Techstars | Boise Startup Week 2018: Full Schedule

1:45pm MDT

Workshop: Scale Beyond MVP

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Are you an entrepreneur working on your big idea? How can you design your product to scale to dynamically support your business growth? Jay Patel, Head of Ops at Coding Dojo, will provide a high level overview of web/mobile technologies and how to design the architecture with scalability in mind. There will be discussions on the common mistakes made by entrepreneurs and the framework for identifying and resolving scalability issues along with some helpful tools.

Speakers

Jay Patel

Head of Ops, Coding Dojo

Wednesday October 17, 2018 1:45pm - 2:45pm MDT
JUMP (Inspire Studio, 4th Floor)

Tech Track

3:00pm MDT

Tech Track Keynote: Preston Lewis, Co-Founder of Black Box VR

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Preston Lewis, a co-founder of award-winning VR company Black Box VR, tells us about the journey of his company so far. From world-renowned bodybuilders to the largest electronics showcase in the country, Black Box VR is quickly becoming one of the most exciting new companies in Boise.

Speakers

Preston Lewis

Co-Founder, Black Box VR

Wednesday October 17, 2018 3:00pm - 4:00pm MDT
JUMP (JUMP Room, 5th Floor) 1000 W Myrtle St, Boise, ID 83702, USA

Tech Track

4:15pm MDT

The Future of Virtual Reality

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Virtual reality has come an incredibly long way since its inception, but where exactly is this technology on its adoption curve? Are the greatest innovations in VR still ahead of us? What part can Boise's most ambitious technologists play in VR's future?

The Idaho Virtual Reality Council leads us through a gripping discussion about the past, present and future of VR.

Moderators

Jim Bradbury

General Manager, Black Box VR

Speakers

Amy Gile

CEO and Co-Founder, Silverdraft Supercomputers

Amy Gile is the CEO and Co-Founder of Silverdraft Supercomputing, a leading builder of computing platforms for creative arts, graphics, and design. She is the driving force in both the business and capital development segments, staying closely involved in the company’s relationships... Read More →

Sheridan Hodson

Co-Founder, Epic Realty

Jennifer Lastra

CEO and Managing Director, 360 Immersive

U.S. Navy Veteran Jennifer Lastra is a certified Project Management Professional and co-founder of 360 Immersive, LLC. Jennifer brings a sincere passion for immersive technology, and an enthusiasm to help businesses realize the potential in VR as the game-changing training and performance-enhancing... Read More →

Aaron Stanton

Director, VR Institute of Health & Exercise

Aaron Stanton is an Idaho-raised, SF Bay-area based entrepreneur and Angel Investor working in the VR and AR industry. He focuses broadly on the overall health of the virtual and augmented reality ecosystem, including content creation, marketing, business development, and keeping... Read More →

Wednesday October 17, 2018 4:15pm - 5:15pm MDT
JUMP (The Loft, 5th Floor)

Tech Track

5:30pm MDT

Designing Apps That Actually Help People

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What does it take to rise above the everyday production of software? How do we deliver true and lasting value to the users?

Ricky Lyman of Dynamic Range Labs leads a panel of software designers and developers through a discussion about successful approaches in app design. Panelists include Marianna Budnikova from Dropbox, Jarod Ferguson from Royal Jay and Shawn Murdock from Tsheets.

Moderators

Ricky Lyman

Director of Design, Dynamic Range Labs

Design leader, product maker and family man. Ricky has built a colorful career in advocating for the user while pushing the trends of today’s experience design. From off-road racing trackers, to publishing platforms for engineers, to the latest tools for entrepreneurs, Ricky’s... Read More →

Speakers

Marianna Budnikova

Software Engineer, Dropbox

Marianna’s career has been a journey of writing software, andanalyzing data to understand the how's and why’s of software's impacton users. Today, Marianna creates desktop software for Dropbox, acollaboration platform with more than 500 million registered users.Before Dropbox... Read More →

Jarod Ferguson

Founder and CEO, Royal Jay

Jarod is the Founder and CEO of Royal Jay, where he helps Healthcare companies use data and analytics to reduce costs and identify opportunities to increase the quality of care. He has extensive experience in software development, product design, and entrepreneurship, and has built... Read More →

Shawn Murdock

Principal Product Designer, Intuit

Shawn Murdock is a Principal Product Designer at Intuit working within the small business group at QuickBooks. He is leading the design efforts for expanding QuickBook’s time tracking and time management capabilities as he was a part of the integration team at TSheets prior to the... Read More →

Wednesday October 17, 2018 5:30pm - 6:30pm MDT
JUMP (The Loft, 5th Floor)

Tech Track

5:30pm MDT

Workshop: Creating Digital Certificates Using Blockchain

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Are you ready for decentralized credentials that are stored and verified in the Bitcoin blockchain? Daniel Oostra, Managing Director of Coding Dojo, will take you through the world of decentralized digital identity and demonstrate how Blockchain can revolutionize the way institutions and companies issue licenses, diplomas, and certificates. We will do a live demonstration of issuing a digital BlockCert into the Bitcoin Blockchain, and all participants will be issued a certificate at the end of the seminar that is instantly verifiable on the Bitcoin blockchain!

Speakers

Daniel Oostra

Managing Director, Coding Dojo

Wednesday October 17, 2018 5:30pm - 6:30pm MDT
JUMP (Inspire Studio, 4th Floor)

Tech Track

9:30am MDT

Craving Technical Debt

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We continually encounter the uncertainty of how much and which technical debt to take on or pay down. We crave certainty in a similar way we crave primary motivations like food or sleep. This psychological craving affects our business and engineering decisions in unconscious ways. Forewarned is forearmed: we’ll explore how uncertainty influences debt choices and how to recognize the cost of certainty.

Richard Newman, a leader in technology development with several startups and going concerns, shares with us how cognitive bias and philosophy affects technical debt.

Speakers

Richard Newman

Vacasa

Thursday October 18, 2018 9:30am - 10:30am MDT
JUMP (The Loft, 5th Floor)

Tech Track

10:45am MDT

Why Tech Needs More Women

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In a world where many thousands of open technology jobs are unfilled and where talent is queen, are we doing everything we can to make tech accessible to everyone? The largest un-tapped demographic for technology talent is women, but what can we do to bring more women into technology and engineering?

Dr. Patricia Colberg from University of Idaho leads a panel of female technologists through a conversation about our successes and failures in bringing more women to technology. Panelists include Alecia Hoobing of Women Innovators, Meredith Ganz of VYNYL and Nilab Mousa of Clearwater.

Moderators

Dr. Patricia Colberg

Professor and Chair - Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Idaho

Patricia J. S. Colberg is Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Idaho. She spent 23 years at the University of Wyoming where she was the first women to achieve the rank of professor in the College of Engineering and Applied Science... Read More →

Speakers

Meredith Ganz

Software Producer, VYNYL

Meredith Ganz is a software producer at Vynyl where she manages a variety of software development projects. Before Vynyl, Meredith worked at Google where she held two different positions. She started as an AdWords specialist providing support to small to medium sized businesses and... Read More →

Alecia Hoobing

Product, ClickFunnels, Women Innovators

Alecia Hoobing, is a strategic business leader with extensive leadership, Research & Development, business, strategy and product management experience. In her more than twenty years in high-tech, Alecia has successfully defined and delivered many complex, high-tech products and solutions... Read More →

Nilab Mousa

Clearwater Analytics

Nilab Mousa a software developer at Clearwater Analytics by day, adjunct professor at Boise State University by night, and moonlights as a new mother. In her spare time she designs and leads programming bootcamps for K-12 and university students and works to promote women and minorities... Read More →

Thursday October 18, 2018 10:45am - 11:45am MDT
JUMP (The Loft, 5th Floor)

Tech Track

1:00pm MDT

When Do Hardware Products Fail?

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From design flaws to manufacturing concerns to market mishaps, there are many more reasons for hardware tech products to fail than to succeed.

Ryan Gray from SGW Designworks leads a panel of experts through a discussion of products that have failed and their differences from products that have seen incredible success.

Moderators

Ryan Gray

Managing Partner, SGW Designworks

Experienced business leader and product development specialist, specializing in taking products from idea to reality.•Diverse background, including business start-ups, product design and specification, product development, product management, product launch, business development... Read More →

Speakers

Calvin Allan

Sr Program Manager, Customer Focused Innovation, Medtronic

Steve Howarth

Director of Hardware Engineering, Cradlepoint

Nancy Lebold

SVP of Retail Operations, WinCo Foods

Tasche Streib

Partner, Engineer, SGW Designworks

Brian Tuttle

CEO and Co-Founder, MetaGeek, LLC

Thursday October 18, 2018 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT
JUMP (The Loft, 5th Floor)

Tech Track

2:15pm MDT

Machine Learning: Academia vs. Industry

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Artificial intelligence currently stands somewhere between simple OCR and Lt. Commander Data. How far exactly has machine learning and artificial intelligence come? How does that answer differ between the academics researching new frontiers and the industrialists building ML/AI products for market?

Brothers Casey Kennington (of Boise State) and Conrad Kennington (of Kount) discuss the current state of ML/AI and share how their combined academic and commercial backgrounds have led them to innovate the field of fraud detection and natural language processing.

Moderators

Dom Ramirez

Founder, Beta Canon

(See my speaker profile under the "Speakers" tabs to see the 2 fireside chats I'm hosting this year.)Dom Ramirez is a lifelong entrepreneur, software developer and designer. He has been building startups and leading software teams for more than a decade.Dom is the founder of Beta... Read More →

Speakers

Casey Kennington

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Boise State University

Dr. Casey Kennington is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Boise State University where he principally does research on spoken dialogue systems on embodied platforms. His long-term research goal is to understand what it means for humans to understand... Read More →

Conrad Kennington

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Kount Inc

I currently lead the development efforts on the AI and Machine Learning team at Kount, a real-time fraud prevention SaaS company in downtown Boise. I’ve been with Kount for 12 years, and was part of the initial core development team. In my spare time I teach senior and graduate... Read More →

Thursday October 18, 2018 2:15pm - 3:15pm MDT
JUMP (The Loft, 5th Floor)

Tech Track

3:30pm MDT

The Value of Product/Market Fit

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Product/market fit may be the absolute most vital concept in any technology company, but there's no perfect rulebook for achieving it. Regardless of how many months, years, pivots or failures your product encounters on its way to a thriving market, one thing is for certain: Your company won't survive until your product gets there.

Wink Jones from Meal Ticket in Boise, a Techstars alum, and Erica Johnson from Modern Health in San Francisco, a YCombinator alum, will each share their companies' unique journeys to product/market fit.

Speakers

Erica T. Johnson

Co-Founder, Modern Health

Erica is the technical co-founder of Modern Health, an emotional well-being platform for employers. Before starting a company and going through Y Combinator, Erica was a neuroscientist researcher and full-stack developer with over ten publications in peer-reviewed journals from her... Read More →

Wink Jones

CEO, Meal Ticket

Thursday October 18, 2018 3:30pm - 4:30pm MDT
JUMP (The Loft, 5th Floor)

Tech Track

10:00am MDT

GDPR, HIPAA, PCI. Oh my! Tech for Regulated Industries.

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The world of highly-regulated industries is ripe for innovation, but are you ready to work under the microscope? Has GDPR thrust you into an unexpected crossroads between technology and law?

Erick Herring, CTO at VYNYL, moderates a panel discussion between lawyers, leaders and developers who work every day to break down the barriers of regulation to solve problems in closely-watched territory.

Moderators

Erick Herring

CTO, Vynyl

Over twenty-five years experience in technology and product development -- 15 years in CTO/senior executive roles.My skills fit well in an executive team that needs product definition and development, software development and testing, network and data center operations, project management... Read More →

Speakers

Sandy Dunn

Chief Information Security Officer, Blue Cross of Idaho

Brian Poole

Manager, Information Security and Compliance, Kount

Brian has been working hands-on in various roles across the system administration, development and security fields for nearly 20 years. Currently, he leads the Information Security & Compliance group at Kount. Kount provides a SaaS which allows online merchants to detect credit card... Read More →

Claire Rosston

Attorney, Data Privacy and Security, Holland & Hart LLP

Claire Rosston is a business attorney with Holland & Hart LLP who focuses in data privacy and security. Her data privacy and security practice involves counseling clients on compliance with U.S. federal and state laws, including HIPAA and GDPR, as well as assisting with data breach... Read More →

Friday October 19, 2018 10:00am - 11:00am MDT
Trailhead 500 S 8th St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track

11:00am MDT

Building an Industry-Leading Infrastructure from Scratch

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Vacasa started in 2009 when Eric Breon, Vacasa’s CEO and Co-Founder, sat down at his kitchen table with a laptop, and an idea of how he could solve a fundamental problem in the vacation rental industry. He had the idea that he could create a better vacation experience, while also capitalizing on his family’s vacation home on the Oregon Coast. It was here that Eric taught himself how to program, and using PHP he built out a very basic reservation system for his family’s second home. Fast forward nine years, where Vacasa now manages over 10,000 second homes and has become the biggest vacation rental company in the United States. Certainly, Vacasa had to stand up from that kitchen table, but what allowed them to grow so fast? What innovations were made to build up from a “kitchen table” reservations system, while boosting the integrity of 10,000 vacation homes? Join Caleb Donegan (Vacasa - VP Digital) and Zac Monahan (Vacasa - Senior Dir. Acquisitions) as we talk vacation rentals, and building an industry-leading infrastructure — from scratch.

Speakers

Caleb Donegan

Vice President of Digital, Vacasa

Zac Monahan

Senior Director of Acquisitions, Vacasa

Friday October 19, 2018 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Trailhead 500 S 8th St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track

12:40pm MDT

DevCon: Automate Parts of Your Work Flow with Python

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Save time from those daily monotonous tasks that can be time consuming and boring. An automated workflow, or pre-programmed set of commands, will allow you to simplify daily tasks and concentrate on more important matters. Learn simple, but powerful python tricks such as assigning hot keys to repetitive tasks or format and manipulate data outputs to be easily inserted into a report or email to name a few.

Speakers

Dana Koczur

Data Operations Analyst, Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 12:40pm - 1:20pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

12:40pm MDT

DevCon: Designing Software That People Rely On

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There's a huge difference in the user experience of consumer websites and apps, versus software tools that users rely on to do their jobs. Learn the specific UI design principles that will empower and delight your professional users.

Speakers

Scott Baird

UX Designer, Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 12:40pm - 1:20pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

12:40pm MDT

DevCon: Exploring the Brain Computer Interface

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This talk’s time is prone to change. Please check the schedule when you arrive at DevCon to be sure.

Speakers

Jim Mckeeth

Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 12:40pm - 1:20pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track

12:40pm MDT

DevCon: Influencing Tech Culture

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How to impact company culture and ignite positive change one person at a time. Based on a true story.

Speakers

Robert Whiting

Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 12:40pm - 1:20pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track

12:40pm MDT

DevCon: Test Automation in Clojure

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As an immutable-by-default, data-first, functional language, Clojure leads naturally to a testable design. Together, we'll explore some of Clojure's testing utilities and libraries. This will include a short segment on testing Java via Clojure interop as well as several comparisons of clojure.test with JUnit. I expect only a modicum of syntax familiarity (data literals and function calls, primarily), so beginner Clojurists are welcome to attend!

Speakers

Wes Matson

Software Development Engineer, Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 12:40pm - 1:20pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

1:30pm MDT

DevCon: How to Start Programming Art

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Programming as a career can be tough. Using art allows you to take a step back and rejuvenate by discovering a new world. Learning how to create art also expands your toolset and gives you the ability to learn new techniques to bring back to your day job. Art can be a non-committal field with low barrier to entry that will allow you to avoid the stresses of designing production ready software. You will explore techniques for interactive art, generative art, and computer aided composition in both visual and auditory arts. Learn how to create a MVP in an hour, put a pretty face on machine learning, translate data and statistics to colors and pixels, and if nothing else create a new desktop background for every day of the year.

Speakers

Evan Kline

Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 1:30pm - 2:10pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

1:30pm MDT

DevCon: Kickstart Development with Ruby on Rails and Heroku

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Do you spend a lot of time preparing or deploying new applications? Make your life easier with Ruby on Rails and Heroku. Rails is a framework that includes everything necessary to start building database backed web applications with a great community. Heroku is a PaaS that makes it easy to build and run applications in the cloud. Stop by to learn the basics of a Ruby on Rails application and how to deploy it to Heroku.

Speakers

Mitch McGinnis

Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 1:30pm - 2:10pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

1:30pm MDT

DevCon: The SQL Gods Must Be Crazy

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There are many behaviors in Microsoft SQL Server that might seem rather odd at first glance. We will explore several of the strangest ones and identify why the behaviors actually make sense. Come prepared to be surprised!

Speakers

Tim Rogers

Database Developer, Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 1:30pm - 2:10pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

1:30pm MDT

DevCon: Thinking Functional in an OO World

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Object Oriented languages like Java have been adding more support for functional paradigms. Using Java (no gimmicks, no libraries), I plan to highlight some of the Functional Programming concepts that we can readily take advantage of in our existing projects to make our code easier to maintain, test, reuse, and understand. Additionally, we will discuss the idea of ceding mundane tasks to the runtime, allowing us to focus on the hard problems.

Friday October 19, 2018 1:30pm - 2:10pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

1:30pm MDT

DevCon: Web Application Vulnerabilities (Security)

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Matt from Clearwater’s Security Team will be going over some common web application vulnerabilities and how they can contribute to severe security flaws. The session will include live attacks on an intentionally vulnerable web application. Vulnerabilities will include SQL Injection, Broken Authentication, Data Exposure, Improper Input Validation, Cross Site Scripting, Broken Access Control, Security Misconfigurations, and Using Vulnerable Components.

Speakers

Matt Kunzman

Lead Security Analyst, Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 1:30pm - 2:10pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

2:20pm MDT

DevCon: Data Modeling in MongoDB

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A short introduction to schemas and data modeling in MongoDB, and why they matter even though MongoDB does not require schema enforcement.

Friday October 19, 2018 2:20pm - 3:00pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

2:20pm MDT

DevCon: Getting Groovy

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Speakers

Michael Hachigian

Data Analyst, Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 2:20pm - 3:00pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

2:20pm MDT

DevCon: Intro to 3D Printing

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This will cover the basics of 3D printing. What is 3D printing? What are the different printer types? What material can I print with? What software do I need? (spoiler! There is both modeling and printing software.) What are the common issues with prints? ‘I thought rafts were for the river, not 3D printing.’ Terminology, or how to talk the talk. There will be at least 1 3D printer running. (hopefully more!)

Speakers

Sharky Jacaway

Data Automation Specialist, Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 2:20pm - 3:00pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

2:20pm MDT

DevCon: Maintaining Start-Up Mentality

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Speakers

Jerek Anderson

Software Developer, Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 2:20pm - 3:00pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

2:20pm MDT

DevCon: OkHTTP

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This talk’s time is prone to change. Please check the schedule when you arrive at DevCon to be sure.

Speakers

Quincy Bowers

Senior Software Engineer, Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 2:20pm - 3:00pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

3:10pm MDT

DevCon: Bitcoin Second Layer - The Lightning Network

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Bitcoin's blockchain is a breakthrough technology but it unfortunately doesn't scale. The Lightning Network is an innovative approach to adding scalability and reduced transaction fees at Bitcoin's Layer 2, preserving Bitcoin's trustless and peer-to-peer design principles. We'll walk through the internals of how the Lightning Network operates to achieve these goals.

Speakers

Roger Baird

Software Engineer, Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 3:10pm - 3:50pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

3:10pm MDT

DevCon: Flask is what Every Gent (and Lady) Need - Python Web Services

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It seems like Python with newest packages is not going anywhere anytime soon – embrace it then and consider giving it a try with you next web service. In this presentation we’ll cover basics of Flask – Python web framework. Be Flask-WTF-amazed with web forms, have a taste of Flask-SQLAlchemy, and discover that Bootstrap is everywhere. All of it, wrapped in real-life homemade reminder app example, may help you decide if Flask is worth a shot from.

Speakers

Dawid Krol

Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 3:10pm - 3:50pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

3:10pm MDT

DevCon: Java Concurrency

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Speakers

Thomas May

Software Developer, Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 3:10pm - 3:50pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

3:10pm MDT

DevCon: Practical Pact - Learning the Craft (Contract Testing)

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You know why you should be writing Pact tests for your endpoints. But how? We'll walk through a step-by-step Pact guide and show off some canonical examples from the donuts app.

Speakers

Lora Volkert

Software Development Engineer in Test, Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 3:10pm - 3:50pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

3:10pm MDT

DevCon: The Infinite Dewey (Basic Natural Language Processing)

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I will take through a basic Natural Language Processing pipeline for text, explaining some of the concerns you must encounter, and some of the uses, such as creating different ways of ordering books in a library.

Speakers

Mike Ritthaler

Division Lead, Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 3:10pm - 3:50pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

4:00pm MDT

DevCon: Git to Work - A Quick Overview of Git Usage and Workflows

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Git has been the industry leader in version control repositories for the last several years and it is not going away anytime soon. However, as with any powerful software tool, it is very easy to misuse and abuse it causing frustration for yourself and confusion for your team. We will be going over the intermediate level usage of git and what is actually happening on the Git tree. We will also be going over git workflow best practices and how they can help you stream line your teams development workflow.

Speakers

Thomas George

Clearwater Analytics

Phillip Hayward

Software Development Engineer in Test, Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 4:00pm - 4:40pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

4:00pm MDT

DevCon: Laravel - Your Web App in 30 Minutes

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Of all the web stacks out there, which one do you choose? I will compare famous frameworks to help you choose based on your projects needs. I will show using Laravel: The PHP Framework For Web Artisans, how to build a completely functional app in 30 minutes.

Speakers

Marco Rosas

Software Engineer, Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 4:00pm - 4:40pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

4:00pm MDT

DevCon: Meaning, Language, and Intelligence in Machines

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The most fundamental medium for people to communicate effectively with each other is face-to-face spoken language. In my presentation, I will talk about my research which focuses on how to model semantic meaning such that it can be acquired through spoken interaction, represented computationally, applied in various tasks and settings, and what it means for artificial intelligence.

Speakers

Casey Kennington

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Boise State University

Friday October 19, 2018 4:00pm - 4:40pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

4:00pm MDT

DevCon: Testing in Containers (Containers, Docker)

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How to leverage containers for quicker, more isolated testing. We'll be visiting some real-life projects that have utilized containers to gain confidence in their releases, and saved time while doing it.

Speakers

Justin Woodland

Software Engineer, Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 4:00pm - 4:40pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics

4:00pm MDT

DevCon: Voice Synthesis with Tensorflow

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Interested in machine learning? Heard of TensorFlow, but haven't had the time to learn about it? Have beefy GPUs, but need something else to do with them besides gaming? Want to know how to make your own Microsoft Sam? Come and learn how easy it is to make something impactful with the power of machine learning with TensorFlow.

Speakers

Colton Kopsa

Software Development Engineer, Clearwater Analytics

Friday October 19, 2018 4:00pm - 4:40pm MDT
Boise Centre East 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702

Tech Track, DevCon by Clearwater Analytics