GOTO Chicago 2019

Aino Vonge Corry

GOTO

Retrospectives Facilitator, Teacher & Technical Conference Editor

Talks:

The Importance of Laughter

Workshops:

Advanced Retrospective Facilitation

#human side of tech

#teams

Alex Ellis

VMware

Creator of OpenFaaS, Engineer, Speaker, Author and Open Source at VMware

Talks:

Serverless Beyond the Hype

Workshops:

Hands-on Serverless with OpenFaaS and Python

#serverless

#cloud native

#kubernetes

#containers

#architecture

Anjana Vakil

Mapbox

Engineering Learning & Development Lead, Mapbox

Talks:

The Language of Programming

Workshops:

First steps into Functional Programming

#programming

Arun Gupta

AWS

Principal Open Source Technologist at AWS and CNCF Board Member

Talks:

Using Kubernetes for Machine Learning Frameworks

#kubernetes

#machine learning

Baruch Sadogursky

JFrog

Head of DevRel at JFrog and CNCF Ambassador

Talks:

Without data, you're just another person with opinions

#devops

#human side of tech

Betty Enyonam Kumahor

The Cobalt Partners

Managing Partner at Cobalt Partners focused on frugal digital innovation

Talks:

Lunch Keynote 1: Frugal Innovation

#innovation

#keynote

Bridget Kromhout

Microsoft

Co-host of Arrested DevOps Podcast & Principal Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft

Talks:

Kubernetes Operability Tooling

#kubernetes

#cloud native

Casey Rosenthal

Netflix

Led Chaos and Traffic Engineering Teams at Netflix

Talks:

Deprecating Simplicity 2.0

#chaos engineering

#devops

#human side of tech

#teams

Chris Munns

Amazon

Principal Developer Advocate - Serverless at Amazon Web Services

Chris Richardson

Microservices.io

Creator of the original CloudFoundry.com and author of 'POJOs in Action' and 'Microservices patterns'

Talks:

Not Just Events: Developing Asynchronous Microservices

Workshops:

2 days workshop: Developing microservices

#microservices

#apis

#cqrs

#events

Colin Jones

8th Light

Author of 'Mastering Clojure Macros' and CTO of 8th Light

Workshops:

Up and Running with Elixir

Courtney Hemphill

Carbon Five

Leading technical teams for fast-moving companies at scale

Talks:

What Technical Leads Can Learn from Great General Managers Throughout History

#human side of tech

#teams

Danny Lange

Unity Technologies

VP of AI and ML at Unity Technologies and previously led innovative ML teams at Uber, AWS and Microsoft

Talks:

Lunch Keynote 2: On the Road to Artificial General Intelligence

#machine learning

#ai

#keynote

Doug Lenat

Cycorp

Award-winning AI pioneer who created the landmark Machine Learning program, AM, in 1976 and CEO of Cycorp

Talks:

Morning Keynote: The Promise and Limitations of AI

#ai

#machine learning

#neural networks

#data

#keynote

Eleanor Saitta

International security and privacy researcher

International security researcher and co-founder of open source tool Trike

Talks:

Principles for Developing More Secure Systems

#security

#distributed systems

Evan Sutter

Hapzly

Co-founder of Hapzly, measuring businesses on happiness output

Talks:

The Happy Movement: How Business Is The Key To Making The World A Happier Place

#human side of tech

#mental health

#teams

Georges Saab

Oracle

Vice President, Software Development, Java Platform Group at Oracle

Talks:

The JAVA License model

Greg Young

Event-sourcing expert who first coined the term CQRS

Talks:

How Does Time Work with an Append-Only Log? A Deep Look Into Time in EventStore

Workshops:

MASTERCLASS (3 hours): Event Sourcing: The basics of an Event Sourced system and implementation

#events

#cqrs

Guen Prawiroatmodjo

Rigetti Computing

Quantum Physicist making quantum programming possible

Talks:

Getting started with quantum programming

#quantum computing

#programming languages

Heidi Helfand

Procore Technologies

Director at Procore, and on the founding GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar team.

Talks:

Dynamic Reteaming at Fast-Growing Companies

Heidi Waterhouse

LaunchDarkly

Developer Advocate

Talks:

All The World’s A Staging Server

#testing

#architecture

#qa

Hillel Wayne

eSpark Learning

Author of Practical TLA+, expert in applying formal methods to real-world problems

Talks:

What We Know We Don't Know: Introduction to Empirical Software Engineering

Workshops:

Getting it Right the First Time: An Introduction to Alloy Testing

#programming

#testing

#qa

Huyen Tue Dao

Trello

Android Developer at Trello & Co-creator of Android Dialogs

Talks:

Dissecting the stdlib

#kotlin

#programming

Jeremy Cowan

AWS

Cloud Architect specializing in Containers at AWS

Workshops:

Up and Running with Amazon EKS

Jessica Pointing

Stanford

Award-winning quantum computing researcher

Talks:

Opening Keynote: Quantum Computing - (Almost) Everything You Need To Know About It

#quantum computing

#keynote

Jill Wetzler

Lyft

Director of Engineering Leadership Development at Lyft

Talks:

Lunch Keynote 1: Re-engineering Inclusion

Jim Manico

Manicode Security

OWASP Project Leader, AppSec Enthusiast and Java Champion

Talks:

AppSec: From the OWASP Top Ten(s) to the OWASP ASVS

Workshops:

Building Secure API's and Web Applications

#security

#owasp

#privacy

John Le Drew

Wise Noodles

Experienced Engineer Making Psychological Safety a Right for Everyone

Talks:

Swearing, Nudity and Other Vulnerable Positions

Workshops:

Effective collaboration for world beating teams

#human side of tech

#teams

#mental health

John Napier

DRW Trading Group

Talks:

Achieving Functional Programming in Java

John Willis

SJ Technologies

Co-author of the "DevOps Handbook"

Talks:

The Divine and Felonious Nature of Cyber Security - A DevSecOps Story

#devops

#security

Josh Long

Pivotal

Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal, Java Champion and author of 6 books

Talks:

Reactive Spring

Workshops:

Bootiful Reactive Microservices

#microservices

#spring

#programming

Jérôme Petazzoni

Docker

Tinkerer of containers, culture, and tiny shell scripts

Talks:

Depression and burnout: the hardest refactor I’ve ever done

Workshops:

Getting started with Kubernetes and container orchestration

#human side of tech

#mental health

Kelley Robinson

Twilio

Developer Evangelist at Twilio advocating for secure software development

Talks:

Practical Cryptography

#cryptography

#privacy

#security

Mark Rickmeier

Table XI

CEO at Table XI and founder of "Walkshop Retreats"

Workshops:

MASTERCLASS (3 hours): Design Sprint Workshop

Matt Stratton

PagerDuty

Host of the Arrested DevOps podcast and DevOps Evangelist at PagerDuty.

Talks:

Fight, Flight, or Freeze — Releasing Organizational Trauma

#human side of tech

#teams

#mental health

Michael “Stu” Stewart

Opendoor

ML Engineer at Opendoor and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship award winner

Talks:

(Deep) Learn a Neural Net For Greater Good!

#machine learning

#deep learning

#python

#neural networks

Mike Amundsen

Director of API Architecture

API Expert & Author of O'Reilly's "RESTful Web Clients"

Talks:

Discovering RESTful Web Microservices: A Traveler's Guide

Workshops:

Building Great APIs from the Ground Up

#apis

#rest

#microservices

Naomi Ceder

Python Software Foundation

Chair of Python Software Foundation

Talks:

It really is easier to ask for forgiveness (than permission)

Workshops:

Level Up Your Python

#python

#programming

Nicki Watt

OpenCredo

CTO of OpenCredo, Leading Delivery of Large-scale, Cloud Native Projects

Talks:

Journeys To Cloud Native Architecture: Sun, Sea And Emergencies

#cloud native

#microservices

#kubernetes

Nicolas Frankel

Exoscale

Developer Advocate at Exoscale

Talks:

Securing the JVM

#security

#programming

#java

Nicole Bryan

Tasktop

Vice President of Product at Tasktop Technologies

Talks:

CI/CD is Just the Beginning: How to Optimize End-to-end Value Creation with the Flow Framework™

Phil Winder

Winder Research

Machine Learning whiz and Advocate for DataDevOps

Talks:

How to preprocess data for Data Science

Workshops:

Data Science and Machine Learning for Developers (Beginner)

Data Science and Machine Learning for Developers (Intermediate)

#data science

#machine learning

Ray Tsang

Google

Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform

Talks:

Troubleshooting & Debugging Microservices in Kubernetes

#microservices

#kubernetes

#containers

#cloud native

Rod Johnson

Atomist

Creator of Spring and Co-founder and CEO at Atomist

Talks:

Why You Need a Software Delivery Machine

#productivity

#programming languages

#automation

Roman Elizarov

JetBrains

Kotlin Libraries Team Lead at JetBrains

Talks:

Server-side Kotlin with Coroutines

Workshops:

Asynchronous Programming with Kotlin

Ross Goodwin

Google

Creative technologist at Google exploring the possibilities of AI

Talks:

The Mechanized Pen

Workshops:

Predictive Text in a Creative Context

#machine learning

#ai

Sandro Mancuso

Codurance

Pioneer of Software Craftspersonship and co-founder of Codurance

Talks:

A Case For Outside-In Design

Workshops:

Crafting Code

#ddd

#architecture

#microservices

Saša Juric

Aircloak

Author of "Elixir in Action”

Talks:

The Soul of Erlang and Elixir

#erlang

#elixir

#programming

#distributed systems

Sean McQuillan

Google

Android Developer Advocate at Google

Talks:

Embracing the Future in a Multi-Platform World: A Kotlin Story

#kotlin

#android

#programming

Seth Thomson

DRW

CIO at DRW and former comic book store owner dedicated to teaching kids to code

Talks:

Lunch Keynote 2: Raising a coder in an educational maelstrom: Advice and lessons learned

Stephen Magill

Galois, Inc.

World-recognized expert on program analysis

Talks:

Disrupting QA – Emerging Trends in Code Quality Automation

#testing

#programming

#qa

Steven Heidel

Rigetti Computing

Building Quantum Clouds at Rigetti Computing

Talks:

Controlling a Quantum Computer with Code

#quantum computing

#programming languages

Tilde Ann Thurium

GitHub

Engineer working on Atom Editor. Destroyer of binaries.

Talks:

Declarative APIs in an Imperative World

#ui

#apis

#react

#programming

#functional programming

Verónica Lopez

Red Hat

Former Physicist and Sr. Software Engineer at Red Hat

Talks:

Go vs. Elixir for Distributed Computing

#go

#elixir

#programming

#distributed systems

Speakers

Aino Vonge Corry

Talks:

The Importance of Laughter

Workshops:

Advanced Retrospective Facilitation

Alex Ellis

Talks:

Serverless Beyond the Hype

Workshops:

Hands-on Serverless with OpenFaaS and Python

Anjana Vakil

Talks:

The Language of Programming

Workshops:

First steps into Functional Programming

Arun Gupta

Talks:

Using Kubernetes for Machine Learning Frameworks

Baruch Sadogursky

Talks:

Without data, you're just another person with opinions

Betty Enyonam Kumahor

Talks:

Lunch Keynote 1: Frugal Innovation

Bridget Kromhout

Talks:

Kubernetes Operability Tooling

Casey Rosenthal

Talks:

Deprecating Simplicity 2.0

Chris Munns

Chris Richardson

Talks:

Not Just Events: Developing Asynchronous Microservices

Workshops:

2 days workshop: Developing microservices

Colin Jones

Workshops:

Up and Running with Elixir

Courtney Hemphill

Talks:

What Technical Leads Can Learn from Great General Managers Throughout History

Danny Lange

Talks:

Lunch Keynote 2: On the Road to Artificial General Intelligence

Doug Lenat

Talks:

Morning Keynote: The Promise and Limitations of AI

Eleanor Saitta

Talks:

Principles for Developing More Secure Systems

Evan Sutter

Talks:

The Happy Movement: How Business Is The Key To Making The World A Happier Place

Georges Saab

Talks:

The JAVA License model

Greg Young

Talks:

How Does Time Work with an Append-Only Log? A Deep Look Into Time in EventStore

Workshops:

MASTERCLASS (3 hours): Event Sourcing: The basics of an Event Sourced system and implementation

Guen Prawiroatmodjo

Talks:

Getting started with quantum programming

Heidi Helfand

Talks:

Dynamic Reteaming at Fast-Growing Companies

Heidi Waterhouse

Talks:

All The World’s A Staging Server

Hillel Wayne

Talks:

What We Know We Don't Know: Introduction to Empirical Software Engineering

Workshops:

Getting it Right the First Time: An Introduction to Alloy Testing

Huyen Tue Dao

Talks:

Dissecting the stdlib