Speakers & Sessions


Continuous Accessibility: Strategies that Scale

Melanie Sumner
Accessibility Lead for Design Systems, HashiCorp



Experimenting in a Sociotechnical System

Jessica Kerr
Symmathecist; Developer Advocate, Honeycomb.io


Exploring the Human Mind through AI, VR, and Neuroscience at Penn’s Virtual Reality Lab

Jeffrey Vadala
Director, Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence Lab, University of Pennsylvania


Exploring the Power of Thought with Brain-Computer Interfaces

Harrison Canning
Innovation Strategist at Blackrock Neurotech; Science Communicator; Bioethics Student, Harvard University



Fixed Time, Variable Scope in the Shape Up Methodology

Ryan Singer
Author, Shape Up; Former Head of Strategy, 37signals


Generative AI: Beyond the Amazing Demos

Rod Johnson
Creator, Spring Framework; Co-Founder & CEO, SpringSource




Keynote: Critical Shifts in Thinking for the Systems Age

Diana Montalion
Author, Learning Systems Thinking: Essential Nonlinear Skills & Practices for Software Professionals



Not Dead Yet! Reclaiming Agility

Dave Thomas
Author, The Pragmatic Programmer


Ontology-First Knowledge Graphs

Alexandre Bertails
Software Engineer & Ontologist, Netflix



Rethinking Developer Experience (DX)

Brian LeRoux
Brian LeRoux, Co-founder and CTO, Begin.com; Core Maintainer, OpenJS Architect




The Best TypeScript Features You’re Not Using Yet

Josh Goldberg
Author, Learning TypeScript; Maintainer, TypeScript-ESLint; Committer, ESLint



The Tools We Still Need to Build with AI

Chelsea Troy
Machine Learning Operations Engineer, Mozilla


Understanding TypeScript: Fixing the Billion Dollar Mistake and Other Concepts

Josh Goldberg
Author, Learning TypeScript; Maintainer, TypeScript-ESLint; Committer, ESLint