Schedule:
15:45 * Doors Open
16:00-16:45 * Online Payments – an alternate history by Ivan Milles
Clickbait, advertisement takeovers and microtransactions are all parts of our online economy. Signing up, creating user accounts, handing out credit card information, waiting for confirmation emails too. The friction in accepting payments leads to real challenges for news journalism, user-generated content and, well, everyone who does non-free things online. This could have been different. Let's travel back to 1997, read a forgotten error message, and see why technical leadership is critically important in shaping our future society.
17:00-17:45 * You are not so smart - cognitive biases in software engineering by Rui Ma
Cognitive bias is the tendency to think certain ways, often resulting in deviation from rational, logical decision-making. As a stakeholder in IT projects, are you so smart that you make judgements and decisions strictly conform to the laws of logic or mathematics? Or rather willing to provide plausible explanations for random events? This talk will examines these phenomena might happen in software development, concluding that what are cast as one-sided software development guidelines often can be recast beneficially as two-sided trade-offs.
17:45-20.00 * Mingle with industry peers and connect for the future. Netlight serve sandwich and snacks, drinks, industry storys and insights, and of course – live music.
