It is hard to know what you really want from your career, but answering this question is a powerful step towards gaining more agency and control in how you develop. This workshop will support you to know yourself better, to build your aspiration of who you are becoming in your career and to set a direction for where you would love to go. This will enable you to identify actions to take to be more intentional and deliberate in the development of your career.

Getting that senior title is easy. Just stick around. Being a true senior takes a new way of thinking.You're a great engineer. You can code anything you need, solve every problem, google any solution.

This workshop is designed to help technology professionals elevate their resumes, led by Alla Pavlova, a senior freelance recruiter from the Netherlands with 15+ years of experience in the tech industry. In this interactive session, Alla shares tips on how recruiters review CVs, her knowledge on what top companies are looking for in candidates, offering personalized feedback to refine and enhance your CV for maximum impact.Participants will learn how to effectively showcase their skills, experiences, and achievements and make their applications stand out in the competitive tech job market. The workshop includes practical exercises, real-life examples, and Q&A sessions, providing attendees with the tools and confidence to make their tech CVs shine. Whether you’re seeking to advance in your current role or looking for new opportunities, this workshop is a good source.

Are you curious about the world of electronic music but not sure where to start? and did you know your coding skills can translate to music-making? This workshop will help you discover the basics in a comfortable way, and see how your coding mindset can help you understand music production. We'll build on your developer logic, break down the basics, and help you get hands-on with creating cool sounds.

Join this crash-course into the exciting world of live coding music and visuals. No previous knowl- edge of programming required, only a desire to express yourself creatively! In this workshop, split into 2 parts, you will be introduced to two creative-coding environments used for creating expres- sive algorithmic music and visuals on-the-fly. For this we will use the programming environments Mercury and Hydra.

Join this crash-course into the exciting world of live coding music and visuals. No previous knowl- edge of programming required, only a desire to express yourself creatively! In this workshop, split into 2 parts, you will be introduced to two creative-coding environments used for creating expres- sive algorithmic music and visuals on-the-fly. For this we will use the programming environments Mercury and Hydra.

Today every developer is using LLMs in different forms and shapes, from ChatGPT to code assistants like GitHub CoPilot. Following this, lots of products have introduced embedded AI capabilities, and in this workshop we will make LLMs understandable for web developers. And we'll get into coding your own AI-driven application. No prior experience in working with LLMs or machine learning is needed.

Mental health has taken a back seat in the software engineering industry for years.It’s not often prioritised by our employers and unfortunately, we often neglect it ourselves…With so many external factors outside of our control, it’s important to focus on what we can control…After 24 years in software engineering, improving mental health in our industry is now my primary mission.Mental health impact us all in different ways.Better mental health starts by understanding what it means to you and then using tools to incrementally improve it.This workshop aims to help you on both accounts.We’ll cover:Step 1 - Your ThinkingStep 2 - Your BeliefsStep 3 - Your ValuesStep 4 - Your Physical HealthStep 5 - Your Mental HealthThere’ll be education and discussion on each of the 5 steps and we’ll use practical exercises to help you build a picture of what mental health means to you and a pathway to move it towards how you’d like it to be.

A Developer’s Guide to Communicating, Convincing, and Collaborating Effectively With StakeholdersIt’s a tale as old as time - collaboration between developers and business stakeholders has long been a challenge, with a lack of clear communication often leaving both sides frustrated. The best developers can deeply understand their business counterparts’ needs, effectively communicate technical strategy without losing the non-technical crowd, and convince the business to make the right decisions. Working at a consultancy, I’ve both failed and succeeded in architecting and “selling” technical visions, learning many lessons along the way.Whether you work at a product company, are a consultant/freelancer, or want to venture beyond just being a developer, the ability to convince and clearly communicate with stakeholders can set you apart in the tech industry. This becomes even more important with the rise of GenAI and the increasingly competitive developer market, as problem-solving and effective communication are key to positioning yourself.In this workshop, I’ll share real-world examples, both good and bad, and guide you through putting the theory into practice through dojos.

So why bother with functional programming in Python? Python is an object-oriented and imperative language, and Guido really dislikes when people bring functional elements into it. Maybe we shouldn't either? However, upon closer examination, it turns out that Python has everything necessary for quality functional code, and some approaches from functional programming can be quite useful in practice, no matter what old Guido says.

How do you get into the zone while coding? Why does taking a walk or taking a shower seem to help solve problems? Everything we do is regulated by complex processes in the brain, and coding is no exception. Sometimes it can feel difficult to control our minds when coding, but to debug the problem we’ll first need to understand it.