Tuesday
Building Your First Voice Experience with Alexa
Presented by: Jeff Blankenburg
Time: Tuesday 8:00 AM - 12:00 PMThis workshop will dive right in to getting you set up and started building a voice-based experience with Alexa. You will leave this session with a working Alexa skill that you can customize and publish as your own. We will cover topics around voice design best practices, voice interactions,...
Room: Salon E/DTrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: PreCompilerLevel: Introductory and overviewKidzMash Makerz
Time: Tuesday 9:30 AM - 11:30 AMHands on STEM activities for all ages. Come be creative with Ozobots, Snap Circuits, friction, catapults and more! (Kidz must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.)
Room: BanyanKidzMash Makerz
Time: Tuesday 1:30 PM - 3:30 PMHands on STEM activities for all ages. Come be creative with Ozobots, Snap Circuits, friction, catapults and more! (Kidz must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.)
Room: BanyanWednesday
KidzMash Makerz
Time: Wednesday 9:30 AM - 11:30 AMHands on STEM activities for all ages. Come be creative with Ozobots, Snap Circuits, friction, catapults and more! (Kidz must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.)
Room: BanyanKidzMash Makerz
Time: Wednesday 1:30 PM - 3:30 PMHands on STEM activities for all ages. Come be creative with Ozobots, Snap Circuits, friction, catapults and more! (Kidz must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.)
Room: BanyanThursday
KidzMash Makerz
Time: Thursday 9:30 AM - 11:30 AMHands on STEM activities for all ages. Come be creative with Ozobots, Snap Circuits, friction, catapults and more! (Kidz must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.)
Room: BanyanTime traveling in the cloud. Time series analytics with Microsoft Azure.
Presented by: Sam Vanhoutte
Time: Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMThe data collected in IoT scenarios are often thought of as a ‘time series”. Through this data it’s possible to understand the past and use this data to anticipate the future. But time traveling is never straight forward. That’s why in this session Sam will walk you through the processing of...
Room: Indigo BayTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateKidzMash Makerz
Time: Thursday 1:30 PM - 3:30 PMHands on STEM activities for all ages. Come be creative with Ozobots, Snap Circuits, friction, catapults and more! (Kidz must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.)
Room: BanyanConnecting Systems that Never Planned for Each Other - An Introduction to Apache NiFi
Presented by: David Snyder
Time: Thursday 4:45 PM - 5:45 PMApache NiFi can be described as a Swiss army knife for data flow programming. Joe Witt, the creator of NiFi, describes it as a "broker between systems that never knew to plan for each other". This session will illuminate the main features of Apache NiFi, expand on the problems it is best suited...
Room: Indigo BayTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewFriday
RediSearch: Completing the Beyond SQL Story with Search
Presented by: Brian Sam-Bodden
Time: Friday 8:30 AM - 9:30 AMDo you automatically reach for a relational database for your application’s data needs? There is an unspoken impedance mismatch between expected rates of maturity between an application’s model and its data model. NoSQL/NewSQL and now “beyond SQL” solutions are often met with incredulity...
Room: Indigo BayTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewKidzMash Makerz
Time: Friday 9:30 AM - 11:30 AMHands on STEM activities for all ages. Come be creative with Ozobots, Snap Circuits, friction, catapults and more! (Kidz must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.)
Room: BanyanExtending Spring Data and Spring Data Redis
Presented by: Brian Sam-Bodden
Time: Friday 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMIn this session, Brian will take you along for a journey into the codebases of Spring Data and Spring Data Redis to help you understand how to build your own annotation-based Spring Data extensions. Whether you are building a framework or a business/application-specific extension, understanding the...
Room: Indigo BayTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateStand Back; I'm going to try Data Science!
Presented by: Matt Eland
Time: Friday 12:15 PM - 1:15 PMCurious about data science and its relation to software engineering? Want to know how to dabble in artificial intelligence or machine learning side projects before taking the plunge? Come check out this session. In this session we'll explore the types of machine learning tasks as I share my own...
Room: Nile/OrangeTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewThe Super Spectacular Interactive Event Driven Light Show
Presented by: Barry Tarlton
Time: Friday 12:15 PM - 1:15 PMThe ability to properly design and implement highly resilient event driven systems is critical in our data centric world. But getting one’s mind around the complex choreography of this data driven architecture can be absurdly difficult. By using a Raspberry Pi Kafka Cluster, light bars, and...
Room: CypressTrack: ArchitectureFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateMoving Massive Mountains of Magnificent Data
Presented by: Barret Blake
Time: Friday 2:45 PM - 3:45 PMData over here. Data over there. These days there are massive piles of data everywhere. Companies use many different systems. Those systems need to interact and share data to be useful. But how to get that data from place to place? Most of the time, what's built in to these various systems doesn't...
Room: CypressTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overview