GOTO Chicago 2020 Schedule

Monday, April 27

Time Sessions
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Wellness Morning
  • Mindful Start Into an Agile Day [Social Room]
    • Markus Wittwer – Agile coach with 15+ years experience and certified mindfulness trainer
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Morning Keynote
  • Data Science and Expertise: COVID-19 [Keynote Room]
    • Rajiv Shah – Building AI Applications at Snowflake
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Break
10:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Parallel Sessions
  • GraphQL, gRPC and REST, Oh My! A Method for Unified API Design [Room 1]
    • Mike Amundsen – The ultimate API expert. #api
  • Investigation and Creation of Software [Room 2]
    • Jessica Kerr – Developer, writer, podcaster and highly requested GOTO speaker
  • Modern Continuous Delivery [Room 3]
    • Ken Mugrage – Principal technologist at ThoughtWorks and DevOps expert
  • Microservices Out In the Wild [Room 4]
    • Derek Ferguson – Head of technology for Fitch Solutions
    • Matt Jones – Head of product architecture at Fitch Solutions
    • Rashid Mohammad – Senior engineering lead at Fitch Solutions
  • Practical End-to-End Container Security at Scale [Room 6]
    • Yashvier Kosaraju – Product security expert at Twilio Inc.
  • Batching vs. Streaming - John Deere's Journey to Scale & Process Millions of Measurements a Second [Room 7]
    • Adam Butler – Principal engineer for Intelligent Solution Group's data platform
  • I Can Sell You Observability, But You Can't Buy It [Room 8]
    • Austin Parker – Author and Principal Developer Advocate at LightStep
  • From Zero to A11Y: Building an Accessibility Culture at Optimizely [Room 9]
    • Ayesha Mazumdar – Senior UX Engineer, Optimizely
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Parallel Sessions
  • Moving Fast at Scale [Room 1]
    • Randy Shoup – VP Engineering and Chief Architect, eBay
  • This is Your Captain Speaking…” - Leading through Turbulence with Compassion and Confidence [Room 2]
    • Angela Dugan – Solution Director on the Strategic Engagements at 3Cloud Solutions
    • Sara Caldwell – Sr. Principle Solutions Strategist
  • Prioritizing Technical Debt as if Time and Money Matters [Room 3]
    • Adam Tornhill – Founder and CTO at CodeScene Programmer, psychologist, Lisp hacker, speaker and author of several books including "Your Code as a Crime Scene"
  • HTML: How to Make Loveliness [Room 4]
    • Bruce Lawson – Author of "Introducing HTML5" and editor of the W3C’s HTML5.3 specification
  • #DigitalNudge - The Hidden Forces that Shape our Digital Decisions [Room 5]
    • Fabio Nudge Pereira – Author of the book Digital Nudge, Futurist, TEDx Speaker and Curator
  • Keys to Building Machine Learning Systems [Room 6]
    • Garrett Smith – Creator of Guild AI and Chicago ML
  • Advanced Feature Flagging: It's All About The Data [Room 7]
    • Dave Karow – Continuous Delivery Evangelist at Split
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Break
12:00 PM - 12:40 PM
Parallel Sessions
  • A practical approach to quantum annealing (part1) [Room 1]
    • Niels Sthen Hansen – Business Unit CTO & Team Lead at Trifork
  • Next-Generation Programming: Rust and Elm [Room 4]
    • Richard Feldman – Functional programming language expert & author of “Elm in Action”
  • Ray: A System for Distributed Applications [Room 5]
    • Dean Wampler – Product Engineering Director for Accelerated Discovery, IBM Research.
  • Why GraphQL Between Microservices Is the Worst Idea and the Best Idea at the Same Time [Room 6]
    • Uri Goldshtein – Founder at The Guild, the largest open source group in the GraphQL ecosystem
  • Leveraging Serverless in Full-stack Development [Room 8]
    • Eric Johnson – Principal Developer Advocate at AWS
12:40 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch Discussion
  • Principles of Scale [Social Room]
    • Randy Shoup – VP Engineering and Chief Architect, eBay
    • Courtney Hemphill – Leading technical teams for fast-moving companies at scale
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Parallel Sessions
  • GraphQL, gRPC and REST, Oh My! A Method for Unified API Design [Room 1]
    • Mike Amundsen – The ultimate API expert. #api
  • People First Leadership [Room 2]
    • Kate Wardin – A waypoint in the ocean of leadership gurus. Kate has brilliant, empirically backed advice to share with you. #teams
  • Advanced Feature Flagging: It's All About The Data [Room 4]
    • Dave Karow – Continuous Delivery Evangelist at Split
  • Git from the Ground Up [Room 5]
    • Safia Abdalla – Software engineer at Microsoft, author and blogger
  • Refactoring Trust on Your Team [Room 6]
    • Rebecca Miller-Webster – Founder of Write/Speak/Code, educator and director of engineering
  • Batching vs. Streaming - John Deere's Journey to Scale & Process Millions of Measurements a Second [Room 7]
    • Adam Butler – Principal engineer for Intelligent Solution Group's data platform
  • Kotlin Flows and Channels for Android [Room 8]
    • Ryan Pierce – Android Developer at Capital One
  • Increase App Confidence using CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code [Room 9]
    • Angel Rivera – Developer Advocate at CircleCI
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Break
2:30 PM - 3:10 PM
Parallel Sessions
  • Moving Fast at Scale [Room 1]
    • Randy Shoup – VP Engineering and Chief Architect, eBay
  • Investigation and Creation of Software [Room 2]
    • Jessica Kerr – Developer, writer, podcaster and highly requested GOTO speaker
  • Modern Continuous Delivery [Room 3]
    • Ken Mugrage – Principal technologist at ThoughtWorks and DevOps expert
  • Ops in the Serverless [Room 4]
    • Jennifer Davis – Highly requested systems engineer and DevOps author
  • #DigitalNudge - The Hidden Forces that Shape our Digital Decisions [Room 5]
    • Fabio Nudge Pereira – Author of the book Digital Nudge, Futurist, TEDx Speaker and Curator
  • Practical End-to-End Container Security at Scale [Room 6]
    • Yashvier Kosaraju – Product security expert at Twilio Inc.
  • Application Security at High Velocity [Room 8]
    • Francis Potter – Solutions Architect at GitLab
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Break
3:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Parallel Sessions
  • A practical approach to quantum annealing (part1) [Room 1]
    • Niels Sthen Hansen – Business Unit CTO & Team Lead at Trifork
  • Observability for Data Pipelines: Monitoring, Alerting, and Tracing Lineage [Room 2]
    • Jiaqi Liu – Leader in bridging the gap between data science and engineering
  • Bootiful GraphQL with Kotlin [Room 4]
    • Derek Kuc – Principal Software Engineer @ Apollo GraphQL
  • Keys to Building Machine Learning Systems [Room 5]
    • Garrett Smith – Creator of Guild AI and Chicago ML
  • Why GraphQL Between Microservices Is the Worst Idea and the Best Idea at the Same Time [Room 6]
    • Uri Goldshtein – Founder at The Guild, the largest open source group in the GraphQL ecosystem
4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
Happy Hour
  • Networking Happy Hour [Social Room]
4:30 PM - 5:10 PM
Evening Keynote
  • Inspiring Experiences Teaching Kids to Code [Keynote Room]
    • Jessica Ellis – Teaching Kids Programming at TKPLabs
5:10 PM - 6:00 PM
Parallel Sessions
  • Ask Me Anything [Room 1]
    • Mike Amundsen – The ultimate API expert. #api
  • Ask Me Anything [Room 2]
    • Kate Wardin – A waypoint in the ocean of leadership gurus. Kate has brilliant, empirically backed advice to share with you. #teams
  • Ask Me Anything [Room 3]
    • Randy Shoup – VP Engineering and Chief Architect, eBay
  • Ask Me Anything [Room 4]
    • Jessica Kerr – Developer, writer, podcaster and highly requested GOTO speaker
  • Ask Me Anything [Room 5]
    • Uri Goldshtein – Founder at The Guild, the largest open source group in the GraphQL ecosystem
  • Ask Me Anything [Room 6]
    • Chris Read – DevOpsDays Chicago organizer

Tuesday, April 28

Time Sessions
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Wellness Morning
  • Mindful Start Into an Agile Day [Social Room]
    • Markus Wittwer – Agile coach with 15+ years experience and certified mindfulness trainer
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Panel Discussion
  • Working Remotely [Room 1]
    • Jessica Kerr – Developer, writer, podcaster and highly requested GOTO speaker
    • Dean Wampler – Product Engineering Director for Accelerated Discovery, IBM Research.
    • Kate Wardin – A waypoint in the ocean of leadership gurus. Kate has brilliant, empirically backed advice to share with you. #teams
    • Angela Dugan – Solution Director on the Strategic Engagements at 3Cloud Solutions
    • Brendan O'Leary – Sr. Developer Evangelist, GitLab
    • Daniel Grum – Senior Test Operations Engineer - John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group
    • Sara Caldwell – Sr. Principle Solutions Strategist
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Technical Keynote
  • Beyond Microservices: Streams, State and Scalability [Keynote Room]
    • Gwen Shapira – Product Manager at Confluent
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Break
10:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Parallel Sessions
  • Observability for Data Pipelines: Monitoring, Alerting, and Tracing Lineage [Room 1]
    • Jiaqi Liu – Leader in bridging the gap between data science and engineering
  • People First Leadership [Room 2]
    • Kate Wardin – A waypoint in the ocean of leadership gurus. Kate has brilliant, empirically backed advice to share with you. #teams
  • Next-Generation Programming: Rust and Elm [Room 4]
    • Richard Feldman – Functional programming language expert & author of “Elm in Action”
  • Git from the Ground Up [Room 5]
    • Safia Abdalla – Software engineer at Microsoft, author and blogger
  • Why GraphQL Between Microservices Is the Worst Idea and the Best Idea at the Same Time [Room 6]
    • Uri Goldshtein – Founder at The Guild, the largest open source group in the GraphQL ecosystem
  • Batching vs. Streaming - John Deere's Journey to Scale & Process Millions of Measurements a Second [Room 7]
    • Adam Butler – Principal engineer for Intelligent Solution Group's data platform
  • Leveraging Serverless in Full-stack Development [Room 8]
    • Eric Johnson – Principal Developer Advocate at AWS
  • I Can Sell You Observability, But You Can't Buy It [Room 9]
    • Austin Parker – Author and Principal Developer Advocate at LightStep
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Parallel Sessions
  • A practical approach to quantum annealing (part2) [Room 1]
    • Niels Sthen Hansen – Business Unit CTO & Team Lead at Trifork
  • Why Are Distributed Systems so Hard? [Room 2]
    • Denise Yu – Senior software engineer at GitHub
  • Prioritizing Technical Debt as if Time and Money Matters [Room 3]
    • Adam Tornhill – Founder and CTO at CodeScene Programmer, psychologist, Lisp hacker, speaker and author of several books including "Your Code as a Crime Scene"
  • Microservices Out In the Wild [Room 4]
    • Derek Ferguson – Head of technology for Fitch Solutions
    • Matt Jones – Head of product architecture at Fitch Solutions
    • Rashid Mohammad – Senior engineering lead at Fitch Solutions
  • You Really Don't Need All That Javascript, I Promise [Room 5]
    • Stuart Langridge – Member of the Web Standards Project's DOM Scripting Task Force, podcaster, developer and author
  • Small is the New Big: Designing Compact Deep Learning Models [Room 6]
    • Davis Sawyer – Co-founder and chief product officer at AI software startup Deeplite
  • Advanced Feature Flagging: It's All About The Data [Room 7]
    • Dave Karow – Continuous Delivery Evangelist at Split
  • Application Security at High Velocity [Room 8]
    • Francis Potter – Solutions Architect at GitLab
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Break
12:00 PM - 12:40 PM
Parallel Sessions
  • GraphQL, gRPC and REST, Oh My! A Method for Unified API Design [Room 1]
    • Mike Amundsen – The ultimate API expert. #api
  • Investigation and Creation of Software [Room 2]
    • Jessica Kerr – Developer, writer, podcaster and highly requested GOTO speaker
  • Visualizing Cloud Systems [Room 3]
    • Lynn Langit – Cloud architect building serverless bioinformatics cloud data pipelines
  • HTML: How to Make Loveliness [Room 4]
    • Bruce Lawson – Author of "Introducing HTML5" and editor of the W3C’s HTML5.3 specification
  • #DigitalNudge - The Hidden Forces that Shape our Digital Decisions [Room 5]
    • Fabio Nudge Pereira – Author of the book Digital Nudge, Futurist, TEDx Speaker and Curator
  • Refactoring Trust on Your Team [Room 6]
    • Rebecca Miller-Webster – Founder of Write/Speak/Code, educator and director of engineering
  • Memory Efficient Java [Room 7]
    • Kirk Pepperdine – Kirk knows more about the JVM than most of the engineers that actually build it do. Let him take you to the secrets and dark corners of the JVM. #java
  • High Velocity Development of Microservices [Room 8]
    • Rahul Lahiri – Founder and Head of Product at Mesh Dynamics
    • Venky Ganti – Founder and CEO of Mesh Dynamics
  • John Deere Operations Center Development Journey & Ecosystems [Room 9]
    • Niket Patel – Staff Engineer at John Deere's Intelligent Solution Group
12:40 PM - 1:30 PM
Women Networking Lunch
  • Women's Networking Lunch [Social Room]
    • Ashley Quinto Powell – Speaker, Revenue Consultant, Champion of Moms, Relentless Supporter of Entrepreneurs. A fun person to follow.
    • Kim B. Holmes – Talent Acquisition at Discover
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Parallel Sessions
  • Observability for Data Pipelines: Monitoring, Alerting, and Tracing Lineage [Room 1]
    • Jiaqi Liu – Leader in bridging the gap between data science and engineering
  • Why Are Distributed Systems so Hard? [Room 2]
    • Denise Yu – Senior software engineer at GitHub
  • SaaS Deep Dive: Designing and Building Multi-Tenant Solutions [Room 3]
    • Tod Golding – Global SaaS Tech Lead at AWS & Author of "Building Multi-Tenant SaaS Architectures"
  • Modern Continuous Delivery [Room 4]
    • Ken Mugrage – Principal technologist at ThoughtWorks and DevOps expert
  • Maximizing Java Application Performance with GraalVM [Room 5]
    • Oleg Šelajev – Developer Advocate at Oracle
  • Small is the New Big: Designing Compact Deep Learning Models [Room 6]
    • Davis Sawyer – Co-founder and chief product officer at AI software startup Deeplite
  • Ops in the Serverless [Room 7]
    • Jennifer Davis – Highly requested systems engineer and DevOps author
  • Server Driven UI on Mobile [Room 8]
    • JJ Qi – Senior Software Engineer at Capital One
  • How to Hack OAuth [Room 9]
    • Aaron Parecki – Director of Identity Standards at Okta
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Break
2:30 PM - 3:10 PM
Parallel Sessions
  • A practical approach to quantum annealing (part2) [Room 1]
    • Niels Sthen Hansen – Business Unit CTO & Team Lead at Trifork
  • Moving Fast at Scale [Room 3]
    • Randy Shoup – VP Engineering and Chief Architect, eBay
  • Memory Efficient Java [Room 4]
    • Kirk Pepperdine – Kirk knows more about the JVM than most of the engineers that actually build it do. Let him take you to the secrets and dark corners of the JVM. #java
  • No Return: Beyond Transactions in Code and Life [Room 5]
    • Avdi Grimm – Head Gardener at Graceful.Dev and recipient of the Ruby Hero Award
  • Keys to Building Machine Learning Systems [Room 6]
    • Garrett Smith – Creator of Guild AI and Chicago ML
  • From Zero to A11Y: Building an Accessibility Culture at Optimizely [Room 9]
    • Ayesha Mazumdar – Senior UX Engineer, Optimizely
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Break
3:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Parallel Sessions
  • Refactoring Trust on Your Team [Room 1]
    • Rebecca Miller-Webster – Founder of Write/Speak/Code, educator and director of engineering
  • Microservices Out In the Wild [Room 2]
    • Derek Ferguson – Head of technology for Fitch Solutions
    • Matt Jones – Head of product architecture at Fitch Solutions
    • Rashid Mohammad – Senior engineering lead at Fitch Solutions
  • People First Leadership [Room 3]
    • Kate Wardin – A waypoint in the ocean of leadership gurus. Kate has brilliant, empirically backed advice to share with you. #teams
  • Ops in the Serverless [Room 4]
    • Jennifer Davis – Highly requested systems engineer and DevOps author
  • 3 Ways to Gradually Adopt GraphQL on the Frontend Without Writing a Single Line of Backend Code [Room 6]
    • Uri Goldshtein – Founder at The Guild, the largest open source group in the GraphQL ecosystem
  • OAuth and OpenID Connect in Plain English [Room 7]
    • Nate Barbettini – Co-founder and CTO at Cobbler; OAuth and OpenID expert
  • The Asynchronous Enterprise [Room 8]
    • Abubakar Siddiq Ango – Technical Evangelism Program Manager at GitLab
    • Brendan O'Leary – Sr. Developer Evangelist, GitLab
  • 2FA in 2020 and Beyond [Room 9]
    • Kelley Robinson – Developer Evangelist at Twilio advocating for secure software development
4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
Happy Hour
  • Networking Happy Hour [Social Room]
4:30 PM - 5:10 PM
Evening Keynote
  • Racing Robocars [Keynote Room]
    • Chris Anderson – CEO of 3DR and founder of DIY Drones and DIY Robocars communities
5:10 PM - 6:00 PM
Parallel Sessions
  • Ask Me Anything [Room 1]
    • Casey Rosenthal – Deprecating Simplicity and the Rise of CV
  • Ask Me Anything [Room 2]
    • Niels Sthen Hansen – Business Unit CTO & Team Lead at Trifork
  • Ask Me Anything [Room 3]
    • Rebecca Miller-Webster – Founder of Write/Speak/Code, educator and director of engineering
  • Ask Me Anything [Room 4]
    • Tod Golding – Global SaaS Tech Lead at AWS & Author of "Building Multi-Tenant SaaS Architectures"
  • Ask Me Anything [Room 5]
    • Stuart Langridge – Member of the Web Standards Project's DOM Scripting Task Force, podcaster, developer and author
  • Ask Me Anything [Room 6]
    • Fabio Nudge Pereira – Author of the book Digital Nudge, Futurist, TEDx Speaker and Curator

Wednesday, April 29

Time Sessions
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Wellness Morning
  • Yoga at Your Desk [Social Room]
    • Natalie Lund – Community manager, performing artist, traveller, mover, yogini and happy person
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Morning Keynote
  • Data Science for Everyone with ISLE: Leveraging Web Technologies to Increase Data Acumen [Keynote Room]
    • Rebecca Nugent – Professor of Statistics & Data Science
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Break
10:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Parallel Sessions
  • Next-Generation Programming: Rust and Elm [Room 1]
    • Richard Feldman – Functional programming language expert & author of “Elm in Action”
  • HTML: How to Make Loveliness [Room 2]
    • Bruce Lawson – Author of "Introducing HTML5" and editor of the W3C’s HTML5.3 specification
  • Why Are Distributed Systems so Hard? [Room 3]
    • Denise Yu – Senior software engineer at GitHub
  • Maximizing Java Application Performance with GraalVM [Room 4]
    • Oleg Šelajev – Developer Advocate at Oracle
  • GraphQL, gRPC and REST, Oh My! A Method for Unified API Design [Room 5]
    • Mike Amundsen – The ultimate API expert. #api
  • Memory Efficient Java [Room 6]
    • Kirk Pepperdine – Kirk knows more about the JVM than most of the engineers that actually build it do. Let him take you to the secrets and dark corners of the JVM. #java
  • OAuth and OpenID Connect in Plain English [Room 7]
    • Nate Barbettini – Co-founder and CTO at Cobbler; OAuth and OpenID expert
  • The Asynchronous Enterprise [Room 8]
    • Abubakar Siddiq Ango – Technical Evangelism Program Manager at GitLab
    • Brendan O'Leary – Sr. Developer Evangelist, GitLab
  • Increase App Confidence using CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code [Room 9]
    • Angel Rivera – Developer Advocate at CircleCI
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Parallel Sessions
  • Prioritizing Technical Debt as if Time and Money Matters [Room 1]
    • Adam Tornhill – Founder and CTO at CodeScene Programmer, psychologist, Lisp hacker, speaker and author of several books including "Your Code as a Crime Scene"
  • You Really Don't Need All That Javascript, I Promise [Room 2]
    • Stuart Langridge – Member of the Web Standards Project's DOM Scripting Task Force, podcaster, developer and author
  • Git from the Ground Up [Room 3]
    • Safia Abdalla – Software engineer at Microsoft, author and blogger
  • Bootiful GraphQL with Kotlin [Room 4]
    • Derek Kuc – Principal Software Engineer @ Apollo GraphQL
  • Practical Quantum Computing with D-Wave [Room 5]
    • Alexander Condello – Manager, Applications Development Technology and Tools at D-Wave Systems
  • 3 Ways to Gradually Adopt GraphQL on the Frontend Without Writing a Single Line of Backend Code [Room 6]
    • Uri Goldshtein – Founder at The Guild, the largest open source group in the GraphQL ecosystem
  • Ray: A System for Distributed Applications [Room 7]
    • Dean Wampler – Product Engineering Director for Accelerated Discovery, IBM Research.
  • Server Driven UI on Mobile [Room 8]
    • JJ Qi – Senior Software Engineer at Capital One
  • High Velocity Development of Microservices [Room 9]
    • Rahul Lahiri – Founder and Head of Product at Mesh Dynamics
    • Venky Ganti – Founder and CEO of Mesh Dynamics
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Break
12:00 PM - 12:40 PM
Parallel Sessions
  • #DigitalNudge - The Hidden Forces that Shape our Digital Decisions [Room 1]
    • Fabio Nudge Pereira – Author of the book Digital Nudge, Futurist, TEDx Speaker and Curator
  • Moving Fast at Scale [Room 3]
    • Randy Shoup – VP Engineering and Chief Architect, eBay
  • SaaS Deep Dive: Designing and Building Multi-Tenant Solutions [Room 4]
    • Tod Golding – Global SaaS Tech Lead at AWS & Author of "Building Multi-Tenant SaaS Architectures"
  • No Return: Beyond Transactions in Code and Life [Room 5]
    • Avdi Grimm – Head Gardener at Graceful.Dev and recipient of the Ruby Hero Award
  • Practical End-to-End Container Security at Scale [Room 6]
    • Yashvier Kosaraju – Product security expert at Twilio Inc.
  • 3 Ways to Gradually Adopt GraphQL on the Frontend Without Writing a Single Line of Backend Code [Room 7]
    • Uri Goldshtein – Founder at The Guild, the largest open source group in the GraphQL ecosystem
12:40 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch Keynote
  • Lunch Keynote [Keynote Room]
    • Anita Sengupta – Rocket scientist and expert on the future of transportation; responsible for the landing of the Mars Curiosity Rover
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Parallel Sessions
  • Next-Generation Programming: Rust and Elm [Room 1]
    • Richard Feldman – Functional programming language expert & author of “Elm in Action”
  • You Really Don't Need All That Javascript, I Promise [Room 2]
    • Stuart Langridge – Member of the Web Standards Project's DOM Scripting Task Force, podcaster, developer and author
  • Git from the Ground Up [Room 3]
    • Safia Abdalla – Software engineer at Microsoft, author and blogger
  • Maximizing Java Application Performance with GraalVM [Room 4]
    • Oleg Šelajev – Developer Advocate at Oracle
  • Visualizing Cloud Systems [Room 5]
    • Lynn Langit – Cloud architect building serverless bioinformatics cloud data pipelines
  • Small is the New Big: Designing Compact Deep Learning Models [Room 6]
    • Davis Sawyer – Co-founder and chief product officer at AI software startup Deeplite
  • John Deere Operations Center Development Journey & Ecosystems [Room 9]
    • Niket Patel – Staff Engineer at John Deere's Intelligent Solution Group
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Masterclass Day 1 [part 1:2]
  • API Design Masterclass [Masterclass Room 1]
    • Mike Amundsen – The ultimate API expert. #api
  • Foundations of Tech Leadership [Masterclass Room 2]
    • Kate Wardin – A waypoint in the ocean of leadership gurus. Kate has brilliant, empirically backed advice to share with you. #teams
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Break
2:30 PM - 3:10 PM
Parallel Sessions
  • Prioritizing Technical Debt as if Time and Money Matters [Room 1]
    • Adam Tornhill – Founder and CTO at CodeScene Programmer, psychologist, Lisp hacker, speaker and author of several books including "Your Code as a Crime Scene"
  • Practical Quantum Computing with D-Wave [Room 2]
    • Alexander Condello – Manager, Applications Development Technology and Tools at D-Wave Systems
  • SaaS Deep Dive: Designing and Building Multi-Tenant Solutions [Room 3]
    • Tod Golding – Global SaaS Tech Lead at AWS & Author of "Building Multi-Tenant SaaS Architectures"
  • Bootiful GraphQL with Kotlin [Room 4]
    • Derek Kuc – Principal Software Engineer @ Apollo GraphQL
  • Ray: A System for Distributed Applications [Room 5]
    • Dean Wampler – Product Engineering Director for Accelerated Discovery, IBM Research.
  • Leveraging Serverless in Full-stack Development [Room 8]
    • Eric Johnson – Principal Developer Advocate at AWS
  • 2FA in 2020 and Beyond [Room 9]
    • Kelley Robinson – Developer Evangelist at Twilio advocating for secure software development
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Break
3:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Parallel Sessions
  • This is Your Captain Speaking…” - Leading through Turbulence with Compassion and Confidence [Room 1]
    • Angela Dugan – Solution Director on the Strategic Engagements at 3Cloud Solutions
    • Sara Caldwell – Sr. Principle Solutions Strategist
  • HTML: How to Make Loveliness [Room 2]
    • Bruce Lawson – Author of "Introducing HTML5" and editor of the W3C’s HTML5.3 specification
  • Investigation and Creation of Software [Room 3]
    • Jessica Kerr – Developer, writer, podcaster and highly requested GOTO speaker
  • Visualizing Cloud Systems [Room 5]
    • Lynn Langit – Cloud architect building serverless bioinformatics cloud data pipelines
  • No Return: Beyond Transactions in Code and Life [Room 6]
    • Avdi Grimm – Head Gardener at Graceful.Dev and recipient of the Ruby Hero Award
  • Kotlin Flows and Channels for Android [Room 8]
    • Ryan Pierce – Android Developer at Capital One
  • How to Hack OAuth [Room 9]
    • Aaron Parecki – Director of Identity Standards at Okta
4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
Happy Hour
  • Networking Happy Hour [Social Room]
5:10 PM - 6:00 PM
Parallel Sessions
  • Ask Me Anything [Room 1]
    • Adam Tornhill – Founder and CTO at CodeScene Programmer, psychologist, Lisp hacker, speaker and author of several books including "Your Code as a Crime Scene"
  • Ask Me Anything [Room 2]
    • Richard Feldman – Functional programming language expert & author of “Elm in Action”
  • Ask Me Anything [Room 4]
    • Bruce Lawson – Author of "Introducing HTML5" and editor of the W3C’s HTML5.3 specification
  • Ask Me Anything [Room 5]
    • Dean Wampler – Product Engineering Director for Accelerated Discovery, IBM Research.

Thursday, April 30

Time Sessions
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Hands-on Lab
  • John Deere Operation Center - Hands-on Lab [Partner Room 10]
    • Niket Patel – Staff Engineer at John Deere's Intelligent Solution Group
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Masterclass Day 1 [part 2:2]
  • API Design Masterclass [Masterclass Room 1]
    • Mike Amundsen – The ultimate API expert. #api
  • Foundations of Tech Leadership [Masterclass Room 2]
    • Kate Wardin – A waypoint in the ocean of leadership gurus. Kate has brilliant, empirically backed advice to share with you. #teams
12:40 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch Keynote
  • A Guided Tour at D-Wave [Bonus keynote room]
    • Murray Thom – World-leading quantum computing expert at D-Wave
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Masterclass Day 2 [part 1:2]
  • API Build Masterclass [Masterclass Room 1]
    • Mike Amundsen – The ultimate API expert. #api
  • Code As A Crime Scene: Fix Technical Debt with Behavioral Code Analysis [Masterclass Room 3]
    • Adam Tornhill – Founder and CTO at CodeScene Programmer, psychologist, Lisp hacker, speaker and author of several books including "Your Code as a Crime Scene"

Friday, May 1

Time Sessions
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Masterclass Day 2 [part 2:2]
  • API Build Masterclass [Masterclass Room 1]
    • Mike Amundsen – The ultimate API expert. #api
  • Code As A Crime Scene: Fix Technical Debt with Behavioral Code Analysis [Masterclass Room 3]
    • Adam Tornhill – Founder and CTO at CodeScene Programmer, psychologist, Lisp hacker, speaker and author of several books including "Your Code as a Crime Scene"
12:40 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch Keynote
  • War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, Scrum is Agile [Bonus keynote room]
    • Allen Holub – Authority. When Allen speaks the world listens
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Half-day Masterclass
  • Microservices Out In the Wild [Masterclass Room 4]
    • Derek Ferguson – Head of technology for Fitch Solutions
    • Matt Jones – Head of product architecture at Fitch Solutions
    • Rashid Mohammad – Senior engineering lead at Fitch Solutions