Speakers
We've lined up some amazing speakers from the JavaScript community!
Max Firtman
Freelance Developer, Author, and Trainer
Loren Jarrett
GM Developer Tools Business, Progress
David Neal
Senior Developer Advocate for Okta
Ishan Anand
CTO at Moovweb
Nathanael Anderson
Co-Owner of nStudio
Zoe Koulouris Augustinos & Peter B Smith
Partners at Upstate Interactive
Carl Bergenhem
Product Manager for Kendo UI
Raymond Camden
Developer Experience Engineer
AJ Keller
CEO at Neurosity
Jen Looper
Cloud Developer Advocate Lead at Microsoft
Simon MacDonald
Senior Software Scientist at Adobe
Tara Z. Manicsic
Angular Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify
Alyssa Nicoll
Developer Advocate
Tommy Parnell
Senior Software Engineer at CarGurus
Diana Rodriguez
Chief DevOps Architect at Voicethread
Dimitar Todorov
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Vasil Trifonov
NativeScript Engineering Manager
TJ VanToll
Principal Developer Advocate at Progress
Eddy Verbruggen
Founder and CTO at Combidesk
Stanimira Vlaeva
Developer Advocate at Progress
Nathan Walker
NativeScript Developer Expert
Jeff Whelpley
Google Developer Expert
Sebastian Witalec
Senior Developer Advocate at Progress
Aysegul Yonet
Senior Azure Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft
Alex Ziskind
Founder of NativeScripting.com
Schedule
Two days. Two tracks. Tons of great speakers. All JavaScript.
9:00 AM
Keynote: How to Survive 20 Years Developing Apps
In this talk, I will go through 20+ years of app dev covering everything I have learned in the process: What we are still doing wrong? What has improved? We will discuss what your focus should be and how to stop frustrating yourself (and your users)
10:15 AM
Lucy in the Sky with ML: Building the Ultimate Beatles Tribute App
Twist and shout with me as I walk through the creation of the ultimate Beatles tribute app. Using Vue.js to build a native mobile app, you will learn about the challenges inherent in building this kind of app into a truly multimedia experience.
11:15 AM
Mobile UX from AMP to Native
In this talk, I will dive into the challenges of acquiring new mobile users and lay out a potential solution that starts with the Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) and ends with your native app installed on the user’s mobile device.
1:00 PM
Webpack Performance Trickery
I’ll show you how in an 8 week period, we turned the CarGuru site’s performance around, and how we cut our build times from 20 minutes to 4. I’ll show off a set of plugins we wrote and webpack best practices that can make your apps scream.
2:00 PM
How to Build Better Tutorials with Mixed Reality
We have evolved as humans to navigate a 3D world for millions of years. Yet, in the last 2000 years we are trying to represent our 3D world in 2D instructions. Abstracting 3D information on a 2D space has been the most efficient way to transfer knowledge and served us well. Today we are not limited by the technology anymore. In this talk, we will learn how to use Mixed Reality to create tutorials made for humans.
3:15 PM
How to Build the Fastest PWA Possible
In this talk, we’ll walk through lessons for delivering the fastest possible website when wrangling React and PWA technologies.
4:15 PM
Automating Hockey Team Management with Serverless
I’m Canadian so it’s safe to assume that I love hockey and I do. For over 10 years now I’ve organized a weekly hockey game with my friends. There are a lot of repetitive manual tasks needed to manage the game. Join me on my journey to completely automate the process using Node.js and Serverless.
9:00 AM
Keynote: How to Survive 20 Years Developing Apps
In this talk, I will go through 20+ years of app dev covering everything I have learned in the process: What we are still doing wrong? What has improved? We will discuss what your focus should be and how to stop frustrating yourself (and your users)
10:15 AM
Success in Tech: Fostering DevOps Culture
Nailing down the DevOps approach in all sectors of the ecosystem.
11:15 AM
Building User Adaptive Interfaces
How can we make computers aware of how focused or tired a user is? Using a simple JavaScript library, we can tap into a wealth of information about users to radically change they way we present information to them.
1:00 PM
Embedding V8 in the Real World
In this session, we will cover various topics based on our experiences with the V8 engine - from GC synchronization, through implementing a multithreading model, up to practical advice for optimizing start up time.
2:00 PM
NativeScript Playground: Behind The Scenes
In this session, the lead engineer of the Nativescript Playground will show you behind the curtains. Vasil will reveal the architecture and technologies behind the Playground. He will explain the problems faced, the lessons learned, and the decisions made along the way.
3:15 PM
Tale of Two Titans: Flutter and NativeScript
Discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of Flutter and NativeScript and how they approach the things differently to allow you to solve different problems with the right tool.
4:15 PM
Building something Sweet! Delicious treats from large scale mobile development.
Join Nathan to dive into how JavaScript helped deliver a fun and engaging mobile experience for Sweet. Gain insight into the mobile app’s setup and critical lessons learned in this large scale development.
9:45 AM
Client-Side Data Storage
A deep dive into how browsers enable websites to store data for your users. This will include a look at the options, discussions of when to use what, and a look at libraries to make them easier to use.
10:45 AM
Revealing 5 Mysteries of Cross-Platform Apps
What is hidden beneath the surface of cross-platform app development?
12:30 PM
10 Awesome Things You Can Build With NativeScript
In this talk you’ll learn about several of the latest and greatest iOS and Android features, and you’ll learn how to implement them using JavaScript and NativeScript.
1:30 PM
JavaScript Mobile Testing and CI in the Cloud
Mobile application testing is crucial for today’s software development market, since almost every enterprise wants to develop and deliver first class mobile apps. In this session, I will show one of our approaches to transparent CI process in the cloud with zero local infrastructure, using popular services like Travis-CI, SauceLabs and GitHub.
2:45 PM
Serverless, Async/Await, Immutability and Other Things You Pretend to Understand
Join me as we walk through plain English descriptions and joyful anecdotes of these mysterious terms. I aim to help you understand these terms enough to explain them to all the people you know that also pretend to understand them. “Currying? Sounds delicious!” is something you can avoid saying after this session.
3:45 PM
Keynote: You. Are. Awesome.
You may not realize it, but you are awesome. You have the power to change the world. Regardless if you are a student, professional, or “family engineer,” I firmly believe you have amazing potential to impact the people around you in powerful and meaningful ways. My goal is to help you realize the awesomeness you already possess and be encouraged to unleash it!
9:45 AM
Alexa, Top Me Up!
Join me to learn how to build your own Alexa skill. We will build a chatbot that will help the customers of C-Mobile check their balance and top up their phones.
10:45 AM
You Spin Me Round: JavaScript Animation Performance
In this talk, Alex Ziskind digs into different animation techniques available to NativeScript developers and compares pros and cons of each.
12:30 PM
Why Every Web App Should be a PWA
In this session we will cover what makes a PWA great, lessons we can learn from PWAs that can apply to any application, and reasons why every web app should be a PWA.
1:30 PM
Dark Patterns in UI — What NOT to Do to Your Users
In this talk I will go over some very obvious (and some not so obvious) patterns that are used to manipulate users. Understanding usability gives us a lot of power as web and mobile designers/developers.
2:45 PM
What AR You Waiting For?
Let’s sit down together and look at the current state of augmented reality and explore an option that doesn’t require you to reverse a binary tree every 10 lines of code.
3:45 PM
Keynote: You. Are. Awesome.
You may not realize it, but you are awesome. You have the power to change the world. Regardless if you are a student, professional, or “family engineer,” I firmly believe you have amazing potential to impact the people around you in powerful and meaningful ways. My goal is to help you realize the awesomeness you already possess and be encouraged to unleash it!
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