JSworld Conference - DEVWorld 2023

JSWORLD

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DEVWORLD CONFERENCE

Linus Ekenstam
AI gardener and Entrepreneur
Future of AI | Exploring the world of AI Technology and creator of bedtimestory.ai, previous typeform. Writing about AutoGPT, MedGPT, Midjourney and more!
Stacy Cashmore
Tech Explorer DevOps @Omniplan
Devops & Cloud | Building dynamic applications using C#, Azure Functions and Azure Static Web Apps
Kent C. Dodds
Software Engineer and Educator
JavaScript | Kent C. Dodds is a JavaScript engineer, and teacher. He's currently working on EpicWeb.dev and he's the father of four kids.
Jessy The
Starting with Web3
Blockchain | How to start with Block Chain Development? A free intro workshop with Jessy on the beginnings of Blockchain Development.
Rodger Werkhoven
Executive Creative Director @ iO
Future of AI | Contribution of making OpenAI's generative AI safe for Beta and public launch. Rodger is an Amsterdam based creative director, now working for iO, with an innate curiosity regarding ALL things scientific, cultural, artsy and nerdy. Rodger is no now testing DALL-E Experimental for OpenAI. Soon to become DALL-E 3. Rodger advises advertising and design companies on the topic of AI and its impact on the creative industry.
Daniel Gebler
Chief Technology Officer @Picnic
Thought Leader | Building the world’s fastest growing online supermarket that makes grocery shopping simple, fun, and affordable for everyone.
Sven Peters
DevOps Advocate @Atlassian
DevOps & Cloud | Uncovering the cultural and technical attributes to help development teams work effectively and drive innovation. He has 20 years experience in writing code, leading teams, and sharing his experience with thousands of developers at uncountable conferences in 25+ countries.
Minko Gechev
Angular Core Team @ Google
Frontend | Google created the JavaScript Leading Framework Angular. Minko and his team will be bringing us the latest updates and released within the world of Angular and what there is still to come.
Ian Sleebe
Senior Solution Architect @Zoom
Security | Ian Sleebe is a Senior Solutions Architect at Zoom where he has been working for almost four years, seeing the world change and more importantly seeing how people are changing how they work. From working at a major ITSP building out a UCaaS platform and internal processes, while staying compliant to new and existing legislation, to explaining security and privacy in the IT-space and helping people understand how technology can help them, Ian has a lot of experience helping companies all over the world. At Zoom as a Senior Solutions Architect Ian Sleebe explains how Zoom works from the inside out. From GDPR or other privacy-related questions to encryption architecture and IT governance, but also how you could embed Zoom into your application or platform.
Bas Broek
Senior iOS Developer @WeTransfer
Mobile | Bas is an iOS and macOS developer with a passion for testability, accessibility and user-centric apps. He cares about communication and collaboration. Likes coffee and watches (a lot).
Lauren Sharman
Vice President @Two Sigma Ventures
Future of AI | Lauren Sharman is Head of Marketing & Platform at Two Sigma Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in companies applying advancements in data science, AI, and computing to create the future. She oversees the firm's post-investment support, ecosystem partnerships, and marketing, and partners with the fund's 100+ startups on their growth ambitions. Lauren contributes expertise to a number of AI organisations including The University of Oxford AI Network and WomenOfAI.org, and her thought leadership on emerging technologies has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, and more. Lauren holds an MA from The University of Oxford and a BA from New York University, where she graduated summa cum laude.
Cato Bui
Global Chief of Staff @DEPT®
Product | Prepare to Pioneer Cato Bui is a professional with extensive experience in strategy, innovation, and consulting. She is currently the Global Chief of Staff at DEPT®, a pioneering technology and marketing services company that creates end-to-end digital experiences for global brands such as Google, Audi, KFC, Patagonia, Twitch, eBay, and Philips. We help our clients to pioneer by investing in innovation, and by leveraging our proprietary tech, data, and knowledge platforms for all our clients worldwide. We are experts in Technology Strategy & Architecture, Mobile App & Web Development, CX/UX, Commerce Platform, Cloud Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence. In 2022, the company launched WEB3/DEPT® - a global team of over 300 specialists including solidity engineers, ethicists, economists and game designers to build Web3 and the Metaverse.
Tom Geurts
Technical Director @GoSpooky
Future of AI | Excels in immersive tech, augmented reality, and interactive storytelling for industry giants like Verizon, Dior, Nike, and Disney. With over 14 years of experience, Tom's expertise spans motion graphics, gaming, and creative coding. He strives to create memorable mobile AR experiences that captivate both brands and their audiences. Prepare to be enlightened as Tom shares valuable insights and lessons from his extensive background in social AR.
Abdessamad Dari
Managing Director @TechGrounds
Soft Skills | Solving the mismatch in the IT industry. Abdessamad Dari, born in 1992, is the managing director at Techgrounds, an organization focused on making IT education accessible and promoting diversity in the IT industry. Techgrounds offers free IT courses, training participants for various IT roles. Dari is committed to uncovering hidden talent and fostering diversity within his own organization, believing it leads to innovation and success.
Germán Bencci
Chief Executive Officer @CodeYourFuture
Soft Skills | What Engineers and Companies Can Do to Increase Social Impact. Germán is the founder of CodeYourFuture, a community-led organisation changing people’s lives by offering accessible training for people of refugee and low-income backgrounds, helping them start thriving software development careers. In the past, Germán worked in open innovation roles and has led artistic productions and fundraising campaigns. He holds degrees in Engineering and Literature.
Cyril Cermak
iOS System Architect @Porsche
Security | As a system architect, Cyril is leading teams to achieve the state of the art mobile engineering. Cyril is passionate about iOS security, modular architecture and reverse engineering of iOS apps about which he does talks and workshops about.
Frédérique Mittelstaedt
Engineering Manager @Reddit
Backend | Real-time stream processing at Reddit. Frédérique Mittelstaedt currently leads the Data Processing & Workflow Foundations team at Reddit. His team builds and maintains Reddit’s centralized infrastructure, frameworks and tooling for asynchronous messaging (such as stream processing, batch processing, workflow systems) to empower engineering teams at Reddit to build scalable, decoupled systems and applications. (We're hiring!) Combining his experience as an engineering manager, software engineer and training as a scrum master and product owner and in personal, group and team coaching, Frédérique cares about and works towards creating environments that support great technical quality, effective systems and processes and authentic human relationships. Frédérique lives in London with his partner and his Siberian cat Apollo.
Will Scougal
Global Director Creative Strategy @Snap Inc
Thought Leader | Will helped build and lead creatively driven businesses. Will is a global marketer, strategist and creative with a proven track record building high performance teams that simplify and scale new ideas through innovative and effective marketing strategies and creative techniques. Will spent 7 years at Snapchat as Global Director of Creative Strategy. During that time he was responsible for building the augmented reality business in EMEA from the first sponsored AR experience to being one of the largest AR advertising businesses in the world today. Prior to Snapchat he was Head of Brand Strategy at Twitter where he built the team to be the most creatively awarded globally.
Albert-Jan Schot
Chief Technology Officer @Blis Digital
Thought Leader | Developers still rule the world! But with Low-code platforms emerging as a popular tool for accelerating development cycles it makes sense to have a look at what is possible nowadays. In this session, we explore how Fusion development - the combination of low-code and full code development - can help teams balance speed and flexibility to deliver high-quality applications at scale as well as enable the business to adapt to the ever changing requirements of customers.
Thijs de Maa
Senior Software Engineer @bunq
Frontend | How to leverage code generators and AI to optimize developer efficiency, and how writing clean, reusable, and extremely readable code almost negates the need for writing documentation. This reflects bunq’s transition into an established international scaleup, able to drive innovation in the financial sector faster and more efficiently than legacy banks.
Igor Sydorenko
Lead Commerce Technical Architect @Adobe
Thought Leader | Sharing Adobe's expertise and knowledge and commitment to innovation and excellence in the field of e-commerce.
Lyudmyla Baron
Technology Leader @PVH
Thought Leader | Focus on Artificial Intelligence, AI Ethics, Gender Equality, Diversity and Equity. I provide strategic guidance and thought leadership to organizations looking to stay ahead of the curve.
Shivany Powani
Senior Technical Program Manager @Hello Fresh
Soft Skill | A background in Quality Assurance with 7 years of delivering business critical projects.
Angèle Géraud
Senior Backend Developer @Ticket Swap
Backend |
Harish Kandala
Enterprise Engineer @ Meta
Backend | Comprehensive guide that simplifies the understanding of different concurrency models. It explores concepts such as threads, processes, coroutines, and event loops, providing insights into their strengths, weaknesses, and common use cases.
Harijs Deksnis
Director of Software Engineering @ Passionate People
Soft Skills | How have humans historically organized their work, from the structures of military formations and guilds, to the seismic shifts during the industrial revolution, leading up to the present-day realities of a fast-paced, agile-driven, and increasingly remote work environment. As tech leaders our quest is to build high-performing tech teams. Let's try to delve into the wisdom, ideas, and strategies available for leaders who have the opportunity to reimagine their organisations from scratch or revamp existing structures. Let's look at the elements of team design that drive productivity and success in the tech industry today.