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Leadership Guide for the Reluctant Leader
Presented by: David Neal
Time: Thursday 9:15 AM - 10:15 AMRegardless of the technology you know, regardless of the job title you have, you have amazing potential to impact your workplace, community, and beyond. In this talk, I’ll share a few candid stories of my career failures… I mean… learning opportunities. We’ll start by debunking the myth...
Room: Kilamanjaro BallroomTrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewI For One Welcome Our Robot Overlords: How To Build Trust In Test Automation
Presented by: Maciej Konkolowicz
Time: Thursday 9:15 AM - 10:15 AMNowadays, creating test automation is table stakes for ensuring a minimal level of quality during the software development life cycle. Software geeks all across the world understand that creating automated tests is almost a non negotiable. But what happens after the tests are created? How do we know...
Room: NileTrack: Software QualityFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewNeurodiversity, Productivity, and Communication – A Survival Guide
Presented by: Cassandra Faris
Time: Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMWe live in a world where it’s easy to be overstimulated and distracted. The more virtual our world becomes, the harder it is to focus, communicate, and complete tasks. This is especially challenging for people with neurodiversities such as ADHD, Autism, and Dyslexia, and those that support them....
Room: Salon ATrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewThinking Architecturally
Presented by: Nathaniel Schutta
Time: Thursday 11:45 AM - 12:45 PMRich Hickey once said programmers know the benefits of everything and the trade offs of nothing...an approach that can lead a project down a path of frustrated developers and unhappy customers. As architects though, we must consider the trade offs of every new library, language, pattern or approach...
Room: CypressTrack: ArchitectureFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewThe Buddy System
Presented by: Leah Vogel
Time: Thursday 11:45 AM - 12:45 PMOnboarding new employees is a challenge all companies face. Studies show a correlation between successful onboarding and a new employee’s success at their new role. Unfortunately - the converse is also true - when onboarding isn’t smooth, employees have a significantly harder time integrating...
Room: BanyanTrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewKnowing When To Move On
Presented by: Daniel Davis
Time: Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMPer the wise advice of the Gambler - "...know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run." Whether you are all in and committed to a full time position or rolling the dice as an independent, this session is going to help you always walk away a winner. Not...
Room: Indigo BayTrack: Career Mapping & DevelopmentFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewWhy We Don’t Need More Women in Tech
Presented by: Tori Brenneison
Time: Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMIt’s a common rallying cry: “We need more women in tech!”... but is it true? Is the solution to male-dominated technology workplaces simply to shovel more women into the talent pipeline? That’s what we’ve been trying for the past decade… and it’s not working, when over a third of...
Room: Salon HTrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewHow To Not Strangle Your Coworkers: Resolving Conflict with Collaboration
Presented by: Arthur Doler
Time: Thursday 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMConflict at work is as inevitable as the tides - like the old joke says, if you put five software engineers in a room, you’ll have seven opinions. Whether the conflict is over what language to use, what frameworks are the new hotness, or even just tabs vs spaces, conflict can get ugly. Tempers...
Room: Aloeswood / LeopardwoodTrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewFriday
Want to advance in your career? Learn to get great feedback!
Presented by: Steven Banks
Time: Friday 9:45 AM - 10:45 AMHave you ever felt like you are stagnant in your career, unable to advance, and even unsure of how to do so? Have you ever felt like your one-on-ones are pointless, and mundane, and do not accomplish anything? Or how about performance reviews, do they feel like a waste of time? All of us desire to...
Room: Salon HTrack: Career Mapping & DevelopmentFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewThe Care and Feeding of Bootcamp Graduates
Presented by: Tori Brenneison
Time: Friday 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMSo... you just hired a bootcamp graduate. Now what?! They're not your typical entry-level candidate. They might need slightly more mentorship on the technical side, and slightly less on the business side. Perhaps they're overwhelmed by the size of the company codebase, or perplexed by some of...
Room: OrangeTrack: Career Mapping & DevelopmentFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overview10 THINGS DEVOPS IS; 10 THINGS DEVOPS ISN’T
Presented by: Matt "Kelly" Williams
Time: Friday 12:15 PM - 1:15 PMDevOps has grown in visibility and popularity over the past decade. It comes in many flavors – DevOps, SRE, DevSecOps, DevKitchenSinkOps, and more! While DevOps is many things, there are also many things which it is not. This talk introduces DevOps, what it is, and, perhaps more importantly, what...
Room: Sagewood / ZebrawoodTrack: DevOpsFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewThe Velocity Trap
Presented by: Brad Nelson
Time: Friday 2:45 PM - 3:45 PMHow does your team know that the things they deliver are valuable? While there are some companies that don’t measure at all, it is becoming common practice to evaluate a team based off of productivity or output. Just because your team is able to deliver a lot of work in a small amount of time it...
Room: RosewoodTrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewStop Making QA The Last Train Stop Before Production
Presented by: Rick Clymer
Time: Friday 4:00 PM - 5:00 PMThroughout my career, I have heard the same excuse over and over again. "We're waiting for QA before we can push this to prod." But why do we keep hearing this? What magic does QA have that no one else has to give this permission to go to production? Spoiler alert, we typical don't have too many...
Room: OrangeTrack: Software QualityFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overview