Speaker: Karen Siers
With over 20 years of Technology experience including development and integrations, mergers and acquisition, and agile/lean transformation experience, Karen is a passionate change agent and disruptor always looking for the next challenge. Like you, Karen understands that the businesses of today will not be here tomorrow if they do not respond to change, therefore she is laser focused on helping large, complex organizations transform using her deep skills in strategic planning, change management, process management and technology modernization. She has led successful transformations in various industries. Some of those industries are: Airline, Supply Chain, Healthcare, Retail, US and Foreign Government compliance, Gaming and Worldwide Publications. In addition to being an Executive Transformation Consultant, Karen also owns a small software development includes inception, to investor commitment/funding, full development and a possible sale as it progresses. In her spare time, Karen enjoys spending time with her family. She has a wonderful daughter, MacKenzie, a brilliant son, Hunter and energetic English Doodle, Charlie. They enjoy traveling abroad and being on the water.
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Workshop: Architecting Your Lean/Agile Transformation
Tracks
Monday, 26 June
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Microservices: Patterns & Practices
Practical experiences and lessons with Microservices.
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Java - Propelling the Ecosystem Forward
Lessons from Java 8, prepping for Java 9, and looking ahead at Java 10. Innovators in Java.
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High Velocity Dev Teams
Working Smarter as a team. Improving value delivery of engineers. Lean and Agile principles.
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Modern Browser-Based Apps
Reactive, cross platform, progressive - webapp tech today.
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Innovations in Fintech
Technology, tools and techniques supporting modern financial services.
Tuesday, 27 June
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Case studies from the most relevant names in software.
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Developer Experience: Level up Your Engineering Effectiveness
Trends, tools and projects that we're using to maximally empower your developers.
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Chaos & Resilience
Failures, edge cases and how we're embracing them.
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Stream Processing at Large
Rapidly moving data at scale.
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Building Security Infrastructure
How our industry is being attacked and what you can do about it.
Wednesday, 28 June
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Next Gen APIs: Designs, Protocols, and Evolution
Practical deep-dives into public and internal API design, tooling and techniques for evolving them, and binary and graph-based protocols.
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Immutable Infrastructures: Orchestration, Serverless, and More
What's next in infrastructure. How cloud function like lambda are making their way into production.
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Machine Learning 2.0
Machine Learning 2.0, Deep Learning & Deep Learning Datasets.
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Modern CS in the Real World
Applied, practical, & real-world dive into industry adoption of modern CS.
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Optimizing Yourself
Maximizing your impact as an engineer, as a leader, and as a person.
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Ask Me Anything (AMA)