Conference:March 6-8, 2017
Workshops:March 9-10, 2017
Track: Softskills: Essential Skills for Developers
Location:
- St James, 4th flr.
Day of week:
- Tuesday
We all want to be more effective - as individuals and as teams. Improving a technical skill such as learning a new programming technique or language can help, but those gains pale in comparison to the gains made when teams work more effectively together. Or even when an individual learns a more fundamental skill such as problem solving. What many might label "soft skills." Ironically, these so called "soft skills" are often the hardest to master. In this track, we'll introduce attendees to these set of skills that help lead individuals and teams to greatness.
by Anjuan Simmons
Technical Program Manager @ Questback
Diversity and inclusion have become hot topics in technology, but you may not know how you can make a difference. This talk will help you understand that, no matter your background, you have privilege and can lend it to marginalized groups in tech.
by Alex Qin
Software Engineer, Educator and Founder of Code Cooperative
How do perceptions and stereotypes affect those in the programming community? This talk tells the true story of my physical transformation, and the surprising and drastic ways in which it affected how I was perceived and treated as a programmer. This new perspective allowed me to take a hard look at our community, and how it can at times be less welcoming and inclusive than we all intend it to be. This talk also covers the effects of unconscious bias, micro-...
by Danielle Leong
Engineer on GitHub's Community and Safety Team
Online safety has become a huge problem in the world of oversharing. Real name policies, automatic geolocation tracking, and photo tagging increase user adoption rates, but these features can be quickly abused by bad actors. This talk will discuss how to apply a "consent filter" to product decisions to make a safer user experience and to help protect your most vulnerable users from harm.
by Patrick Kua
Principal Consultant and Tech Lead @ThoughtWorks
As software architects, we often focus on the technical side to building software including key platform or design decisions, or finding reasons to use the latest and great technologies. We forget that software is built by people, and without considering how people work together, architectural visions are wasted. In this talk, we will explore why and how architects should care about well-functioning teams and look at the tools and techniques architects can use to build high-performance teams...
by Meri Williams
CTO who understands the science around helping people do their best
Bringing agile approaches into how we manage people and lead teams can have wonderful, far-reaching impact. How do we get the most out of these new ways of working and also ensure that we create an inclusive environment where all types of people can be successful? In this session we’ll take a closer look at the science behind great people management, to figure out how to bring these together and craft space for everyone to be awesome.
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Modern Learning Systems
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Observability Done Right: Automating Insight & Software Telemetry
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Data Engineering : Where the Rubber meets the Road in Data Science
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Softskills: Essential Skills for Developers
Skills for the developer in the workplace