Inspired by Torbjørn Marø’s writeup on his planned agenda for NDC 2016, I’ve written my own initial plans.
Topics
In my role as a team lead at KomplettDev I’ve started leaning naturally to topics on people / softskill / agile.
I’m not leaving technology behind , though. There are exciting things happening in the .NET cross-platform space, and it’s good to get up to speed with ASP.NET Core. We’ve just started with ReactJS, and it’ll be good to get some feedback from others’ experience using the technology in the wild.
There’s also the possibility that I’ll jump on a few architectural and deployment sessions.
The twist – I’ll be a speaker!
This year there’s a twist though. I’ll be attending a conference as a speaker for the first time! My colleague, Tomas Ekeli, and I will be speaking about how we’re scaling our team and architecture at Komplett in the session “Making Komplett big by going small“. We were a late entry to the conference and have naturally been placed in the last available slot.
I expect Friday to be filled with last-minute preparation, thoughts, nerves and whatever else is natural when speaking at a conference for the first time.
Connections
Probably the most important long-term effect of attending a conference like NDC Oslo is the social aspect. Because of the way the event is organized there’s a natural focus on being social in the breaks. I’m looking forward to meeting old friends, and making new ones.
Among the people attending the conference there’s one I’ll bring up: Dave Rael, the Developer on Fire. It’ll be great to finally meet Dave in person after being a guest on his podcast, and getting to know him through twitter / facebook-group.
Those plans…
As you’ll see there are just so many awesome sessions going on in parallel, so many last-minute decisions will be made on the floor!
As with any plans, they can be changed, and most probably will. I may sit out a session or two. Or maybe just socialize near the community area, representing NNUG (Norwegian .NET User Group).
So here’s my tentative agenda for the 3 days at NDC Oslo. Please reach out and say hi if you’re there.
Wednesday
09:00
10:20
- Becoming a Social Developer – Jeremy Clark
- ASP.NET Core 1.0 Deep Dive – Damien Edwards, David Fowler
11:40
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Versions are evil – how to do without in your API – Sebastien Lambla
- Agile 1s game – Seb Rose
13:40
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The sane way to build cloud infrastructure – Paul Stack
- Functional Programming Lab Hour – Mathias Brandewinder, Bryan Hunter
15:00
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Scale up and out with Akka.NET – Roger Johansson
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Universal web with npm, React and Redux using WebPack – Jake Ginnivan
16:20
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Domain-Driven Design: The Good Parts – Jimmy Bogard
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An Experience Report from Building a Large React.js/Redux Application – Jeremy D. Miller
17:40
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REPL Driven Development, Scrum, and the Wright Brothers – Jamie Dixon
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HTTP 2.0 from the Developer’s Viewpoint – Dave Methvin
Thursday
09:00
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Working Distributed – How Does It Even Work? – Brendan Forster
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.NET without Windows – Matt Ellis
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Functional web applications using F# and suave – Tomas Jansson
10:20
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How to do a really good product demo – Katrin Grothues
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Is your code ready for .NET Core? – Mark Rendle
11:40
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Optimizing the Programmer: Get More Done Faster – Dave Rael
13:40
- Don’t Be Dilbert: Survival Tactics for Uninspiring Workplaces – Kylie Hunt
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Sometimes the questions are complicated – Indu Alagarsamy
15:00
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Agile Leadership – A trip through 2.5 million years – Louise Elliott
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Go big or go home, scaling through caching – Harald Schult Ulriksen
16:20
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Sunlight & Air: 10 Lessons for Growing Junior Developers – Erika Carlson
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Website Fuzziness – Niall Merrigan
17:40
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Have I Got NDC for You! – Mark Rendle, Carl Franklin, Richard Campbell, Dylan Beattie
Friday
09:00
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C# Today and Tomorrow – Mads Torgersen
10:20
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Python: An Amazing Second Language for .NET Developers – Michael Kennedy
11:40
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Getting Into the Zero Downtime Deployment World – Tugberk Ugurlu
13:40
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You don’t need JavaScript for that! – Ben Ilegbodu
15:00
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Power to the people! – Tore Vestues
16:20
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Making Komplett big by going small – Tomas Ekeli, Pavneet Singh Saund