YOW! Melbourne 2023 Schedule

Wednesday, November 29

Time Sessions
09:00 - 17:00
1 Day In-Person Workshop
  • Decoding Your Product Leadership DNA [Cliftons Melbourne, Level 1, 440 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000]
    • Anjali Leon – Principal Agility and Leadership Coach & Consultant of PPL Coach
    • Nadezhda Belousova – Founder and Strategic Advisor of Evolneo
  • Hands-On Event Modeling [Cliftons Melbourne, Level 1, 440 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000]
    • Adam Dymitruk – Author of Event Modeling and Founder & CEO of Adaptech Group
    • Alexandra Moxin – Chief Strategy Officer at Adaptech Group

Thursday, November 30

Time Sessions
08:00 - 08:45
Registration
  • Registration
08:45 - 09:00
Conference Opening
  • Session overviews and introductions [Red Room]
09:00 - 10:00
Morning Keynote
  • Hedy: Creating a Programming Language for Everyone [Red Room]
    • Felienne Hermans – Author of “The Programmer’s Brain”, Creator of the Hedy programming language
10:00 - 10:30
Morning Break
10:30 - 11:20
Parallel Sessions
  • Unraveling Insights About Places with Deep Learning Computer Vision [Red Room]
    • Chanuki Illushka Seresinhe – Head of Data Science at Zoopla & Co-founder of Beautiful Places AI
  • Event Modeling from Beginner to Expert [Green Room]
    • Adam Dymitruk – Author of Event Modeling and Founder & CEO of Adaptech Group
  • How Flow Works [Blue Room]
    • James Lewis – Software Architect & Director at Thoughtworks
11:20 - 11:35
Break
11:35 - 12:25
Parallel Sessions
  • The Programmer’s Apprentice Season 2: Advancements and Future Directions in AI-assisted Coding [Red Room]
    • Erik Meijer – Director of engineering at Facebook; "Think Like A Fundamentalist, Code Like A Hacker"
  • Adaptive Socio-Technical Systems with Architecture for Flow [Green Room]
    • Susanne Kaiser – Independent Tech Consultant
  • Riding Waves of Change: From Motorbike Novice to Career Crossroad [Blue Room]
    • Anne-Marie Charrett – Group Owner - Developer Experience Automation at Telstra
12:25 - 13:25
Lunch
13:25 - 14:15
Parallel Sessions
  • Coding Will Never Be The Same Again [Red Room]
    • Ryan Salva – VP of Product at GitHub
  • The Joy of Building Large Scale Systems [Green Room]
    • Suhail Patel – Senior Staff Engineer at Monzo
  • Creative Stances of Impactful Product Leadership [Blue Room]
    • Anjali Leon – Principal Agility and Leadership Coach & Consultant of PPL Coach
    • Nadezhda Belousova – Founder and Strategic Advisor of Evolneo
14:15 - 14:30
Break
14:30 - 15:20
Parallel Sessions
  • Java Renaissance [Red Room]
    • Georges Saab – Senior Vice President of software development for the Java Platform Group at Oracle
  • Don't Trust Anything! Real-world Uses For WebAssembly [Green Room]
    • Katie Bell – Freelance Software Developer and Creator of SplootCode
  • Moldable Development with Glamorous Toolkit [Blue Room]
    • Tudor Girba – Software Environmentalist and CEO of feenk
15:20 - 15:50
Afternoon Break
15:50 - 16:40
Parallel Sessions
  • Java, Code Coverage and Their Best Friend — Bytecode: Scandals, Intrigues, Investigations [Red Room]
    • Evgeny Mandrikov – Software Gardener, Language Team Technical Leader
  • Building Modern Web Applications with Remix [Green Room]
    • Jake Ginnivan – Principal Consultant at Arkahna
  • Contract-Driven Development - Turn your API Specification into Executable Contracts [Blue Room]
    • Naresh Jain – Founder & CEO of Xnsio
16:40 - 17:10
Break
17:10 - 18:10
Afternoon Keynote
  • Analogue Evolution, Digital Revolution: Tipping Points in Technology [Red Room]
    • Dylan Beattie – Consultant, software developer, creator of the Rockstar programming language
18:10 - 19:10
Welcome Reception

Friday, December 1

Time Sessions
08:45 - 09:00
Conference Opening
09:00 - 10:00
Morning Keynote
  • The Many Faces of Identity [Red Room]
    • Radia Perlman – Fellow at Dell Technologies
10:00 - 10:30
Morning Break
10:30 - 11:20
Parallel Sessions
  • Cloud FinOps and Kubernetes Optimisation at Scale [Red Room]
    • Matt Callanan – Principal Software Development Engineer at Expedia Group
  • Static Kotlin Bug Hunting [Green Room]
    • Marharyta Nedzelska – Software Engineer at SonarSource
  • So Long, Secure Coding - Shifting from Syntax to Secure Software Development Processes [Blue Room]
    • Laura Bell Main – Co-founder & CEO of SafeStack
11:20 - 11:35
Break
11:35 - 12:25
Parallel Sessions
  • Build Abstractions Not Illusions [Red Room]
    • Gregor Hohpe – CTO and IT Transformation Advisor
  • OCaml for Fun and Profit: An Experience Report [Green Room]
    • Tim McGilchrist – Principal Software Engineer, Tarides
  • Why Security Initiatives Are Doomed to Fail and What You Can Do About It [Blue Room]
    • Josh Armitage – Senior Engagement Partner at Cognizant Servian
12:25 - 13:25
Lunch Break
13:25 - 14:15
Parallel Sessions
  • Organisational Sustainability with Platform Engineering [Red Room]
    • Lesley Cordero – Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at The New York Times
  • Livebook and Elixir: Where AI, Web, and Concurrency Meet [Green Room]
    • José Valim – Creator of Elixir Programming Language, Chief Adoption Officer at Dashbit
  • Infobesity - How to Cope with the Overload of Information [Blue Room]
    • Fabio Nudge Pereira – Author of the book Digital Nudge, Futurist, TEDx Speaker and Curator
14:15 - 14:30
Break
14:30 - 15:20
Parallel Sessions
  • Why Is My App SLOw? Defining Reliability in Platform Engineering [Red Room]
    • Jez Humble – SRE at Google Cloud, Lecturer at UC Berkeley
  • Living on the Edge [Green Room]
    • Erica Pisani – Sr. Software Engineer at Float Financial
  • Layers of Leadership [Blue Room]
    • Lee Campbell – VP of Engineering at VGW and Author of 'Introduction to Rx'
15:20 - 15:50
Afternoon Break
15:50 - 16:40
Parallel Sessions
  • Trust Deterministic Execution to Scale and Simplify Your Systems [Red Room]
    • Frank Yu – Director of Engineering at Coinbase
  • The Jump to Hyperspace: Light Speed, User Agency, & Moving Past the Cloud [Green Room]
    • Brooklyn Zelenka – Author of numerous libraries including Witchcraft, and founded the Vancouver Functional Programming Meetup.
  • There's No Such Thing As Plain Text [Blue Room]
    • Dylan Beattie – Consultant, software developer, creator of the Rockstar programming language
16:40 - 17:40
Farewell Reception