WeAreDevelopers
WorldCongress ‘19

6-7 June

CityCube Berlin

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100

Speakers

48

Hours

16

Topics

The Woodstock of Developers

Behind every amazing tech innovation today are developers – these unique creatures that are able to turn coffee into software, using code as their primary instrument. Since 2015, once a year, on a (hopefully) sunny day, the global community meets at WeAreDevelopers, an event dubbed by many as the “Woodstock of Developers”.

WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2018 brought together 8,000 techies from 70 countries for 72-hours of pure dev-fun, with more than 150 of the brightest minds in tech and the largest playground for developers in Europe.

Topics at the WeAreDevelopers
World Congress

Frontend

JavaScript, UI/UX, React, Angular Vue, HTML5, CSS3, Data Visualisation, Responsive, SEO

Backend

Microservices, API, Java, .NET, CMS/CMF, Node, PHP, Python, Databases, GoLang (No)SQL, Rust

Mastering Mobile

Native / Hybrid mobile, PWA, iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Ionic, ReactNative, NativeScript, Xamarin

DevOps

Product development, Continuous Integration, Versioning, Testing, Scaling, Test-driven Development, Exploratory Testing

Blockchain

Decrentalisation, Smart Contracts, Identity, Cryptocurrency, Tokenisation

AI / ML / NLP

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

VR / AR

Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, Field of View, Immersion

IoT

Protocols, Hardware to Human, Embedded Systems, Smart Products, Connectivity, Wearables

Reactive Architecture

RxJS, Firebase, Stream Processing, Node, Functional Reactive, Programming, Real Time

CMS

WordPress, Drupal, Neos CMS, Contenta CMS

Security

(PEN-)Testing, Hacking, Debugging, Metrics, Privacy, GDPR, Net Neutrality

Testing

Automated Testing, Continuous Integration, Crowdsourced Testing, Exploratory Testing, Testing as a Service, Regression Testing, Quality Assurance

Teams 3.0

Evaluating Technology, Managing Tech Teams, Agile, Scrum, Kanban

More than Facts

Diversity, Work life Balance, Learning

Stories

Open Source, Experience in Software Development

Executive

Managing Technology, Innovation, Digital Business, Transformation, CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, Tech Managers

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Workshops

Let’s be honest: attending workshops can be dull. BUT – not here, not with us, WeAreDevelopers! We combine expert knowledge with entertainment and industry know-how to deliver the workshop of workshops. It’s going to be so great; you will talk about it at the next workshop that is boring, saying something like, ‘Man, I’ve been at this WeAreDevelopers Workshop in 2019, and it was so great, this one sucks, why can’t every workshop be like the one from WeAreDevelopers?!’

You think you want to miss saying that? You think you want to miss the concentrated power of knowledge, entertainment, AND know-how? No?
We didn’t think so!

Join us at the WeAreDevelopers Congress 2019 and get into some workshops, baby.

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Workshops at WeAreDevelopers World Congress

Loved WeAreDevs! Childcare for attendees, over 30% female speakers, vegan food options, great tech content and most important of all, meeting great people!

Brenda Romero, Game Designer

Previous Speakers

Selected speakers from past WeAreDevelopers events

Steve Wozniak

Co-founder, Apple Inc.

Steve Wozniak aka “The Woz” is considered to be one of the pioneers of the personal computer revolution. He co-founded Apple together with Steve Jobs. As a Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Steve Wozniak helped shape the computing industry into what it is today.

He single-handedly developed the 1976 Apple I, designed Apple II and was deeply involved in Apple’s decision-making until 1985. He left Apple as a day-to-day employee, however he still remains on the Apple’s official employee list and continues to represent the company at events. After Apple, The Woz was into remote control businness until late 80s. Today, he is a Chief Scientist at the data virtualization company, Primary Data.

Wozniak founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization that defends free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights.

Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Open Blockchain Expert , Author of “Mastering Bitcoin” & “Mastering Ethereum”

Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a best-selling author, speaker, educator, and one of the world’s foremost bitcoin and open blockchain experts. He is known for delivering electric talks that combine economics, psychology, technology, and game theory with current events, personal anecdote, and historical precedent—effortlessly transliterating the complex issues of blockchain technology out of the abstract and into the real world. In 2014, Antonopoulos authored the groundbreaking book, Mastering Bitcoin (O’Reilly Media), widely considered to be the best technical guide ever written about the technology. His second book, The Internet of Money, unveiled the “why” of bitcoin—and became a bestseller on Amazon— and led to the successful follow-up The Internet of Money Volume Two. His fourth book, Mastering Ethereum (O’Reilly Media) will be available in the fall of 2018.

Angie Jones

Senior Automation Engineer, Twitter

Angie Jones is a Senior Automation Engineer at Twitter who has developed automation strategies and frameworks for countless software products. As a Master Inventor, she is known for her innovative and out-of-the-box thinking style which has resulted in more than 20 patented inventions in the US and China. Angie shares her wealth of knowledge by speaking and teaching at software conferences all over the world and leading tech workshops for young girls through Black Girls Code.

Rasmus Lerdorf

Inventor of PHP, Distinguished Developer at Etsy

Rasmus is known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground in 1995 and has contributed to a number of other open source projects over the years. He was an infrastructure architect at Yahoo! for more than 7 years and joined Etsy in 2012. He was born in Greenland, grew up in Denmark and Canada and has a Systems Design engineering degree from the University of Waterloo.

Håkon Wium Lie

Inventor of CSS, CTO of Opera Software

Håkon came to Opera from W3C, where he was responsible for style sheets. In 1994 he invented a small language called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS describes how web pages are presented — on screens, in print, or read out loud. You can read about it in a book “Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web” he co-authored with Bert Bos. The book is written in HTML and CSS. Håkon is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab where he was part of Walter Bender's Electronic Publishing Group.

Joel Spolsky

CEO of Stack Overflow, Co-founder at Trello

Spolsky, who holds a B.S in Computer Science from Yale University, is the author of Joel on Software, one of the most popular software development blogs, and the sitting CEO of the Stack Exchange Network. As a software engineer himself he led the Microsoft Excel team as a project manager in the ’90s. He later on founded Stack Overflow, the Mecca of Devs, and Trello, the popular project management software, which was acquired by Atlassian in early 2017 for $425 million. He is the sitting CEO of the Stack Exchange Network.

Joseph Sirosh

VP of Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft

Joseph Sirosh is the Corporate Vice President of the Cloud AI Platform at Microsoft. This is Microsoft's platform for enterprise customers to build AI applications, and covers a rich collection of components including Cognitive Services, Bot Framework, Machine Learning, Azure Search etc. His team also engineers the core algorithmic toolkit for Machine Learning that's used both internally at Microsoft as well as in our external products. Prior to this, he was a Corporate Vice President of the Data Platform at Microsoft responsible for Databases, Big Data, ML and Information Management. Before Microsoft, he was the Vice President of the Global Inventory Platform at Amazon in the Consumer Business.

Elise Xu

Product Manager, AR Publishing at Facebook

Elise Xu is a product manager for Facebook’s augmented reality camera. Her team builds the tools for creators to target and distribute their AR experiences to audiences across Facebook. She has also worked at Facebook on video ranking and recommendations in News Feed, as well as developing new advertising solutions in the auto and financial services industries. Elise recently moved to London after living in San Francisco for five years. When not pondering the next AR product idea, she loves cooking for friends and writing fiction and poetry.

Stefan Thomas

CTO, Ripple

Stefan Thomas is the CTO of Ripple. As an early Bitcoin contributor, Stefan produced the popular “What is Bitcoin?” video which introduced millions of users to Bitcoin. He also created the first Bitcoin implementation in JavaScript (BitcoinJS), which is still used by hundreds of blockchain companies of all sizes. Currently, he works on deconstructing blockchain with Interledger Protocol (ILP), an open payments routing and clearing protocol. Stefan currently sits on the board JS Foundation.

Patrick Kua

CTO, N26

Patrick Kua is the CTO of the mobile bank N26 (Berlin, Germany), where he is building the engineering group that will change modern retail banking for people like you and me. Formerly a Principal Technical Consultant at ThoughtWorks, he is the author of three books, The Retrospective Handbook, Talking with Tech Leads and most recently, Building Evolutionary Architectures. Patrick is a frequent conference speaker, blogger and is passionate about bringing a balanced focus between people, organisations and technology. You can find him blogging at http://www.thekua.com/atwork and on twitter as @patkua

John Romero

Game Designer, Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein 3D

John is an award-winning game designer, level designer, and programmer whose work portfolio includes 130 games, of which 107 have been published commercially. John Romero has co-founded 8 widely successful game companies, including id Software, Gazillion Entertainment, and Loot Drop. He co-owns Loot Drop and Romero Games. He is regarded as one of the world’s best game designers and his products have won over a hundred awards to prove it. Furthermore, John Romero is fully a self-taught designer and programmer, drawing inspiration from early Apple II programmers.

Brenda Romero

Game Designer, Wizardry, Train, D&D, Def Jam

Brenda is a major figure in the area of game design and is famous for her work on the role-playing series Wizardry, as well as Def Jam: Icon, Playboy: The Mansion, and Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes. She is the Course Director for the University of Limerick and Managing Director and Co-Founder of Romero Games Ltd., a game studio focused on fun.

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Diversity Matters

We believe that everybody must be treated equally. That is why we facilitate access to the WeAreDevelopers World Congress for groups which are underrepresented or treated unequally in the world.

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Entry to our developer playground
Free co-working space
Startup Pitching
Free snacks & coffee
Congress goodies
Access to the official recorded talks

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