The Sessions

In this session, we'll explore some of the, business, ethical and legal issues we face when we collect data. Attendees will come away pondering the data their organization collects, and asking "Are we good stewards of our data?"

Learn how the microservice architecture accelerates the delivery of large, complex applications by improving testability and deployability

Managers have critical roles to play enabling agile adoption and agile success. While “self-organizing” does not mean no managers, the old manager roles and rules no longer apply. This session is about manager roles that make agile teams thrive.

Actions on Google lets developers extend Google Assistant to implement their own Conversation Actions. This talk will explain what you need to know to design and implement your first Actions on Google project.

Douglas Crockford is the author of How JavaScript Works, the shocking best seller that rips the lid off behind the scenes. In this light-hearted romp thru the world's most misunderstood programming language, Crockford reveals what is actually going on, and how we can use this to write better programs.

Understand Smart Contracts in Ethereum, dApps, decentralization, and the DAO.

Using your existing web technology skills, learn how to use Tizen Studio to develop a wearable web app and install it on the new Samsung Galaxy Watch.

Great challenges deep learning has already overcome and those that still remain.

We've heard about clean code for years, but what about clean architecture. In this session you will learn how to improve developer productivity by using clean architecture concepts.

Come learn about TypeScript and how to integrate it in real world scenarios.

If you've never been to a Q&A session with Douglas Crockford, you are in for a treat. Ask anything you want, then be prepared for the answer. This is the follow on session to Douglas Crockford's first session where he talks about How JavaScript Works (his new book).

See how to architect a burger-ordering app with Vue.js on the front-end, talking to a Java Spring Boot service on the back-end.

I will talk about: - History of OAuth 2.0 - OIDC - Authentication - Authorization If time permits: - How to get a JWT

Come learn how to do your part in building a fully connected world where all the little things are connected, where data can flow freely around the globe, and where compute is a commodity that may just as well happen in your sock as in a datacenter.

Gentle introduction into life cycle of data science and IBM’s Model Asset Exchange. We will also build a web app using MAX models and understand the criticality of model development.

Do you have a large application that you want to break into microservices? This talk discusses using Events to let the microservices communicate in a way that keeps the promise of loose coupling, fast development, and easy deployment.

Been a developer for some years now & llooking for a change in your career path? If you still want to code and stay technical yet travel the world, get to know other fellow devs, and make sure their voices are heard, DevRel may just be your calling!

Product managers are sometimes called the "CEO of a product." But what is a product manager really and how you do you land this role? How to crack the PM interview?

Best practices for Azure in the Enterprise including tips and tricks to control costs, etc. so your boss/CFO puts you on a pedestal

Join this star filled panel, Douglas Crockford, Steve Souders and Mike North talk about the web. A better set of luminaries you will not find

Learn how to build a PWA with a hands-on coding example.

In this talk, you will learn the art and science of leading that will give you an edge over others and provide you with the foundation for delivering outstanding results. You will learn the lessons that every leader eventually learns the hard way.

Java Microservices on Istio+Kubernetes - without NetflixOSS

This session will introduce the anatomy of a dialog and then we will build a chatbot together and deploy to slack and other social media channels using IBM Watson Assistant, IBM Functions and IBM Cloud.

Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. Come learn about one of the greatest languages ever created.

Follow the adventures of the fictional startup "In Jest", publishers of an app that tells jokes, as they build a business on their code, not infrastructure.

C++ is over 33 years old and is still one of the most performant languages in existence. Learn to create a web server and API using C++.

Most technical leaders struggle to adapt to changes that occur as a company matures and grows. This talk presents the stages of growth and outlines key decisions that must be made as a company transitions from being a startup, to small, and beyond.

A quick introduction to Oracle Application Express. An Oracle tool where minimal coding is required.

Today the cloud uses containers, serverless, or cloud native apps. This workshop would give you a sound overview of all these technologies in a sample code with consuming AI based image processing.

React, TypeScript, TDD: Individually popular, sparse in combination. In this session we write a React application in TypeScript, using TDD, putting the power of the IDE to work.

This code-only session will explain how a Java application consisting of different microservices can be deployed in a Kubernetes cluster.

Reviewing native iOS development with the best architecture, design patterns, libraries, components, tools, tips, tricks and new features from WWDC 2018 to build a real world app with Swift 5.0!

The goal of this session is to make deep learning more approachable. There will be no coding. The aim is for attendees to become conversant with deep learning and to acquire a clearer understanding of the concept as well as its application.

Learn about the key role that messages and events play in a microservice architecture

Programmer & best-selling author of Cracking the Coding Interview presents a technical talk on how coding interviews work and how to do well on them. This will be a deeply technical talk covering data structures and algorithms.

"The Emperor has no cloths!" Big Data has been around for a decade, and few dared challenge it. Join the journey, where we will examine and peel layer by layer of Big Data, and expose it for what it is. A thought provoking session guaranteed!

In the past 9 months, I have interviewed over 50 engineering managers and leaders for https://www.managersclub.com. In this talk, I will cover common lessons learned and insights from these managers and leaders.

This talk will teach you how "this" works in modern JavaScript

Pre-production testing alone is not enough to ensure that your software is working in the only place that really matters: production. We'll cover production deployment and testing strategies, observability, and chaos engineering.

Open Source Serverless Frameworks for Kubernetes: OpenWhisk and Knative

In this session, we'll patiently walk through some Recursion and DP problems, until the time permits.

MySQL as a Document Store with Both relations and Non-Relations Model

Build video streaming apps for iOS and Android. This session covers: • Learn about video streaming basics. • How to video stream in iOS and Android apps. • Learn how to get the samples in the SDK and use them. • How to reduce latency of the stream.

The C++ standard gives compilers room to optimize the code we write and in this session, we’ll explore how we can write code that exploits this power.

The popular new podcast comes to SVCC for a live recording. Join David Sparkand his co-host Mike Johnson, CISO of Lyft as they welcome their guests Ahsan Mir, CISO of Autodesk and Geoff Belknap, CISO of Slack, to this mega-sized in-person episode.

Learn what IoT Hub is and how to use it. See some of the things you can do with an IoT device.

We will discuss challenges in scaling Kafka at our scale and talk about solutions we applied.

Learn tips & tricks using SQL & Redis to create scalable Microservices. Example include: session management, online presence, custom analytics, keyword search, search-as-you-type, product recommendations, product catalog, & leaderboard

Be a better interviewer: make candidates happier, raise the bar, create a consistent process, and avoid rejecting good candidates or hiring bad ones. We'll discuss multiple interview styles so you can interview like Google (or not)-but better!

Understanding how humans learn helps us inform, teach, and communicate better. Find out how to apply research to create better docs, videos, and presentations.

Come and learn how Microsoft went from delivering software every 2 years to every 3 weeks.

What is Data Driven? You might have heard someone at your organization say you need to be more data driven, but what does it mean? How does your organization need to change to be able to support being data driven? Come to this session to find out.

Brief introduction to JavaScript modules and JavaScript tools for modules.

We will cover what is Augmented Reality (AR) and why it's considered the next big thing in tech by explore how to build an AR app on three different platforms. 1) iOS ARKit 2) Android ARCore 3) Game engines Unity and Unreal.

What is Strategy? This session cuts through the hype and fads and digs into what strategy is and isn't, leaving attendees with practical knowledge and processes that they can immediately apply to their careers, start-ups, and industries.

This session with the help of live demo will give audience an understanding of where to start with DevOps and how they can automate infrastructure creation, provisioning, configuration and application deployment as part of their build pipeline.

We'll have a discussion on development, code review, and testing processes. Good ways to estimate time and know if your using your time effectively. What works, what doesn't. How to know when is or isn't working.

Enterprises and individual developers alike are in a race to develop applications that are multi cloud, secure and top at user experience. They want to deploy applications rapidly with code reuse and security embedded into framework.

Begin with a Twelve Factor end in mind with Pivotal Cloud Foundry. With many platform details abstracted away from the deployment process, developers can continuously deliver functional applications to users.

MongoDB is a document oriented database that has developers loving developing again. What makes this database unique? How do you work with it? Is it for you? Answers to all that and more in this session!

Join our panel of experienced cloud experts as they answer your questions on the advantages and pitfalls of microservcies and serverless functions, and also share their insights into what comes next.

Learn how to create your first Artificial Intelligence model. We will use TensorFlow and Python to create this model. See how you can use technology to solve your day to day problems with Artificial Intelligence.

Learn how to develop a Smart Contract for the Ethereum blockchain using the Solidity programming language (no prior Solidity knowledge required). This session is well-suited for Javascript developers wishing to get started with blockchain technology.

Want to learn about Blazor? Check out this session to learn how to build web applications with C# and HTML. No Javascript required!

Whether it is for your machine learning project or just retrieving site text, web scraping is an important skill to have. We'll create simple Python web scrapers that can be used to retrieve sports statistics or stock prices.

In this talk, I'll share 5 popular use cases for Redis in Containers, Kubernetes and even Serverless. And I'll show you how to package Redis for deployment via Docker & Kubernetes.

In this session, learn how to create an API powered by GraphQL using the Go programming language and a NoSQL database.

lifta: using functional techniques to compose asynchronous work at the application level with JavaScript

Highlights the techniques used by a software architect to analyze requirements and design solutions for complex back office computer apps. Spans object identification, inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, reuse and design patterns.

Session will involve a discussion of utilizing technologies related to blockchain (distributed ledgers, smart contracts, cryptography, consensus) as a mechanism for building a smart IoT network.

In this talk I'll cover the what, why, and how of Disaster Recovery.

How do I handle an unreasonable boss? What if I don't trust my team to deliver good code? In this unscripted format, speakers from the Management and Agile tracks answer your questions about challenges leading programmers.

In this session we will cover from basics of Linux to implementing ,building and loading an android binder like character device driver which can do IPC (Inter process communication)

Becoming a technical leader requires a sustained and intentional effort. In this talk, we will review some best practices to develop the skills needed to successfully lead technical projects.

We will explore several agile frameworks (such as Scrum, XP, Lean, FDD, etc.) and recommend which of these agile frameworks increases the ROI for specific types of Companies. We will look at different technologies including GitLab, OnBase, & JIRA.

Getting started with location technologies and open tools like GeoJSON and Tangram to build modern geospatial aware applications.

This fast-paced session starts with an introduction to Neural Networks and Deep Learning (DL) concepts, followed by TensorFire (a JavaScript toolkit for TensorFlow), along with basic code samples in TensorFire.

This is a high-level cloud computing overview plus a how-to on using Google Cloud serverless computing tools with Python. Follow me or do it hands-on, but learn both! Join us whether you're a developer, technical manager, IT/admin staff or hobbyist.

A regular expression (regex for short) is a powerful language to describe a search pattern to analyze and modify text. This talk teaches you how to read, construct and use simple to complex regular expressions.

Got data in Mongo? Need to query or run a report? You don't need add-ons! You don't need Spark, or a data warehouse... All you need is MongoDB, and some aggregation framework know-how! This session will get you started don the right track.

In this talk we will discuss the essentials of Reasonable Software Design, and Pure Functional Programming -- but, I repeat myself.

In this session the presenter will discuss the configuring of and demonstrate the use of Visual Studio Code (VSCODE) as a microcontroller application development IDE

Learn about history, promises and realities of quantum computing and gain an understanding of programming quantum emulators using Q#, a new language from Microsoft, and Azure.

In this session we will cover from basics of Linux to implementing ,building and loading an android binder like character device driver which can do IPC (Inter process communication)

Worldwide, there is a lack of free programming workshops with in-person mentoring for women who dream of joining Tech. In an effort to help rectify this problem for women in Seattle, sheCodesNow.com was born.

A quick peek under the hood of Flutter in which you'll learn how its layered architecture allows Widgets, Elements, State objects, and RenderObjects to work together to compose reactive user interfaces.

This session is an attempt to not only offer some fresh approaches to time/goal management, but also to engage in a discussion about new ideas and look at some thought-provoking concepts for total life management.

This session will explore how the Keras Python library can simplify many methods in machine learning.

If we study the numbers, statistics, and facts it turns out that still 65-75% of IT and software development projects still fail these days. This session will bring up 12 scenarios how everyone can help to ruin any software development project.

Be purpose driven about retention as early as the hiring process, and reap the rewards of more cohesive, productive teams and decreased retention rates.

Want to integrate Google technologies into web+mobile apps that you build? Google has client libraries & developer tools that help you do exactly that! If you've run into roadblocks like authentication, found our APIs confusing/challenging, join us!

This talk will show you best practices from taking an idea and designing a conversational interface to support it on Bot platforms such as Alexa, Google and Facebook Messenger

In this session we will cover from basics of Linux to implementing ,building and loading an android binder like character device driver which can do IPC (Inter process communication)

Everyone knows how to write code for a requirement, but you cannot do the same for API security. You need to know the closely guarded secrets of how to manage tokens, protect your APIs and make them impregnable. Come to this talk to know how!

How to interface system level code and scripting languages such as Lua and Ruby.A survey of mechanisms available to call native libraries or system level code from higher level application.

Fundamentals behind designing highly available key-value stores such as Dynamo, Cassandra

This session will cover how Google Jetpack will accelerate Android Development by providing comprehensive architectures and frameworks. This session covers all areas of Android development using Jetpack. Foundation, Architecture, Behavior & UI