Session Schedule

Breakfast

Build your first full-stack Blazor app

Presented by: Ed Charbeneau

The arrival of WebAssembly begins a new era for .NET web developers, allowing client-side applications written in C# to run directly in the browser. Blazor is a newly emerging client-side UI platform from the ASP.NET Core team, offering a productive and powerful way to construct large-scale...

Hacking Your Emotional API: Emotional Intelligence in Practice

Presented by: John Sawers, Aaron Aldrich

Being a good developer isn’t just about slinging code; we’re part of a community. Interacting with others in a community means feelings are involved. But feelings are messy and uncomfortable, so why can’t you just ignore them? Because emotional skills are critical for working well on a team....

Introduction to Kubernetes

Presented by: James Strong

Introduction to Kubernetes is a hands-on, interactive workshop giving attendees a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of Kubernetes. As part of this workshop, you will learn how Kubernetes works, deploy microservices to that cluster & also hear about some war stories.

Putting the D&D in TDD

Presented by: George Walters II, Guy Royse

Are you tired of TDD workshops that make you do boring things like calculating bowling scores and prime factors or demonstrate how to win the game of life? If so, this is the session for you! In this TDD workshop, we will be building the domain model for EverCraft -- a new MMORPG from Blizzards of...

Design & Research Fundamentals for Developers

Presented by: Alex White

How do you know what you’re building is important to your customers? As a developer, it’s easy for you to jump right into the code when given a problem to solve, but what if you build something that nobody wants? Taking the time to design and research your product can help you better meet the...

KidzMash: Human 3D Printer: a social STEM learning experiment

After a brief overview where we explain what the teams will do, we will be dividing into 3 teams. A CAD team, a SLICER team, and a 3D printer team. The teams will try to manually replicate with the team each piece of the 3D object development and replication process! The CAD team will model the...

Frozen Fun: Super Cool Winter Science Experiments!

Presented by: Faye Thompson

Cold always plays a role at CodeMash, but that doesn't mean we need to hibernate! Let's play together while we learn about ice, snow and winter through several hands-on experiments.

KidzMash: A Kid’s introduction to 3D Modeling

This second session we will work with a fully-featured CAD application called Rhino3d and walk through the process of building a basic model from geometric shapes. We will explain the XYZ coordinate system, and what the different views are for. We will also spend some time playing with the transform...

Puzzles and Pentominoes

Presented by: Vicki Glenn

Have you ever heard of pentominoes? Think of a cross between tetris and tangrams. These shapes are a great way to learn about geometry and most importantly, have fun while doing it. This hands on session will allow kids of all ages to discover, create, and play with pentominoes while learning...

KidzMash: Itty Bitz Lazer tag (ages 4-9)

Get Up and Running Quickly With Vue.js

Presented by: Burton Smith

Whether you are enhancing a legacy application or starting a greenfield project, Vue.js can help reduce your development time. Vue.js a very lightweight and fast JavaScript framework that makes it ideal for modern applications - from using it as a library to create some enhanced features in your...

Let's play!

Presented by: Jean Lange, Remy Porter

Improv games ~ZIP!~ build skills like paying attention ~ZAP!~, switching roles ~ZOP!~, negotiating uncertainty ~...zzZIP?~, and celebrating failure ~ZOP! HURRAH!~ … and these skills build up to real world benefits like understanding the people around you better, working well in a group, and not...

Reactive Extensions Without Marbles

Presented by: Eric Smith

ReactiveX is an exciting technology that's rapidly becoming pervasive, with implementations in Java, Swift, JavaScript and more. It has use cases from asynchronous calls to UI development, but unfortunately most tutorials and explanations are filled with theory and marble diagrams. Trying to get...

Tech Debt Be Gone! Time to Refactor JavaScript

Presented by: Joe Morgan, Laurie Barth

It’s been a battle, but the code is finally working. It’s time to clean it up, but not so fast, something else is on fire and the code has to be pushed as it is. Whenever there is time to refactor something else comes up. Of course, this doesn’t just happen once. A quick change here. A little...

Hadoop Essentials

Presented by: Eric Richardson

Big Data and Cloud platforms have their origins in Hadoop. Learn the fundamentals of HDFS, Map Reduce and Yarn the three core components of Apache Hadoop. You will start a sandbox cluster, interact with HDFS, learn how HDFS saves data and why it does it that way. MapReduce is an important...

Building a Full CRUD Application in Excel with VBA and SQL Integration

Presented by: Derek Mulhausen

In this talk, we will build a full application from scratch in Excel to store customer discounts in Excel. We will start with recording a macro to quickly prototype some of our actions and then dig into the underlying code to polish the formatting and produce a product that can be put into...

From idea to physical series: A basic overview of the world of CAD and 3D printing

This session will talk about the exciting world of 3D printing with a bit of the history of the technology. We will look at the lab’s printers as well as models made on them. We’ll then cover choosing a CAD app and will briefly cover using curated 3D printer object libraries and different CAD...

Soldering: Alchemy for Makers

Presented by: Jameson Hampton

Soldering is like alchemy? What does that mean?? Soldering is the most basic building block for building electronics. If you’ve ever looked inside a computer, you probably saw a bunch of circuit boards with a bunch of electronics stuff attached to them. Each of those pieces was soldered to the...

From idea to physical: A demo of how to make CAD models in Rhino3d

This lab is intended to be a fast-paced technology walk-through of the process of creating a 3D printed object. We will focus in on the process of using CAD to create our model with a NURBS modeler called Rhino3D and will walk through the UI and how Rhino uses basic curves and shapes to create more...

May the Turtle be With You

Presented by: Adrienne Tacke

Did you know you can draw and create simple games with Python's built-in Turtle module? No? Well you're in luck! In this session, I'll introduce you to the Turtle module and all the cool things you can do with it! We'll: - Create drawings with Python code - Make a new Turtle friend - Develop and...

From idea to physical series: Additional Castle project walk-through Rhino project

Can’t get enough model building? Want to make something more advanced than your basic cups/keychains/challenge coins? We’ve noticed we have some repeat students each year on our kids track that just love to build models, and we’ve also run several years of our introductory track for adults. We...

Dinner

Story Time with KidzMash

Artemis (ages 12 and up)

Lazer tag (ages 16 and up)

Lazer tag (ages 16 and up)

CodeMash Shuttle

Coat Check

The Demystifying Docker and Kubernetes DOJO

Presented by: Barry Tarlton, Michael Frayer

Want to be able to able to go from code to containers and then to a fully resilient, cluster managed environment like Kubernetes? Then this session is for you! This session will start with your code (or ours if you don't want to bring your own) and take you through the steps of packaging it as a...

Building Declarative UI with SwiftUI

Presented by: Jeff Kelley

At WWDC 2019, Apple shocked its developer community with the announcement of SwiftUI—a brand-new, declarative UI framework for all of their platforms. In this workshop, we’ll build a brand new app from scratch with SwiftUI that can run on all of Apple’s platforms: iOS, macOS, watchOS, and...

Application Security, Basic, Intermediate, Advanced

Presented by: Bill Sempf

Bill will be joining us to teach a dynamic course to help us think like an attacker and give us all the coding tips we need to stop them cold in their tracks. Even the most experienced developers are sure to pick up some new tips and tricks. This hands-on half-day workshop will have something for...

From Particle to Alexa

Presented by: Brandon Satrom, Jeff Blankenburg

In this 4-hour workshop, you will get to work with the two teams behind Particle IoT hardware and Amazon Alexa to build and code your own IoT device, which you can then command with your own Alexa skill. Come learn about how to command IoT devices, add and measure sensors, and use Particle’s rich...

Workshop: JVM Application Monitoring with Micrometer, Prometheus, and Grafana

Presented by: Andrew Fitzgerald, Nathan Zender

Tired of waiting for reports from users to let you know your application is having performance issues? If you’re looking for a way to increase visibility into your application beyond plain text logs, this is the pre-compiler for you! In this half-day, hands-on workshop you will receive an in...

KidzMash: Human 3D Printer: a social STEM learning experiment

After a brief overview where we explain what the teams will do, we will be dividing into 3 teams. A CAD team, a SLICER team, and a 3D printer team. The teams will try to manually replicate with the team each piece of the 3D object development and replication process! The CAD team will model the...

Super-Secret Spy Club

Presented by: Matt Insko

Get inducted into the first-ever KidzMash “Super-Secret Spy Club!” Learn the super-secret handshake and super-secret pledge before undergoing training in sending and receiving super-secret messages. This club meeting will cover basics about encryption and ciphers, including how to create and...

KidzMash: Itty Bitz Lazer tag (ages 4-9)

KidzMash: A Kid’s introduction to 3D Modeling

This second session we will work with a fully-featured CAD application called Rhino3d and walk through the process of building a basic model from geometric shapes. We will explain the XYZ coordinate system, and what the different views are for. We will also spend some time playing with the transform...

Electricity: How your Popcorn gets Popped!

Presented by: Eric Richardson

Fun, interactive presentation on how electricity is generated and transmitted to your home, just so you can pop popcorn in the microwave! Coal, Natural Gas, Hydro, Nuclear, and Solar. You will learn about turbines, generators, power lines, transformers, circuit breakers and most importantly...

Lunch

Practical Microservices: Get Hands-on with Event Sourcing and CQRS

Presented by: Ethan Garofolo

Have you attempted a microservices architecture and struggled? Have you read about event sourcing and CQRS, but are disappointed to only find high-level descriptions? Want to get hands-on and actually learn these concepts in the context of a functioning system? This workshop does just that. This...

Coaching Katas - In Search of The Answer to the Agile Kobayashi Maru

Presented by: Faye Thompson, Charles Husemann

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions. -- Aristotle A code kata is an exercise in which developers hone their programming skills through practice and repetition. This workshop is intended to do the same thing for agilists by providing them with difficult real-world scenarios to...

Creating a Cohesive Collection of Components with React

Presented by: Russell Skaggs

Component libraries enable teams to do more work quicker. It frees up our designers and developers to work on big issues, while allowing them to make updates with surgical precision. Building components within React has never been easier. During this presentation we will: create a set of React...

Ensure Your Users Experience - A Trip Around User Validation Tools

Presented by: Rick Clymer, Aaron Glass

In today’s fast feedback world, getting our product in front of users often is incredibly important. But how do we know our product is ready to go in front of our users. Sure, we have 1,000’s of unit and integration tests on each of our microservices, but what happens when we put them all...

Help Cure the #1 Leading Cause of Death in America

Presented by: Luther Hill

The number one leading cause of death in America is Cardiovascular Disease. Doctors often spend years researching cures for this disease without any results. In this highly interactive 4-hour tutorial attendees will build an image recognition model and then use it to build and deploy a web app to...

What to expect when you’re concepting - Product Learning Lab

Presented by: Saad Kamal

You have a great idea for a digital product and have committed to making your vision a reality. What now? Product Learning Lab will walk you through the basics of how to communicate that great idea to the rest of the world - and more importantly - the rest of your eventual product team. Learn to...

From idea to physical series: A basic overview of the world of CAD and 3D printing

This session will talk about the exciting world of 3D printing with a bit of the history of the technology. We will look at the lab’s printers as well as models made on them. We’ll then cover choosing a CAD app and will briefly cover using curated 3D printer object libraries and different CAD...

Breadboard Electronics Project

Presented by: Steven Swenson

In this hands-on session we will be building a small electronics project using breadboards. Breadboards are a fundamental part of playing with electronics and is a great way to start having fun with electronics projects. Each student will receive their own breadboard and small electronics kit. All...

From idea to physical: A demo of how to make CAD models in Rhino3d

This lab is intended to be a fast-paced technology walk-through of the process of creating a 3D printed object. We will focus in on the process of using CAD to create our model with a NURBS modeler called Rhino3D and will walk through the UI and how Rhino uses basic curves and shapes to create more...

KidzMash: Lazer tag (ages 10-15)

KidzMash: Spider Man: Far From Home

2h 9m: PG-13

Lightning Talks

These are a series of (usually) really interesting talks, all of which are only 6 minutes each!

Story Time with KidzMash

Artemis (ages 12 and up)

Lazer tag (ages 16 and up)

Lazer tag (ages 16 and up)

CodeMash Shuttle

Coat Check

Python, the world beyond scripting

Presented by: Charles Yost

Python is a wonderful language for writing simple scripts. But have you ever wondered how to go to the next level? What does it take to create a library, a desktop application, or a web application in Python? How does documentation, testing, packaging, and deployment work? What are all these crazy...

Open Source XAML Takes You Places!

Presented by: Sam Basu

XAML started life as a simple thin UI markup layer, but has had a surprisingly eventful history over years – from phenomenal rise to teetering on life support. Today, XAML powers a lot of app platforms and seems poised for success going forward. And almost all of XAML application stacks are now...

Threat Modeling on the Family Road Trip and Other Strategies for Delivering Secure Applications

Presented by: Angela Pinney

Gene Spafford said: “The only truly secure system is one that is powered off...” Everyone wants secure applications, but creating them is hard, and we don't all have security certifications. How do you know where to start when "security" is not your full-time job? And how do you get the rest of...

What Architecture (The Building Kind) Can Teach Us About Architecture (The Software Kind)

Presented by: Wes Delp

Architecture has existed for the better part of human history. Over 2000 years ago, the Roman architect Vitruvius claimed that a good building must be durable, functional, and bring delight. Sounds familiar, right? This session will explore how architectural design concepts such as 'less is more',...

Making Faces: Image Reduction and Recognition

Presented by: Steve Crow

A 350px by 300px image contains 105,000 individual pixels. Comparing each pixel to tell whether or not two images are the same is not efficient. What if we could reduce the number of features, while still maintaining patterns and trends? What if we could perform this recognition by only comparing 25...

Quantity vs. Quality: Is less (code) really more?

Presented by: Anne Cahalan

We all strive to write clean, concise, reusable code. Everyone's had a moment of looking at a 500-line file or a 50-line method and thinking, "This is just too much code!" There can be real joy in breaking a giant mess into small, tidy bits. But when does the quest for brevity lead us into a swamp...

KidzMash: Human 3D Printer: a social STEM learning experiment

After a brief overview where we explain what the teams will do, we will be dividing into 3 teams. A CAD team, a SLICER team, and a 3D printer team. The teams will try to manually replicate with the team each piece of the 3D object development and replication process! The CAD team will model the...

Wizarding 101: Static Electricity Magic Tricks

Presented by: Sean Wedig

Learn the summoning charm, and make inanimate objects dance! Bend the flow of water without touching it! Create a golden, er, *aluminum* snitch, and see why it's so hard to catch! Learn the infamous "Wingardium Leviosa", and make things levitate! Grab your wizarding robes, cheer for your house,...

KM: Alexa Scavenger Hunt

Ready for a digital adventure? There is an Alexa Scavenger Hunt throughout the Kalahari that you can play using your phone or tablet, and your voice! The hunt starts at the giant bronze gorilla (at the entrance to the convention center). You can do it entirely at your own pace or schedule, and there...

A .NET Data Access Layer You're Proud of (Without Entity Framework)

Presented by: Jonathan "J." Tower

If you're a .NET developer, it almost goes without saying that you use Entity Framework as part of the data access code on your software projects. Sometimes, EF is just right for the job, but other times you want something more simple, with better control of the generated SQL queries, and more...

Intro to Machine Learning on the cheap and without a PhD in math: Overview

Presented by: Jim Wilson

Machine learning has traditionally required a command of advanced mathematics, years of university training, and expensive hardware to implement. Now with better open source tools and online resources it’s easier than ever to create your own robust neural networks. Be it image recognition,...

Angular and The Case for RxJS

Presented by: Sandi Barr

When choosing Angular to build a front end app, it can seem like RxJS is just one more thing to learn, and there’s no easy transition coming from another framework. But RxJS is efficient and expressive! We declare relationships between entities, describing the what not the how. The basic sequence...

Going crazy with CQRS

Presented by: Seth Kraut

CQRS stands for Command Query Responsibility Segregation, which doesn’t clarify that much. CQRS is a high performance, event oriented flavor of Domain Driven Design. CQRS challenges our normal conception of design. By separating read and write logic, this architecture unlocks unique possibilities....

Usability Starts With Accessibility

Presented by: Patrick McSweeny

For many web developers, accessibility is an afterthought, if they even think about it at all. What they fail to realize is that planning for accessibility from the beginning can actually enhance the design process rather than hindering it, with the end result being more usable by everyone. This...

Beware of dark clouds on the horizon

Presented by: Andrew May

There are many benefits to be gained in moving your infrastructure to the cloud, but many more ways in which it can go horribly wrong. Will yours be the next company to expose confidential information in a public S3 bucket? Will your cloud account become unmanageable and expensive because all the...

Taking a byte of Java Bytecode

Presented by: Magnus Stahre

Java, Scala, Groovy, Kotlin, JRuby, Jython, Clojure. What do all these languages have in common? They are all powered by Java Bytecode. With the current ecosystem of languages running on the JVM, it is becoming important to learn more about the least common denominator. This talk gives an...

Rebel Revolt Escape Room

Presented by: Danielle Richardson

The United World Government has almost completed its Warhead Anti-matter Response Facility. As a member of The Resistance, you cannot let that happen. You must infiltrate the facility, steal the anti-matter warhead, and rig the place to blow. This facility cannot go online if The Resistance is ever...

KM: Sponsor Scavenger Hunt

Pick up a Scavenger Hunt Sheet In Hangoutz / Crown Palm and walk through the sponsor booths to find the answers. Remember this is not a race! Once completed return to check your answers. All of the answers are names of Sponsors. All of the Answer Sponsors who participated volunteered to be a part of...

API Design - The Right Way

Presented by: Jit Krishnamurthy

APIs are at the core of how applications interact with each other. The first step in developing an API is to design it and ever since Eric Evans introduced Domain Driven Design (DDD) in his book ‘Domain Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software’, it has been the go-to tool for...

Vue 3.0 Smaller, Faster & Stronger

Presented by: Dan Vega

Vue.JS has quickly become one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks around. The Vue Core Team is getting ready to release the third major version of the framework and it's packed with new features and performance updates. In this presentation, I will show off some of those new features such...

Antifragile Teams

Presented by: Charlie Sweet

Software development is an activity that’s fraught with complexity, ambiguity, and therefore risk. Many organizations attempt to mitigate that risk through stringent processes, but there is a better way. In nature, there are three types of systems. 1. Fragile systems that break under stress,...

[CANCELLED] Adding Search Capabilities to your Applications with Elastic Search

Presented by: Rod Paddock

This session has been cancelled. We apologize for any trouble this causes.

+5, Insightful: Azure Application Insights to improve your code

Presented by: Tim Jarzombek

You've worked hard on your app and are excited to finally release it. However, you start seeing reports of slowness, and it seems to crash once every 7 hours. Learn how to use Azure Application Insights to identify application issues like slow performance and crashes down to the line of code running...

The Integration Game: How to Pick a Winning Integration Pattern

Presented by: Branden Bellanca

Point-to-Point, Hub-and-Spoke, ESB, Remote Process Invocation, batching... so many terms fly around when talking about enterprise integration. How can we best decide which of these is the "right tool for the job"? How can we develop an integration architecture that supports the business's needs,...

Let’s Make Hello Kitty Talk!

Presented by: Kito Mann

This session explains what computers, apps, and software are (including less common computers like cars and IoT devices like Alexa devices) and then quickly jumps into building a simple game using HTMl5 Canvas, Web Components, JavaScript and Web Platform APIs to make Hello Kitty, Minions, Paw Patrol...

Lunch

A Mobile App Success Starter Pack

Presented by: Jeff Kelley

When you’re pitching a mobile app to a prospective client, it’s easy to focus on the app’s raison d’être. A pizza-ordering app should order pizza, a messaging app should send messages, and a game should be fun. For an app to succeed, there are countless other hidden tasks to consider: does...

Bringing Order to Chaos

Presented by: Scott Connerly

So, you find yourself coding in a code base that has some warts. OK, let's be honest, its a steaming pile of gum and toothpicks you're afraid to touch lest it might fall apart. How do you get from there to ... anywhere, let alone viable, architecturally useful, and stable? In this talk, we'll...

Securing Your API Endpoints - A Practical Authentication Guide

Presented by: Seth Petry-Johnson

It's never been easier to expose services over HTTP. It's also never been easier to inadvertently expose security holes via those same services. This session is designed for the average developer/architect that wants a brief overview of API security without getting into the weeds of cryptography...

Graphing Your Way Through the Cosmos: Common Data Problems Solved with Graphs

Presented by: Chad Green

Data as it appears in the real world is naturally connected, but traditional data modeling focuses on entities which can cause for complicated joins of these naturally connected data. That is where graph databases come in as they store data more like what happens naturally in the real world. Sure,...

Impress Your Boss with Interactive Visualizations

Presented by: Tim Garvin

We all have little troves of data lying around, begging to be analyzed. In this session, we’ll talk about how to visualize your data to tell the story you want. Whether you’re trying to decide what support ticket to work on next, convincing your team it’s safe to let you rewrite a module, or...

Tests Your Pipeline Might Be Missing

Presented by: Gene Gotimer

Developing a delivery pipeline means more than just adding automated deploys to the development cycle. It’s about gaining confidence that your builds are viable candidates for release or production. For development to be successful, tests of all types must be incorporated throughout the process to...

Help! My Client Needs a VPAT and other Accessibility Questions

Presented by: Courtney Heitman

What is a VPAT? Why do my clients keep asking about them? These questions are becoming more and more common with the rise of accessibility lawsuits. VPATs (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template) are the common ask for companies to make sure they are buying software that is accessible. This talk...

API Gateways and Microservices: 2 peas in a pod

Presented by: Santosh Hari

Chances are you’ve already gone through the tedious process of decomposing your monolith into microservices, or at the very least, want to use microservices in the near future. Nowadays, microservices connect to various APIs. These APIs could differ in protocols (REST/SOAP), where they’re hosted...

Hold Up, Wait a Minute, Let Me Put Some Async In It

Presented by: Matthew Jones

The introduction of async/await to C# has irrevocably changed how .NET developers created their applications. But what about older applications? How can they get the async goodness? In this code-heavy session, we'll take a "older" .NET web app which has no asynchronous code and slowly refactor it...

Postman Delivers! A Deep Dive into API Testing.

Presented by: Bob Crowley

Whether you are a tester or a developer of HTTP API’s, chances are you are already using Postman to some degree. Chances are also that you are missing out on some of the advanced goodness. Using only features of the free version, this session introduces you to effective use of these features to...

How to Get Started with Swift in 2020

Presented by: Leo Dion

Swift is now a half decade old since its introduction at WWDC 2014. With Swift 5 and ABI stability, Swift has matured into a language ready for new adopters. In this talk, Leo gives an introduction to Swift development as well as Swift’s journey from the iPhone to the Watch to servers. Leo also...

Unclogging Your Code: Linting 101

Presented by: Hannah Stannard

Consider your code base to be the dryer and the lint to be the stuff you really shouldn't be doing. Without a linter, all that fuzz is going to be trapped in your code! If you don't take care of this lint, your dryer will catch fire, much like your code base (also known as a dumpster fire). Join me...

Hacking Radiowaves for fun (but not profit)

Presented by: Craig Hills

As a child, did you ever play with walkie talkies? Do you remember how fun it was to talk with friends and family from the other end of the house, or across the neighborhood? Capture that feeling again, except this time learn some science behind it and how to use the same technology to contact...

From idea to physical series: A basic overview of the world of CAD and 3D printing

This session will talk about the exciting world of 3D printing with a bit of the history of the technology. We will look at the lab’s printers as well as models made on them. We’ll then cover choosing a CAD app and will briefly cover using curated 3D printer object libraries and different CAD...

Protecting Yourself Online and IRL

Presented by: Steve Grunwell

There's an old adage about fools and money being easily separated, but the same can be said for data. Every day, people are finding new and innovative ways to harvest information about you, whether it's for fame, fortune, or just for the lulz. You don't need to be a victim, though. Applying some...

Using Python to Develop a Discord Bot

Presented by: Raphael Gotfryd

Discord is the best way to communicate with your gamer friends. But what if I told you that you could create games with it? Well, you can in the form of a Discord bot. In this session we will go over many details about the Discord bot, and have a code along where you can make your own bot game for...

From idea to physical: A demo of how to make CAD models in Rhino3d

This lab is intended to be a fast-paced technology walk-through of the process of creating a 3D printed object. We will focus in on the process of using CAD to create our model with a NURBS modeler called Rhino3D and will walk through the UI and how Rhino uses basic curves and shapes to create more...

Throw Away Your Resume

Presented by: Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans (Sponsor)

(Presented by Keith Elder) I threw away my resume 13 years ago, and haven't looked back. Why? I'm all-in on my workplace culture. What would it take for you to plant your roots and be all-in? Research shows, for most technologists, the key is an outstanding workplace environment and a culture that...

Tech Startups | Do's, Don'ts and Things to Consider

Presented by: Bold Penguin (Sponsor)

(Presented by Ilya Bodner & Frank Lamantia) This duo has influenced the success of 5 tech-enabled startups, participated in 14 venture rounds, and experienced dozens of failed products. They've seen everything. Ideation, investment, launch, growth, selling... everything. Their current venture is...

Practical Data Modeling with MongoDB

Presented by: MongoDB (Sponsor)

(Presented by Austin Zellner, Principal Solutions Architect) Developers who are new to NoSQL often wonder, "how do we approach data modeling in a non-relational world". In this talk, we will dive into the fundamental elements of models supported by MongoDB, and how to combine the powerful...

Elastic Application Performance Monitoring, Observing the Mystical Unicorn

Presented by: Elastic (Sponsor)

(Presented by George Kobar) No matter what you call it, Observability or Monitoring, there is a fair share of buzzwords around this topic. The role for monitoring these applications on container or micro-services infrastructure both on-premises and in cloud is equally not clear and buzzword bloated....

UX Journey from a Developer

Presented by: Progress Software (Sponsor)

(Presented by Sam Basu) Many of us have strived to bridge the designer-developer mindset gap – this is easier said than done. Turns out, shiny UI does not always mean good UX. We need to have user personas in mind, as well as a few core UX principles, throughout the software development lifecycle....

Inclusion at the Workplace: You are more than an Awesome Coder

Presented by: Beam Dental (Sponsor)

(Presented by Alejandro Vélez-Calderón) Ever wonder what inclusion really means? If you are an average American worker you will spend about ninety thousand hours of your life at work. If you can't be yourself while at work, that means you are spending about one third of your life repressing your...

Think Like an Attacker to Protect Your App

Presented by: PreEmptive (Sponsor)

(Presented by Peter Tefft) Applications running in untrusted environments are especially susceptible to attack. Threats include reverse engineering, probing, and tampering. These attacks can result in your intellectual property being stolen, or in compromised versions of your app being distributed,...

Fun with Paper Cubes

Presented by: Steven Swenson

In this fun hands-on session we will be building three-dimensional shapes from simple slips of paper. We will be folding paper together like simple origami legos! No glue! No staples! First we will fold together a few small cubes, and then the cubes can be locked together to form lots of...

The Immutable Laws of Software and Life: Code Accordingly

Presented by: Cory House

The first Law of Ecology: you can never merely do one thing. Actions have side-effects. In this session, we'll explore how changes in software design can have unexpected, profound impacts. In this story-based session, I'll reference both popular and little-known "laws" of computing and life. I'll...

What's New in Xamarin Forms 4.0

Presented by: Jason Awbrey

Xamarin Forms has evolved significantly since it's debug almost 5 years ago. The recently released v4 includes many awesome new features. In this session we'll look at the latest and greatest, including Shell, Visual Design, CollectionView and CarosuelView. We'll demonstrate hands-on examples of...

User Interviews: More than Just a Conversation

Presented by: Ash Banaszek

Anyone who can carry a conversation can interview users, right? Not so. Gaining insight into user requirements, needs, and frustrations is a nuanced process. Without the proper training, even well-meaning researchers can lead, bias, and manipulate users into getting the answers researchers...

Public Speaking For Engineers

Presented by: Robby Millsap

Have you ever wanted to deliver a session or keynote at your favorite conference? Have you ever attended a really boring session and thought, "I could do better than that!" Are you terrified of getting in front of your peers? Have you ever wondered how to effectively use humor to get your point...

Learning R through sports, or learning sports through R

Presented by: Mike Roznik

Big data has been a buzzword for years, but it’s only recently been hitting the world of professional sports. How do sports teams use this big data? Why with R! Together we’ll learn what kind of data they look for and how they present it. Along the way we’ll look at real world examples of R...

Fun, Friendly Computer Science

Presented by: Mercedes Bernard

Computer science concepts like Big O Notation, set theory, data structures, and principles of object-oriented programming sound intimidating, but they don’t have to be! This talk will dive into some fundamental computer science topics and debunk the myth that only ‘real’ programmers know...

Say No To Accidental Architecture! Code Your Design Systems Instead

Presented by: Burton Smith

Are you still rockin' a single "styles.css" file in or project or have styles scattered throughout your project? Do you find yourself fighting to override styles or throw the "!important" property around a lot? Does your project have 20 different kinds of buttons and you don't know why or even where...

Artemis (ages 12 and up)

KidzMash: Detective Pikachu

1h 44m: PG

Building Scalable, Cloud-Ready Aplications with RESTier

Presented by: Chris Woodruff

In this advanced session, RESTier project leader Chris Woodruff will show you how to use RESTier to build high-quality cloud-ready applications. We'll use different code generation techniques to build out the infrastructure to maximize code reuse across tiers. We'll spin up Angular and Xamarin...

DevOps as a Force Multiplier for Agile

Presented by: Nate Berent-Spillson

So your development team uses Agile, but you keep running into process constraints because the rest of the organization is wedded to the status quo? In retros, you’re constantly coming up against inefficient, manual operations? Every step of building a software product eats away at your...

App Deco - Applied Design Thinking for Secure Development

Presented by: Wolfgang Goerlich

Usability versus security is stupid. It forces us to choose one or the other. It excuses security breaches under the guise of usability. It automatically pits us against them, builders against breakers, developers against defenders. A better approach is to view security like usability: they happen...

Everything I Needed to Know About Debugging I Learned in Elementary Physics

Presented by: Nate Taylor

Has there ever been a time where you got a bug report and you didn’t even know where to start? Have you ever felt overwhelmed with how code is behaving? You’re expecting one thing and it does the exact opposite? Situations like these can be some of the more frustrating aspects of software...

Deep Learning on the Edge

Presented by: Dan Kacenjar

Machine learning on microcontrollers? You bet! With the introduction of TensorFlow Lite, machine learning inferencing has moved to the edge... as in edge computing! Cloud-based servers or internet connections are no longer required. Machine learning can occur on the microcontroller, directly on the...

Blockchain from the Firehose

Presented by: Jacob Coulter

Take an in-depth look at Bitcoin, the blockchain that started it all. This session will cover all the pieces required to build a trustless distributed ledger. Learn from the most fundamental building blocks like hashing algorithms, transactions, and blocks, to the more advanced concepts such as...

Testing your UI Components

Presented by: Avindra Fernando

When our clients give us kudos for releasing high quality applications, it makes us happy. To achieve great levels of quality, we need to thoroughly test our applications. But we know that some forms of testing can be expensive and tedious at times. Unit and integration tests help overcome some of...

“How would you print that?” interactive panel

We have a wealth of different perspectives reflected with our 3D printing room staff- including tinkering hobbyists, hardcore makers, and even that of using multiple printer types repeatably in a small business setting. We thought it would be fun to share these various perspectives on how we...

Super Smash Bros Ultimate Tournament

A tournament... where folks play Super Smash Bros

Story Time with KidzMash

Artemis (ages 12 and up)

Electric Jam Session

Acoustic Jam Session

Lazer tag (ages 16 and up)

Lazer tag (ages 16 and up)

Waterpark Party

If you still have energy, come on down to the Waterpark Party! Swimming is optional. Having fun is mandatory. Sherwin-Williams is hosting a Waterpark Cabana, located near the wave pool! Late night snacks and drinks will be available while they last. Come by and grab a slice or two and meet some new...

CodeMash Shuttle

Breakfast

Solving the Boolean Identity Crisis

Presented by: Jeremy Fairbank

While powerful in its simplicity and important to computation, the boolean can be limiting in applications. In this talk, briefly explore the history of boolean logic in computation and look at how booleans can become misused in programming languages. Explore examples where booleans obscure the...

Event processing without breaking production

Presented by: Nathan Zender

Transactional systems are built with the primary focus of processing many concurrent events, only keeping the current state of data. What if I told you there was a way to capture all the events that led to that current state? Capturing all events would allow for deeper analytics/machine learning,...

StencilJS and Universal Components

Presented by: Mike Hartington

Have you ever found an awesome component online, but couldn’t use it because it’s written for a different framework? For too long now, frameworks have gotten in the way of developers sharing code that they’ve written. With different APIs to work with, developers would have to rewrite a...

Speed, security and simplicity: Creating Container Images with Cloud Native Buildpacks

Presented by: Daniel Mikusa

Buildpacks are a pluggable, modular, language-agnostic tool that takes application source code and in turn give you an OCI (Open Container Initiative) image which you can run using Docker, Kubernetes or your OCI Runtime of choice. Developers: You no longer need to worry about tedious tasks like...

Azure Kinect DK: Artificial Intelligence + Computer Vision = Your Next Generation Development Today!

Presented by: Lance Larsen

Azure Kinect DK is most advanced Computer Vision device available for developers today! Combining advanced depth sensor, spatial microphone array, video cameras with sophisticated computer vision and speech AI models, the Kinect is gives us an unparalleled tool for building cutting edge computer...

Well.. that's ONNX-pected

Presented by: Ron Dagdag

The world of machine learning frameworks is complex. What if we can use the lightest framework for inferencing on edge devices? That’s the idea behind ONNX format. Attend this session and find out how to train models using the framework of your choice, save or convert models into ONNX, and deploy...

Have More Fun in Minecraft, With Redstone!

Presented by: Nathan Arthur

Have you ever wanted to build your own redstone machines in Minecraft? Come build cool redstone doors, traps, weapons, and farms with Benjamin (age 9) and Liam (age 7). But we won't just build them - we'll learn how they work - so you can build your own inventions at home! Please bring a computer,...

KidzMash: Itty Bitz Lazer tag (ages 4-9)

Burn It Down and Start Again: Principles of Modern JavaScript

Presented by: Joe Morgan

Heard about the latest JavaScript syntax? Seems like a day doesn’t pass without a language update. And with all the focus on syntax changes, it’s easy to miss the subtle principles driving JavaScript. Modern JavaScript doesn’t just have new tools, it’s composed differently. Don’t use a...

Unit Testing Strategies & Patterns in C#

Presented by: Bill Dinger

Learn common patterns and strategies to effectively unit test your code in C#. We’ll go over design principles and ways to effectively ensure your code can be easily tested as well as how to use common testing tools such as Moq, Autofixture, & MsTest to help remove some of the drudgery of testing....

Beyond Alt-Text: Trends in Online Accessibility

Presented by: Ian Forrest

If you're like the 2016 version of me, then you think you have a decent handle on web accessibility. You put alt attributes on all your images (though you don't give much thought to the actual text) and you make sure your sites can be used with a keyboard (except for overlays sometimes). Then the...

API Design for ETL - Lessons from Nearly 100 Data Integrations in the Wild

Presented by: Dan Mosora

In the API Economy, users increasingly want to analyze and connect more of their business data, from small startup shops to multinational corporations. Thinking about making data available through an API? There are innumerable ways to slice the problem. How do you implement pagination? What data...

Building a super performant GossipGirl.com in Gatsby in under 50 Minutes

Presented by: Jennifer Wadella

Hey, Upper East Siders, Gossip Girl here bringing you the scoop on rapidly building static websites in React. I don’t know about you, but my site is in a major need of an overhaul, so we’re going to rebuild it in under 50 minutes using GatsbyJS. We’ll make SEO look hot and blow some minds with...

Serialization for the new micro service landscape

Presented by: Leonardo de Moura Rocha Lima

Serialization is often overlooked when developing backend systems, and this wasn’t (and still isn’t) a problem inside a monolith. But with the developing scene moving towards micro services, serialization becomes really important - how to serialize your data? What aspects do you need to...

Environment Configuration for JavaScript Apps

Presented by: David Truxall

For traditional server-side web apps, environment-specific configuration is handled in a variety of ways, including environment variables, configuration files or password stores. But a front-end web app running in a framework like React or Vue can’t really use these same techniques since they...

KidzMash: Itty Bitz Lazer tag (ages 4-9)

Lunch

REST in Peace: Killing REST and adopting RPC.

Presented by: Steven Swenson

REST has been the de facto architecture for web APIs for 15 years, and its deficiencies are starting to become quite apparent. It is difficult to document, poor standardization, and lacks common tooling. For developers, this results in extra work when creating or consuming an API. The time has come...

You Version Your Code, Why Not Your Database?

Presented by: Derek Binkley

Code versioning is an integral part of any developers daily workflow. However, database changes are often handled manually making automatic code deploys a challenge. If something goes wrong, rolling back a deployment requires either complex and possibly untested scripts or a database...

Android: A peek under the hood

Presented by: Brad Hollander

Over the years, Android has become one of the most widely used operating systems in the world. Boasting 2.5 billion active devices, it can be found running on practically any hardware, from high-end flagship phones to smartwatches and IOT devices. Despite this massive popularity, the inner workings...

The Dark Side of UX

Presented by: Courtney Heitman

User experience design brings clarity, removes obstacles. It rewards - makes us feel accomplished, successful, happy. Users are confident when using a well-designed application - as easy as turning on a light switch: [Buy] Don't make me think: did I opt in? Don't make me think: was that a hidden...

Development magic: Producing more development time out of thin air.

Presented by: Jonathan Batteas

It's easy to get stuck in the, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” mindset with your software development process when real money is on the line, and deadlines loom. But taking the time to implement small changes to your pipeline, and foster a team attitude that's always looking for a...

[CANCELLED] Watch This Talk Before You Go Go

Presented by: John Reese

Session is cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience.

KidzMash: Itty Bitz Lazer tag (ages 4-9)

Quantum Computing deep dive

Presented by: Johnny Hooyberghs

You've probably heard of Quantum Computing, but it still remains a mistery? This deep dive session explains important concepts like qbits, superposition and entanglement. Theoretical knowledge about quantum physics, quantum gates and quantum algorithms will be associated with practical examples...

Practical Functional Programming

Presented by: Jeremy Fairbank

Functional programming is more than just math and monads. Functional programming empowers developers to solve real problems with safe, predictable, and maintainable code. In this talk, discover the basics of functional programming and how to apply functional concepts in a practical manner. Learn how...

DDoS Attacks: Threat Landscape & Defensive Countermeasures

Presented by: Chris Holland

October 2016’s attack on Dyn's DNS infrastructure was a gloomy wake-up call to the online community at-large, depriving us access to some of the online destinations and applications we use every day, thereby confronting us with the stark reality of an old and ever-growing threat with which the...

Not Just Fun and Games: Creating a Chess AI That Can Beat You

Presented by: David Hauck

AI is in the news seemingly every week. Whether it is people like Elon Musk or Steven Hawking warning the public about them or a new program that can beat humans at yet another task, it is definitely a hot topic. This talk will go through how an AI program that can play chess is actually made. Using...

User Experience Pitfalls

Presented by: Ash Banaszek

User Experience has become a buzzword in the tech industry. Project managers and business partners are clamoring to improve the experience. You understand UX is a business necessity, but you aren't quite sure what it means to you or where to begin. This session discusses some common pitfalls of user...

Supporting the Scala Ecosystem: Stories from the Line

Presented by: Justin Pihony

At Lightbend we have handled over 10,000 customer support cases ranging from simple Scala compilation issues to complex Akka performance puzzles. Supporting Scala and its largest libraries has resulted in some really interesting issues, such as: * a seemingly valid cast leading to a...

Artemis (ages 12 and up)

KidzMash: Preschool Art Time

Simple exploratory art projects that teach creative thinking for the littler attendees. Ages: 2-5 *Projects require some assistance from an adult!*

Tribal Knowledge in Agile Teams

Presented by: Manifest Solutions (Sponsor)

(Presented by Jeffrey Miller) Let's face it. We don't communicate well, and we document even less. Is it possible to wield information well in an Agile software team? Yes, it is! With consideration, change, and commitment to doing your work differently, it is possible to have relevant and vibrant...

What's going on in there? Know what's happening in your software with Application Insights.

Presented by: Aptera (Sponsor)

(Presented by Eric Potter) Monitoring production software can be a challenge, especially if it is hosted in the cloud. Application Insights can tell you what your software is doing and how your users are using it. You can use it to identify performance bottlenecks. You can detect errors before users...

Supersonic, Subatomic Java

Presented by: Red Hat, Inc. (Sponsor)

(Presented by Scott Seighman) Supersonic, Subatomic Java In this session, we’ll demonstrate how you can optimize your enterprise Java apps, your APIs, your microservices, and your serverless functions for a Kubernetes/OpenShift environment using Quarkus. Quarkus is a Kubernetes Native Java stack...

The Intersection of Quality and Speed: Scaling a Team to Optimally Deliver Quality Software

Presented by: Root Insurance Company (Sponsor)

(Presented by Tim LeMaster, Keith Wedinger, Tommy Graves) A panel discussion of Root Engineers that presents a conversation about building a team to optimally deliver software in a high quality and efficient manner and the challenges we've faced doing that at Root Insurance. From onboarding, to the...

Rapid Mobile App Development with Xamarin.Forms + Prism MVVM Framework

Presented by: Robert Half Technology (Sponsor)

(Presented by Erik Hornyak) Learn how to leverage the Prism MVVM Framework on top of Xamarin. Forms to accelerate cross-platform mobile development. Prism provides an implementation of a collection of design patterns that are helpful in writing well-structured and maintainable XAML applications,...

KidzMash: Lazer tag (ages 10-15)

Small Person Speakeasy

Presented by: Danielle Richardson

Welcome to 1929, where the hair is short, the music is loud, and the dancing goes on forever. Be ready to move and explore some unique fashion trends of the 1920s, play dress up and take home a themed photograph from the photo booth, and learn a flapper-inspired dance to perform in the lobby at the...

Programmer burnout: how to recognize and avoid it

Presented by: Santosh Hari

Burnout among software professionals is far more widespread than we would like to admit. It sneaks up on us. At first we dread going in to work each day. We can barely focus enough to get through the day and struggle with otherwise simple-for-us tasks. It starts there and gets much worse. So what...

Mock It 'til You Make It

Presented by: Gabriela Dombrowski

Let's automate the tedious task of building mocked query resolvers so that you never have to manually set up mocks for loading, error, no data, or default value states ever again! We'll learn how to use GraphQL and Apollo in a React application to build providers that will dynamically auto mock all...

One Codebase, Many Screens - Flutter in a Nutshell

Presented by: Don Ward

The Story - Flutter is Google’s cross-platform development framework for quickly crafting high-quality native apps on Web, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS in record time. Flutter works with existing code, is used by developers and organizations around the world, and is free and open source. Notable...

Git Back to Basics

Presented by: Angel Thomas

Have you written code that worked, then broke it, only to not remember what the working code was? Git, a version control application could be the solution you are looking for. Git can help you to track changes in your projects, go back to when your code is working, or even find out where it broke....

The Dungeon Master's Guide to DevOps

Presented by: Bill Dinger

Every good Dungeon Master needs a guide to help their party adventure through the world of DevOps. From the tools necessary to common monsters found along the way. Help your party succeed at a critical part of delivering quality software. We'll go over the full CI/CD cycle: builds, commit hooks,...

Walking A Mile In Your Users' Shoes

Presented by: Jameson Hampton

Developing apps for users in different demographics is inherently differently than developing apps just for ourselves and for other programmers. Understanding the needs of our users and learning to foster empathy for them is just as much of a skill as learning Rails or ActiveRecord — and it’s a...

Artemis (ages 12 and up)

KidzMash: Mad Science

It is always sad to come to the end. To ease our parting Mad Science is coming to the close and bringing Fire and Ice! One last scientific exploration into matter and pressure before we send you home until 2021

Straying From the Happy Path: Taking Control of Errors in Swift

Presented by: Jeff Kelley

Have you ever seen a code comment saying “this should never happen”? Have you ever wondered what would happen if it did? Swift has a diverse set of error-handling capabilities, from using throw to send errors up the stack to using a Result to handle errors in asynchronous methods. In this talk,...

Watch How The Giants Fall: Learning from Bug Bounty Results

Presented by: John Melton

Security is hard. We all miss things. Attackers find things. "You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself." -Samuel Levenson This talk is a fun, fast-moving survey of some of the best recent bug bounty finds against some of the...

The Case of the Tenacious Tester: How Using Your Words Improves QA Work

Presented by: Katrina Ohlemacher

"Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details." So says Sherlock Holmes in “A Case of Identity.” The Great Detective has a lot to say that applies to software testing: pay attention to detail, never make assumptions, use your imagination. We wouldn’t have...

Raiders of the Lost Query: Learning Best Practices for Exploratory Data Analysis in R Programming

Presented by: Pierre DeBois

Indiana Jones had his hat, his whip, and his wits to save the day. But developers and managers need a lot more to program data models. With so many dataset tools for data science available, managers and developers can create statistical programming models, but are overwhelmed as to how to best...

Artemis (ages 12 and up)