Are you a beginner public speaker? An aspiring tech influencer? Was doing more public speaking one of your New Year's resolutions? If you have been building up courage to give a talk at a meetup or wondering how to increase your chances with a conference review committee (or both!) - this presentation is for you! In this talk, I'll go over a few points as to how to ensure your talk proposal looks great for the commitee members (and the audience!), how to write a compelling meetup talk title and description, and how those two processes can be different. Bonus: hopefully, this talk will also inspire you to go ahead and submit that proposal!

In today's fast-paced software development landscape, the traditional approach of quality assurance (QA) being a last-minute checkpoint is no longer sufficient. Instead, embracing the Shift-left paradigm has become imperative. This talk delves into the concept of Shift-left QA, where QA activities are moved earlier in the software development lifecycle, from the very inception of a project. We will explore how this shift transforms QA from a reactive process focused on bug detection to a proactive approach aimed at preventing defects altogether. Drawing from real-world examples and best practices, we will discuss the benefits, challenges, and strategies for implementing Shift-left QA effectively. Attendees will gain insights into how to foster a culture of quality throughout their organisations, deliver higher-quality software products, and achieve faster time-to-market.

Despite the emergency of DevOps, software engineers and SREs still use different tools to achieve similar means. Case in point: Synthetic Monitoring versus E2E Testing. We can combine forces and use the same tool for both production monitoring and testing within CI.

In this talk, I will discuss how Synthetic Monitoring and E2E Testing are two sides of the same coin. Furthermore, I shall show how production monitoring and development testing can be achieved using Playwright JS, GitHub Actions and Elastic Synthetics.

Every side project starts out with a question: "What's the BEST tech stack" - how silly! there's no answer right... Meet Pocketbase, an open source go backend providing you everything you need for your app (except users).

Going open-source was probably the best decision we ever made and the reason we're still around; but at the time we did it almost by accident, almost as a last resort out of desperation. I'll share the story of our pivots, searching for the thing that people actually want, and how it played out so far.

Vamos falar da codificação à liderança empresarial com CEOs de startups com produtos incríveis.

Descubra os desafios de transformar ideias em negócios viáveis, desde a concepção do código até estratégias de crescimento e gestão de equipe.

Sou empreendedor desde a pandemia e participei do meu primeiro hackathon no final de 2023, realizado pela FIESP em parceria com a Universidade Zumbi dos Palmares. Lá, junto com minha equipe, desenvolvemos a Djeli, uma startup inovadora que auxilia mulheres na jornada da transição capilar.

Nosso projeto conquistou o primeiro lugar e, com isso, recebemos um prêmio incrível:

Aceleração de R$ 50.000 para a Djeli pela Universidade Zumbi dos Palmares;

Voucher de US$ 5.000 em serviços AWS da Amazon for Startups.

A Djeli nasceu da dor de uma das integrantes da equipe com sua experiência com a transição capilar e do desejo de ajudar outras mulheres nesse processo. Acreditamos que a beleza natural é diversa e que todas as mulheres merecem se sentir confiantes e empoderadas com seus cabelos.

Como eu fui demitido instantaneamente quando meu chefe descobriu que eu estava construindo uma startup.

Como a Woovi migrou de um SaaS focado em RH para uma plataforma de gestão de pagamentos Pix online, real time, com integrações ecommerce, API pública, SDKs, entre outras funcionalidades em uma semana

Don’t let Python developers have all of the fun with LLMs.

This talk is a gentle introduction to Generative AI and Large Language Models for front-end developers looking to build intelligent chatbots and applications. We’ll dive into Langchain.js, an open-source orchestration framework for building AI Applications.

We will start by exploring the basics of Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), how they work, and cover some common pitfalls and how they can be avoided. We’ll take a closer look at vectors, retrievers, and how to build an agent capable of choosing tools to perform specific tasks.

About Adam: Adam Cowley is a dedicated developer with a keen interest in data and graph databases. Serving as the Senior Developer Advocate at Neo4j, Adam produces educational content for GraphAcademy, Neo4j’s free, self-paced, online learning platform. His technical experience spans two decades, developing websites, mobile apps and mixed reality experiences for budding startups to the world’s biggest companies