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Generative AI coding assistants are changing how we code, but it can feel frustrating when these tools produce irrelevant or absent suggestions. Like any emerging tech, the new tools have a learning curve. Join GitHub Copilot–enthusiast Rizel Scarlett as she shares proven strategies and expert tips to transform your random prompts into intentional ones, unlocking a world of game-changing suggestions. Get inspired, get creative, and get ready to embrace the future of coding! Generative AI coding assistants are changing how we code, but it can feel frustrating when these tools produce irrelevant or absent suggestions. Like any emerging tech, the new tools have a learning curve. Join GitHub Copilot–enthusiast Rizel Scarlett as she shares proven strategies and expert tips to transform your random prompts into intentional ones, unlocking a world of game-changing suggestions. Get inspired, get creative, and get ready to embrace the future of coding!

"DevOps" is the operations people's crafty plan to make developers do other people's work, but we are smart enough to see right through this naive rebranding trick! Baruch suggests you think about it: we, the developers, have written all the code. It passes all the tests; it obviously works, and works well (Are we a little proud? We are!); so we are DONE. Now, out of the blue, a bunch of "thought leaders" (all with an operations background, mind you!) are trying to tell us that we have to learn YAML, Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform to deploy our software because suddenly it is our concern?! In this talk, we'll discuss why developers do or don't need DevOps. We'll consider arguments made by DevOps visionaries and see whether they hold water. Hopefully, by the end of the talk, we'll understand whether DevOps really helps developers to deploy better code to production more often, or if it is just another scam made up by marketing and evangelists. Baruch Sadogursky (@jbaruch) did Java before it had generics, DevOps before there was Docker, and DevRel before it had a name. He started DevRel at JFrog when it was ten people and took it all the way to a successful $6B IPO by helping engineers solve problems. Now Baruch keeps helping engineers solve problems but also helps companies help engineers solve problems. He is a co-author of the "Liquid Software" and "DevOps Tools for Java Developers" books, serves on multiple conference program committees, and regularly speaks at numerous most prestigious industry conferences, including Kubecon, JavaOne (RIP), Devoxx, QCon, DevRelCon, DevOpsDays (all over), DevOops (not a typo) and others. After a tenure of eleven years in JFrog DevRel, Baruch is the Principal Developer Productivity Engineering Advocate at Gradle

When the term Jamstack was introduced by Matt Biilmann in 2015, it focused primarily on the speed, security and DX benefits of pre-rendering (i.e. statically generating) pages using third-party APIs and services as a backend. Fast forward to 2024 and the term Jamstack has been pushed aside in favor of "composable architectures". However, the differences between the two go deeper than just a swap of buzzwords. In this session, we'll discuss what it means to be composable, whether Jamstack is still relevant and the tools and services pushing web development in new directions. Brian Rinaldi is a Developer Experience Engineer at LaunchDarkly with over 20 years experience as a developer for the web. Brian is actively involved in the community running developer meetups via CFE.dev and Orlando Devs. He’s the editor of the Jamstacked newsletter and co-author of The Jamstack Book from Manning.

Join Very Big Things as they share the intricacies of Zumba's global communication strategy revolutionized by generative AI, achieving translations in seconds while seamlessly integrating with existing software systems. This session will guide you through the technical and strategic implementation of AI, revealing how it enhanced cultural nuance and efficiency across Zumba’s global brand presence. Alex Nucci is the VP of Go-To-Market at Very Big Things, an award-winning firm recognized with the Webby Award for Top Technical Achievement and Digiday's Innovation of the Year. Alex is from Miami, where he’s been a long time member and contributor to the startup scene, serving as a Venture Partner at Secocha Ventures, and Cofounder and CEO of Blanket.

Developer Experience (DevEX) is not just describing the "frontend" experience - it's about every aspect of the experience your developers (internal and external) have with your product, tooling, systems, etc. Platform engineering has emerged as this general way to remove developer toil, but DevEX is more than that, encompassing everything from deployment pipelines to IaC practices to developer efficiencies and productivity to UI/UX to even APIs. In this talk, we will focus on some of the principles of DevOps (collaboration, communication, shared responsibility) and how a strong DevEX mindset can bring Dev and Ops together. Jeremy is a Developer Relations and Community leader, formerly the Director of DevRel & Community at CircleCI, and previously at Solace, Auth0, and XDA. With almost 30 years in Tech, covering just about every functional area including Support, SysAdmin, Application Developer, Program Manager, and Business Analyst, Jeremy is active in the DevRel and DevOps communities, and is a co-creator of DevOpsPartyGames.com. A lover of all things coffee, community, open source, and tech, he’s a husband and father, and is also house-broken, and (generally) plays well with others.

AI-based copilots are popping up everywhere. But have you ever wondered how to approach building functionality that can understand and transform a user’s intent? In this presentation, we will unveil the process of creating a generative copilot and explore what to do if we want to go beyond prompting with a commercial API. As a practical illustration, we'll examine the development of copilot functionality for visual-based chatbot building solutions. The emphasis will be on how to fine-tune both commercial and open-source LLMs. We'll also delve into assessing the copilot’s performance - highlighting the balance between accuracy and hallucinations which may be an important factor when deciding for a deployment that may break the bank. Emanuel is driving AI innovation at Infobip with a current focus on Generative AI and analyzing the impact of Large Language Models. He joined Infobip after almost a decade working as the Operations Area Manager and Key Researcher of the FAIR AI team at the Know-Center, one of Europe's leading research centers for trustworthy AI, and Graz University of Technology. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Graz University of Technology and his M.Sc. as well as B.Sc. in Software Engineering and Information Systems from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Zagreb. He is a former Marshall Plan fellow and has been working as a visiting researcher at the Computer Science department of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is the special issue editor of Frontiers in Big Data - Recommender Systems section, and his main research interests are in the Information Retrieval field of Recommender Systems and a specific focus on algorithmic accuracy, real-time performance, privacy, fairness and biases. His research on fairness in AI and bias in recommender systems was awarded with the Mind-the-gap gender and diversity award of Graz University of Technology in 2022.

The intended outcome of the session: Participants will gain insights into how they can leverage the advanced capabilities of telecom operator networks through APIs to enhance the functionality and reach of their applications. The talk will cover what is GSMA Open Gateway, examples of how mobile operators are working with developers to open up network APIs and the types of use cases that have emerged, and how developers can engage with the APIs via channel partners such as Infobip. Mark is the GSMA Technical Director for Cloud Networks. He has been focussing on the GSMA Open Gateway program federating CAMARA APIs and working within GSMA’s Operator Platform Group. Prior to this he worked for Vodafone Group studying public and private MEC and as technical lead in the deployment of AWS Wavelength into the Vodafone Networks. Within Vodafone he held several technical roles including Video and TCP optimisation, the “Enjoy More” program and performance management. Earlier experience was with P3 as a senior consultant and earlier still near the beginning of time with Orange, rolling out and performance management of their UK network.

How do you get into the zone while coding? Why does taking a walk or taking a shower seem to help solve problems? Everything we do is regulated by complex processes in the brain, and coding is no exception. Sometimes it can feel difficult to control our minds when coding, but to debug the problem we’ll first need to understand it. This talk will dive into the basic neurological processes and psychological behaviors involved with learning and writing code. By understanding the physiological processes involved in the work we do, we can be more in touch with our bodies and more productive as a result. With an education in psychology and social sciences as well as tech industry work experience, Emmy loves to talk about where technology intersects with humanity. Currently, they work as a developer advocate at Wix and love helping and learning from the developer community.

It’s now been almost 8 years since Matt Biilmann launched the term Jamstack back in 2016 on stage at Smashing Magazines SF conference. In this presentation, Matt will go through the evolution of the Jamstack, catch us up with the current state of modern front-end frameworks and platforms, and share his thoughts on where we should all be going from there. Mathias (Matt) Biilmann is CEO of Netlify, a company he co-founded in 2014 and today is one of the fastest growing web development platforms. He has been building developer tools, content management systems and web infrastructure for more than 30 years and is recognized for coining the term “Jamstack.” An active participant in open source, Matt has contributed to well-known projects in more than a dozen languages at all layers of the stack. Matt grew up in Denmark, where he trained as a musician and music journalist.