April 9, 2024
8:00 AM—8:50 AM
8:50 AM—9:50 AM
Room: Qu4a
Opening Remarks
Keynote: Critical Shifts in Thinking for the Systems Age
Diana Montalion, Author, Learning Systems Thinking: Essential Nonlinear Skills & Practices for Software Professionals
10:30 AM—11:30 AM
Room: Qu4a
The Tools We Still Need to Build with AI
Chelsea Troy, Machine Learning Operations Engineer, Mozilla
Room: Qu4b
WebAssembly & the Component Model: the Future of Software Development
Oscar Spencer, Co-creator, Grain; Principal Engineer, F5 NGINX
11:45 PM—12:45 PM
Room: Qu4a
How Developers Can Ethically Hack for Fun and Profit
Dane Sherrets, Senior Solutions Architect, HackerOne
Room: Qu4b
Understanding TypeScript: Fixing the Billion Dollar Mistake and Other Concepts
Josh Goldberg, Author, Learning TypeScript; Maintainer, TypeScript-ESLint; Committer, ESLint
12:45 PM—1:45 PM
1:45 PM—2:45 PM
Room: Qu4a
The Best TypeScript Features You’re Not Using Yet
Josh Goldberg, Author, Learning TypeScript; Maintainer, TypeScript-ESLint; Committer, ESLint
Room: Qu4b
Experimenting in a Sociotechnical System
Jessica Kerr, Symmathecist; Developer Advocate, Honeycomb.io
3:00 PM—4:00 PM
Room: Qu4a
Continuous Accessibility: Strategies That Scale
Melanie Sumner, Accessibility Lead for Design Systems, HashiCorp
Room: Qu4b
Fixed Time, Variable Scope in the Shape Up Methodology
Ryan Singer, Author, Shape Up; Former Head of Strategy, 37signals
4:00 PM—4:15 PM
4:15 PM—5:15 PM
Room Qu4a
Generative AI: Beyond the Amazing Demos
Rod Johnson, Creator, Spring Framework; Co-Founder & CEO, SpringSource
Room Qu4a
Failure Fridays at PagerDuty: Embracing Failure for Success
Stevenson Jean-Pierre, Senior Engineering Manager, PagerDuty
5:15 PM—7:15 PM
April 10, 2024
8:00 AM—8:50 AM
8:50 AM—9:50 AM
Room: Qu4a
Opening Remarks
Not Dead Yet! Reclaiming Agility
Dave Thomas, Author, The Pragmatic Programmer
Room: Qu4b
Opening Remarks
Securing with Love: A Philly Style Approach to Cloud Safety
Cailyn Edwards, Senior Security Engineer, Auth0 by Okta
10:30 AM—11:30 AM
Room: Qu4a
Integrating AI Technologies Into Real-World Applications: Case Studies & Insights
Ya Xue, VP Data Science, Infinia ML
Room: Qu4b
Rethinking Developer Experience (DX)
Brian LeRoux, Co-founder and CTO, Begin.com; Core Maintainer, OpenJS Architect
11:45 AM—12:45 PM
Room: Qu4a
Controlling a Robotic Hand With My Brain: My Experience With Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI)
Scott Imbrie, Participant, Brain/Computer Interface Study
Room: Qu4b
Ontology-First Knowledge Graphs
Alexandre Bertails, Software Engineer & Ontologist, Netflix
12:45 PM—1:45 PM
1:45 PM—2:45 PM
Room: Qu4a
Exploring the Human Mind through AI, VR, and Neuroscience at Penn’s Virtual Reality Lab
Jeffrey Vadala, Lead VR Developer, Penn Neurology VR Laboratory
Room: Qu4b
The Art of Omnichannel: Building Blocks For Crafting Connected Experiences
Joel Confino, Chief Omnichannel Architect, Vanguard
3:00 PM—4:00 PM
Room: Qu4a
React and Its Pretenders to the Throne: Is News of React’s Death Premature?
Ken Rimple, Director of Training & Mentoring, Chariot Solutions
Room: Qu4b
Exploring the Power of Thought with Brain-Computer Interfaces
Harrison Canning, Innovation Strategist at Blackrock Neurotech; Science Communicator; Bioethics Student, Harvard University
4:00 PM—4:15 PM
4:15 PM—5:15 PM
Room: Qu4a
The Return of Procedural Programming
Richard Feldman, Creator, the Roc Programming Language