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For years, there has been discussion about the erosion of privacy and the growth of surveillance technology and policies that enable it. But what does this mean in the new context of a worldwide trend of liberal democracies sliding into populist autocracies?

Holly Williams’ talk will be all about security: the different kinds of security tests, from penetration testing to red teaming, and how companies can keep their systems safe by using ethical hacking techniques. How does one make sure methodologies closely follow what cyber criminals are likely to attempt against systems? Find out soon!

In recent years, AI has changed every industry. AI-based intelligent video analytics has uncovered a large number of opportunities in different domains: smart delivery vehicles, autonomous drones, robots performing complex surgeries. But video analytics systems usually come at a cost: developers often have to deal with lower throughput and large memory requirements. You’ll get to learn from Ekaterina the work NVIDIA has been developing to face this challenge, as well as some related free software tools.

Things have changed in the past 30+ years, ever since the WWW was created in 1989, haven't they? We shop online, watch videos, order our food, have conversations, play games, navigate to our destination, listen to music, manage our finances and whatnot. You'd think we built something magnificent in those three decades, but alas, we often did a lousy job and even got the basics right. Get ready to look to the past, present and future of web development and learn from Rowdy how we can fix what we've wrecked.

Dubravko believes we can be inspired by the brain to generate ideas that could help solve daily problems using Deep Learning methods. He will stimulate several short impulse talks which can then be used to generate ideas on your use cases. You’ll get to look into how vision, time and location can help us understand problems to be solved.

API standards, from SOAP to REST to GraphQL, have evolved to meet the needs of API providers and developer consumers. They make APIs "intuitive" by making them predictable. When product designs bump up against the constraints of standards, you can choose to force a fit or break from convention and invest in educating developers about your choices. Through case studies (incl. Facebook's Open Graph, Slack's workspace apps project) we'll examine the tradeoffs, consequences, and some learnings about how to get your developer community to come along with you.

In this talk, I’m going to cover topics such as what do data governance frameworks look like in data-driven organizations, how should data security threats be evaluated, what does being a Data Owner or Data Steward mean, what are (or should be) their roles and responsibilities, and what are the technical and organizational challenges of identifying Data Owners or Stewards in the context of applying proper data security.

As a young child in Tucson, Arizona, young John Romero discovers the magic of arcades. Whenever he can, he drops his quarters into the machines and, to make the experience last as long as possible, he concentrates on being good, really good. By the time the family moves to California, his initials, “AJR”, are on the top of every machine’s leaderboard all over town. That love of games leads to a love for programming, and by the age of 11, Romero is making his first game. Nearly four decades later, he is still making them. From arcade to college mainframe, from the Apple II to the Apple iPhone, from Dangerous Dave to DOOM, Romero’s career has both followed and forged the industry as we know it. In this talk, Romero explores the industry through the lens of his career, past and present, and speculates on its future.