Agenda
Check out the different topics, each representing a single block of talks and sessions to guide you through the program of DevTalks! We look forward to welcoming you to the event and providing you with an unforgettable learning and networking experience in the world of technology.
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10:00 to 10:10
Opening Speech MassMutual Romania
Main Stage | Day 2 — 10 minutes
10:15 to 10:45
DevOps at Netflix
Main Stage | Day 2 — 30 minutes
Netflix is a global leader in video streaming and has always been known in Silicon Valley for its culture document; a seminal work in setting the context about culture.
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10:50 to 11:35
The Visible and Invisible Power of Computation
Main Stage | Day 2 — 45 minutes Artificial Intelligence
This talk will analyze technological advancements from the viewpoint of computational power.
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11:40 to 12:10
Foundation Models
Main Stage | Day 2 — 30 minutes
A Foundation Model is a type of machine learning model that has been trained on a large amount of diverse data, which allows it to generate high-quality language outputs that are similar to human language. Read More...
12:15 to 12:45
"Intelligent Media Processing” – automating human review tasks with the use of Machine Learning algorithms inside Amazon
Main Stage | Day 2 — 30 minutes DevOps Agile
How Amazon is unlocking potential with artificial intelligence and machine learning by accelerating unstructured data understanding to reduce manual, routine, and time consuming tasks while achieving human like reasoning on diverse media input.
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13:00 to 14:00
Lunch Break
Main Stage | Day 2 — 1 hour
14:00 to 14:45
Multimodal Generative AI Demystified
Main Stage | Day 2 — 45 minutes Artificial Intelligence
Multimodal generative AI has recently seen significant advancements, enabling the creation of realistic images, videos, and audio from textual or other inputs.
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14:50 to 15:20
Making Digital Strides in Financial Services
Main Stage | Day 2 — 30 minutes Java
MassMutual Romania's Transition to Agile. Stories of exploring and transitioning to leading-edge models.
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15:25 to 16:25
Exploring the Power of Generative AI in Enterprise: Unlocking Potential, Managing Risks, and Ensuring Ethical use
Main Stage | Day 2 — 1 hour
16:30 to 17:00
Open Source in Telecom
Main Stage | Day 2 — 30 minutes
Open source code has been gaining popularity in recent years, thanks to the broad usage
rights granted by its licensing.
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10:00 to 10:10
Opening Speech powered by Vodafone Romania
Future of Engineering Stage — 10 minutes
10:15 to 10:45
10:50 to 11:35
Do the magic with DevOps, Open Source and All-remote teams
Future of Engineering Stage — 45 minutes DevOps Future of Engineering
How the GitLab Data team embraces DevOps culture to move fast in a rapidly growing environment. Why you should find solutions for your challenges in the Open Source world.
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11:40 to 12:10
Serving Serverless on your Own Servers
Future of Engineering Stage — 30 minutes Future of Engineering
Efficient use of shared server resources is critical at EveryMatrix; we will share some of the highs and lows of our experience transitioning to a vendor-neutral Serverless computing model in a private datacentre using Kubernetes and KNative.
12:15 to 13:00
How to build Sustainable Software and Where to start
Future of Engineering Stage — 45 minutes Future of Engineering
Today, more than 200 global organisations have signed The Climate Pledge and are pursuing ambitious carbon-reduction activities, including operational changes in the race to fight climate change and switch to renewable sources of energy. Read More...
13:00 to 14:00
Lunch Break
Future of Engineering Stage — 1 hour
14:00 to 14:45
How to see the goal before you hear about it
Future of Engineering Stage — 45 minutes Future of Engineering
In the talk I’ll introduce the Media Streaming Mesh open-source project, explaion how it can be used to enable cloud-native real-time media streaming, describe the system architecture, and show a live demo.
14:50 to 15:20
Adapting for Success: Thriving as a Developer in an AI-Driven World
Future of Engineering Stage — 30 minutes Future of Engineering
In an era of rapid technological advancements, the future of programming is evolving at an unprecedented pace. Read More...
15:25 to 16:10
Balancing Coupling in Software Design
Future of Engineering Stage — 45 minutes Future of Engineering
We are used to treating coupling as the necessary evil.
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16:15 to 16:45
Advisory AI with Custom Knowledge – build an AI that can interpret and provide insights on your own document repository
Future of Engineering Stage — 30 minutes
In banks and other highly regulated environments, individuals often encounter challenges in interpreting and understanding complex policies, procedures, regulations, and other internal documents. Read More...
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10:00 to 10:10
10:15 to 10:45
Disaster Recovery Testing at Booking.com
DevOps Stage — 30 minutes DevOps
Large disasters can be due to equipment failures, user errors, natural disasters, malware and other unexpected events. Read More...
10:50 to 11:35
Common cloud migration pain points and how to overcome them - based on practical experience
DevOps Stage — 45 minutes DevOps Kubernetes
There are different obstacles, respectively challenges that you’re facing when starting almost from scratch with the cloud migration of your application.
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11:40 to 12:10
Delivering DevOps as a Service: Accelerating Feedback Loops and Quality Delivery
DevOps Stage — 30 minutes DevOps
Discover how to overcome
project frustrations and expedite time-to-market by implementing ‘build once,
run everywhere’ as a DevOps practice.
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12:15 to 13:00
How AI and DevOps changes the way we create products in the future
DevOps Stage — 45 minutes DevOps
As AI-assisted development becomes mainstream, organizations will have to find new ways to ensure their service quality remains high. Read More...
13:00 to 14:00
Lunch Break
DevOps Stage — 1 hour
14:00 to 14:45
The future of infrastructure will be containerized
DevOps Stage — 45 minutes DevOps Cloud
Developers and data professionals are rapidly adopting containers as a way to develop and ship software.
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14:50 to 15:20
Kubernetes, just because we can!
DevOps Stage — 30 minutes DevOps
Remembering
the good all days while appreciating the present.
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15:25 to 15:55
Money Matters: Cloud-Native from Abstraction to Currency
DevOps Stage — 30 minutes DevOps Cloud
The purpose of this talk is to offer insights
into the abstraction model of the Cloud-Native landscape and how it relates to
currency, by sharing
valuable insights and lessons learned. Furthermore we will discuss the current state of the industry's tech stack.
16:00 to 16:30
Resilience and performance tests on Microsoft Azure
DevOps Stage — 30 minutes DevOps
Microsoft Azure allows us to perform performance and resilience tests on their infrastructure.
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10:00 to 10:10
Opening speech
QA & Testing Stage — 10 minutes
10:15 to 10:45
Testers, Grab a Hold on Your Product's Quality
QA & Testing Stage — 30 minutes QA Testing
In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, testers play a critical role in ensuring product quality. Read More...
10:50 to 11:35
How Cypress united developers and QA engineers at Maersk
QA & Testing Stage — 45 minutes QA Testing
I would be talking through the devops and testing culture shift that happened at Maersk and how the introduction of Cypress testing speeded the transition and brought developers and QA engineers to work side by side.
11:40 to 12:10
Beyond functionality: Understanding the role of non-functional testing in high-quality software
QA & Testing Stage — 30 minutes QA Testing
Non-functional
testing may be a term you’ve heard before, but do you know what it actually
entails?
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12:15 to 13:00
Test Design and Test Design Automation – How to Save One Trillion Dollars a Year
QA & Testing Stage — 45 minutes
The estimated annual cost of software problems in the US exceeds one trillion dollars.
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13:00 to 14:00
Lunch Break
QA & Testing Stage — 1 hour
14:00 to 14:45
The Power of Human and AI Collaboration in Software Testing
QA & Testing Stage — 45 minutes Artificial Intelligence QA Testing
What if you could delegate routine tasks to AI and focus on your unique expertise in software testing? The power of human and AI collaboration is transforming the way we approach testing, from automating routine tasks to providing predictive analytics.
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14:50 to 15:20
Development for QE: Rising from the Valley of tears
QA & Testing Stage — 30 minutes QA Testing
Quality engineering is not simply testing and validating functional and non-functional aspects, or simply put, having full coverage in automated tests. Read More...
15:25 to 16:10
Smoke Tests & Mirrors
QA & Testing Stage — 45 minutes QA Testing
Having been a magician for 35 years, I started noticing that some magic principles and theories also apply to software testing.
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16:15 to 17:00
Whose Test Is It Anyway?
QA & Testing Stage — 45 minutes QA Testing
There is a question that people keep asking me, expecting there is a simple recipe they just need to learn: how would you test this? When your job is to find some of what others may have missed, the responses vary greatly. Software development is a social activity, and the social context determines what work gets priority.
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10:00 to 10:10
10:15 to 10:45
10:50 to 11:35
How Covid-19 and the war changed our cybersecurity landscape… Where will it all end and how to prepare?
Security Stage — 45 minutes Security
Undoubtedly, our cybersecurity landscape has dramatically changed over the last 3 years.
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11:40 to 12:10
Uncover the Secrets of PKCE: Elevating OAuth2.0 for security of native clients
Security Stage — 30 minutes Security
Discover the power of PKCE (Proof Key for Code Exchange), an OAuth2.0 extension.
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12:15 to 13:00
Breaking Free from the Laptop Shackles: The Virtual Revolution in Secure Application Development
Security Stage — 45 minutes Security
The need to secure corporate laptops spans across all functions of the organization, and software application development is one of them.
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13:00 to 14:00
Lunch Break
Security Stage — 1 hour
14:00 to 14:45
Building a sustainable security requirements process with the ASVS
Security Stage — 45 minutes Security
14:50 to 15:20
HOW AI IS THREATENING DEVELOPERS JOBS
Security Stage — 30 minutes Security
1. Cyber Smart Defence - Stefanini Group - Who we are - Madalin
Dumitru (Cyber Smart Defence- part of Stefanini Group)
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15:25 to 16:10
The importance of asset management for cyber security
Security Stage — 45 minutes Security
Asset management plays a critical role in ensuring cybersecurity by effectively managing assets through various practices such as inventory management, tracking, patching, risk assessment, and incident response planning.
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16:15 to 16:45
What do/should you ask/expect from your Managed Security Services Provider?
Security Stage — 30 minutes Security
In an age of digital transformation and escalating
cyber threats, businesses must prioritize cybersecurity. However, not every
organization has the capacity or resources to manage this critical area
effectively in-house. That's where Managed Security Services Providers (MSSPs)
step in.
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10:00 to 10:10
Opening Speech powered by METRO.digital
Product World Stage — 10 minutes Product Management Product World
10:15 to 10:45
Empowering Product Organizations: Unlocking Potential Through Transformation
Product World Stage — 30 minutes Product Management Product World
How to foster a culture in product at heart organizations? Read More...
10:50 to 11:35
Psychological safety for product mangers
Product World Stage — 45 minutes Product Management Product World
11:40 to 12:10
Platform modernization – transforming legacy software to modern cloud-native
Product World Stage — 30 minutes Product Management Cloud Product World
Many successful software businesses today face the challenge of taking their highly successful but legacy products and transitioning them into modern cloud-native architectures that can exploit the benefits of cloud hyperscalers. Read More...
12:15 to 13:00
Building a digital product organization – brick by brick
Product World Stage — 45 minutes Product Management Product World
The LEGO Group has made a conscious decision to heavily invest in upping their game in digital product development, putting new digital innovations into the hands of kids and families, but also LEGO partners and internal colleagues, to inspire physical play and spark new ideas.
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13:00 to 14:00
Lunch Break
Product World Stage — 1 hour
14:00 to 14:45
AI and the Future of Product Management — A Paradigm Shift
Product World Stage — 45 minutes Product Management Artificial Intelligence Product World
As AI breakthroughs continue to revolutionise business, society and our daily lives, we'll stop to ask, how will AI affect the world of product management?
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14:50 to 15:35
Art & Science of Building ML Products
Product World Stage — 45 minutes Product Management Machine Learning Product World
This talk addresses the challenges faced while building Machine Learning products and provides insights into optimizing ML models, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, and managing stakeholder expectations.
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15:40 to 16:25
Product Teams & Building in 2023 - All hail our AI overlords
Product World Stage — 45 minutes
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10:00 to 10:30
AI-Powered Design and Architecture: Crafting the Future of Gaming
Gaming Stage — 30 minutes Gaming
Uncover the transformative potential of AI in game design and architecture. Read More...
10:35 to 11:35
From Passion to Profession in the Gaming Industry
Gaming Stage — 1 hour Gaming
Encouraging more junior developers into the gaming industry by providing the necessary resources to navigate a career path into it.
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11:40 to 12:25
The soundtrack to game sales and conversion rates
Gaming Stage — 45 minutes
Discover the transformative power of audio in the game/app development business.
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12:30 to 13:15
Game Design: How To Play With Players
Gaming Stage — 45 minutes
Rami Ismail explains the implications of game design, and some of the immediate ways designers and developers can use their craft to create interesting, memorable, and engaging gameplay.
13:15 to 14:00
Lunch Break
Gaming Stage — 45 minutes
14:00 to 14:45
Video Games & High Culture.
Gaming Stage — 45 minutes Gaming
From the origins of a multidisciplinary project to the development of the Crossmedia IP "Homeni et Armi"
14:50 to 15:35
Fireside chat
Gaming Stage — 45 minutes