Conference day 1| 10:30 – 11:00| Millenium Stage

TBA

Conference day 2| 17:00 – 17:30| Discovery Stage

CHAT ZONES

aka roundtable discussions, dedicated to face-to-face conversations with the speaker

Have a few follow-up questions for one or two of our speakers? Then stop by the Chat Zone on the Discovery Stage and join a roundtable discussion. There we’ll have four tables dedicated to face-to-face conversations with our guest speakers. Use this opportunity to dive deep into technologies through topic-oriented discussions.

Conference day 1| 11:30 – 12:00| Discovery Stage

Full Stack Development in the Era of Serverless Computing

Real-time & Offline-ready Serverless GraphQL with AppSync

Building your own real-world, secure & scalable GraphQL API is a lot of work. With AppSync, robust GraphQL APIs including schema, resolvers, and data sources are created & configured automatically and instantly through either the AWS Amplify CLI or the AppSync console, abstracting away much of the complexity traditionally involved with setting up a new GraphQL backend.

In this talk, I’ll demonstrate and discuss the more interesting and powerful functionality that AppSync offers and do so in a way that developers will walk away with a confident understanding of how AppSync works and can be extended to help them in their day to day.

We’ll also create a real AppSync API & connect to a React application in a demo to demonstrate what we discussed in the talk in a live coding exercise, showing how to create queries, mutations & subscriptions directly from a client-side application.

Conference day 1| 17:00 – 17:30| Millennium Stage

Curious Use Cases of GraphQL

As GraphQL moves into the mainstream, the tooling & ecosystem has grown and has made it possible to do much more with GraphQL than using it as just a data layer. In this talk, I’ll show how developers are using GraphQL as an API gateway to accomplish things that you may have never thought possible.

More details:

When we think of GraphQL at the resolver level, we typically associate some type of database as the resolver data source, but in practice a resolver is simply a function. What this means is that we can do much more with our GraphQL APIs & our resolvers than we ever thought possible, including things like taking existing REST APIs & transforming them into GraphQL APIs (http resolvers), passing the query to Lambda or serverless functions for processing & returning the response via a GraphQL query (for things like AI & ML), geospatial & time-based queries (passing the query to Elasticsearch), & even VR & AR apps (passing in user location / app info & using the subscription to transmit image assets). In this talk, I’ll walk through what this looks like in theory & in practice, demoing 4 different applications that implement this functionality & showing the code that make the magic happen.

Conference day 1| 15:30 – 16:00| Discovery Stage

PWA vs. Native

Conference day 2| 14:00 – 14:30| Millennium Stage

Resiliency and PWAs

The next billion users face environmental factors that are vastly different to most developers.

This talk will take a fresh approach to addressing the needs of users in remote or austere environments

by building on top of current PWA standards for a web resilient web experience.

Conference day 1| 18:00 – 18:30| Discovery Stage

CHAT ZONES

aka roundtable discussions, dedicated to face-to-face conversations with the speaker

Have a few follow-up questions for one or two of our speakers? Then stop by the Chat Zone on the Discovery Stage and join a roundtable discussion. There we’ll have four tables dedicated to face-to-face conversations with our guest speakers. Use this opportunity to dive deep into technologies through topic-oriented discussions.

Conference day 1| 17:30 – 18:00| Discovery Stage

CHAT ZONES

aka roundtable discussions, dedicated to face-to-face conversations with the speaker

Have a few follow-up questions for one or two of our speakers? Then stop by the Chat Zone on the Discovery Stage and join a roundtable discussion. There we’ll have four tables dedicated to face-to-face conversations with our guest speakers. Use this opportunity to dive deep into technologies through topic-oriented discussions.

Conference day 2| 17:30 – 18:00| Discovery Stage

CHAT ZONES

aka roundtable discussions, dedicated to face-to-face conversations with the speaker

Have a few follow-up questions for one or two of our speakers? Then stop by the Chat Zone on the Discovery Stage and join a roundtable discussion. There we’ll have four tables dedicated to face-to-face conversations with our guest speakers. Use this opportunity to dive deep into technologies through topic-oriented discussions.

Conference day 2| 10:30 – 11:00| Millennium Stage

Brave Rewards, a New Way to Think About the Web

We all love our privacy as we should. Web and web monetization, today, however, works differently and is reliant on tracking our activities exposing us to the web. Almost all publishers and content creators rely on advertising to monetize their content which inherently relies on tracking to allow them to continue to survive. To allow the web to deliver monetization for Publishers and content creators while keeping users private, we created Brave Rewards. In this talk, Nejc will provide a vision for what a new, private web looks like and how everyone can join in and contribute to the future of the private web together.

Conference day 1| 17:30 – 18:00| Discovery Stage

CHAT ZONES

aka roundtable discussions, dedicated to face-to-face conversations with the speaker

Have a few follow-up questions for one or two of our speakers? Then stop by the Chat Zone on the Discovery Stage and join a roundtable discussion. There we’ll have four tables dedicated to face-to-face conversations with our guest speakers. Use this opportunity to dive deep into technologies through topic-oriented discussions.

Festival day| 13:00 – 13:30| Final Stage

Building a Music Learning Game with Elm, Web MIDI, and SVG Animation

Through a series of animated demos and funny failed experiments, join me on my journey towards building a musical game where the controller is a digital piano!

Highlights include:

– Using the Web MIDI API with Elm via JavaScript interop to get input from a digital piano directly in the web browser
– Exploring SVG animations in the Elm ecosystem
– Elm’s best features from the perspective of a beginner who recently fell in love with the language
– Silly and instructive beginner mistakes (how not to use Elm!)

Building my first Elm app was a two-for-one deal: learn functional programming and learn to sight-read sheet music! By the end of this talk, I hope you’ll be equally excited to combine these web technologies in your own creative adventures.

Conference day 1| 11:30 – 12:00| Millennium Stage

Kicking Bugs and Logging Names: Errors in JavaScript Error Reporting

How can we extract the most value from our front-end JavaScript errors, especially when users often don’t report them?

We’ll learn about the evolution of the browser’s global error event handler and how to work around its limitations — cross-browser idiosyncrasies, stack traces as unwieldy strings, minified code, and other fun stuff that we really look forward to dealing with! We’ll also look at libraries to make JavaScript stack traces more useful, along with other techniques for making our bugs a little less buggy.