Five more amazing talks!

DACHFest Program Announcement #2

Our CFP is now closed, and we’re hard at work reviewing hundreds of submissions we’ve received and building the program that you will enjoy. In the meantime, here’s a little teaser: five more inspiring talks from our wonderful speakers!

What Can We Learn With JavaScript Fatigue?

Lucas Fernandes da Costa (London, United Kingdom)

The whole reason for JS Fatigue is not the huge amount of modules we’ve got available, the real issue is the mindset we have when writing code. With an average of 447 new packages a day and lots of new technologies appearing it seems impossible to keep up with the insane velocity things happen in the JavaScript ecosystem, but actually you don’t necessarily need to.

In this talk, Lucas won’t talk about the language itself, and he won’t talk about frameworks. He will talk about what how this ended up happening and why we should see it as a positive thing from a software engineering point of view. For a very long time we have been talking about componentization and reusability and now that we’ve got it we started complaining about it, how did that happen?

Building a Mentoring Community Through Live Coding

Jesse Weigel (Steubenville, Ohio, USA)

Have you ever wanted to be able to work with a team of developers, sharing your knowledge and learning from those with more experience? Learn about creating a diverse, widespread, encouraging, and productive community through Live Coding!

Since Jesse began live coding in May of 2017, an amazing community of developers of all ages, locations, and skill levels has grown around the live streams. We share ideas, teach and support each other while working on real projects together. I would like to share my experience and offer some advice on how to create a respectful online environment where everyone is encouraged to ask questions and contribute, and negativity is nearly non-existent.

Mindful Design: Designing with Presence for Purpose and Inclusion

Raffaella Isidori (Gerenzano, Italy)

Mindfulness is a state of being, an approach to life (and to our work, regardless of its genre) that calls for presence and awareness, care and purpose. Living mindfully, designing mindfully, coding mindfully can be extremely rewarding, for us and for the beneficiaries of our work.

While the notion of mindfulness has had a resurgence as a buzz word, its profound and most deep meaning goes beyond light meditation and coloring books. The principles of Mindfulness can also be applied to all aspects of our work, especially design work (and not just in the visual/graphic sense).

A Mindful approach to design intrinsically implies awareness and the necessary presence to design for inclusivity, accessibility, openness, and ethics, to add value to our daily practice, as well as to our final outcomes: a peaceful and prosperous way to make a difference in our life and in the lives of those who share our path.

For the Love of… Tech!

Hawra Milani (London, United Kingdom)

Hawra is leading a team of female techies stuck in a male-dominant culture, breaking barriers and helping others do the same, and the only connection between them is broken internet and broken Arabic. Her story illustrates exactly this, and how challenges were overcome… for the love of tech.

This is the story of how a group of women, in a small city, with no opportunity to travel or see people of other cultures and abilities, combined their love for tech, to break the social and cultural barriers that surround them, and created events to share their passion with other women and teach them to aim high and not allow anything to stop them from achieving their dreams.

Haute Codeture: Clothing as a Canvas

Stephanie Nemeth (Berlin, Germany)

What if, instead going for practicality, we used IoT to create fleeting moments of interaction and beauty? What would happen if others could interact with your clothing via a web app?

Stephanie was curious to answer these questions when she tackled her latest hardware project. She’ll share her story of building interactive fashion, the obstacles she’s faced as an IoT newbie, and the solutions she’s found to overcome them.

Join us at DACHFest: November 10–11 in Munich, Germany. The tickets are on sale, so hurry up and get yours!

See you in Munich. ❤️