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
Security
(PEN-)Testing, Hacking, Debugging, Metrics, Privacy, GDPR, Net Neutrality
CMS
WordPress, Drupal, Neos CMS, Contenta CMS
Testing
Automated Testing, Continuous Integration, Crowdsourced Testing, Exploratory Testing, Testing as a Service, Regression Testing, Quality Assurance
Reactive Architecture
RxJS, Firebase, Stream Processing, Node, Functional Reactive, Programming, Real Time
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
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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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
Meet World Congress 2019 Speakers
Shirley Wu
Independent Creator of Data Visualizations,
Shirley Wu is a freelance software engineer specializing in data visualization. She combines her love of art, math, and code into colorful, interactive data visualizations. Her work can be found at sxywu.com.
Leah Culver
Co-founder and CTO, Breaker
Leah Culver is the co-founder and CTO of Breaker, the top social podcast iOS app in the App Store and graduate of the Y Combinator accelerator program. At Breaker she develops new features for the iOS app in Swift and is an advocate of metrics-driven product development. Leah has also co-founded two previous startups, Pownce and Convore, and is the co-author of the OAuth and oEmbed API specifications.
Brie Code
CEO/Creative Director, TRU LUV
Brie Code is the CEO and creative director of TRU LUV, a Toronto-based studio that makes companions— interactive experiences that aren't quite apps and aren't quite games. Companions are built on a framework of deepening friendship, not increasing challenge, to help you unwind and achieve your goals. Previously Brie was a lead programmer at Ubisoft Montreal on the soft, ethereal game Child of Light and three Assassin's Creed games.
Angelo Laub
Founder, Mjam.at
Founder of Mjam.at, Austria's leading food delivery network. Now member of the EOS blockchain community with focus on data privacy and security. Advocate for the new concept of zero knowledge services.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tickets are up for grabs!
Early Bird Tickets are available for €199 starting now!
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World Congress Pass includes:
- Admission to both days
- Access to all keynotes
- Access to regular workshops (pre-registration required)
- Admission to the official afterparty
- Entry to the expo area
- Entry to our developer playground
- Free co-working space
- Startup Pitching
- Congress goodies
- Access to the official recorded talks
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