Regardless of the technology you know or the job title you have, you have amazing potential to impact your workplace, community, and beyond.

In this talk, I'll share a few candid stories of my career failures… I mean… learning opportunities. We'll start by debunking the myth that leadership == management. Next, we'll talk about some of the attributes, behaviors, and skills of good leaders. Lastly, we'll cover some practical steps and resources to accelerate your journey.

You'll walk away with some essential leadership skills I believe anyone can develop, and a good dose of encouragement to be more awesome!

David Neal is a family man, musician, illustrator, software developer, and Microsoft MVP living in North Georgia. He's currently a Developer Advocate for Pluralsight. He runs on a high-octane mixture of caffeine and JavaScript, and is made entirely of bacon.

We are excited to welcome Sophie Koonin to the FullStack eXchange for this keynote.

Stay tuned for additional details!

Sophie is a web-focused senior Product Engineer at incident.io, building intuitive tools to help companies manage and learn from incidents. Building websites since the age of 11, she’s passionate about creating inclusive, accessible and fun websites that people love. Sophie writes about tech & mental health at localghost.dev, builds intentionally useless web apps, and makes music.

On June 15, 2022, after more than 25 years as one of the most used and most frequently derrided web browsers, Internet Explorer (IE) was officially retired by Microsoft. In this session, Bruce Lawson will comment on the end of IE, and reflect on where we're going with web standards and browser diversity.

Bruce Lawson does accessibility at Babylon Health. He was co-editor of the HTML5.3 specification, one of the inventors of the <picture> element, and on the committee that drafted the British Standard for commissioning accessible websites. He co-wrote 'Introducing HTML5'. He's previously been deputy CTO of Opera browsers, front-end lead for a large UK legal organisation, a Fortran and mainframe programmer as well as a Bollywood movie extra, a musician, a tarot card reader, tutor to a Thai princess and actor.

Flipper is a platform for debugging mobile and web apps. Half a year ago, we decided to split the electron monolith in two parts: a standalone server and a UI. In this talk, we will cover why you need headless Flipper, what opportunities it unlocks for you. We will go over how Flipper can now be easily used for remote debugging, embedding, CI integration, and etc. We will overview how Flipper architecture transformed to support the migration, what Flipper is now, and how we plan to use it at Meta.

I am a software engineer from London, UK. Primarily, I am a full-stack web developer (think React, Angular, Node.js), but I also have a keen interest in low-level stuff (hello, C) and finance (love-hate relationship with Pandas).

Full-stack (web, blockchain, and even a bit of embedded) at software consultancies (DSR, DataArt) -> Headed front-end development at Hazelcast -> Front-end at Bricks (next-gen spreadsheet web app) -> Full-time maintainer of Flipper at Meta (ex-Facebook). Occasionally, I write about tech in my small blog and speak at conferences.

In this time of the coronavirus epidemic, a lot of our plans have been canceled. From every bad situation, we need to try to see the good thing in it. Elad Shechter took his free time at home to create a pure CSS game. He will explain many tips and tricks on "how to create pure CSS games".

Elad Shechter is a Web Developer specializing in CSS & HTML design and architecture.

Besides this, he is the creator of "The New CSS Reset", a new CSS reset based on new features of CSS. In addition, he's a writer of various globally known CSS articles and a CSS speaker.

UI performance bugs are probably the most frustrating for both application users and developers. For application users they are just a bad experience that can lead users to abandon your product. For developers they are the hardest bugs to detect and ultimately debug––because they're basically impossible to find by just reading the code or running a typical debugger, and don't have any simple workarounds like others.

One of the less glamorous but incredibly useful tools to help catch and squash those elusive bugs before they reach your end user, is the browser dev-tools performance stack, which includes the Networking, Memory, Rendering, Code Bugs, and CPU. This talk will walk through some of the most common pitfalls in UI performance, and some good practices to help you avoid them. You can quickly reproduce these performance issues by calling the DOM and your app directly from the browser console, and running stress tests. Through code examples and a demo, you'll be able to learn some of the best kept secrets, tips and tricks for optimizing and debugging your UI performance for your fullstack apps.

Gabriel is a senior full-stack developer with a favorite kid named Frontend.

For over ten years now, I've enjoyed writing clean code, simplifying complex problems, leading feature development, and influencing innovation every day.

When I’m not busy with code, you’ll find me talking about application performance, building confidence in code-bases, product architecture, developing organizational culture, and other nerdy dev stuff.

Besides all that, I'm a father of two, a hobbyist photographer, restless traveler, and food creator.

Do you know Git? I bet you do. I also bet you use it, like 90% of the developers who answered last year’s StackOverflow survey. For sure you know all the basic commands to commit, pull, push... You might even rebase regularly, cherry-pick or bisect whenever it’s needed. Good for you, it’s not what this talk will be about! In this talk, we’ll focus on the rest of Git. The forgotten bits of trivia, the little-known, not-for-everyday commands. You won’t leave with much to apply directly in your terminal, but with plenty to talk about on your company’s messaging platform! We’ll jump from Git’s history to its core data structure, passing by some useful commands that you won’t resist trying out for yourself. If that sounds like fun to you, come on in!

Garance is a senior engineering manager at @FactorialHR, where she works remotely. Her days are busy leading others to success: in her teams in particular, and in the wider engineering organisation in general. She started her career as a software engineer, and never misses a chance to jump in the console to debug or look at others debugging. When she’s not working, you’ll have better chances finding her hiking in the Pyrenees mountains than in front of a laptop.

We all love sharing our work with the community, and GitHub Wrap enabled you to do just that. GitHub Wrap, a weekend project, got a lot of love on Twitter from the developer community. One could share the contributions they made to open-source using the tool. Created with tools like n8n, Cloudflare, and Cloudinary, the project handled 60k requests and delighted the tech community. But with love, there also came challenges. Join me to listen to my learnings from creating the project to managing it.

Working in the Developer Relations team at n8n, Harshil enjoys sharing his learnings with the community. A JavaScript developer, open-source contributor, and a low-code enthusiast, Harshil loves experimenting with tech and building small projects.

Have you ever thought about making some really awesome beats by coding? You can do that with Sonic Pi! Sonic Pi is based off of Ruby. You can create all types of beats and melodies with this technology and I can show you how to do it through a demo.

In this talk attendees will learn about Sonic Pi in a live coding environment, and will learn how to create different genres of music through coding.

Attendees will leave this talk with an understanding of Sonic Pi and learn about:

• making music
• making beats
• making songs
• music transcription and playback
• audio looping, computer-aided music composition
• development of computer-based musical instruments (including hybrid instruments)
• live performance

Herve Viho Aniglo was born in the capital and coastal city, Lome, Togo. Togo is a small country in West Africa located between Ghana and Benin and below Burkina-Faso. He and his family are part of the Togolese ethnic group, Ewe. At a young age, Herve and his family moved to the United States of America for better opportunities. They first arrived in New York then later moved to Memphis. His first name "Herve" (pronounced Her-vay) is French for "Army Warrior." The middle name Viho is Cheyenne for "Chief." These are the characteristics of a leader and they are the characteristic of an "army warrior" and a "chief." Herve serves and follows the directions and tasks of others (army warrior) but at the same time, he sets an example to his fellow peers by showing determination, keeping an upbeat, positive personality and motivation to keep things going (chief). Herve is a well-known networker and connector in Memphis. He is involved with the National Black MBA Association, Black Data Processing Associates, and National Society of Black Engineers. He is also currently pursuing his MBA at the University of Memphis.

If you’re a JavaScript developer, you’ve no doubt jumped on the “Components are the best!” train, and use a development platform like React, Vue, or Angular. And for good reason, we all know of the joy of building applications from a collection of highly specialized, composable, and (hopefully) tested components can bring. Heck, the software practically writes itself! (But don’t tell our clients or bosses that.)

The problem (isn’t there always one?) is that as your application starts to grow, issues with this approach start to creep in. Consistency can be difficult to maintain. Testing starts to get more difficult. And while we often strive to build these components as stand-alone, isolated pieces of software, we usually end up needing to build and run the whole application to even see what they look like. And this can slow you down. And hey, wouldn’t it be nice if the QA people could actually help us out with some of this lower-level testing instead of having to go through the same simple 82-step process to make sure that we changed that font color from light blue to slightly lighter-blue?

The good news is that Storybook is here to make our lives (as developers anyway) so much easier!

Storybooks website says it’s an interface development and playground for UI components. But it’s so much more than that! With Storybook, you can develop your component in TRUE isolation, meaning that you don’t need to run the entire application to see how changes to your code affect how your component looks and works. It also helps developers stay consistent, helps provide component-level documentation, makes testing a lot easier, and enables QA to examine the components and try different scenarios to see how the component and the application react in different situations.

In this session, you’ll see how to add Storybook to your application, how the tooling works, and how to start writing your own stories. And while the examples will be in React, Storybook supports every major component-based platform, so the knowledge you gain will easily translate into whatever framework you’re working with.

James Bender has been involved in software development and architecture for 18 years. He has worked as a developer and architect on everything from small, single-user applications to Enterprise-scale, multi-user systems. His specialties are .NET development and architecture, TDD, SOA, WCF, Web Development, cloud computing, and agile development methodologies. He is an experienced mentor and author. James is a Microsoft MVP, Chairman of the Central Ohio Day of .NET and former President of the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group. James's book "Professional Test Driven Development with C#: Developing Real World Applications with TDD" was released in May of 2011.

The goal of every great developer is to ensure that they are doing the best job that they can. Yet, with the advancement of software and the move to cloud-native ecosystems these past few years, things have become more difficult.

While developers used to be able to focus solely on the code that lived in their local machine, they now are also responsible for what happens once it leaves their machine and deploys to production.

Understanding what happens to your source code when you’re done writing it is a must-have skill for developers, starting from the building stage, integration, testing, and all the way through the CI/CD process.

In this talk, we’ll discuss everything the code goes through from the minute it leaves your local machine. We will dive into all the practicalities that developers need to fully own in order to step up their coding game and why they need to do so. Finally, I will share my real-life experience on what it takes to be a next-level developer through owning your whole development process.

Noa is Rookout’s Product Manager. Having been a developer for eight years, her goal in life now is to take complicated technology and products and simplify it to the point that anyone can understand and use it. In her free time, you can find her training at her local CrossFit gym, giving a talk at a conference, or eating a bowl of raw cookie dough.

We hear about Developer Relations, or DevRel, quite a bit! We've also heard different definitions for it. We might've asked somebody in DevRel what they do and surely heard "Well, it depends..."

In this talk, we'll explore this!

We'll cover what the different pillars of DevRel are, the activities involved, and how to get started!

Ramón Huidobro is a software engineer with over 10 years experience. Public speaker. Community member. Developer educator. Free Coding Bootcamp Instructor. Live streamer.

Rob Richardson is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, React and Vue. He’s a Microsoft MVP, published author, frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software development.

Building static websites with a Jamstack approach offers a fantastic solution for building massively available systems without the downsides of traditional dynamic stacks like Rails, Express or Wordpress. But there is a different way. In this talk you will learn how to build massively available dynamic web apps with pure cloud functions. Functional Web Apps (FWA) are built with pure cloud functions, sport a builtin database and deploy quickly and reliably. No more waiting on slow builds. No more trading off a dynamic end user experience by pre-rendering spinners. We will build markup on the fly with the determinism and reliability of immutable deployments leveraging the power and simplicity of the ultimate building block: pure cloud functions.

Simon MacDonald has over twenty years of development experience and has worked on a variety of projects including object oriented databases, police communication systems, speech recognition and unified messaging. His current focus is contributing to the open source Architect project to enable developers to create functional web applications. Simon’s been building web applications since the days they were written using shell scripts and he still has nightmares about those dark days.

Bluetooth is present in every phone and laptop, making it the defacto choice for peripherals and the Apps that connect to them. It has achieved unprecedented economies of scale and pricing.

But what about Bluetooth for SaaS? Why is that not a thing? What if we could leverage all this investment and technology for extending SaaS applications with IoT capabilities?

This talk explores some of the trade-offs and opportunities that could come if Bluetooth could connect to your web backend, and the work we've been doing to create Bluetooth infrastructure and devices that can.

Simon Ford is founder of Blecon, a startup enabling network infrastructure and a new class of devices for the SaaS world, based on Bluetooth Low Energy.

He previously worked at Arm where he founded Arm Mbed, and was Technical Lead for the ARM NEON/v7 architecture that helped launch the smartphone revolution.

This talk begins with giving a brief discussion on how and why should we build a micro frontends project. Then it extends into a detailed walk-through of micro frontends design process, including architecture, release process and automation. In addition, I will give demo of how we apply those good practices within the Chase UK App.

Coming from the East side of the world, Teresa Wu is passionate about mobile applications and Cloud technologies, she has been working with many talented developers to craft various apps and projects throughout the years. Teresa likes to explore the world of multi-platform, the fun of continues delivery, testing automation and much more.

From Web 1.0, to 2.0, to the burgeoning “web3” – how has digital accessibility shifted, as web features have become more complex? How has assistive technology continued to offer innovative solutions for people to engage online, across ability? In this session, Fable Accessibility Evangelist Sam Proulx will share reflections based on his over 30 years of experience using screen readers and witnessing the accessibility industry adapt and change. Get a deeper understanding of where accessibility has been, what the landscape in the current moment, and where this all might be taking us from here.

Samuel Proulx is the Accessibility Evangelist at Fable, a leading accessibility testing platform powered by people with disabilities. As a blind individual, Sam knows and values the importance of accessibility in all aspects of life and is a strong advocate for the inclusion of people with disabilities in the digital world. Sam brings his previous experience as Fable’s community manager, plus life-long advocacy for himself and others, to his role as Evangelist. Audio description: Sam is a white man with short dark brown hair and a thick brown beard.