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An elite team of tech experts, pioneers, experienced innovators and disruptors in their field. Get ready to learn with the best of the best
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LISBON OCT 15-16 [+ REMOTE]
All Things Dev
John Romero
Creator of Doom and Quake
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Philip Zimmermann
Creator of the PGP Protocol
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Bear Douglas
Director of Developer Relations @ Slack
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Holly Williams
Founder @ Akimbo Core
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Rowdy Rabouw
Front-End Focused Senior DevOps Engineer @ double-R webdevelopment
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Maxim Salnikov
Developer Engagement Lead @ Microsoft
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Steve Poole
Developer Advocate @ SonaType
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Pietro Basso
iOS Engineer @ N26
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Francisco Leal
Lead & Fullstack Developer @ TalentProtocol
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John Romero
Creator of Doom and Quake
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Philip Zimmermann
Creator of the PGP Protocol
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Bear Douglas
Director of Developer Relations @ Slack
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Holly Williams
Founder @ Akimbo Core
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Pietro Basso
iOS Engineer @ N26
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Rowdy Rabouw
Front-End Focused Senior DevOps Engineer @ double-R webdevelopment
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Maxim Salnikov
Developer Engagement Lead @ Microsoft
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Steve Poole
Developer Advocate @ SonaType
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Francisco Leal
Lead & Fullstack Developer @ TalentProtocol
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Data Science & AI
Ekaterina Sirazitdinova
Data Scientist @ NVIDIA
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Dubravko Dolic
Global Lead Applied Analytics & AI @ Continental Tires
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André Amorim
Human Resources Professional & TV Commentator @ Philip Morris International & Eleven
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João Ascensão
Senior Director of Research, AI @ Feedzai
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Nir Chervoni
Head of Data Security @ Booking
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Nir Chervoni
Head of Data Security @ Booking
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Ekaterina Sirazitdinova
Data Scientist @ NVIDIA
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Dubravko Dolic
Global Lead Applied Analytics & AI @ Continental Tires
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André Amorim
Human Resources Professional & TV Commentator @ Philip Morris International & Eleven
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João Ascensão
Senior Director of Research, AI @ Feedzai
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careers
Margaret Buj
Lead Technical Recruiter at Typeform & Interview Coach
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Ferdinand Goetzen
Co-founder & CEO @ Reveall
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Manjuri Sinha
Global Head of Talent Acquisition @ OLX Group
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Ricardo Gomes
CTO @ Petrotec Group
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Bethan Vincent
Founder & Marketing Consultant @ Bethan Vincent
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Dana Aonofriesei
Director of Engineering @ Trustpilot
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Chris Lukassen
The Product Samurai @ CarePay
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Manjuri Sinha
Global Head of Talent Acquisition @ OLX Group
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Ferdinand Goetzen
Co-founder & CEO @ Reveall
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Ricardo Gomes
CTO @ Petrotec Group
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Margaret Buj
Lead Technical Recruiter at Typeform & Interview Coach @ Typeform
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Bethan Vincent
Senior Product Marketing Manager @ Airfocus
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Dana Aonofriesei
Director of Engineering @ Trustpilot
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Chris Lukassen
The Product Samurai @ CarePay
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product management
Andrea Saez
Senior Product Marketing Manager @ Airfocus
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Fabio Pereira
Innovation Executive @ RedHat
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Philip Zimmermann
Creator of the PGP Protocol
Creator of Pretty Good Privacy, the most widely used email encryption software in the world. Despite the lack of funding, the lack of any paid staff, the lack of a company to stand behind it, and despite government persecution, PGP nonetheless became the most widely used email encryption software in the world.
Holly Williams
Founder @ Akimbo Core
Former Site Security Officer at the UK Ministry of Defence, with 14 years of experience in leading information security teams, she now works with a wide range of organisations delivering information security testing.
Track: all things dev
Hacking Non-Stop
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!
Ekaterina Sirazitdinova
Data Scientist @ NVIDIA
With a Ph.D. in Computer Science and author of several peer-reviewed publications, she specializes in solving computer vision and video analytics problems by means of AI. Her focus also includes optimizing deep learning inference on embedded devices.
Track: Data Science & AI
Efficient video analytics for a better AI
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.
Pietro Basso
iOS Engineer @ N26
Works on giving people the power to live and bank their way, changing the way banks are perceived and used, in life and culture.
Track: All Things Dev
Consent vs Consensus: how it affects decision-making
A consensus-based decision-making process usually leads to amending the proposer’s decision by making someone happy. It’s also often assumed and implicit. Sometimes it can be beneficial, but it’s not always the case. In this session, Pietro will talk about how the future of an organization would be if it was focused on consent (i.e. there are no valid objections) instead of consensus (i.e. we are all of the same opinion), using real world examples from the developer perspective, in order to build it in the present with that in mind.
Rowdy Rabouw
Front-End Focused Senior DevOps Engineer @ double-R webdevelopment
Freelance web developer, senior DevOps engineer and international tech speaker with 25 years of experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP.
Track: all things dev
Wrecked Wide Web
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 Dolic
Global Lead Applied Analytics & AI @ Continental Tires
With academic background in Neuropsychology and Sociology, he’s been a self-employed consultant for more than ten years. In 2013, he integrated his former company dsquare.de into Cognizant Germany, and 4 years later entered Continental tires to build up the topic of data science.
Track: Data Science & AI
The Brain and Deep Learning
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.
Maxim Salnikov
Developer Engagement Lead @ Microsoft
Oslo-based cloud and tech community geek, he’s a webdev maestro who has been building apps since the end of the last century and shares his extensive web platform experience by speaking & training at developer events around the world.
Track: All Things Dev
Automating a service worker with Workbox 6
"I deployed a service worker, now I need to buy a new domain” - a well-known joke about the difficulty of implementing your own caching logic. With the arrival of the sixth version of the Workbox library, the trade-off between flexibility and ease of automation of network tasks for PWA is no longer needed. In this talk, Maxim will tell you how to get started with Workbox 6, implement typical functionality for an offline web application, and add your own caching logic.
Margaret Buj
Lead Technical Recruiter at Typeform & Interview Coach
With 16 years of experience of recruiting for global technology companies and tech startups across Europe & the US, Margaret has successfully coached over a thousand job seekers to get the jobs they wanted, over the past 15+ years.
Track: Careers
How to nail a job interview and negotiate your salary
The job market has changed enormously over the last few years (especially in 2020 during Covid-19) and it’s a lot more competitive. Margaret will spill all her secrets: What do recruiters want to see on your CV? How do you identify your value proposition & quantify achievements on your CV and in your interviews? What questions should you ask the interviewer? How do you answer the salary question in a job interview & how to negotiate your best salary yet?
Andrea Saez
Senior Product Marketing Manager @ Airfocus
From writing to hosting talks and events, Andrea loves having the opportunity to learn and engage with customers and apply product-thinking to scaling companies. She’s also cofounder of The Product Dynamic.
Track: Product Management
Why frameworks suck (and how to get started with prioritization)
There’s a framework acronym for every type of prioritization style you can think of: ICE, RICE, SUP, WSJF … but do any of them actually help you decide on what to work on next? In this session, you’ll take a look at: a brief history of Agile, how prioritization came about, dismantling the myth of relying on frameworks to make decisions for you, applying product management best practices and applying the right context in your decision-making process.
Bethan Vincent
Founder & Marketing Consultant @ Bethan Vincent
B2B Marketing Consultant with over 10+ years experience in technology and the digital sector. Formerly a senior manager in the tech sector and founder of several start-ups, Bethan has built her career sitting at the intersection between marketing, product & development.
Track: Careers
The skills we need for post-pandemic tech careers
The tech sector is rapidly evolving and as a result, job roles are becoming far more complex, with multiple departments working together, in person and remotely. Bethan will discuss the skills that’ll help us make our post pandemic careers fruitful and enjoyable, as well as explore how core communication skills can be nurtured and developed, and the importance of developing personal resilience and better work habits to avoid burnout. Aimed at all departments and career levels, this talk contains practical advice for anyone wishing to build their career in the tech industry.
André Amorim
Human Resources Professional & TV Commentator @ Philip Morris International & Eleven
André connects great people with great opportunities. He values learning from others, developing genuine connections and hearing other people's passions to see how he can help them.
João Ascensão
Senior Director of Research, AI @ Feedzai
Prior to joining Feedzai, João was in Data Science leadership positions at Farfetch and Uniplaces. Currently, his team at Feedzai is working on developing state-of-the-art financial crime detection techniques, novel learning strategies, MLOps and Responsible AI.
Track: Data Science & AI
No idea what you're doing: on AI Observability and enabling effective human oversight in AI systems
The saying goes "you can't manage what you don't measure", but does it apply to AI? Why manage AI at all, is it not the point for AI to manage itself? And, if it does, what needs to be measured and how? In this talk, João will explain why he defends that the current generation of AI systems require human oversight to operate effectively. But what do the human overseers need?
Steve Poole
Developer Advocate @ SonaType
A seasoned speaker and regular presenter at international conferences on technical and software engineering topics, Steve is a Developer Advocate, DevOps practitioner, Long time Java developer, leader and evangelist.
Track: All Things Dev
Cybercrime: Devs against the Dark side
Cybercrime, in all its aspects, is rising rapidly and it’s now more about when you get attacked not if. The world of the cybercriminal is much closer than you realize. Hear how at risk your application may be, see practical examples of how you can inadvertently leave the doors open, and understand what you can do to make your solution more secure. In this session, learn about a few of the simple actions you can take (and some behaviours you must change) to create a more secure application.
Fabio Pereira
Innovation Executive @ RedHat
Specialist and author of the book Digital Nudge, Fabio is a keynote and TEDx speaker. He’s also a futurist - a technologist focused on People behaviour with a dream to become a billionaire, impacting the lives of a billion people.
Track: Product Management
The Psychology of UX
35 thousand! That's the average number of decisions a person makes every day. Imagine if you could hack the brain and the mind, these complex decision-making systems. Have you ever wondered how many digital decisions people make (the ones we make using technology devices like smartphones, wearables, laptops)? For decades, scientists have been studying so we can better understand how it’s possible not only to predict but also influence decisions through interventions on the environment where decisions are made. Yes, it’s possible! And Fabio will teach you the secrets behind it.
Chris Lukassen
The Product Samurai @ CarePay
From coding real time operating systems to running 9 teams in a multi-million product development, Chris has huge experience in agile product management and is on a mission to teach people how they can create stellar products.
Track: Careers
The black belt of Product Management
There’s a problem in the industry today: people strive for agility rather than effectiveness. Just look at the average conference agenda, why don’t we share stories of companies that failed or succeeded to create real product (business) success? Over the last 5 years I’ve created real life case studies of product companies that reveal the 6 levers that make the difference between agility and effectiveness. In many ways it’s like jujutsu, where agility matters, but winning matters more. Learn how to use the 6 levers to forge your path to the black belt!
Francisco Leal
Lead & Fullstack Developer @ TalentProtocol
Fullstack developer with a background in electrical and computer engineering that specializes in modern javascript and ruby. Currently building on web3.
Track: All things dev
Intro to Web3 (Smart contracts + reactjs)
Francisco will take you through the prominent world of web3, in particular introducing you to Smart Contract development in Solidity and using React to build a frontend that communicates with those smart contracts. You’ll get a chance to see how TalentProtocol leverages smart contracts to build decentralized careers through the creation of ERC20 personal tokens.
Dana Aonofriesei
Director of Engineering @ Trustpilot
With 11 years experience in software development, leading teams and scaling systems, Dana’s expertise and successes lies with building and growing teams and individuals. She sets people for success through mentoring and coaching, as well as teams by setting clear and ambitious goals and developing strategies.
Track: Careers
From Engineer to Engineering Manager
What are the things that you wish you knew when you started as an Engineering Manager? Are you considering an Engineering Manager path for your career development? Let’s get you equipped for this journey! In this session, Dana will teach you what you need to become an Engineering Manager, how success looks like and the main challenges along the way. Key takeaways: how to develop and own an Engineering Manager toolkit; key areas to focus on when you’re a first-time Engineering Manager.
John Romero
Creator of Doom and Quake
Co-founded ten game companies (Capitol Ideas Software, Inside-Out Software, Ideas From the Deep, id Software, and others) and credited with over 100 games (including Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Doom II and Quake).
Track: All things dev
A Lifetime in Games: The Past, Present and Future of the Industry
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.
Ferdinand Goetzen
Co-founder & CEO @ Reveall
He previously led commercial growth efforts at a number of leading European tech companies including at 3D Hubs and Recruitee (both exited in 2021) and was awarded as the best marketing leader under 30 in the Netherlands in 2020.
Track: Careers
Principles for a Successful Career in Startups and Scaleups
Goetzen will draw from his own experience of leading marketing at several companies, including 2 exits before turning 30. He’ll offer concrete principles that you can apply to advance your career in the world of startups and scale-ups. This session will challenge the common advice professionals are given and focus on the real fundamentals of success, including: questioning success; how to leave your comfort zone; why you need to choose the right company; having a healthy attitude towards risk; the role of luck; and the importance of preventing burnout.
Nir Chervoni
Head of Data Security @ Booking
Nir Chervoni is a seasoned information security leader with extensive information technology, information security, and strategic security planning skills. With over 20 years of experience in the IT field, and 16 years in Information Security - 11 years of it in leadership positions -, Nir has worked with several different kinds of organizations, from Startups and SMBs, through enterprise corporations, and also government organizations.
Ricardo Gomes
CTO @ Petrotec Group
Former Technical Lead Engineer at McLaren and a passage through Bentley Motors, Ricardo has vast experience inside the Automotive Industry (OEMs and Tier1’s). Over the last 19 years, he has crossed several I&D roles, from Design/Lead Engineer to Project/Group Manager.
Bear Douglas
Director of Developer Relations @ Slack
Former developer advocate at Twitter and Facebook, Bear has tremendous experience in driving the movement to create APIs that make it easier for developers to build apps and improve UX. She has been leading the effort at Slack for the past years, fostering a community of developers and helping it scale.
Manjuri Sinha
Global Head of Talent Acquisition @ OLX Group
Senior HR leader with 17+ years of international industry experience, with special focus on Technology & People. Prior to her current challenges, Manjuri led Global Technology Acquisition at Zalando. Her core expertise is Hyper Growth build-up of tech organizations in Europe and Asia.