GOTO Community Day Chicago 2023 Schedule

Tuesday, October 24

Time Sessions
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
CTO Breakfast
  • CTO Breakfast
    • Preben Thorö – Chairman for the GOTO Program Committees, Group CTO Trifork
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Break
10:00 AM - 2:30 PM
AI workshop
  • AI Workshop
    • Alex Castrounis – Founder & CEO at Why of AI, NU Kellogg MBAi Professor, Author | Former INDYCAR Engineer, Race Strategist, and Data Scientist
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Lunch Break
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
DevFest Registration
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Afternoon Break
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Event Kickoff
  • Event Kickoff [GOTO (Kinzie 2)]
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Parallel Sessions
  • Optimizing Performance Analytics using Statistics [TAG (Kinzie 1)]
    • Jen Anderson – Senior Director of Engineering - Web Platform @ TAG - The Aspen Group
  • Build Your Own GenAI Model [GOTO (Kinzie 2)]
    • Vikram Tiwari – Full Stack Developer @ Omni Labs Inc.
  • Alt Text Is Your Superpower [Trifork (Wayman 1)]
    • Clarissa Peterson – UX & Content Strategy Director @ WebFirst
  • C# and .Net 8 - Who Needs Reflection Anymore? Accessing private members without reflection [Chicago (Wayman 2)]
    • David Allen – Founder @ Quantum Mobile Solutions
  • Common Ground: Uniting Technical & Non-Technical Voices in the Modern Hybrid Workspace [Chicago (Wayman 2)]
    • Alexander Daines – Software Engineer @ Aspen Dental
  • Will You Be the First To Know About the Next Cybersecurity Catastrophe? [Chicago (Wayman 2)]
    • Amanda Viers – Software Engineer @ Northwestern Mutual
    • Chloe Wallach – Associate Software Engineer @ Northwestern Mutual
  • Drinking my own champaign; hosting the AWS user group website on AWS Amplify [The Burbs (Halsted)]
    • Margaret Valtierra – Program Manager @ Morningstar
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Break
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Parallel Sessions
  • Turbocharge your K8s Infrastructure Monitoring! [TAG (Kinzie 1)]
    • Pete Wall – Senior Software Engineer II @ Grafana Labs
  • Why Projects Succeed: Lessons Learned from Building the Android OS [GOTO (Kinzie 2)]
    • Chet Haase – Graphics Software Engineer @ Google
  • Server Side Rendering in Rails [Trifork (Wayman 1)]
    • Jared Shay – Engineering Educator/Consultant
  • LLMs in Test Driven Development [Chicago (Wayman 2)]
    • Simen Huuse – Chief Science Officer @ Trifork
  • Safe Financial AI with Claude 2 and AWS Bedrock [Chicago (Wayman 2)]
    • Richard Whaling – Director, Data Engineering @ M1 Finance
  • Serverless Computing: The Future of App Development is Here! [Chicago (Wayman 2)]
    • Vishal Kumar Bhagchandani – GDSC Lead @ Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Let's Build a Chrome Extension that Steals Everything [The Burbs (Halsted)]
    • Matt Frisbie – Google Developer Expert @ Web Technologies (Browser Extensions)
5:00 PM - 6:45 PM
Dinner break
6:00 PM - 6:45 PM
Parallel Sessions
  • Amazon Bedrock & Generative AI: Pioneering the Future of Cloud Computing [TAG (Kinzie 1)]
    • Timothy Patterson – Vice President, Services and Solutions @ NorthBay Solutions
  • A natural language network scanning tool [GOTO (Kinzie 2)]
    • Joshua Herman – Python Developer @ Bank of America
  • Database Engineering for the Full Stack Developer [Trifork (Wayman 1)]
    • Bryce Lobdell
    • Wayne Taylor
  • Local Data Storage using Drift [Trifork (Wayman 1)]
    • Valeria Durán Ruiz – Founder, CEO @ TechViolet
  • Saturday: A natural language network scanning tool [Chicago (Wayman 2)]
    • Joshua Herman – Python Developer @ Bank of America
  • Deploying your Dynamic Web App to Google Cloud [The Burbs (Halsted)]
    • Martin Omander – Cloud Developer Advocate @ Google
    • Sequoia Omander
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM
Break
7:00 PM - 7:45 PM
Parallel sessions
  • Supercharge your GraphQL with Ktor and GraalVM [TAG (Kinzie 1)]
    • Derek Kuc – Principal Software Engineer @ Apollo GraphQL
  • AI in the "PaLM" of Your Hand [GOTO (Kinzie 2)]
    • Stephen Wylie
  • From Color Schemes to Code: How Designers & Developers Can Learn from One Another [Trifork (Wayman 1)]
    • Miranda Reese – Product designer
  • 5 Python modules for Fun and Profit [Chicago (Wayman 2)]
    • Joe Jasinski – Lead Software Engineer @ Nielsen
  • American Sign Language Gesture Recognition With Python and Machine Learning [Chicago (Wayman 2)]
    • Jimmy Scray – Engineer / Technical Lead - ML @ Koch Global
  • Incorporating Pydantic into an Existing System [Chicago (Wayman 2)]
    • Michael Misiak – Software Engineer @ Aspen Dental
  • The Future of Scalable Web Applications: What's new in Angular [The Burbs (Halsted)]
    • Stephen Fluin – Head of Developer Relations @ Axelar
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Reception