Lightning Talk: Meeting Business Users Expectations

Featuring Kevin Muessig

Business apps are mostly written with the thought “Written once, run everywhere” which is not the full truth.

In this lightning talk Kevin will share with you why business apps should be treated like an end consumer app and why user experience is important in the business realm.

Lightning Talk: Your iPhone Is Also A Phone! 🤯

Featuring Paul Ardeleanu

From input to information – ML to the rescue!

Featuring Mukesh Thawani

Inputting information can be a tedious process, so how can you use machine learning to solve this problem? One smart approach is to input in a natural language and using machine learning to parse it into classified information. If you've ever used features like Quick Add in Todoist you'll...

Cellular View Controllers

Featuring Robin Malhotra

In this talk, Robin will share why you might want to embed UIViewControllers inside your UITableViewCells. Together with Robin, you'll explore a sample implementation (without doing any embedding/containment) and slowly refactor/reason about it to arrive at a subclass that lets you enjoy the...

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Lightning Talk by Young Coders

Featuring Femi Owolade-Coombes, Imran Hassan and Grace Owolade-Coombes

Keynote: Decisions

Featuring John Sundell

You all have to make decisions every day — both in your personal life, and in your lives as developers. But making good, solid, decisions that stand the test of time can be incredibly difficult. What framework to choose for networking? Should you adopt new Swift language features right away?...

Keynote: Tool Builders for Life

Featuring Jaimee Newberry

After working in the Web Interaction Design & Development industry from 1998-2013 with emphasis on empathetic and behavioral psychology-applied interface design for web, mobile web, and iOS applications Jaimee realized she had accumulated a lot of tools for building great "stuff"...

Beyond TDD

Featuring Graham Lee

When Graham adopted Test-Driven Development, he turned his back on testing. People think that if they write a couple of tests that show the happy path and the error path, then they have "100% coverage" and are done. If they add those tests to their continuous delivery pipeline, running...

Architecture: The Stuff That's Hard to Change

Featuring Dylan Beattie

We’ve all heard of the idea of ‘software architecture’. We’ve read books about domain-driven design and event sourcing, we’ve been to conferences and learned about micro services and REST APIs. Some of us remember working with n-tiers and stored procedures... some of us are still using them. But...

Event Driven Collaboration

Featuring Ian Cooper

When we move from a monolith to microservices we abandon integrating via a shared database, as each service must own its own data to allow them it to be autonomous. But now we have a new problem, our data is distributed. What happens if I need one service needs to talk to another about a shared...

A special Microsoft Azure and IoT workshop with Jim Bennett

Featuring Jim Bennett

IoT is cool, and getting an LED flashing is also a lot of fun, but what’s more fun is connecting an IoT device to the cloud to collect sensor data and control the device. In this hands-on workshop we will do just that!

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Sprinting In Place: The Cost of Missing Leadership Conversations

Featuring Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel

Are you missing the promised benefits of Agile? Douglas and Jeffrey believe that the biggest key to improved performance has been holding effective conversations on difficult topics like Trust, Fear, Why, Commitment and Accountability. Failure to have these conversations can lead to a wide range...