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)

Success in Tech: Fostering DevOps Culture

Nailing down the DevOps approach in all sectors of the ecosystem.

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.

Lunch! 🍲

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.

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.

Afternoon Break! 🥤

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.

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.

Happy Hour Party! 🥳

Harborview Ballroom

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!

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.

Revealing 5 Mysteries of Cross-Platform Apps

What is hidden beneath the surface of cross-platform app development?

Lunch! 🍲

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.

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.

Afternoon Break! 🥤

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.

Wrap Up and Prizes! 🎁

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!

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.

You Spin Me Round: JavaScript Animation Performance

In this talk, Alex Ziskind digs into different animation performance tweaking techniques available to mobile JavaScript app developers and compares pros and cons of each.

Lunch! 🍲

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.

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.

Afternoon Break! 🥤

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.

Wrap Up and Prizes! 🎁