Agenda

From TelCo to TechCo: Taking Vodafone to the next level

DevLead Stage — 30 minutes DevLead

What do you do when words like legacy, lack of standardization, waterfall, complex processes, expensive maintenance and lack of interconnection become the norm? You can panic and live with it or start experimenting and taking advantage of all the new "cool" technologies and practices. Join us in this session to discover how we create the future, where the only constant thing is change.   Read More...

• Bianca Oprea [Technical Product Owner — _VOIS]
• Traian Caramihale [Senior Developer, Technical Product Owner, People Manager — _VOIS]

Developer Joy – How great teams get s%*t done

DevLead Stage — 45 minutes DevOps DevLead

Software development has become more complex over the years: Building and running a distributed architecture in the cloud, ensuring observability, discussing user experience with design and product, and keeping a healthy balance between dev speed and code quality isn’t easy. 
Just be agile and practice DevOps, they say. Join Sven and learn how great software teams measure and improve their developer experience, coordinate work across teams, run autonomous but highly aligned teams, and create a healthy and joyful engineering culture. Always backed up by data (not driven) instead of opinions. The talk will demonstrate how great teams faced development challenges, reinvented themselves, and created new ways of working to get s%*t done. Without losing sight of what makes this craft fun for engineers. Read More...

• Sven Peters [Developer Advocate — Atlassian]

The Leadership Dilemma

DevLead Stage — 30 minutes DevLead

What is leadership?  The purpose of this talk is to explore the diverse interpretations of leadership, uncover its essence, and discover surprising insights on measuring its impact. Ultimately, the aim is to redefine our understanding of effective leadership and arrive at potentially surprising conclusions
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• Stefan Teleu [Project Manager — Systematic]

Empowering Your Development with FP: Understanding and Practice

DevLead Stage — 45 minutes DevLead

Functional Programming (FP) has become an increasingly popular programming paradigm, known for its ability to simplify code and increase efficiency.

However, for many developers, the transition from traditional programming to FP can be challenging.
This talk aims to bridge the gap by providing a comprehensive introduction to FP and demonstrating how it can empower your development.
We will start by discussing the core concepts of FP, including immutability, pure functions, and higher-order functions.
From there, we will dive into the practical applications of FP, highlighting its benefits and drawbacks.
You will learn how to implement FP in your own projects and how to approach common challenges when transitioning to FP.
Whether you are new to FP or looking to deepen your understanding, this talk will provide you with the tools and knowledge needed to empower your development and take your coding skills to the next level.
By the end of this talk, you will have a strong understanding of FP and the confidence to incorporate it into your own projects.
Join us and discover how FP can help you write cleaner, more efficient, and maintainable code.
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• Ties Van De Ven [Software consultant — JDriven]

How to lead. Corporate vs Start-up

DevLead Stage — 1 hour DevLead

• Mike Makar [Head of — MassMutual Romania]
• Alina Son [Senior Manager, Software & Product Infrastructure — _VOIS]
• Lavinia Neagoe [Director of Engineering & Bucharest Technology Site — Google]
• Cristian Orasanu [Strategy Director, Innovation & Partnerships — Moderator]

Storytelling hacks: Project communications that your end users and project team actually read

DevLead Stage — 30 minutes DevLead

Communication between the business and IT is essential.  IT needs to understand their internal customers to meet their real needs. IT is a cost center, so we cannot show our value in the amount of dollars we bring to the organization. Which is why we need to demonstrate our value to the business by translating our technical achievements into language they can understand. My presentation will share some tips and tricks on using storytelling and persuasion principles when communicating to our internal customers. To ensure the business listens to what IT has to say, we need to learn to be entertaining. If you do not feel particularly creative, all you need to know is how to prompt ChatGPT.
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• Lorena Trambitas [CRM Specialist — HCLTech]

Four approaches that a Senior Leader can adopt to inspire and cultivate a talent-focused culture

DevLead Stage — 45 minutes DevLead

In the shadows of leadership, a Senior Leader holds the key to a talent-focused culture.  Senior Leader unleashes the power of learning, nurturing growth and potential. He navigates on the path of expectations, leading their teams towards direction and purpose. By keeping in mind excellence, motivation, encouragement and fostering collaboration, a senior leader inspires the Software Engineering of tomorrow and intentionally drives diversity within the team(s) to produce excellence. In this keynote, Edwige Fiaclou proposes you a deep dive into the pursuit of excellence and actions taken to be attractive in Software Engineering Management: a competitive sector.
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• Edwige Fiaclou [Head Tech Talent & Methodology — Swissquote]

The 5 Vicious Circles at Work: Detecting and Breaking Them Up

DevLead Stage — 30 minutes DevLead

A vicious circle (or cycle) is a complex chain of events that reinforces itself through a feedback loop, with harmful results.
 
They can be happening today, anywhere at your company, creating friction, misalignment, bottlenecks, and even making the best employees quit.
In the last ten years of working as an agile coach and Scrum Master in several types of companies and departments, I’ve listed 10 very common vicious circles that I saw again and again, and that can be a true pain in the ̶a̶s̶s̶ neck.(And you might be in one of these loops without even knowing!) Let’s explore the 10 vicious circles together and get to know powerful practices, tools, and tips to break them up. Key takeaways:

- Be aware of the 10 vicious circles at work and understand the impact they have on people, products, and processes.

- Learn useful tips, practices, and tools that can be used the next day to break these vicious circles up.

- Use the clear and straight-to-the-point visuals from this talk to discuss with your colleagues and generate insights and actions.

- Feel empowered, energized, and inspired by real-life stories, a great pace, and a good dose of humor. Read More...

• Artur Margonari [Agile Coach, Trainer, Facilitator — InspirationOwl]