Winter Tech Forum: My experience
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
Who attended?
- Netflixs
- Consulting firm
- Architects
- American Express
- Evangelists
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
Hack Day projects
- WaaS
- Rust histograph
- Pony slack bot
- Kubernetes
- Elm play around
Netflix
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Things I want to do...
- Scala Koan
- Coursera big data classes
- Podcast
- Illegal argument
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