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# Videos

2662 videos · 28613 moments · 1461.1 hours of content

## Mainstage videos

### Opening Keynote: Civic Coding, A Framework for Democratic Tech

From the Obama White House to the era of deepfakes, one truth emerges: technology is ethically neutral. Discover how civic coding empowers engineers to become true developers of democracy.

- **Speakers:** David Simas · Emerson Collective
- **Event:** World Congress 2024
- **Published:** August 20, 2024
- **Duration:** 23:09
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- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/963-opening-keynote-civic-coding-a-framework-for-democratic-tech)

### JSON and Beyond

Douglas Crockford asserts that JSON is incomplete for modern distributed systems. Discover why the creator of JSON is explicitly dropping 'null' in his new binary format, Nota.

- **Speakers:** Douglas Crockford · JSON.org
- **Event:** World Congress 2024
- **Published:** August 20, 2024
- **Duration:** 18:40
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- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/968-json-and-beyond)

### Fireside Chat

David Heinemeier Hansson claims it is time to collapse modern web complexity. Ditch massive AWS bills. Drop heavy build pipelines and embrace the raw simplicity of no-build development.

- **Speakers:** David Heinemeier Hansson, Thomas Pamminger
- **Event:** World Congress 2024
- **Published:** August 20, 2024
- **Duration:** 34:27
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- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/980-fireside-chat-with-david-heinemeier-hansson)

### Fireside Chat with Kris Rasmussen, CTO at Figma

Kris Rasmussen argues AI won't replace human craftsmanship. Instead, it will eliminate tedious boilerplate. Discover how Figma bridges the historical friction between freeform visual exploration and structured code.

- **Speakers:** Kris Rasmussen, Thomas Pamminger
- **Event:** World Congress 2024
- **Published:** August 20, 2024
- **Duration:** 30:38
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- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/982-fireside-chat-with-kris-rasmussen-cto-at-figma)

### Collaborative Intelligence: The Human & AI Partnership

Only 40% of developers fully trust AI-generated code. Discover how bridging this critical trust gap will shift software engineering from manual syntax tinkering to strategic systems thinking.

- **Speakers:** Alejandro Saucedo, Demetris Cheatham, Jakob von Lindern, Prashanth Chandrasekar
- **Event:** World Congress 2024
- **Published:** August 20, 2024
- **Duration:** 31:56
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- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1097-collaborative-intelligence-the-human-ai-partnership)

### Software defines the vehicle: Why customers and developers will love cars even more

The automotive future isn't defined by rigid hardware, but by adaptive software pipelines. Discover how AI-driven architectures are turning cars into the ultimate scale game for developers.

- **Speakers:** Peter Bosch · CARIAD
- **Event:** World Congress 2024
- **Published:** August 20, 2024
- **Duration:** 27:17
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- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1114-software-defines-the-vehicle-why-customers-and-developers-will-love-cars-even-more)

### The Future of Open Source

Open source built the modern web. Now, corporate extraction threatens its survival. Can Fair Source licensing save our critical digital infrastructure?

- **Speakers:** Scott Chacon · GitButler
- **Event:** World Congress 2024
- **Published:** August 20, 2024
- **Duration:** 27:21
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- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1124-the-future-of-open-source)

### The Road to One Billion Developers

What happens when coding relies on natural language instead of strict syntax? Discover GitHub's bold AI vision to empower one billion developers by 2030.

- **Speakers:** Demetris Cheatham, Thomas Dohmke
- **Event:** World Congress 2024
- **Published:** August 20, 2024
- **Duration:** 26:52
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- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1137-the-road-to-one-billion-developers)

### Brenda Romero - Stay! Surviving and Thriving in Tech

Brenda Romero knows why most game developers quit after just five years. Discover her battle-tested survival guide to setting radical boundaries and outlasting tech's toxic hustle culture.

- **Speakers:** Brenda Romero
- **Event:** World Congress 2024
- **Published:** August 13, 2024
- **Duration:** 28:06
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- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/923-brenda-romero-stay-surviving-and-thriving-in-tech)

### WWC24 - Ankit Patel - Unlocking the Future Breakthrough Application Performance and Capabilities with NVIDIA

Ankit Patel reveals how NVIDIA GPUs slash deep learning costs by 98%. Master deploying composite AI architectures at scale without rewriting all your Python code.

- **Speakers:** Ankit Patel · NVIDIA
- **Event:** World Congress 2024
- **Published:** August 4, 2024
- **Duration:** 22:07
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- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/920-wwc24-ankit-patel-unlocking-the-future-breakthrough-application-performance-and-capabilities-with-nvidia)