Open Space?

• Self organized
• Members determine topics
• Whomever shows up is the right person
• Whenever it starts is the right time to start
• Whenever it ends is the right time to end

Day look likes...

• 830 - 930am session
• 10 - 11am session
• 1130-1230 session
• Afternoon out door activities
• Afternoon hackathon projects
• 8pm Lightening talks / demo

Self organization!

• Arrange how to get shelter
• Arrange how to get there
• Figure out what talk to goto
• Arrange lunch
• Arrange afternoon activities
• Arrange hackathon projects
• Arrange dinner

Communication

Slack:

wtfconf.slack.com

Workflowy:

https://workflowy.com/s/KPkbNascH7

Sessoion Topics

• Java 8: Functional Enough to Stem the Flow?
• All things AI 
• The Next Step to Creating a Trust Organization
• Seeking failure as a counter-philosophy to demanding perfection
• immutable infrastructure
• When less is more - close shaves with Occam's razor

Session Topics (continues)

• When less is more - close shaves with Occam's razor
• testing in a crisis
• Apache Spark:tips, tricks,best practices
• is slack the new office?
• signal and noise - metrics, testing, and other risk reduction magic sticks
• IoT: Peak Hype?
• Cloud Event Handlers (AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Dataflow, etc) WTF?
• getting women back in tech

Session Topics (continues 2)

• can we interview/hire better?
• Interview  talk
• are standards still relevant/open source governance
• cross functional teams/squads/feature teams
• functional programming
• retrospective on experiments at wtf 2016
• Wargames and Chaos
• Creating an intelligent system that'll manage our infrastructures
• Close up session

Lightening Talk Topics

• VRBO Review system
• Jupyter and the future of IPython
• Kniting
• Netflix Chaos
• How to work with Asberger
• Pony Lang
• CrapCan racing 
• CucumberJVM

Lightening Talk Topics

• Skimo for Noobs
• Nonviolent communication 
• What hipchat can tell you about coworkers 
• Entropy: resistance is futile ...or is it? 
• the racing rules of sailing 
• Drones for fun and profit 
• Kotlin
• Social Anxiety
• Pony demo