The idea of playing with a pocket-sized computer, hooking up motors, sensors and LED's sounds like a perfect afternoon, but if you're anything like me, there is always something that gets in the way! Kickstart that inner geek with a zero to hero session on getting started with IoT and the powerful Raspberry Pi 3. In this session you will see how easy it is to set up the Pi, the use of a Pi-Top and how to start work on those cool home projects.

Paul Usher

Fun with IoT and the Raspberry Pi 3

"We hire only average people," said no company, ever. With so many guns, superstars, ninjas, full-stack thingamies and guru whatsits, why would they? Hiring great people is hard. Retaining them is extremely hard. And yet neither is complicated. There are a few simple things that your company can do to start attracting and retaining top talent.

This talk is about stories. Stories about people. Stories about situations. Stories about stories and the power they have to influence people, teams and culture.

Isn't it nice to wake up in the morning and feel happy about the day to come? Let's talk about how to create that - both for the people we want to hire and for ourselves.

Andrew Harcourt

How to build (and retain) an amazing team

So you want to start a new Universal Windows app for Windows 10, IoT or maybe even HoloLens but you're not sure how to do things right. There's models to wire up, bindings to do, background tasks that don't let you inherit objects, dependencies on unique platforms to manage... it all very quickly becomes a mess. But it doesn't have to!

In this talk I'll go through the anatomy of a well-designed basic Universal Windows Platform (UWP) application with all the good things we all know and love: Convention based ViewModel Binding, DI, IoC, easy lifecycle management and separation of concerns.

Ryan Preece

Universal Windows: The Right Way

The API economy is here and it's fuelling disruption in many established industries. In response to this. many companies are looking to increase their agility through breaking down legacy monoliths into discrete services focused around specific business capabilities. While this approach has many advantages, there are potential pitfalls awaiting the unwary. The number of integration points between these distributed components is greatly increased. Considering such an architecture, a naïve approach could be to simply continue to apply traditional integration testing techniques as this can lead to spiralling cost of ownership through brittle test suites. What can we do to mitigate this risk while still giving us the confidence that the various services will work cohesively?
In this session we will explore using consumer driven contacts, specifically Pact, to solve this problem and share some lessons learnt from the trenches through leveraging them as part of our API journey at Bankwest.

Rob Crowley

Consumer Driven Contracts - Mean what you say and say what you mean

It’s not every day you propose a session that’s deliberately unplanned, but here we are. 

Cristian and Brendan have spent way too much time talking about random things and trying to solve the world's problems over beers, so why not do this in front of an audience? No promises that the organisers will let us have beer though… 

Those in the audience will have a chance to propose topics they want to hear us talk about (and we will disregard boring topics), and then who knows where things will go? Technical, non-technical, off-topic, whatever - bring whatever’s on your mind and we’ll have some fun.

Brendan Forster and Cristian Prieto

Brendan and Cristian Unplugged

Everyone loves to talk themselves up in conference presentations, regaling you with tales of their technical brilliance. Sure these talks can be filled with valuable information about the latest technologies, but have you ever stopped to consider how it makes you, the audience, feel? After you've spent the weekend hearing about reactively programmed event sourced games running in the cloud isn't hard to go back to writing CRUD forms using ASP.NET WebForms 3.5 against an Access DB? Don't you want someone to stand up and tell you all the ways they've screwed up so you can feel better about the code that awaits you on Monday? 

This is that talk. 

It's taken Colin 17 years to learn these things through failures big and small. Now you can learn such classic mistakes as inappropriate layering, leaky abstractions, reimplementing perfectly valid frameworks because reasons, undervaluing the cost of development friction, and so much more. All this (probably, maybe) in just one session the length of which I did not bother to research. Yours to take away so you can laugh smugly at me when you fail to do so in your career*. Vote now but don't send any money. 

*offer void where prohibited

Colin Scott

Random Failures of Architecture I Have Committed

IOT is a *big deal* with billions being spent in the sector globally and a rapid proliferation of devices being connected to the Internet. Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD do it as the case of internet connected kettles that leak security details shows. 

NodeBots use web technologies - namely JS - to interact with hardware, enabling physical things that can interact with the Internet and the web.

The aim of this session is to introduce developers to the hardware & software stack and show what it is capable of and how to work with it. Examples will showcase physical & software systems working together.

Attendees should go away from the session armed with the information needed to start their own explorations in the hardware space.

Andrew Fisher

Building Droids with JavaScript

Open Source seems to be the way of the future for most software development, but what does it actually look like day to day for those people who are helping to shepherd projects both big and small.

In this talk, I will walk through my experiences - the ups and downs - of being involved with a number of open source projects over the previous few years - as a maintainer, advisor and keen observer. I will share what things I've seen succeed on projects, what things need to be addressed, and share some thoughts on what the future hold for creating sustainable projects might look like.

Brendan Forster

What's It Like Being a Open Source Maintainer Anyway?

Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) is an important architectural pattern for enterprise applications.  It offers a number of important benefits for more complex and collaborative applications. This presentation will give a quick introduction to and overview of CQRS within a Domain Driven Design (DDD) context.  CQRS applications can also benefit from the use of Event Sourcing (ES). This presentation will give an introduction to and overview of CQRS using Event Sourcing.

However, the second part of the presentation will be an investigation of whether events are the ultimate and most timeless way to persist application state (without actually persisting application state). The ability to construct and reconstruct data stores on the read-side enables post-hoc optimisations of data representation for queries. The ability to change paradigms on the application write-side means that the data representation is perhaps even more powerful and timeless than relational stores.

Ashley Aitken

CQRS and Event Sourcing For The Win!

It takes effort and discipline to be a great developer, but how do you know what to focus on, what to pursue, what to say no to? And how do you fit it all into an already packed life of family, friends, discovery and ambition?

Getting a grasp on key professional skills, such as time management, learning to say no, building a network and, most importantly, keeping an open mind is no simple task. This talk will provide guidance and share personal experiences on how to build up the life of your creation, rather than the life you have settled for. From managing 3 businesses, being an author and speaker, organising conferences, giving as much back to the community as possible as well as being a father and partner, there are gold nuggets aplenty in this talk. Be inspired to think beyond yourself.

Lars Klint

The Force Awakens: Mastering Your Inner Developer

There has been a heap of talk about web frameworks recently, React is one which is particularly interesting. Almost weekly we are hearing about large companies who have made the switch and are saying it has helped them delivery their applications quicker with fewer issues.
This is because React takes a very different approach to how you build and compose your JavaScript applications. If you do frontend web development this session will show you what React is, how it works and practical tips on where to go once you have mastered the basics.

Jake Ginnivan

What makes React different?

Recently returning from London, where I was exposed to a world of low latency high throughput systems, I share my experiences and misconceptions. In this talk we talk discover how to measure latency, how single threaded can be the go-to design for speed and how to make Managed Memory systems (.NET/Java) perform like native systems. We also investigate the things that can be holding you back.

There will be code!

Lee Campbell

Low Latency designs from London Finance

If you're a software engineer in 2016, you're quite possibly a tiny bit jaded by this year's new and improved frameworks, 3rd set of must-have developer tools, cool as a cumulus cloud configurator, or magical monitoring software. Couldn't we just slow all this down for a minute? Half of us are still working at banks on enterprise java apps written in 2002! Nigel Dalton peeks under the covers of the societal and business drivers for what might appear (to a rational person) to be change for change's sake, followed by madly attempting to predict some key trends, and finally concludes what our #1 focus as humans within the systems of work should probably be.

Nigel Dalton

Mars, Cars, Stars and VR - developing resilience for a crazy future

One of the core principles behind Agile software development is being retrospective and fosting a culture of continuous improvement. In this session you will see us do that on a macro scale. As consultants we've seen more than our fair share of Agile done right and Agile done poorly as well as everything in between.

Back in 2011, Rob made a prediction on his blog that "within the next 5 years Agile won’t exist anymore because everyone will be doing it; kind of like what happened to Object Orientation". Now, on first thought, a talk about Agile in 2016 seems a bit outdated. The problem is, to this day a lot of companies/teams still can't get it right and we have famous Agile advocates saying things like "Agile is dead". So, while Rob's prediction hasn't completely held true, it's still a good time to reflect on it.

This session will cover a bunch of stuff that we notice all the time across multiple companies that doesn't hold true against the values and principles of the Agile manifesto, we'll blow a hole through all of the strawman arguments we hear day in, day out, and we will inject some enthusiasm and experience by describing the techniques we use to stay true to the original values and principles of Agile and helps us consistently deliver great software outcomes.

Rob Moore and Chris Gilbert

An Agile Retrospective

RoboCup Junior is a project-oriented educational initiative that sponsors local, regional and international robotic events for young students. It is designed to introduce RoboCup to primary and secondary school children. The focus in the junior league is on education. RoboCup is an international effort whose purpose is to foster Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics research by providing a standard problem where a wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. Created in a true cooperative spirit, the RoboCup Junior Educational Competition encompasses not only engineering and IT skills, but extends right across a school curriculum. RoboCup Junior also addresses social development by encouraging sportsmanship, sharing, teamwork, understanding of differences between individuals and nations, cooperation and organisational skills.

The competition is divided into Rescue, Dance and Soccer divisions and the Australian Open National competition will be held in Sydney on 16th to 18th September 2016. For more information see http://robocupjunior.org.au/.

All Saints College students

RoboCup Junior Australia Rescue Robots

Terms like OAuth, OpenIDConnect, claims, tokens, two and three legged authentication, etc. are becoming increasingly common in discussions about software development. Most of us rely on these for authentication to services we use nearly every day! In an era where applications are highly distributed and dependent on other services to perform their function, modern identity approaches are important in allowing us to access protected resources without needing to share passwords around. This talk will help unravel some of these terms, explain modern approaches to authentication and show you how to easily get started setting some of these up yourself.

Matt Davies and Rob Moore

Modern Authentication

Chat tools have become an important part of our daily lives. Whether it’s Messenger, WhatsApp, Slack or Skype we all use some sort of chat tool to communicate with each other on a regular basis. This has paved the way for a new type of application that isn’t a desktop, web or mobile. It’s an program that lives in your chat platform and communicates with you conversationally. In this talk I will demonstrate creating a conversational user interfaced program that lives in Slack and will use Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to work out what you are asking it to do and act accordingly. I will demonstrate how this can create a low friction interface that can automate mundane or complex tasks and make it feel like you are asking a colleague to help you out. This could change the conceptual relationship we have with programs and open new possibilities in terms of interaction and user experience.

Norman Noble

Building a conversational user interface

0% boilerplate. 3% Javascript. 100% value. Dream? Impossible? Mad ramblings? 

In this session we'll have a look at some patterns which allow us to concentrate on the code that we want to write, without getting bogged down by the boring stuff around the edges.  We'll then enhance them with some testing patterns  now that Rob and Matt have burned down the testing pyramid.

We'll introduce pipelines, see how they eliminate boilerplate, and see how they lend themselves to highly composable, rich test suites.

By the end of this session, every keystroke you write is almost guaranteed to enhance your end products.

2016 Agenda

Registration

Welcome and housekeeping

Keynote: Nigel Dalton

Mars, Cars, Stars and VR - developing resilience for a crazy future

Changeover

Paul Usher

Fun with IoT and the Raspberry Pi 3

Rob Crowley

Consumer Driven Contracts - Mean what you say and say what you mean

Rob Moore and Chris Gilbert

An Agile Retrospective

Morning tea

Andrew Harcourt

How to build (and retain) an amazing team

Andrew Fisher

Building Droids with JavaScript

Norman Noble

Building a conversational user interface

Changeover

Matt Davies and Rob Moore

Modern Authentication

Jake Ginnivan

What makes React different?

Brendan Forster

What's It Like Being a Open Source Maintainer Anyway?

Lunch

All Saints College students

RoboCup Junior Australia Rescue Robots

Ashley Aitken

CQRS and Event Sourcing For The Win!

Graeme Foster

Banish the boilerplate - using pipelines to go faster

Lee Campbell

Low Latency designs from London Finance

Changeover

Colin Scott

Random Failures of Architecture I Have Committed

Ryan Preece

Universal Windows: The Right Way

Brendan Forster and Cristian Prieto

Brendan and Cristian Unplugged

Afternoon tea

Sponsor announcements and PRIZE DRAW!!!

Locknote: Lars Klint

The Force Awakens: Mastering Your Inner Developer

Thank yous and wrap up

Afterparty

Handbook

Media

Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

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