Craft Conference

THURSDAY - Session Day 1
	Platform 1	Platform 2	Orange Tent	Blue Tent	Pink Tent	Green Tent
08:00	Registration & Breakfast
09:20	Welcome & Intro
09:40	When the Universe Calls: working at the junction of Big Data, Machine Learning, and Science Pamela Gay (Planetary Science Institute) machine learning crowdsourcing web development big data cloud services crowdsourcing citizen science spacecraft OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Failure is not an option
10:40	Mini break
10:50	Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming (the future is here) Bjarne Stroustrup (Morgan Stanley) Platform 1	Building Evolutionary Architectures Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks, Inc.) Platform 2 microservices architecture evolutionary architecture architecture patterns	Getting (service) design right Uwe Friedrichsen (codecentric AG) Orange Tent Mircoservices Distributed Systems Design	Mobius Outcome Delivery - Stop Building More Features Faster Gabrielle Benefield (Mobius Outcome Delivery) Blue Tent Outcome Delivery Mobius Strategy Product innovation lean startup lean ux design thinking	Persuading the Bear: Learn how to Build Engaged Communities through Horizontal Influencing Michael Nir (Sapir Consulting US) Pink Tent leadership scrum master product owner influence Team architect business skills communication	Ballerina (hands-on session) Paul Fremantle (WSO2) Green Tent language integration cloud native kubernetes
11:35	Coffee break
11:55	3 common pitfalls in microservice integration and how to avoid them Bernd Rücker (Camunda) Platform 1 Distributed Systems Microservices Integration	Domain-Driven Design: Hidden Lessons from the Big Blue Book Nick Tune (Navico) Platform 2 Domain-Driven Design Sociotechnical Architecture	State of the Art User Interfaces with State Machines David Khourshid (Microsoft) Orange Tent state management state machines frontend software modeling javascript web visualization	It's Spelled 'Accessibility', not 'Disability' Scott Davis (ThoughtWorks) Blue Tent accessibility a11y mobile web	Getting started with p2p Sarah Friend (CirclesUBI) Pink Tent p2p decentralization web libp2p
12:40	Lunch
13:00	BOF Sessions (during lunch) Blue balloons DevOps practitioners - what does DevOps mean in your organization? with Justin Kitagawa and Viktor Farcic Green balloons Chickens Learn Lean: How to survive when technology disrupts your business with Michael Nir Yellow balloons Chaos Engineering with Aaron Rinehart Red balloons Refactoring: How to do it? How to get management and the developers on board? When are you ready?
13:30	Onsite Workshops (during lunch) Design & Implement Cloud native application with Spring Boot at the workshop train Beat boring presentations with Prezi at the sponsor area
14:00	Why software architects fail – and what to do about it Stefan Tilkov (INNOQ) Platform 1 architecture development roles career	The Pocket Guide to Artificial Intelligence Zoltan Prekopcsak (RapidMiner) Platform 2 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Data Science	Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations Jez Humble (Jez Humble and Associates LLC) Orange Tent devops lean management product management continuous delivery agile	From conversational interfaces to serverless natural language APIs Pavel Veller (EPAM Systems) Blue Tent natural language understanding conversational interfaces serverless AWS	From 0% to Cleanly Refactored 100% tested code Llewellyn Falco (Spun Labs ( Independent )) Pink Tent UnitTests Refactoring ApprovalTesting Combinortic Testing CodeCoverage ProvableRefactorings TestCommitRevert	Chaos Development: Removing software as the inhibitor of Agile (hands-on session) Fred George (Fred George Consulting) Green Tent Chaos agile microservices legacy
14:45	Mini break
15:25	Speeding Up Innovation Adrian Cockcroft (AWS) Platform 1 cloud continuous delivery cloud native serverless disaster recovery chaos engineering	Unit Tests as Specifications David Bernstein (To Be Agile) Platform 2 Agile Extreme Programming Scrum, Development Test-Driven Development Software Quality Emergent Design Unit Testing Instrumentation	Building Scalable and Extendable Data Pipeline for Call of Duty Games: Lessons Learned Yaroslav Tkachenko (Activision) Orange Tent kafka data pipelines stream processing	Architecture Transformation Challenges Stefan Tilkov (INNOQ) Blue Tent Architecture Transformation Organization Roles Patterns	Working development environment in 15 minutes: Developer Experience in Prezi Péter Turi (Prezi) & László Üveges (Prezi) Pink Tent kubernetes skaffold helm developer efficiency
16:10	Coffee Break
16:30	Breaking Codes, Building Jets, and Designing Teams Randy Shoup (WeWork) Platform 1 leadership agile lean culture history	Unleash Your Play Brain - Playing Your Way Towards a Happier Adulthood Portia Tung (The School of Play) Platform 2 play intelligence leadership transformation organisational change	The State of Serverless Computing Chenggang Wu (UC Berkeley) & Vikram Sreekanti (UC Berkeley) Orange Tent cloud computing serverless infrastructure	Continuous Experimentation Mike Roberts (Symphonia) Blue Tent serverless DevOps agile cloud	Design Patterns for Loosely Coupled Applications Barry Stahl (CopperByte, Inc.) Pink Tent design patterns architecture best practice solid principles	Shift left in testing - Find bugs before they’re implemented (hands-on session) Bart Szulc (Spartez/Atlassian) & Kasia Balcerzak (Spartez/Atlassian) Green Tent testing shift-left risk heuristics quality attributes distributed systems
17:15	Mini break
17:20	Cultivating Architecture Martin Fowler (ThoughtWorks) & Birgitta Böckeler (ThoughtWorks) Platform 1 architecture agile culture	How to use serverless and microservices together Idit Levine (Solo.io) Platform 2	How to build observability into a serverless application Yan Cui (DAZN) Orange Tent serverless aws cloud	Service mesh options with Istio, Linkerd, and/or Consul Christian Posta (Solo.io) Blue Tent Cloud Service Mesh Istio Consul Linkerd Microservices	Actionable insight with derived second order monitoring data Jeremy Edberg (MinOps) Pink Tent Monitoring Insight DevOps Distributed Systems Microservices
18:10	Mini break Techquila with Pavel Veller at the sponsor area Sponsored by Epam
18:20	Deliberate Advice from an Accidental Career Daniel Terhorst-North (Dan North & Associates Ltd) career leadership advice
19:20	Day closing
19:25	Dinner // EPAM party // Networking
19:45	BOF Sessions (during dinner) Blue balloons Serverless infrastructures: AWS Lambda or Google Functions with Yan Cui Green balloons How to introduce better engineering practices in the organization? Top down? Bottom up? How to have an impact in your organization? with Julie Matviyuk, Daniel Terhorst-North and Randy Shoup Yellow balloons What is better AWS, GCP, or Azure with Viktor Farcic Red balloons Security - at home and in the cloud: How do you make sure people are not using your phone camera while you are at home? How do you know only you use your computers and you don't have uninvited guests? What about your smart home? Who has access to it?
20:00	Coding Dojo (Green Tent) // Mario Kart (Platform 1 & 2)
23:00	End of Day 1
FRIDAY - Session Day 2
	Platform 1	Platform 2	Orange Tent	Blue Tent	Pink Tent	Green Tent
08:20	Breakfast
09:00	Welcome & Intro
09:10	Cynefin Dave Snowden (Cognitive Edge)
10:10	Coffee Break
10:20	Onsite workshop (during the coffee break) How Do Self-Driving Cars Learn? & What does it take to validate a self-driving vehicle above L2? at the workshop train
10:30	Codefin, or a Theory of Relativity for Software Development Géza Mihala (Coders Only) Platform 1 cynefin sense making situational awareness decisions and non-decisions relativity all things development what and when and why	Unlearning - The Challenge of Change Jessie Shternshus (The Improv Effect) Platform 2 professional development leadership team change management	Friendly fire: how security software messes up Julie Matviyuk (Symantec) Orange Tent FalsePositives Antivirus BestPractices	Asking, Telling and Modularity - Choices in Code Michael Feathers (R7K Research & Conveyance) Blue Tent code object-orientation design functional programming	Practical privacy - GDPR explained Marcus Bointon (Synchromedia Limited) Pink Tent security privacy data protection law EU human rights	Design Thinking Workshop: Pass on Perfection April Jefferson (April Jefferson Corp.) Green Tent design thinking perfection game core protocols cocreation collaboration
11:15	Mini break
11:25	Add Simplicity to Complex Systems Theo Schlossnagle (Circonus) Platform 1 distributed systems operations performance	Designing code without types Alexandru Bolboaca (Mozaic Works) Platform 2 think design work smart	Learning from Machines Ashi Krishnan (GitHub) Orange Tent Machine Learning Computational Neuroscience GAN Neural Networks Deep Learning	SQL Server Performance Tuning Made Easy Pinal Dave (SQLAuthority.com) Blue Tent SQL Server Performance Tuning SQL Server Performance	CRI Runtimes Deep Dive: Who's Running My Kubernetes Pod!? Phil Estes (IBM Cloud) Pink Tent containers container runtimes containerd CNCF OCI Kubernetes open source
12:10	Lunch
12:45	BOF Sessions (during lunch) Blue balloons Service mesh strategy and adoption Green balloons Challenges in data engineering and how to overcome them with Yaroslav Tkachenko Yellow balloons Scrum masters: How did you get started? What are your challenges? What are your solutions? Red ballooons TDD - Test Driven Developers: How can you get started with it when you have an existing code-base without tests? How to get the other developers write tests? How to get managers accept that you spend time writing tests? How to measure your progress?
13:00	Onsite workshop (during lunch) Beat boring presentations with Prezi at the infoscreen
13:40	Technical Leadership and Empowered Teams Emily Bache (Praqma) Platform 1 architecture agile teams TDD	Quantum computing Holly Cummins (IBM Cloud Garage) Platform 2 quantum	Continuous tuning of Microservices via Bayesian Optimization Gloria Liu (Twitter) Orange Tent microservices machine learning performance	Functional Internet of Things with Elixir and Nerves Justin Schneck (Le Tote) Blue Tent IoT Functional Programming Elixir Erlang Embedded Systems	Heuristics and hunches in exploratory testing Alex Schladebeck (BREDEX GmbH) Pink Tent exploratory testing microheuristics	A Practical Introduction to Coaching (hands-on session) Heidi Helfand (Procore Technologies) Green Tent leadership listening coaching communication soft skills
14:25	Mini break
14:35	Software Engineering - A philosophical activity Tom Enden (Wix) Platform 1	Moving Fast at Scale Randy Shoup (WeWork) Platform 2 leadership agile lean devops organization culture	Reinforcement learning - A gentle introduction Uwe Friedrichsen (codecentric AG) Orange Tent AI Deep Learning Reinforcement learning	Security Pre-Cognition: Using Chaos Engineering in Security Incident Response w/ ChaoSlingr Aaron Rinehart (Verica.io) Blue Tent Security Distributed Systems Chaos Engineering Incident Response DevSecOps Resilience	Learning That Sticks - Upskill Your Teams with a Dojo Dion Stewart (Dojo and Co) Pink Tent Learning Organizations Coaching DevOps Architecture Culture Operating Model Product Model Transformation
15:20	Raffle & Coffee break
15:50	Reliability Engineering: One of the Best Jobs in Software Engineering Mary Poppendieck (Poppendieck.LLC) Platform 1 Chaos Engineering Resilience High Paid Jobs	Andreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering Bryan Cantrill (Joyent) Platform 2 Leadership Culture Ethics	Dev and Test Agility for your Database with Docker Julie Lerman (The Data Farm) Orange Tent DevOps SQL Server Docker CI/CD	Platforms at Twilio: Unlocking Developer Effectiveness Justin Kitagawa (Twilio) Blue Tent DevOps Platforms API Twilio Microservice	All Together Now: An Introduction to Distributed Consensus Tess Rinearson (Interstellar) Pink Tent distributed systems blockchain	User Interfaces in the Age of Intrinsic Web Design: Grid, Flex, and Modern CSS (hands-on session) Bill Odom (Independent) Green Tent css css grid grid flex flexbox html web development sass scss intrinsic design frontend
16:35	Mini break
16:40	“The Upside Down” Of The Web - Video technologies Máté Nádasdi (IBM Watson Media) Platform 1 video streaming javascript engineering user experience frontend web general	Leadership Guide for the Reluctant Leader David Neal (Okta) Platform 2 leadership soft skills	Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework Angie Jones (Applitools) Orange Tent testing	Making Resilient, Self-Adaptive, And Autonomous Kubernetes Clusters Viktor Farcic (CloudBees) Blue Tent Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler Horizontal Autoscaler Prometheus Alertmanager Custom metrics	Rethinking Identity with Clojure David Nolen (Ledgr Inc.) Pink Tent Security Functional Programming Mobile Development Clojure
17:25	Mini break
17:35	Cultivating Instinct Katrina Owen (GitHub) learning expertise
18:15	Closing ceremony

Schedule

When the Universe Calls: working at the junction of Big Data, Machine Learning, and Science

Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming (the future is here)

Building Evolutionary Architectures

Getting (service) design right

Mobius Outcome Delivery - Stop Building More Features Faster

Persuading the Bear: Learn how to Build Engaged Communities through Horizontal Influencing

Ballerina (hands-on session)

3 common pitfalls in microservice integration and how to avoid them

Domain-Driven Design: Hidden Lessons from the Big Blue Book

State of the Art User Interfaces with State Machines

It's Spelled 'Accessibility', not 'Disability'

Getting started with p2p

Why software architects fail – and what to do about it

The Pocket Guide to Artificial Intelligence

Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

From conversational interfaces to serverless natural language APIs

From 0% to Cleanly Refactored 100% tested code

Chaos Development: Removing software as the inhibitor of Agile (hands-on session)

Speeding Up Innovation

Unit Tests as Specifications

Building Scalable and Extendable Data Pipeline for Call of Duty Games: Lessons Learned

Architecture Transformation Challenges

Working development environment in 15 minutes: Developer Experience in Prezi

Breaking Codes, Building Jets, and Designing Teams

Unleash Your Play Brain - Playing Your Way Towards a Happier Adulthood

The State of Serverless Computing

Continuous Experimentation

Design Patterns for Loosely Coupled Applications

Shift left in testing - Find bugs before they’re implemented (hands-on session)

Cultivating Architecture

How to use serverless and microservices together

How to build observability into a serverless application

Service mesh options with Istio, Linkerd, and/or Consul

Actionable insight with derived second order monitoring data

Deliberate Advice from an Accidental Career

Cynefin

Codefin, or a Theory of Relativity for Software Development

Unlearning - The Challenge of Change

Friendly fire: how security software messes up

Asking, Telling and Modularity - Choices in Code

Practical privacy - GDPR explained

Design Thinking Workshop: Pass on Perfection

Add Simplicity to Complex Systems

Designing code without types

Learning from Machines

SQL Server Performance Tuning Made Easy

CRI Runtimes Deep Dive: Who's Running My Kubernetes Pod!?

Technical Leadership and Empowered Teams

Quantum computing

Continuous tuning of Microservices via Bayesian Optimization

Functional Internet of Things with Elixir and Nerves

Heuristics and hunches in exploratory testing

A Practical Introduction to Coaching (hands-on session)

Software Engineering - A philosophical activity

Moving Fast at Scale

Reinforcement learning - A gentle introduction

Security Pre-Cognition: Using Chaos Engineering in Security Incident Response w/ ChaoSlingr

Learning That Sticks - Upskill Your Teams with a Dojo

Reliability Engineering: One of the Best Jobs in Software Engineering

Andreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering

Dev and Test Agility for your Database with Docker

Platforms at Twilio: Unlocking Developer Effectiveness

All Together Now: An Introduction to Distributed Consensus

User Interfaces in the Age of Intrinsic Web Design: Grid, Flex, and Modern CSS (hands-on session)

“The Upside Down” Of The Web - Video technologies

Leadership Guide for the Reluctant Leader

Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework

Making Resilient, Self-Adaptive, And Autonomous Kubernetes Clusters

Rethinking Identity with Clojure

Cultivating Instinct