Agenda

Day One:

9:30

James Governor Introduction

Part One:
Code is Craft

9:45-10:05

Rafe Colburn (Etsy) on Artisanal Software Manufacturing

10:05-10:25

Craig Kerstiens & Matt Thompson (Heroku)

10:25-10:40

Ted Nyman (GitHub) Scaling Happiness

GitHub has long focused on ‘optimizing for happiness’ for its employees. The company has an unparalleled low turnover rate as a result. But how to continue this as GitHub grows larger is not easy. I’ll talk about how we’re avoiding the generic and ultimately empty ‘bread and circuses’ HR approach to happiness, and how our flat hierarchy helps make this possible.

10:40 -
11:00 Mazz Mosley & Nick Stenning (Government Digitial Service UK)  Making for makers
-In which we reveal the hidden skills of the JavaScript developer, and
explain why you rarely find violinmakers in the forest.

Break

11:00-11:30
Quick coffee break & pastries

Part Two:
User Experience & Scaling Design

11:30-12:00
Phil Gilbert (IBM PureSystems)

12:00-13:00 Lunch

Part Three: Data & Science

13:00-13:30
Chris Thorpe Scaling (a) craft: Printing steam trains at scales up to 1:1

13:30-13:50
Steve Citron-Pousty (Red Hat) Ecosystem managent brings the science to scaling

Edumacating you about using science to managing your ecosystem –  developer or otherwise

13:50-14:10
Donnie Berkholz (RedMonk)

14:10-14:30
Greg Avola (Untappd) Beer – A Positive Influencer

14:30-14:50
Diane Mueller (ActiveState)

Break

14:50-15:20

Part Four: Tools for Data

15:20-15:40
Simon Willison (Lanyrd) Coolest tools for data

15:40-15:55
Dave McCrory (Warner Music)  Data Gravity, Learning and Craft

15:55-16:15
Rik Van Bruggen (Neo4J)

16:15-16:30
Elco Jacobs (BrewPI) BrewPi: scaling from hobby to business

17:00, 17:30, 17:45 – Buses to secret location

Day Two:

10:15-10:30 James Governor intro

Part One:
Scaling Craft

10:30-10:50
Shanley Kane (Basho) Scaling Product “Management”: Keeping Roadmaps, Estimation, and Self-Delusion From Destroying Your Company

10:50-11:10
Cyndi Mitchell (Logspace) Hogs, Humans and Software Excellence

Thoughts on scaling craft from a small-scale hog farmer and software executive

11:10-11:30
Tim Webb (Genuitec) Tips & tricks, and tools from a company that’s never had a headquarters

11:30-11:50
Chris Aniszczyk (Twitter) Crafting an Open Source Program and Culture from Scratch: Lessons Learned at Twitter

11:50-12:10
Coffee break

Part Two:
Scaling Beer

12:10-12:25
Brewer

12:25-12:30
Brewer

12:30-12:50
Brewer

12:50-13:10
Brewer

13:10-13:15
Steve Taylor

Part Three:
Everything You Wanted To Know About Craft Beer Brewing 

13:15-13:30
Panel with the brewers Q&A re. brewing, distributing, scaling and even protection of IP

Lunch

13:30-14:30

14:30-14:50
Blaine Cook & Maureen Evans (Poeti.ca)
Creating collaborative spaces to get work done

Part Four:
Afternoon Social

Between 14:50 – 17:00 “Swift Half” aka lightnings talks intersperse social time:

15:30-16:00  Magic Tea Break

Lee Bofkin (Global Street Art) – platforms and economics of public craft

Steve O’Grady (RedMonk) – New Kingmakers

Daniel Soltis (Moving Brands) - Scaling from one to some: digital tools for physical making

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