a M.S. in Systems... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 10:00am - 10:50am CST
Workshop Room 1

10:00am CST

Server-Side Javascript
Speakers
avatar for Caleb Anderson

Caleb Anderson

Technical Mentor, HackReactor
Caleb Anderson is a Technical Mentor at Hack Reactor Austin, an immersive full-stack development program. Throughout Hack Reactor's 12-week program, students master advanced HTML and CSS, front-end JavaScript frameworks like React and Angular, server development with Node, and databases... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 10:00am - 11:50am CST
Workshop Room 2

10:25am CST

OPEN Talk: APIs in Multi-Channel Applications
We took on a wholesale multi-channel project in order to help a client in Switzerland combine cash & carry with wholesale supplies by consolidating the enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) of both of their divisions. One of project goals was to add mobile, web and rich clients to the existing custom built ERP system. This talk will focus on the challenges when adding APIs to an existing system and highlight how to deal with performance and exception management. Additionally it will show that API not only means online web services but also offline interfaces to third-parties like customers and suppliers.

Speakers
avatar for Simon Martinelli

Simon Martinelli

Software Architect, 72 Services LLC
Simon Martinelli is a passionate Java, performance optimization and application integration expert with more than 20 years of experience creating efficient programming solutions as a developer, architect, and technical lead. An active member of the Java community process, he has made... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 10:25am - 10:50am CST
Expo Stage

11:00am CST

What you should know about container security
The purpose of this presentation is to introduce the different options in securing a container and the host that the container is running on so that the audience will have an understand of container security and some of the tools available to secure their container environment Presentation is going to be divided into 3 parts. The first part of the presentation will give an overview on what a container is and how Docker make it so popular as well as to introduce the container ecosystem especially all the Linux distributions that are tuned for running container with small footprint to minimize attack surface. Will explain the use of namespace, cgroup, root capabilities with seccomp and the use of Mandatory Access Control of SELinux and AppArmor for container security, tenent isolation in a host and the practice of the Least Privilage principle. The second part of the presenation will explain the various external tools such as The Update Framwork (TUF) which is the basis for Docker Content Trust, the use of digital digest for container image integrity and the various container scanning offerings from Red Hat, IBM, CoreOS, Intel and others. Automation is an important aspect for security and in the 3rd part of this presnetation, there is a hand-on demo on how to use ansible-container to harden a container

Speakers
avatar for Anthony	Chow

Anthony Chow

Network Engineer, Cephas Security Solutions
Software developer for networking and security equipment. Inventor of 2 U.S. Patents. Presented at Developer Week Austin, Developer Week SF, Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) and vBrownBag on different topics multiple times. I am a VMware vExpert, Intel Innovator and Auth0 Ambassador... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 11:00am - 11:50am CST
Workshop Room 1

11:10am CST

FEATURED PANEL: Brand Drives Product Development
With deep expertise in product development, product management, brand positioning and industry marketing, the technology-inspired panelists will take you on a journey that illustrates the power of a fully integrated process flow.  From product inception, development and management to go-to-market strategies that scientifically identify customer behaviors, this session highlights how the entire flow determines brand value and influences buyer engagement.

*The Peters Group organized this esteemed panel discussion.

Moderators
avatar for Ted Finch

Ted Finch

CEO, Chanimal
Ted Finch is the CEO of Chanimal (the #1 hi-tech marketing website in the world for 21 years). His 400+ consulting clients include Apple, Intel, Adobe, IBM, Sony, Citrix, HP, Canon, Autodesk, 3M, Dell, Disney, AOL, Lotus, Boeing, etc. He was the Sr. VP Marketing at Motorola / Metrowerks... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Barbary Brunner

Barbary Brunner

CEO, Austin Technology Council
Prior to joining the Austin Technology Council as CEO, Barbary Brunner’s 25-year career has included senior executive roles at worldwide leading technology brands and a successful strategy and organizational development consultancy. Past positions include Chief Marketing Officer... Read More →
avatar for Christian Goy

Christian Goy

Co-founder, Managing Director, Behavioral Science Lab
Christian Goy, co-founder and managing director of Behavioral Science Lab, started his career in strategic planning on both the client and agency side, where he developed a love for consumer insights. The lack of substantial data showing why consumers make the purchase decisions they... Read More →
avatar for Kimberly Storin

Kimberly Storin

Vice President, Marketing, IBM Cognitive Systems
Kimberly Storin is a high tech marketing executive with a focus on re-architecting and transforming brands. She has deep expertise across all facets of marketing including research, product branding, creative services, social media, demand generation, advertising and media, public... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 11:10am - 11:50am CST
Main Stage

1:00pm CST

KEYNOTE: Innovation That Matters

Innovation comes in many forms. IoT has definitely inspired innovation in areas such as fitness trackers, toys, appliances, and many, many other items. This session focuses on a group of diverse individuals who got together to see how they could apply various technologies to “Innovation That Matters.” From a Solar School that can enable remote areas to have learning capabilities … to an IoT-enabled pill bottle that started as a project to just remind Rhonda to take her medications, and has now become a part of research into an Aging Initiative. Innovation and Inspiration – IoT combined with the Cloud – can make everyday innovation possible; it’s now easier than ever before. This is our story.

* Women In Technology International (WITI) organized this presentation.


Speakers
avatar for Rhonda Childress

Rhonda Childress

IBM Fellow - Security, IBM
Rhonda Childress is the CTO of Security Services, an IBM Fellow, and Master Inventor with over 100 granted patents. She is currently responsible for the technical strategy, development, and delivery of professional security services to IBM clients worldwide. Ms. Childress’s talents... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 1:00pm - 1:25pm CST
Main Stage

1:00pm CST

OPEN TALK: How to keep your APIs clean
The EU and Swiss food law requires that suppliers provide product information such as ingredients, nutrition facts and allergens to their customers.  
Based on lessons learned from a customer project the talk will show how to build a standardized API (online and offline) and how to transform the data to different formats and extend with customer-specific requirements without affecting the core API. Further it will focus on performance tuning and integration scenarios. 

Speakers
avatar for Simon Martinelli

Simon Martinelli

Software Architect, 72 Services LLC
Simon Martinelli is a passionate Java, performance optimization and application integration expert with more than 20 years of experience creating efficient programming solutions as a developer, architect, and technical lead. An active member of the Java community process, he has made... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 1:00pm - 1:25pm CST
Expo Stage

1:00pm CST

Open Source and Open Standards for VR Application Development
+Key Topics and Takeaways

-Introduction of WebVR & Gear VR Framework open-source renderer

-Reasons these development tools and standards are the right choice for developers

-Types of VR content currently under development

-What’s coming next for these open source tools and open standards and the upcoming convergence with emerging tech such as AI and IoT

Wednesday November 8, 2017 1:00pm - 1:50pm CST
Workshop Room 1

1:00pm CST

Javascript Language Details and Patterns
Speakers
avatar for Patrick Daly

Patrick Daly

Lead Technical Mentor / Software Engineer, HackReactor
Patrick Daly is the Lead Technical Mentor at Hack Reactor Austin, an immersive full-stack development program. Throughout Hack Reactor's 12-week program, students master advanced HTML and CSS, front-end JavaScript frameworks like React and Angular, server development with Node, and... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 1:00pm - 1:50pm CST
Workshop Room 2

1:25pm CST

OPEN TALK: Explore MongoDB and Elasticsearch with Kimberly Wilkens from ObjectRocket
Speakers
avatar for Kimberly	Wilkins

Kimberly Wilkins

Principal Engineer, ObjectRocket
Kimberly worked as an Oracle DBA for over 18 years before becoming the Principal Engineer and DBA at ObejctRocket. She specializes in using NoSQL technologies to support customers with divergent applications, needs, and data sources like social media, mobile, gaming, analytics, user... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 1:25pm - 1:50pm CST
Expo Stage

2:00pm CST

10 Steps to Building a Kickass Engineering Team
The Duo Security Engineering team has an Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) of 87.  This means that the vast majority of our team would recommend Duo as a great place to work.   People love working here, and it's not an accident.  

This talk will walk through 10 methods the Duo Engineering leaders currently use to create a highly effective, happy team.  I'll cover both the successful outcomes we've seen, and steps to replicate the actions that might resonate with you. 


Speakers
avatar for Amy Grude

Amy Grude

Duo Security, Duo Security
Amy Grude leads the Technical Program Management team at Duo Security. She's focused not only on delivering high quality software, but building and maintaining great teams that people are excited to be a part of.


Wednesday November 8, 2017 2:00pm - 2:25pm CST
Main Stage

2:00pm CST

CANCELLED - OPEN Talk: How To Build A Chat Infrastructure
In-app chat builds strong communities and makes real-time communication a core feature in your mobile app. But how do you build a responsive, scalable chat infrastructure? A reliable chat solution is more than merely multiplying nodes or adding resources ad hoc. Developers must leverage several key components to make chat work without fail. This talk will examine several major challenges when building an in-app chat infrastructure, including: - Low latency message delivery (on the order of milliseconds) to be considered real time - Guaranteed message delivery - High Concurrency - support millions of chat connections simultaneously - High volume traffic spikes (burst): The user presence, online/offline status, can be very difficult to scale during peak traffic. The traffic spike isn’t necessarily caused by users sending messages, but often a result of a massive amount of active app users presence status updates as cycling through constant connection and disconnection or connection retries, which could put up significant traffic and consume notable resources. - Broad Platform support (iOS, Android, Web) - Network optimization: Optimized protocol by reducing message relay for reduced bandwidth data and processing resources consumption; Smart Heartbeat- Keep connection alive with less network consumption - Mobile device optimization: Reduced bandwidth data consumption; Lower battery consumption with efficient data usage - State and session consistency: Synchronous states and login sessions; Ensure synchronous messaging between devices for an individual users. Channels: Internet configurations, firewall; Smart Heartbeat- Dynamically adapt the frequency of packet relays based on environment - Failover recovery: Recover gracefully without message lost

Wednesday November 8, 2017 2:00pm - 2:50pm CST
Expo Stage

2:00pm CST

Prototyping with ARKit
ARKit opens a new world of interactions with mobile devices like we have never seen before. Getting started with Augmented Reality can seem scary, especially for those who have not work with 3D Video Game Engines. This talk is designed to help developers of all kinds start creating amazing experiences limited only by their imagination. It will walk the audience through what is possible and what is not yet possible with ARKit and how to start playing around with it. Outline: 1. What is Augmented Reality? 2. AR vs VR 3. AR vs Mixed Reality 4. How does ARKit actually work 5. How to place 3D objects in a room 6. What should I use? SceneKit vs Unity vs Unreal 7. Coordinate System 8. Basic Primatives 9. Adding interaction 10. Loading 3D Models 11. Prototyping the Future of AR

Speakers
avatar for Michael Yagudaev

Michael Yagudaev

CEO / Founder, Nano 3 Labs


Wednesday November 8, 2017 2:00pm - 2:50pm CST
Workshop Room 1

2:00pm CST

The React Ecosystem
Speakers
avatar for Caleb Anderson

Caleb Anderson

Technical Mentor, HackReactor
Caleb Anderson is a Technical Mentor at Hack Reactor Austin, an immersive full-stack development program. Throughout Hack Reactor's 12-week program, students master advanced HTML and CSS, front-end JavaScript frameworks like React and Angular, server development with Node, and databases... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm CST
Workshop Room 2

2:25pm CST

Level Up your Agile
At this point everyone is implementing Agile in some fashion. We have seen gains, but the world has evolved and “old Agile” is not good enough. We need to push the envelope further. The Agile Manifesto was created over 15 years ago. Most of the focus in the Agile/Scrum world since then has been to improve product delivery. In that time, we have improved idea development in the following ways: increased visibility, team continuous improvement, predictability and faster time-to-market. Now it is time to level up our agility. In this highly interactive workshop, participants will explore how traditional practices like projects, budgeting, leadership directives, release cadence, etc. impede organizational agility. By the end of the workshop, new Agile Manifesto statements will be defined to guide participants forward. David will share key practices required to get you to the next level of agility, and attendees will leave with actionable items they can implement to take their organization beyond Agile adoption to full Agile transformation.

Speakers
avatar for David Hawks

David Hawks

Founder, Agile Velocity
Founder and CEO of Agile Velocity, David Hawks is a Certified Enterprise Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer who is passionate about helping organizations achieve lasting organizational agility beyond the basic implementation of Agile practices. David’s primary focus is to guide leaders... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 2:25pm - 2:50pm CST
Main Stage

3:00pm CST

A DevOps State of Mind - Continuous Security for Containers
With the rise of DevOps, containers are at the brink of becoming a pervasive technology in Enterprise IT to accelerate application delivery for the business. When it comes to adopting containers in the enterprise, Security is the highest adoption barrier. In this presentation, you'll learn about: - DevSecOps - embedding security best practices at scale without slowing down the CI/CD pipeline. - The top security risks with containers and how to manage theses risks at scale. - Images, Builds, Registry, CI/CD, Hosts, Network, Storage, APIs, Monitoring/Logging, and Federation. - Improving container images security with reproducible builds - Automating security vulnerability and security policy scans for containers - Managing security updates at scale with automated Rolling, Canary, Blue/Green deployment strategies and A/B testing - DevSecOps metrics to track success and failure

Speakers
avatar for Chris Van Tuin

Chris Van Tuin

Chief Technologist, NA West, Red Hat
Chris Van Tuin, Chief Technologist, NA West at Red Hat, has over 20 years of experience in IT and Software. Since joining Red Hat in 2005, Chris has been architecting solutions for strategic customers and partners and is a frequent speaker on DevOps, Security, and Containers. He started... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 3:00pm - 3:25pm CST
Main Stage

3:00pm CST

OPEN Talk: How to Build a Chatbot
Chatbots are an interesting programming paradigm that can be hard to understand at first. Never fear, we can build one together! This talk will be a follow along, using Watson Conversation to build a chatbot. Whether you have prior experience building a chatbot or you are just a casual chatbot enthusiast you should learn something new in this talk.

Speakers
avatar for Amara Keller

Amara Keller

Developer Advocate, IBM
Amara Keller is a Developer Advocate with IBM on the San Francisco City Team. Before her step into developer relations, she was an enterprise web application developer focusing on line of business applications and assisting developers across various teams on implementing proprietary... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 3:00pm - 3:50pm CST
Expo Stage

3:00pm CST

Mixing Real and Virtual in WebAR - Augmented and Mixed Reality for Everyone
Apple has been touting their new and shiny Augmented Reality, ARkit everywhere. Google has Project Tango and ARCore up its sleeves and Microsoft is closing the real and non-real gap fast with Hololens. Then again in another spectrum we have Facebook Oculus Rift and Vive trying to dominate the Virtual Reality scenario. Each of them, promising a new world and showing a steep learning curve for developers. Not to mention the closed eco-system of their own. What we need is an open platform where developers can mash up best of both worlds, create their mixed reality and in a way that is device agnostic in approach and can be accessible throughout different devices, primarily all phones. If you want to learn more, join me for a healthy dose of Augmented Reality, animation and virtual pokemons which we use to showcase the power of browser and web armed with Aframe,arjs and making a stand how right now we can use Web to achieve mixed reality and built applications on them as web developers. Applications that are immediately available to everyone having internet and just a capable phone

Speakers
avatar for Rabimba Karanjai

Rabimba Karanjai

Researcher, Mozilla
Rabimba Karanjai is a full time graduate researcher, part time hacker and FOSS enthusiast. He is working with Mozilla Research Mixed Reality team on WebVR. He also is a Mozilla TechSpeaker and would love to chat with you on VR,AR,Security and openweb over a cup of coffee or bottle... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 3:00pm - 3:50pm CST
Workshop Room 1

3:25pm CST

What developers are focusing for their next career steps
Leveraging unique data that Woo has aggregated from its online platform that lets tech talent gauge their market value, the proposed speaker will share future trends on what developers are focusing on for their next career steps. His presentation will show a rich array of real-world data charts displaying the following: -top developer languages driving highest pay / developer languages on the decline -top skills related to grow areas (i.e.: machine learning and analytics (AI), AR/VR, Deep learning, IoT, Robotics, Data science) -regional migratory shifts -driving factors for developers (what really matters most) -tips and considerations (based on unique data)

Speakers
avatar for Liran Kotzer

Liran Kotzer

Founder & CEO, Woo
I am the founder and CEO of Woo, Woo is the most advanced marketplace for matching employers and passive job seekers working with hundreds of startups and big tech companies. I am always passioned to explore how we can solve real-life problems by using technology.


Wednesday November 8, 2017 3:25pm - 3:50pm CST
Main Stage

3:30pm CST

OPEN TALK: Offshore software development: how not to screw it up
During this talk, Alan Winters shares his experience as an entrepreneur who has
both suffered through and benefited from offshore development across multiple
businesses. He reveals the secrets to selecting the right offshore development
partner – what you need to ask, what you need to know and how to make a smart
choice. And he offers warning signs to minimize the chances of making the wrong
choice that hurts your business. Also learn tips for how to establish the most
effective work processes, maximize results and control budget when working with
an offshore development company.

Speakers
avatar for Alan Winters

Alan Winters

Head of US Business Development, MobiDev
Alan Winters is an entertainment executive/TV producer turned serialentrepreneur. After spending two decades creating and marketing projects formajor media companies such as FOX and Lionsgate, Alan has spent the past twelveyears in the world of digital start-ups and emerging companies... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 3:30pm - 4:00pm CST
Workshop Room 2

4:00pm CST

Projects are not Products
Speakers
avatar for Keith Casey

Keith Casey

API Problem Solver, Okta
Keith Casey currently serves on the Platform Team at Okta working on Identity and Authentication APIs. Previously, he served as an early Developer Evangelist at Twilio and before that worked on the Ultimate Geek Question at the Library of Congress. His underlying goal is to get good... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 4:00pm - 4:50pm CST
Main Stage

4:00pm CST

OPEN Talk: Being Successful on Google Play
Speakers
avatar for Naveen Nigam

Naveen Nigam

Head of Developer Relations - North America, Google
Naveen Nigam is currently the Head of Developer Relations for Canada and East Coast USA. Previously, Naveen was on Google Play - driving strategic policy and operations to build a trusted marketplace for Android users. He has over 11 years of experience in building successful App... Read More →


Wednesday November 8, 2017 4:00pm - 4:50pm CST
Expo Stage

5:00pm CST

Austin Dev Career Mentorship Mixer (*Cash Bar)
Come attend one of Austin’s largest dev career mentorship mixer nights! Join 100+ developers, dev managers, and hiring managers and learn about dev career tracks, what it takes to move from developer to senior developer and dev manager, and the hottest technologies you should be learning to advance your career.

This event is a cash bar!

Register: http://mixrs.co/events/90265/ 

Wednesday November 8, 2017 5:00pm - 7:00pm CST
Embassy Suites SOCO Bar + Resturant 300 S Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78704

5:00pm CST

PARTNER EVENT: Feeding the beast – streamlining the product lifecycle using Agile

Join Ronen Rubinfeld, one of CodeValue’s Senior R&D Managers, to discuss how to be successful in introducing a cascading model for implementing Agile in any organization.

He will address the challenges entailed by serving all functions when rolling out a coherent process throughout the entire organization and take full advantage of the Agile principles.

Register: https://www.meetup.com/CodeValue-Modern-Software-Technologies-Knowledge-sharing/events/244665430/

Wednesday November 8, 2017 5:00pm - 8:00pm CST
WeWork Congress 600 Congress Avenue, Austin TX

5:00pm CST

PARTNER EVENT: Networking Mixer at DeveloperWeek by IEEE
Join IEEE Communication Society and IEEE Young Professionals for an evening of drinks and networking at DeveloperWeek Austin. All IEEE members and DeveloperWeek attendees are invited to attend this FREE event! Light appetizers and drinks will be provided.

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/networking-mixer-at-developerweek-austin-by-ieee-tickets-38898881602

Wednesday November 8, 2017 5:00pm - 8:00pm CST
Palmer Events Center 900 Barton Springs Rd, Austin, TX 78704

6:30pm CST

PARTNER EVENT: Fireside Chat with Head of Engineering at The League

Join Tim Zaitsev the Director of Engineering at one of the most exclusive dating apps, The League as he discusses how to grow an engineering team from 1 to 100. Scaling an engineering team requires knowledge around bringing on the right people at the right time, where to look for talent and finding the latest technology. Tim has previously worked in technical and leadership roles at Rabbit Inc. and Cisco Systems and holds a Masters from Carnegie Mellon in Software Engineering as well as a Bachelors of Computer Science from The University of Maryland.

The League, one of the most exclusive dating apps on the market combines data and social graphs from both Facebook and LinkedIn to offer privacy from coworkers, more context about a potential match, and a curated community of ambitious singles who desire an equally driven partner.

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fireside-chat-at-wework-domain-tickets-39407057570

Wednesday November 8, 2017 6:30pm - 8:30pm CST
WeWork Domain 11801 Domain Blvd, 3rd Floor Austin, TX

7:30pm CST

PARTNER EVENT: React VR -A web developer guide for escaping to virtual reality with React

React is used in the web as well as on mobile, but can it bridge realities? In this talk we will see how Virtual Reality experiences can be developed using React VR.

We will dive into how it works under the hood, what techniques can be used to create VR experiences with React and what are major use cases for these.
This talk will be given by Vladimir Novick, software architect and senior consultant at CodeValue, writer of “React Native – writing mobile apps with Javascript” published by Packt.

Register: https://www.meetup.com/CodeValue-Modern-Software-Technologies-Knowledge-sharing/events/244665234/

Wednesday November 8, 2017 7:30pm - 8:30pm CST
WeWork Congress 600 Congress Avenue, Austin TX
 
Thursday, November 9
 

8:00am CST

Registration Opens - Day 2
Thursday November 9, 2017 8:00am - 4:00pm CST
Palmer Events Center 900 Barton Springs Rd, Austin, TX 78704

9:00am CST

Hiring and Retaining the Right Engineers
This presentation was originally created to address portfolio company executives from the 18 top VCs in Silicon Valley that Swing is partnered with. They'd asked us to come up with an educational piece that would help young company executives understand the different strategies for recruiting and retaining the best in design and development talent. In this presentation, I will discuss the tradeoffs of each path to product, from hiring internally to using contractors, both nearshore and offshore. We'll talk about strategies and tactics for each of the avenues, and what we've seen work well, and otherwise. This is an objective lecture that presents the different situations that hit young companies, and, leveraging my/our experience with early stage companies, it highlights various solutions and approaches to these issues that all startups and growing companies inevitably face.

Speakers
avatar for Aaron Diek

Aaron Diek

Director, US Accounts, Swing Development
I have been working in software and project management for most of my career, as well as for hobby on the side. I represent Swing Development, a contract and project-based software development agency, and our sister company, Swing Talent, a traditional sales/marketing/engineering... Read More →


Thursday November 9, 2017 9:00am - 9:25am CST
Main Stage

9:00am CST

Tomorrow’s Business Apps - Chatbots, Augmented Reality, and What Else?
Today, omnichannel is more than phones, tablets, wearables and the web. It also means chatbots and augmented reality and speech-driven apps like those for Amazon Alexa -- technologies that are transitioning from bleeding edge to leading edge to mainstream. Tomorrow, there will be new devices, interaction modes, and application platforms to explore as well as new combinations of today’s emerging technologies. In this session, Bill Bodin, CTO of Kony, Inc., will explore how chatbots, combined with cognitive computing, AI, and natural language processing with a vast knowledge base fed by software capable of digesting human readable text, will revolutionize the way end-users interact with their digital apps.

Speakers
avatar for Bill Bodin

Bill Bodin

CTO, Kony, Inc.
Bill Bodin is Kony’s Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Bodin is responsible for fortifying Kony’s innovation leadership in the enterprise mobility market and shaping Kony’s technology vision. He chairs the company’s architect council, leads the technology evangelism... Read More →


Thursday November 9, 2017 9:00am - 9:50am CST
Workshop Room 1

9:00am CST

DeveloperWeek Austin Hackathon Day 2
Thursday November 9, 2017 9:00am - 4:00pm CST
Palmer Events Center 900 Barton Springs Rd, Austin, TX 78704

9:00am CST

DeveloperWeek Hiring Expo
Thursday November 9, 2017 9:00am - 4:00pm CST
Palmer Events Center 900 Barton Springs Rd, Austin, TX 78704

9:00am CST

Expo Open
Thursday November 9, 2017 9:00am - 4:00pm CST
Palmer Events Center 900 Barton Springs Rd, Austin, TX 78704

9:25am CST

What Is The Best Programming Language For Your Web Product
There are no bad programming languages. The choice is just a matter of the well-known Speed-Quality-Price triangle and the particular business needs of the software product owner. However, this choice must be made correctly, and this report is here to facilitate it by means of a detailed comparison of the most widespread languages:• PHP: reliability, simplicity, and restrictions• Ruby: flexibility, power, and speed• NodeJS: new horizons in Web development• Prospects of Web newcomers• If you already have a Web product, should you switch technologies and languages?Whether you are a software owner whose Web product will be started from scratch or you already have a product that might require changes, you'll find plenty of essential insights to make the right choice for your particular case.

Speakers
avatar for Ievgen Kuzminov

Ievgen Kuzminov

Web Development Team Leader, MobiDev
Ievgen Kuzminov is a Web Development Team Leader at MobiDev. 9 years in the IT; 6 years as a professional developer. MobiDev encouraged him to reveal different facets of his talents; he participated in every development stage, from design, development, and testing to project management... Read More →


Thursday November 9, 2017 9:25am - 9:50am CST
Main Stage

10:00am CST

OPEN TALK: DNS for Data - The need for a Stream Registry



Speakers
avatar for Rene Parra

Rene Parra

Chief Architect, HomeAway
René X. Parra is currently serving as Chief Architect at HomeAway.Previously at HomeAway he served as Principal Architect, recommending best practices, coding POCs to production, and helping architect the underlying infrastructure powering HomeAway’s Data Platform. He also has... Read More →


Thursday November 9, 2017 10:00am - 10:25am CST
Expo Stage

10:00am CST

OPEN Talk: Single View - One View to Rule Them All
Startups to enterprises have more data then ever but getting that data out of silos and into a single, truly usable view is often required but seems an insurmountable task. MongoDB's dynamic and flexible data structure enables the obtainment of this holy grail. This talk will introduce data model basics, why it's ideal for single view use cases, provide a few vital tips and tricks and an overview of enterprises that have already succeed.

Speakers
avatar for Melissa Plunkett

Melissa Plunkett

Senior Product Manager, MongoDB
Melissa is a Sr. Product Manager in Cloud focusing on Automation and she wants to help all users automate their way out of as much low-value, boring work as possible so we can focus on building amazing things together.


Thursday November 9, 2017 10:00am - 10:50am CST
Workshop Room 2

10:00am CST

The Robots are Coming for Your Cushy Programmer Job
In the next 20 years, we're poised to see tens of millions of jobs replaced by machines. Programmers are by no means safe from the AI revolution. In this session, I will briefly review past attempts at machine-assisted software development, the current state of these technologies, and where we're heading. The smarter machines get, the more difficult it is to speculate about what the future holds. But I will make some predictions about the next 5-10 years. what this means for the average developer, and steps developers can take to (try!) to future-proof their careers.

Speakers
avatar for Bryan Slatner

Bryan Slatner

President, Solid Cloud Technologies
Bryan Slatner has been working as a software developer for 28 years, with a passion for making the everyday lives of developers and users easier. His focus for the last 15 years has been writing line of business applications on the .NET stack. He also specializes in automating DevOps... Read More →


Thursday November 9, 2017 10:00am - 10:50am CST
Workshop Room 1

10:25am CST

The New Tech Company - Working Out of Office
Speakers
avatar for Riccardo Pellegrini

Riccardo Pellegrini

Business Development & Marketing Associate, Crossfield Digital
What I do: My priority for Crossfield is to be the best in the world at building advanced technology products for our clients. In addition to a myriad of other tasks, I spend my days strategizing with clients about how we can drive their businesses through our products and recruiting... Read More →


Thursday November 9, 2017 10:25am - 10:50am CST
Main Stage

10:30am CST

OPEN Talk: Building a Microservice Platform with Hapi.js
Speakers
avatar for Lam Chan

Lam Chan

Engineer, Tenna


Thursday November 9, 2017 10:30am - 10:55am CST
Expo Stage

11:00am CST

Building Better Badass Cars
Cars are incredibly difficult to manufacture. The fracture between IT and Business has forced a lot of analytical development down the drain in the past. However, with current capabilities for data extraction, analysis and computation, vehicle production is being continuously improved upon. This talk will focus on how analysis and questioning have helped development managers bring solutions to difficult problems in the manufacturing sphere

Speakers
avatar for Peter Buschbacher

Peter Buschbacher

Senior BIA Developer, General Motors LLC
Peter Buschbacher is a senior manufacturing analytics developer at General Motors LLC. He has a background in informatics, functional programming, information systems and business analytics. Outside of work, Peter is an avid caver, photographer, and connoisseur of beer.


Thursday November 9, 2017 11:00am - 11:25am CST
Main Stage

11:00am CST

OPEN Talk: React Native Crash Course
Given by the writer of “React Native – writing moble apps with Javascript, this 50-minute crash course will give you the full flavor of React Native. Join Vlad Novick for a comprehensive overview of React Native, including its underlying mechanisms. You will see the full scope of its capabilities, understand best practices in meeting today’s challenges, what benefits and tooling it brings to mobile development and why more and more businesses are considering React Native when creating production grade best seller apps.

Speakers
avatar for Vladimir Novick

Vladimir Novick

Software Architect and Senior Consultant, CodeValue
Vladimir Novick is a software Architect and senior consultant at CodeValue. Public speaker, co-organizer of ReactJS Israel, he recently published "React Native - Build mobile apps with JavaScript", published by Packt, and is the author of several workshops and courses. He brings multiple... Read More →


Thursday November 9, 2017 11:00am - 11:50am CST
Expo Stage

11:00am CST

Your AI is Blind
The final missing piece in AI is visual cognition and understanding. In order for this dream to be realized, it takes more than winning scores at classifying ImageNet. Four years of experience in scaling, quality control, data management in the field of commercializing computer vision in the marketplace involved the procurement of the largest training dataset ever created for visual cognition and understanding. Brad is happy to be on a panel or host a technical workshop if you would like additional proposals for those options.

Speakers
avatar for Brad Folkens

Brad Folkens

CEO/Co-Founder, CloudSight
We make AI See. CloudSight is a global leader in image captioning and understanding.


Thursday November 9, 2017 11:00am - 11:50am CST
Workshop Room 1

1:00pm CST

Microservices and the Right State of Mind for the Cloud
Continuous delivery of a cloud app is a completely different animal from the long software cycles of on-premises software.  Come see why test-driven development isn't just a fad, how to reset your brain, and how to remove the white-knuckled fear of the merge button.

Speakers
avatar for Mike Rheinheimer

Mike Rheinheimer

Senior Software, IBM
Mike Rheinheimer is an experienced Java and Node developer (with a whole lot of Ant, Maven, shell, and Devops experience thrown in) working in a high speed continuous delivery squad.  He has a passion for quality, automation, mentorship, and making work fun and fearless.


Thursday November 9, 2017 1:00pm - 1:25pm CST
Expo Stage

1:00pm CST

FEATURED TALK: Blockchain Identity for the Enterprise
Session Summary Identity is the new perimeter, yet authentication has been the weakest link in the Enterprise. Join Armin Ebrahimi, CEO and co-founder of ShoCard, as he discusses real world applications of the Blockchain for improving authentication mechanisms within the enterprise while simplifying user access. Key Takeaways Identification validation has remained virtually unchanged for over 40 years, though technology continues to develop. With ShoBadge, the next generation of enterprise-level identity authentication from ShoCard, companies can finally offer their employees and ecosystem of suppliers, partners and customers a great user experience with the highest level of security. ShoBadge eliminates the need for usernames and passwords within the enterprise to authorize network and data access, instead using a blockchain-based digital identity verification and authentication process.

Speakers
avatar for Armin Ebrahimi

Armin Ebrahimi

Head Business Development, Enterprise, ShoCard
Armin Ebrahimi is Founder and CEO of ShoCard, a digital identity verification system that protects consumer privacy through patented use of mobile devices and the blockchain. An industry veteran, he brings more than 30 years of experience in scalable platforms, online services, mobile-development... Read More →


Thursday November 9, 2017 1:00pm - 1:50pm CST
Main Stage

1:00pm CST

AMPLIFY Your Virtual Assistant, Chat bot, and IoT Development
Virtual Assistants, Chat bots, and IoT interactions are the focus of innovation in banking, financial services, Insurance, and healthcare. When implemented correctly they enable companies to capture business moments and act on them. In this session you will learn the digital enterprise architecture required to design, build, deploy, support, monitor, and analyze those business moments. You will see a demonstration Amazon Alexa built leveraging an opinionated framework and deployed to elastically scalable cloud. Then you will be able to build it yourself in minutes.

Speakers
avatar for Laura Heritage

Laura Heritage

Director of Product Portfolio Planning, Axway
Laura is the Director of Product Portfolio Management - Developer Platform at Axway, she is responsible for Axway's AMPLIFY developer experience. She has an extensive background helping Fortune 500 companies transform into digital enterprises. Laura is a frequent speaker, evangelist... Read More →


Thursday November 9, 2017 1:00pm - 1:50pm CST
Workshop Room 1

1:00pm CST

To Kill a Monolith - Authentication as a Microservice
Authentication is a core piece of many applications. It has traditionally been handled in a monolithic manner; However, the age of the monolith is over. Moving to microservices means applications now need to decouple authentication, user management and user data. To accomplish this, a portable identity model is required. Brian Pontarelli will discuss the advantages of a microservice architecture, the basics of authentication and authorization as a microservice, the most common pitfalls when deploying microservices, and JWT revocation to ensure you leave ready to take down the monolith. The goal is to allow developers to primarily focus on code and move away from infrastructure concerns.

Speakers
avatar for Brian Pontarelli

Brian Pontarelli

CEO, Inversoft
Brian Pontarelli is the founder and CEO of Inversoft, a Denver-based company that allows developers to offload their authentication, authorization and user management needs. Before Brian bootstrapped Inversoft, he studied computer engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder... Read More →


Thursday November 9, 2017 1:00pm - 1:50pm CST
Workshop Room 2

2:00pm CST

From 1-100 and How to Grow an Engineering Team

Growing an engineering team is all about trust and tradeoffs - what do you prioritize on any given day and how do you successfully empower your team. 
Hire right and you'll build an empowered self sustaining organization.  Get things wrong and you could wind up spending your time fighting unnecessary battles. 
In this session we'll cover employees 1-100 and the thinking that empowers scale and success.

Build at the speed of vision.

 

 

 

 

 


Speakers
avatar for Timophey Zaitsev

Timophey Zaitsev

Vice President - Engineering, The League
Tim Zaitsev is the Director of Engineering at The League, a dating company that combines data and social graphs from both Facebook and LinkedIn to offer privacy from coworkers, more context about potential matches, and a curated community of ambitious singles who desire an equally... Read More →



Thursday November 9, 2017 2:00pm - 2:25pm CST
Main Stage

2:00pm CST

Machine Learning 101 - Predicting Flight Delays with Azure ML Studio
Speakers
avatar for Paige Bailey

Paige Bailey

Sr. Cloud Developer Advocate, Microsoft
Paige Bailey is a Sr. Cloud Developer Advocate specializing in Data Visualization, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. Prior to joining Microsoft, Paige was employed for five years as a data scientist and geophysical application developer in the energy industry (Chevron... Read More →


Thursday November 9, 2017 2:00pm - 2:50pm CST
Workshop Room 1

2:00pm CST

Choosing the Right Stack for Realtime Applications
Across every software category, there is a growing expectation and demand for realtime data. Yet, existing three-tier software architectures are being stretched to the limit trying to handle the latency, and scale, power, and bandwidth requirements of streaming data. As software continues to evolve from a request/response architecture to an always-on data stream architecture, a lot has to change. This presentation will explore new software architectures that are needed to make it easy for companies to deliver applications that rely on streaming data/ realtime messaging.

Speakers
avatar for Bhavana Srinivas

Bhavana Srinivas

Solution Architect, PubNub
I have been working in the realtime communication space for over three years, and work with prospects building the next big Realtime Application. Whether it is multiplayer games, chat and collaboration or IoT , I have worked with software that can help you get started in these ve... Read More →


Thursday November 9, 2017 2:00pm - 2:50pm CST
Workshop Room 2

3:00pm CST

Building Conversational Experiences with Actions on Google
Conversational interfaces are quickly becoming an essential component of services and products. By building apps for the Google Assistant using the Actions on Google platform, developers can reach hundreds of millions of users and deliver custom experiences, services and information. In this talk, we'll describe the key components of the Actions on Google platform, show you how to build your first action using tools such as DialogFlow and Firebase, and explore VUI best practices that assist developers in designing compelling conversational experiences.

Speakers
avatar for Jeremy Wilken

Jeremy Wilken

Software Engineer, VMware
Jeremy Wilken is a software engineer at VMware working on the open source Clarity team, as well as the author of Ionic in Action and Angular in Action. He is a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and the Google Assistant Platform. Jeremy lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife... Read More →


Thursday November 9, 2017 3:00pm - 3:50pm CST
Workshop Room 1

3:00pm CST

Building Your API for Longevity
One of the greatest challenges to developing an API is ensuring that your API lasts. After all, you don’t want to have to release and manage multiple versions of your API just because you weren’t expecting users to use it a certain way, or because you didn’t anticipate far enough down the roadmap. In this session we’ll talk about the challenge of API Longevity, as well as ways to increase your API lifecycle including having a proper mindset, careful design, agile user experience and prototyping, best design practices including hypermedia, and the challenge of maintaining persistence.

Speakers
avatar for Mike Stowe

Mike Stowe

Building Your API for Longevity, Tigera
Michael Stowe is a professional engineer with over 10 years experience building applications for the enterprise, law enforcement, the medical field, nonprofits, and numerous industrial companies. Over the last several years he has been focused on APIs and ways to improve industry... Read More →


Thursday November 9, 2017 3:00pm - 3:50pm CST
Workshop Room 2

4:00pm CST

PARTNER EVENT: React Native workshop: Develop a fully working mobile application
React Native Workshop: Sponsored by Capital Factory and given by Vladimir Novick, the writer of “React Native – writing mobile apps with Javascript”, this workshop will give you the opportunity to develop a fully working mobile application using React Native.

Register: https://www.meetup.com/CodeValue-Modern-Software-Technologies-Knowledge-sharing/events/244465443/

Thursday November 9, 2017 4:00pm - 7:00pm CST
Capital Factory 701 Brazos St, Austin TX
 
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