YOW! Sydney 2024 Schedule

Wednesday, December 11
Time Sessions
09:00 - 17:00
1 Day In-Person Workshop
  • Incremental Architecture: Building Domain-focused Systems that Welcome Change [Cliftons Sydney, Lvl 13, 60 Margaret St, Sydney 2000 NSW]
    • Allen Holub – Authority. When Allen speaks the world listens
  • Technical Leadership Masterclass [Cliftons Sydney, Lvl 13, 60 Margaret St, Sydney 2000 NSW]
    • Patrick Kua – Founder of the Tech Lead Academy

Thursday, December 12
Time Sessions
08:00 - 08:45
Registration
08:45 - 09:00
Overview of Today's Talks & Introduction of Keynote Speaker
09:00 - 10:00
Morning Keynote
  • Bridging the Digital Divide: A Path to Inclusive Innovation and Prosperity [Red Room ]
    • Nilesh Makwana – CEO at illuminance Solutions, Public Interest Technologist, Social Innovator
10:00 - 10:30
Morning break
10:30 - 11:15
Parallel Sessions
  • Pillars of Async Communication [Red Room ]
    • Anton Ball – Dev Team Lead at Doist
  • CodeConcise: A New Era for Legacy Modernisation [Green Room ]
    • Rachel Laycock – Chief Technology Officer at Thoughtworks
  • Moldable Development in Practice — Patterns for Legacy [Blue Room]
    • Oscar Nierstrasz – Professor Emeritus at U Bern & Soul Polisher at feenk.com
11:15 - 11:30
Break
11:30 - 12:15
Parallel Sessions
  • Level Up: Choosing The Technical Leadership Path [Red Room ]
    • Patrick Kua – Founder of the Tech Lead Academy
  • Concerto for Java and AI - Building Production-Ready LLM Applications [Green Room ]
    • Thomas Vitale – Software Architect, author of "Cloud Native Spring in Action", CNCF Ambassador, Oracle ACE Pro
  • Communicating In Types [Blue Room]
    • Kris Jenkins – Developer Advocate
12:15 - 13:15
Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:00
Parallel Sessions
  • Stop Drawing Pointless Arrows: Taming Complexity with Diagrams [Red Room ]
    • David Khourshid – Founder of Stately.ai
  • Adaptive Architectures - Building API Layers that Build Themselves [Green Room ]
    • Marty Pitt – Founder at Orbital
  • All The World Is A Staging Server [Blue Room]
    • Edith Harbaugh – Co-founder & Executive Chair of LaunchDarkly
14:00 - 14:15
Break
14:15 - 15:00
Parallel Sessions
  • How Autonomy Saved One of Spotify’s Most Loved Features From Being Killed [Red Room ]
    • Joakim Sundén – Founding partner at Better Product Work and co-creator of the Spotify model
  • Developer Productivity With IntelliJ IDEA [Green Room ]
    • Trisha Gee – Software engineer, Java Champion, Author and PC Member
  • A Code Centric Journey Into the Gleam Language [Blue Room]
    • Giacomo Cavalieri – Gleam Core Team Member
15:00 - 15:30
Afternoon Break
15:30 - 16:15
Parallel Sessions
  • Thinking about your Systems with Bytesize Architecture Sessions [Red Room ]
    • Andrea Magnorsky – Programmer and Creator of Bytesize Architecture Sessions
  • GitHub Copilot - How It Works, How We Got Here, Where It's Going [Green Room ]
    • Damian Brady – Staff Developer Advocate at GitHub
  • Understanding Rust; Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Borrow-Checker [Blue Room]
    • Steve Smith – Roving Polyglot Developer
16:15 - 16:45
Break
16:45 - 17:45
Evening Keynote
  • Getting Buy-In: Overcoming Larman's Law [Red Room ]
    • Allen Holub – Authority. When Allen speaks the world listens
17:45 - 18:45
Welcome Reception

Friday, December 13
Time Sessions
08:45 - 09:00
Conference Opening
09:00 - 10:00
Morning Keynote
  • The Efficiency Paradox and How to Save Yourself and the World [Red Room ]
    • Holly Cummins – Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus team
10:00 - 10:30
Morning Break
10:30 - 11:15
Parallel Sessions
  • Skills for the Age of AI [Red Room ]
    • Michelle "MishManners" Duke – Senior Developer Advocate
  • Tradeoffs, Bad Science, and Polar Bears – The World of Java Optimisation [Green Room ]
    • Holly Cummins – Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus team
  • From Gamepads to Launchpads: What the Tech World Can Learn from Video Game UX [Blue Room]
    • Theodora Bock – Associate Game Director at Level Ex
11:15 - 11:30
Break
11:30 - 12:15
Parallel Sessions
  • Beyond Chat: Bringing Models to The Canvas [Red Room ]
    • Lu Wilson – Software Engineer at tldraw
  • Ant Farm Entropy: Sugar Powered Encryption [Green Room ]
    • Suz Hinton – Software Engineer
  • Java's Hidden Gems: Tools and Libraries [Blue Room]
    • Johan Janssen – Software Architect at ASML
12:15 - 13:15
Lunch
13:15 - 14:00
Parallel Sessions
  • Practical Gen AI: Building a Chatbot using Spring AI [Red Room ]
    • Rod Johnson – Creator of Spring and Co-founder and CEO at Atomist
  • Understanding Distributed Architectures - The Patterns Approach [Green Room ]
    • Unmesh Joshi – Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks & Author of "Patterns of Distributed Systems"
  • The Beauty of Simplicity - Making Your Own Technology [Blue Room]
    • Yan Chernikov – Director at Studio Cherno
14:00 - 14:15
Break
14:15 - 15:00
Parallel Sessions
  • How to Lead your Organisation’s AI-transformation: Strategies, Skills, and Culture [Red Room ]
    • Rasmus Lystrøm – International Speaker and Chief Disruptor
  • Microservices on Unison Cloud: Statically Typed, Dynamically Deployed [Green Room ]
    • Rúnar Bjarnason – Co-Founder at Unison Computing
  • Bootiful Spring Boot: A DOGumentary [Blue Room]
    • Josh Long – Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal, Java Champion and author of 6 books
15:00 - 15:30
Afternoon Break
15:30 - 16:30
Evening Keynote
  • AI Powered Bug Hunting [Red Room ]
    • Ben Sadeghipour – Hacker & Content Creator
16:30 - 17:30
Farewell Drinks