Workshops:March 10-11, 2016
Track: 21st Century Culture from Geeks on the Ground
Location:
- Westminster, 4th flr.
Day of week:
- Monday
We all would love an awesome culture at work. And companies are beginning to realize that a great culture can attract, retain and grow the best of the best in the tech world – translating into competitive edge and innovation in the market.
So now geeking out on culture is one of the latest trends in the tech industry. Management, science and tech articles abound. Stories of different modern cultural experiments, failures and amazing successes circulate: from remote working to org hacking in FTSE 100's.
Ok, that’s all well and good, but right here, right now what’s really going on, on the ground? And what’s worth learning about? Who is pushing boundaries, and what could you start doing at work tomorrow?
This track brings together top engineering community practitioners to give cutting edge inspiration combined with good realistic advice. Hailing from a variety of work cultures (from Corporate to Startup) they'll share super cool stuff, good and bad experiences, hard earned wisdom and tried and tested techniques - on how they created change, transformed, or literally just survived and thrived in a 21st century culture.
by Richard Kasperowski
Author of The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness
Open Space
by Chris Young
Agile/Lean Engineering Leader, previously of BBC, YouView, & Base79
by Kate Gray
Building brands / customers / talent at ambitious companies
How often do you come across ‘politics’ in your workplace as a challenge or impedance on your work?
In this talk we will share the methods used in political campaigns and show how they can be applied to the workplace to help you achieve your goals.
We will look at the challenges of influencing the opinions and behaviours of people who are either disengaged or have a vested interest not to change.
We’ll show you how you can assess your situation as you would a political...
by Glen Ford
CTO @Beamly
Glen is here to warn you: Changing culture is not just adding beanbags, a games room, a snack cupboard and hack days! Everyone wants to build a great company culture, its the latest industry 'thing', its considered the biggest drawcard to attract and maintain talent, but have you really thought about what changing culture will really be like, in the real world?
In this talk Glen warns how Cargo Cults (imitation without understanding) are not only a danger in many facets of our...
by Rachel Davies
Team Lead at Unruly
Note: This talk replaces a cancellation for "How to copy Spotify in 30min."
Unruly is the leading global platform for social video advertising, we're celebrating our 10th birthday this year. Unruly has grown from a tiny startup to global organisation recently acquired by News. Its secret weapon is passionate people on a mission to #DeliverWow. Anyone who walks in the door of our offices sees our culture at work. Our workspaces are full of personal touches that help...
by Matt Wynne
Founder @Cucumber
by Steve Tooke
Cucumber and Full Stack Testing
Classic agile development assumes co-location, but the world is quickly becoming decentralised and remote working is becoming more commonplace. We need new practices to help overcome the new problems that remote collaboration brings.
At Cucumber Ltd we have team of experienced XP practitioners building our SaaS product Cucumber Pro. To help us quickly and effectively build a team with a shared understanding of the product goals we chose mob programming. But we’re a distributed team....
by Katherine Kirk
Agile Coach and Researcher
Any tech is well familiar with the frustration that, in corporate culture, there is often a long chain-of-blame, cascading down from corporates to the average team – hiding behind finance. At its worst it becomes a black hole where great ideas and initiatives silently dissolve. But are things starting to change….? Is change really possible?
In this talk Katherine suggests it might, and explores how she is seeing an effect of the ‘Continuousness-trend’ (continuous...
Tracks
Covering innovative topics
Monday, 7 March
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Back to Java
What to expect in Java 9 and Spring 5
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Stream Processing @ Scale
Big data, fast-moving data. Practical implementation lessons on Real-time Data
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DevOps & CI/CD
Lessons/stories on optimizing the deployment pipeline
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Head-to-Tail Functional Languages
Free-range Monads, Tackling immutability, tales from production, and more...
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Architecting for Failure
Your system will fail. Take control before it takes you with it
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21st Century Culture from Geeks on the Ground
New ways to organise technology companies and workplace culture
Tuesday, 8 March
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Architectures You've Always Wondered about
In-depth technical case studies from giants like: Microsoft, Netflix, Google, Twitter, and more...
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Close to the Metal
Get efficiency back into your code, concepts like: cache efficient algorithm and lock free data structures
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Containers (in production)
Real-world lessons on scalability and reliability in production container deployments
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Modern CS in the real world
Real-world Industry adoption of modern CS ideas
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Security, Incident Response & Fraud Detection
Master-level classes on building security into your system and responding to incidents when things go wrong.
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Optimizing You
Keeping life in balance is always a challenge. Learning lifehacks
Wednesday, 9 March
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Disrupting Finance
Technology advances in finance (blockchain, P2P, Machine Learning, API's)
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Modern Native Languages
Modern native languages: Safe efficiency with Go, Rust, Swift
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Full Stack Javascript
Level up Javascript with topics like Angular, React/ReactNative, Node, Mongo/Couch/Other, Falcor, GraphQL, etc
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Data Science & Machine Learning Methods
A developer's data science and machine learning toolkit
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Microservices for Mega-Architectures
Practical lessons on Microservices success.
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Modern Agile Development
Revisiting Agile today and tackling challenges we are seeing in the wild
