YOW!
Melbourne
2022

Dates

December 8-9

Venue

Pullman Albert Park

What can you expect from a YOW! conference?

Welcome to YOW!

Thank you for attending YOW! Melbourne 2022

YOW! Conferences bring together internationally recognized speakers and developers for an in‑depth look at emerging technologies and best practices in the software industry – regardless of technological platform or language — without commercial hype.

We are grateful to you for gracing YOW! Melbourne 2022 with your presence. We hope you had a great time with us. Look forward to seeing you next year also.

The Speaker Lineup

World-class experts

The Schedule

No commercials, ever, just lots of case studies and stories from the trenches

The Venue

Pullman Albert Park

Workshops

We are offering hands-on workshops with our experts.

Masterclass in Acceptance Test Driven Development (BDD)

Workshop

Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry

Workshop

Visualizing software architecture with the C4 model

Workshop

Speakers

YOW! Speakers are chosen based on their expertise; they provide excellent, technically rich content, appropriate to all roles in software and IT, completely independent of commercial concerns such as sponsorship or product.

Adam Tornhill

Founder and CTO at CodeScene Programmer, psychologist, Lisp hacker, speaker and author of several books including "Your Code as a Crime Scene"

Code Red: The Business Impact of Code Quality

Adrian Cockcroft

Partner and Analyst OrionX

Adrian’s Greatest Hits, B-Sides and Re-issues

Aino Vonge Corry

Author of "Retrospectives Antipatterns"

[Keynote] What we (should have) learned from Lord of The Rings

Alison Rosewarne

Executive Manager of Architecture, REA Group

Fighting Software Entropy

Astrid Atkinson

CEO and Co-Founder, Camus Energy

[Keynote] Building the Self-Driving Grid

Birgitta Böckeler

Technical Principal at Thoughtworks

How Cognitive Biases affect our software architectures

Brendan Gregg

Fellow, Intel Corporation

Visualizing Performance - The Developers’ Guide to Flame Graphs

Catherine Swetel

Director of Engineering, Nubank

Democratizing Strategy: An Intro to Wardley Maps

Christine Seeman

Senior Software Engineer, WP Engine

One Does Not Simply Add MFA

Masterclass with...

Dave Farley

Author of the best-selling books “Continuous Delivery” and “Modern Software Engineering” and over 6 million views on his YouTube channel.

[Keynote] Engineering for Software - How to Amplify Creativity

Masterclass: Masterclass in Acceptance Test Driven Development (BDD)

Dave Thomas

Author of The Pragmatic Programmer

One Rule to Rule Them All

Fred George

Early Adopter of OO & Agile, Advocating MicroServices & Programmer Anarchy

Sabotaging a Transformation

Geeta Schmidt

Co-founder of Humio and VP at CrowdStrike

Trade-Offs in building a Software Company from Startup to Scale Up

James Lewis

Software Architect & Director at Thoughtworks

Software Architecture, Team Topologies and Complexity Science

Jessica Tai

Engineering Manager, Airbnb

Work Anywhere: Managing Remote Engineering Teams at Airbnb

Julie Amundson

Former Machine Learning Infrastructure Team Leader

How Metaflow became Netflix’s beloved Data Science framework

Katrina Clokie

Making the Most of Your Manager

Lars Klint

Principal Advocate at Arkahna

Turning Dreaming into Doing - A Life Manual for Nerds

Choose your own cloud adventure – knights, fairies, and dragons

Lily Mara

Engineering Manager, OneSignal

A Kafkaesque series of events

Masterclass with...

Liz Fong-Jones

Field CTO, Honeycomb.io

Managing to Your SLO in the Face of Chaos

Masterclass: VIRTUAL - Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry

Macklin Hartley

Engineering Manager, VGW

Just-in-time Architecture

Matt Ranney

Principal Engineer, DoorDash

Migrations - The hardest actual problem in computer science

Michelle Gleeson

CEO & Co-founder of Kaleida

Sensible Defaults for Tech Management

Peter Sbarski

AWS Serverless Hero and Author of Serverless Architectures on AWS

Dancing with Serverless

Randy Shoup

VP Engineering and Chief Architect, eBay

Improving Software Flow

Minimal Viable Architecture

Rebecca Parsons

CTO, Thoughtworks

Building Evolutionary Architectures: Principles & Practices

Richard Feldman

Head of Open Source, NoRedInk

Simple Functional Effects with Tag Unions

Sara Achour

Assistant Professor Stanford University

Programming Systems for Analog Hardware

Saša Jurić

The ultimate beacon in the Elixir space; author of one of the most important books, "Elixir in action" #elixir #erlang

BEAM Concurrency in Action

Masterclass with...

Simon Brown

Creator of the famous C4 model, author

C4 models as code

Masterclass: Visualizing software architecture with the C4 model

Stewart Gleadow

Executive Manager of Engineering, REA Group

Fighting Software Entropy

Tim McGilchrist

Principal Software Engineer, Tarides

Tim McNamara

Author of "Rust in Action" and Software Consultant and Coach

When to choose Rust

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Our Sponsors

In 2023 we’re celebrating our 15th edition of YOW! Melbourne, expecting 950 passionate professionals from a variety of industries.

As a YOW! Melbourne Sponsor, you’ll have the chance to engage with developers, architects, product owners, team leaders, coaches and managers; eager to learn more about your company.

We’ll give you the ideal platform to share your story, showcase your technology and generate quality leads at your designated exhibit area.

Email Sabine Wolf to discuss how you can get involved with YOW! Melbourne 2023.

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YOW! Melbourne was held at the Pullman Albert Park

Hotels and resorts in tune with today’s mobile world, blending peak performance and personal well-being. A vibrant place where global nomads can feel at their very best, whether on business or leisure.

The Conference & Events Centre is one of the largest, most comprehensively equipped event facilities in the city.

Learn more about the venue here.