Your school years and internships are over, what now? There’s a lot to navigate in the open world of professional workplaces. If you are a young professional in their initial years in the industry, or want to learn how to best support those who are getting started, this talk is for you. To excel in your career, it is important to set up a solid foundation. We are providing mental frameworks and tips for ramping up in new roles, identifying opportunities, creating demonstrable impact and managing future goals.
English
Where
Room A
10:30 - 11:00
Embrace the Blur
By Amanda Henry Manager Software development at Intact Financial Corporation - Just embracing life !
Going out of our comfort zone, we develop new skills, but what happens then? We have more questions than answers, we enter the zone of the unknown: I call it the blur. With the combination of your internal resiliency and mindset, you can work on what I call embracing the blur.
English
Where
Room A
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Dare to Deliver - combining a data-driven approach and motivational factors to get your team to succeed
Delivery is always at the forefront of executives’ minds. How can we move faster? How can we deliver more? Zeroing in at the team level, engineering managers are then tasked with turning those questions into actions: how do we even measure how fast we are going? Once we have that baseline, how can we move the needle to increase the team’s output? There are several factors that can influence a team’s delivery. In this talk, we will explore velocity with a multi-dimensional approach: gathering data from developer tools, optimally organizing Agile ceremonies within a sprint, and providing shorter- and longer-term goals to the team as motivation. We also propose daring to have “difficult” conversations at the team and individual level, and harnessing customer feedback to close the loop with the team on the impact of their delivery. You’ll leave with concrete tools for measuring your team’s delivery, and inspiring them to give their best to achieve your company’s goals.
English
Where
Room A
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Time!
14:00 - 15:00
The sweet song of the $7 violin, and the woman behind it
In late 2022, a low-cost violin made on a 3D printer made international news from The Strad to Science Friday. At the helm was Mary-Elizabeth Brown, an award winning violinist, pedagogue, entrepreneur, and single mom. Hear her story and come away inspired cross boundaries in an all new way.
Pandemic volatility and uncertainty in the travel industry inspired us. To help anxious travelers better plan their trips, we pivoted to fintech innovation. Guided by customer obsession and data, we built Price Freeze for hotels, the only fintech product of its kind in the hospitality industry.
English
Where
Room A
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00
Legend of Evelys: a case study into inclusive game design
What does it mean to create truly inclusive video games? Is it even feasible, especially for mainstream games? Can you make your games more inclusive without making any faux-pas, even if you’re not an expert?
And most importantly, could inclusivity actually make your games better for everyone?
As we are at the threshold of Web3 and the merging of our digital & physical world experiences; I want you to DARE TO DREAM what our world looks like in the next 25 years; and imagine what the world of Web3 could be with the participation and inclusion of women in this emerging and lucrative space.
Where
Room A
18:00 - 19:30
Networking
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Where
Room A
8:30
Registration
9:30 - 10:00
Keynote
10:00 - 11:00
Practical Pipelines: A Houseplant Soil Alerting System with ksqlDB
By Danica Fine Senior Developer Advocate at Confluent and Plant Mom
Be a better plant parent and build a practical, event-driven pipeline with Raspberry Pi and Apache Kafka! Soil moisture readings are streamed into Kafka and transformed, driving real-time alerts. Learn how ksqlDB and Kafka Connect made this pipeline possible as we dive in and get our hands dirty!
English
Where
Room B
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Site reliability engineering needs you: Dare to be, Dare to disrupt
By Hatice Ozguven SRE Lead at Morgan Stanley, tea aficionado
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a rising field with many job postings and novel challenges needing diverse perspectives. Yet it is both very male-dominated and not taught at school, hence quite obscure to many. This talk is to change this: to introduce SRE and how to go for a career in it.
English
Where
Room B
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Time!
14:00 - 14:30
Mastering UX design...through video games
By Alexandra Nemery Dr. Alexandra Nemery, senior UX designer at Haven studios
I suggest a different approach to UX, bringing concrete examples from the great hits of video games. The goal is to explore a more meaningful and fun approach where usability and playability are not so far apart!
French
Where
Room B
14:30 - 15:00
How to improve your company's Data Governance
By Camila Henrique Business Analyst by day at TrackTik, terrible drummer at night
What is all the fuzz with Data Governance? We'll discuss the meaning behind the data buzz words and bring ideas on how to apply this knowledge to your current job. The content of this talk not only apply to data job roles, but every single person in a company. Because, at the end of the day, we're all impacted by data in a different way. But do we actually stop and pay it the necessary attention? If you feel like you're been on a survival mode with your Data Governance, this talk will help you by discussing known issues, and how to overcome them.
English
Where
Room B
15:00 - 16:00
Let's dive into the hexagonal software architecture!
By Noemí Hernández Developer and QA at Broadsign International.
I’m Noemí and I’m a telematics engineer. I’ve been in the hardware and software industries for 13 years. Today, I want to invite you to DARE TO BE curious; exploring the beautiful hexagonal software architecture: What makes it one of a kind? Why it’s cool? Why everyone should know about it?
English
Where
Room B
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30
Machine learning, Data Science, AI in video games
By Mahzad KALANTARI Lead Machine Learning Specialist at Gearbox Studio Montréal
Video games generate a vast amount of data every day, from various sources. One source is telemetry, which records all the actions and events performed by players in the game, such as quests completed, enemies defeated, and game times. In-game store purchases, whether made with virtual currency or real money, also generate data. Additionally, a significant amount of data is collected on the backend side for online and mobile games, such as breakdowns, connection numbers, and service alerts. Information related to social networks and discussion forums discussing the game also contributes to this wealth of data, which has only recently begun to be exploited. As a result, data science and machine learning teams have been created within studios to harness this data. In this presentation, we will provide an overview of the various applications of machine learning and data science in video game data. We will also discuss advances in AI, including applications of reinforcement learning. We will conclude this presentation with the challenges and issues relating to the democratization of machine learning within game productions.
French
Where
Room B
18:00 - 19:30
Networking
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