Dan Haywood
Application Architect
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DAN HAYWOOD is an independent consultant, architect and developer, best known for his work on domain-driven design and the naked objects pattern.
For the past 13 years Dan has been a technical advisor for the Irish Government’s strategic Naked Objects system on .NET, an application that administers many EUR billions in social welfare benefit payments. And for the past 5 years he has also been a key developer on Estatio, an open source estate management application written for Eurocommercial Properties, implemented on (and a key driven of) the Apache Isis open source framework.
Dan’s book “Domain Driven Design using Naked Objects” (pragprog) was praised as “an important contribution to DDD” and a “clear and passionate book about a great subject”. He has subsequently written the “Restful Objects Specification” a generalisation of the naked objects paradigm for hypermedia APIs, and set to be the basis for future versions of the frameworks. More recently Dan has taken issue with the microservices hype, mounting a defence of the (modular) monolith (infoq.com).
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Every organisation needs IT to operate, but too many treat it as a necessary evil, a cost to be born, a drain on resources. High-level CTOs, often far removed from day-to-day operations, embark on costly projects installing packaged software for their core business domain, requiring the company to be bent to the shape required by the software rather than the other way around. There's definitely a role for packaged software: you aren't going to beat your competitor with a better payroll system or general ledger. But when it comes to the core domain of your business - the stuff that is unique to your company and presumably you try to do better than anyone else - you need to take a different approach. You need enterprise IT that is sympathetic to the work your front-line ops people do, and enables them rather than constrains.You need enterprise IT that enables the executives to understand how their company is operating, so they can steer the ship effectively. You need enterprise IT that supports your core business, IT that is treated as a profit center, not a cost center. You also need a way to build such software. Software development isn't a science, it's an empirical practice, and it requires an effective feedback loop to allow both business folk and techies to find a way through to the best solution... and to continue to evolve that solution as the business changes over time. In this talk we're going to explore this approach with real-world examples and use cases so you can see for yourself how you, too, could find a better way to deliver effective and adaptive IT into your company.John Ferguson Smart
Consultant, Serenity BDD Lead
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John is a speaker, author, mentor and internationally-recognised specialist in building high performing teams and organisations through collaborative practices such as BDD, Test Automation, Software Craftsmanship.
John helps organisations and teams around the world deliver software that makes a difference sooner, through more effective collaboration and communication techniques, and through better technical practices.
John is the author of the best-selling book “BDD in Action”, as well as “Jenkins: The Definitive Guide” and “Java Power Tools”.
Very active in the Agile, BDD and Open Source communities, John also leads development on the innovative Serenity BDD test automation library.
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International speaker and author of “BDD in Action” John Ferguson Smart will show you how you can multiply your team’s productivity and innovation by engaging the creativity of your whole team from the outset. Drawing from his long experience helping teams deliver better software faster and more effectively, John will discuss the latest practical techniques leveraged from Behaviour Driven Development, Lean Enterprise, DevOps, and Test Automation, combined with research in Psychology and Team Performance, to show you how to get the best out of your teams. Learn about the new roles of business analysts, developers and testers in a DevOps world, and how testers can play a vital role in not only detecting defects but preventing them. Discover how you can make test automation happen during, not after, the sprint, and how to engage the creativity of the whole team right from the word "go".Moshe Ferber
Chairman, Cloud Security Alliance, Israel
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Moshe Ferber is a recognized industry expert, popular public speaker and a notable figures in the Israeli innovation community, with over 20 years’ experience at various positions. Currently Ferber focuses on cloud security as entrepreneur and lecturer and promotes responsible cloud adoption by developing the next generation of cloud security best practices for the industry.
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Mobile computing took his place as the new frontend, and currently cloud computing is growing to become the new backend – creating various challenges for security professionals. But the nature of the security challenges vary between the different market sectors. While finance sector is coping with compliance challenges, hi-tech companies are struggling to earn customers trust and build scalable applications. In this presentation we will examine cloud security challenges according to the different market sectors. For each sector we review the current cloud adoption status and list cloud challenges based on the risk profile of the sector.Claudia Chirilescu
Managing Director Spoon
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Claudia Chirilescu loves being an entrepreneur. She does that everyday at Spoon where she keeps the organization in a continuous evolution in order to be in line with the social digitalization. At Intro and hipshops.com, she creates a more integrated shopping experience for the consumers combining online and offline touch points.
Digital communication in 2017 is not something that an agency can solve by itself, it’s a more complex aspect that all business should address at a high managerial level. Claudia’s team expertize can help clients to better understand how digital solutions and available technologies can help them create a more intimate relation with the audience and generate real value for them.
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Taking a client with all its digital assets: company website, social media channels, advertising needs and non-digital communication. How can we integrate them? Multiples messages at the same time? What to measure, what is more important? To whom? How quickly can we adapt to all the changes in each social channel?Alex "Jay" Balan
Chief Security Researcher and Spokesperson Bitdefender
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Alex “Jay” Balan is the Chief Security Researcher and Spokesperson for Bitdefender. His career is focused on Information Security, Innovation and Product Strategy, fields in which he has so far accumulated over 15 years of experience. He drove the vision for Bitdefender’s UNIX-based security solutions before kickstarting an ambitious project that would advance the company’s R&D department and steer a good part of the company’s focus towards technology and innovation. His role contributed significantly to the company’s current position as technology leader.
Now, he furthers security and privacy research from both a technical as well as a phislosopical perspective and has been actively involved in creating awareness in these fields by speaking at a number of conferences including DefCon, BSides, ISC China, Interpol’s meetings on Cyber Crime for Heads of Units, DefCamp, IMWorld, Future of Media and many others.
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Associate Partner
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Thomas Endres is an IT consultant working for TNG Technology Consulting in Munich. Besides his normal work for the customer he is creating various prototypes like a see-through Augmented Reality device or a telepresence robotics system with the company’s hardware hacking team. In his spare time, he is working on gesture control applications, i.e. for controlling quadrocopters with bare hands. But he is also involved in other open source projects written in Java, C# and all kinds of JavaScript languages. Apart from this, he is working as a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Landshut.
Thomas studied IT at the TU Munich and is passionate about software development and all the other aspects of technology. As an Intel Software Innovator and Black Belt, he is promoting new technologies like gesture control, AR/VR and robotics around the world. He has recently received a JavaOne Rockstar award.
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Using humanoid robots, virtual reality glasses and 3D camera sensors you can experience the world through the eyes of a robot and control it via gestures. The hardware hacking team of TNG Technology Consulting has built a telepresence robotics system based on a Nao robot, an Oculus Rift and a Kinect One. Using these components you can realize an immersive "out-of-body experience" - similar to that of the film "Avatar". This talk shows how easy it is to program the robot using Java. We will do this by some live coding examples. Following a live demonstration of the showcase we will guide you through the complete program flow of the telepresence system. The speakers will share some insights about the challenges they faced during its implementation. The history of telepresence robotics, current trends and examples for real world fields of application will also be focused.Martin Förtsch
Principal Consultant
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Martin Förtsch is an IT-consultant of TNG Technology Consulting GmbH (https://tngtech.com) based in Unterföhring near Munich who studied computer sciences. Workwise his focus areas are Agile Development (mainly) in Java, Search Engine Technologies, Information Retrieval and Databases. As an Intel Software Innovator and Intel Black Belt Software Developer he is strongly involved in the development of open-source software for gesture control with 3D-cameras like e.g. Intel RealSense and has built an Augmented Reality wearable prototype device with his team based on this technology. Furthermore, he gives many talks on national and international conferences about Internet of Things, 3D-camera technologies, Augmented Reality and Test Driven Development as well. He was awarded with the JavaOne Rockstar award and is an author for the technical blog ParrotsOnJava.com.
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Using humanoid robots, virtual reality glasses and 3D camera sensors you can experience the world through the eyes of a robot and control it via gestures. The hardware hacking team of TNG Technology Consulting has built a telepresence robotics system based on a Nao robot, an Oculus Rift and a Kinect One. Using these components you can realize an immersive "out-of-body experience" - similar to that of the film "Avatar". This talk shows how easy it is to program the robot using Java. We will do this by some live coding examples. Following a live demonstration of the showcase we will guide you through the complete program flow of the telepresence system. The speakers will share some insights about the challenges they faced during its implementation. The history of telepresence robotics, current trends and examples for real world fields of application will also be focused.Szilárd Széll
Cloud Transformation Lead, Test Coach
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During the last 16 years, Szilard’s main goal has been to help people become addicted to Software Testing within Nokia worldwide, and within Hungary. He is an ISTQB Certified tester: Expert Level – Improving the Test Process, Agile Tester and Test Manager. Also owns IREB CPRE, Certified Scrum Master and a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certificates. Currently he is a Transformation Lead in Cloud Core Business Group of NOKIA, a Test Coach and trainer, as well as the President of the Hungarian Testing Board, representing ISTQB.
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The presentation is sharing a case study on how to excel in exploratory testing, and how to make bug hunting events a crucial part of the life of a test team. Platform System Test team in Espoo, Nokia had been using experience based testing for years to exploit the experience of the test engineers that had been gathered over the last decade. However the rules of E.T. were not followed fully, leaving some gap in documentation, and visibility on the usage. Stakeholders have only seen the great capability of the team to point out weaknesses. After listening to a presentation on Bug Hunting on Finish Test Assembly, 2013 summer, from Klaus Olsen, the team decided to go for the next step and try Bug Hunting. Exploratory Testing is presented using two examples: a Tourist's behavior while exploring the city, and playing with Story Cubes. Then basic Bug Hunting rules are shared, fine-tuned during usage, followed by results that could be used as benchmark, feedback from team members, and all the FUN we learnt in applying Bug Hunting in Telco System Verification. Then I share the result of many events, the improvements, additional ideas embedded throughout the 2 years of live usage spread across NOKIA, with the aim of giving a clear cook book and guidance for brave followers, showing how Bug Hunting can be embedded to an organization following very strict Quality Management rules of TL9000- The exact steps of organizing Bug Hunting events, the needed preparation, how to run the event, and all post event activities (a certificate template included)
- Learning a way how to teach testers on creating Exploratory Testing cases, using Story Cubes
- Set of benchmarking result to convince management to use BugHunting
- A way to align the technique with Quality Management requirements
Adrian Dragomir
CEO
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Adrian experienced more then 17 years online and he is now CEO and CO-founder at TERMENE.RO. He is constantly preocupied with IT&C evolution, risk management of companies and developing business inteligence tools. His mission is to help companies to protect and help them evolve
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We will discuss how to target decicizon makers form romanian companies on facebook using a custom audience exported from Termene.roMichiel Rook
Continuous deployment advocate
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Michiel Rook is a Java/PHP/Scala consultant from the Netherlands. He loves coaching teams to develop better software and implement continuous deployment. He is a co-founder of Make.io and a member of the Dutch Web Alliance. When he’s not thinking about continuous deployment, devops or event sourcing he enjoys music, cars, sports and movies.
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Have you ever heard yourself or someone else say “Don’t deploy on Friday”? Perhaps it’s your company’s policy? I used to have a “Fear of Fridays” too! Join me as I tell you about my experiences and how I improved. Learn about build pipelines, automated testing, continuous deployment and monitoring. Discover the details of trunk based development, feature toggles, pair programming and other best practices, and gain the confidence to deploy multiple times per day, any day of the week! Background I have extensive experience implementing continuous delivery / deployment at various companies. One of the things I keep hearing is that developers, or entire teams, are fearful of deploying their code at certain parts of the day, or certain days in the week (Friday being the most popular). While understandable, I’ve found that the arguments used to justify not deploying on a Friday can be refuted by improving the development process, testing, deploying and monitoring code.Syed Ali
VR/MR Software Testing Architect
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Syed wants to live in a world where VR & MR technology is accessible to all, and believes this world is possible in our lifetimes. As one of the first Software Testers to work in this area and talk about it, he has used his years of experience and applied it to this new frontier.
Developing techniques, writing talks and workshops, Syed is actively producing content to enrich and widen our understanding of Software Testing issues within the VR & MR domain. Syed also owns more records than you, well maybe, ok let’s just say he has lots.
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This talk will cover Syed's experiences of testing VR apps and how you go about building a VR Testing department. Issues like how do you recruit testers for an area 99% will have no experience of, and what do you do when you're trying to research information and your own blog articles' appear in the results?Alvaro Videla
Lead Architect
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Alvaro Videla works as a Lead Architect at Migros in Switzerland. Before he was a Senior Software Engineer at Apple, and previously he was a Core Developer for RabbitMQ. Before moving to Europe he used to work in Shanghai where he helped building one of Germany’s biggest dating websites. He co-authored the book “RabbitMQ in Action” for Manning Publishing. Some of his open source projects can be found here: https://github.com/videlalvaro. Apart from code related stuff he likes traveling with his wife, listening/playing music and reading books.
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We think in words, we talk with words, we understand the world thanks to words. Metaphors take words to the next level explaining concepts that were escaping our understanding before. In 1980 George Lakoff revolutionised the Linguistic and Philosophic worlds when he studied how metaphors affect our thinking, how they influence our actions and even shape who we are. What happens with the metaphors that we use in the Software Industry? In this talk we are going to review the importance that metaphors have in our code quality, in the algorithms we choose, and the products we ship. As a practical example we are going to see why Microservices and Containers have been so successful in the past couple of years. We’ll try to understand why they have redefined how we package and ship products in our industry. This talk appeared in the May/June issue of the ACM Queue: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3127495Calin Adrian Clej
Greater Balkans Beverages & South Eastern Europe Franchise Marketing Director
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Călin Clej is Marketing Director, Greater Balkans Beverages & South East Europe Franchise at PepsiCo. From his position, he coordinates the both Consumer and Shopper marketing activation and portfolio strategic development agenda for PepsiCo Beverages in Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Albania, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Malta, Cyprus and Israel, comprising over 67 million consumers. Călin Clej graduated Economic Studies at Babes Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, specializing in Management and attended the PepsiCo Marketing University – Purchase, New York, in 2008 and 2012. Calin appreciates companies and leaders who understand the difference between „telling” and „being” when they build and activate successful brands. Campaigns developed under his mandate have become references in the local marketing industry, through their strategic approach, creativity and efficiency.
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Today’s effective marketing management do not rely on digital marketing as a priority…It is centric to capture and address 360 real time tends, to deliver human advertising into a more and A.I. lead world of digital…Some personal reflections fuelled by real time example from around the world of today’s great marketing management.Geoffrey van der Tas
Agile Test Consultant
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Geoffrey is an enthusiastic professional and a real explorer. As an explorer he likes to discover new things, learn more and get inspired. His career started in testing as a tester, test manager and test consultant he helped to make sure software products obtained the high quality standard. But his curious and discovering nature where never satisfied with just testing.
This lead him to the agile way of working and he consulted his first Scrum project 4 years ago. He learned this way was more effective, but it struggled with delivering quality. After his first project, he learned a lot and started investigating more effective ways to deliver quality. Within his last 3 years he has worked as an agile test & quality expert helping over 60 teams within the ING bank deliver better and faster by giving trainings to help imbed the agile/DevOps mindset. Within ING he helped with the creating on a best practice book for the entire bank. Currently he is working for Ordina in the role of test lead. He helps develop new trainings and is consultant for customers. Helping them to implement the agile way of working and deliver software faster & with higher quality.
His great passion is to inspire others, teach professionals and help companies in their struggle.
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Testing, Quality Assurance and deliver quality. It all radically changed over the last few years. This all because of our new agile way of creating software. Now the last evolution called DevOps has been taking the stage more & more in the last 2 years. But how do you really deliver quality. During this presentation we will take a look at QA in this new DevOps time period.- What are the good practices we need to keep;
- What are the things we need to learn to forget from the olden days;
- How will we get there?
- Do we still need manual testers?
- How does it work for big banks like ING & Rabobank?
Erwin de Gier
Software Architect
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Erwin is a Software Architect in the Sogeti Java Center of Excelence. He designs software solutions based on open source technology and helps teams getting started with their projects.
Next to this he is a certified Scrum Master and trainer of several Java courses. He also supervises graduates during their final thesis. Erwin likes to share knowledge by giving workshops and presentations.
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Everything is reactive. Your application reacts to the click of a button, an incoming message. But also to the the result of a database query. Between these events, you want to process other tasks. Being reactive needs a complete approach. Let’s look at the state of reactive programming in Java. Which tools are available? Do we have everything to build enterprise grade reactive applications. Which skills does a developer need to have? This is the complete overview of reactive programming in Java.Marco Landi
Chairman The Digital Box Board, ex COO & President Apple Computer & Senior Executive Texas Instruments
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Marco Landi was born in Chianciano, Siena. He has studied electronics engineering at the prestigious University of Bologna. He worked as engineer of Telettra and in 1970 he started working at Texas Instruments managing all business units in EMEA based in Brussels and ASIA based in Hong Kong. After 24 years at TI, Mr Landi became President of Apple Europe and then COO and President of Apple Computer in Cupertino responsible for Global Operations, Marketing and Sales. In 1997 he became President of BMC Software EMEA. At present, he is the chairman of The Digital Box Board and the member of several boards across the world and invests in innovative new technologies.
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Thanks to Virtual Assistants and ChatBots, syntactic and semantic structures of language can optimize search results and improve the information available for e-commerce websites, by learning with recommender systems users’ tastes, preferences and habits. AI systems powered by machine learning solutions will help merchants towards a better creation of tailor-made offers based on people requests, delivered in a detailed and customized way through predictive content.November ’16 is a significant date for Marketing: Internet usage by mobile and tablet devices exceeded desktop worldwide for the first time. Smartphone becomes the first touch point between “brand – consumer” and the most important channel to build long–lasting relationships over time. Create, distribute and measure the ROI of 100% Mobile-Friendly content campaigns based on the visual StoryTelling (MovieTelling) and conversations with AI systems (ChatBots), in order to map the customer journey, rebuild customers’ habits and behaviours and customize the communication message.
