self.conference

Friday, Jun 07

8:50 - 9:00 AM

• Opening Remarks

9 - 9:45 AM

• MCC 1/2: Byron Woodfork: Keynote - Mid-Career Survival Tips for POC

10 - 10:45 AM

• MCC 1/2: Sarah Withee: Building an Open Source Artificial Pancreas
• MCC4: Megan Boczar: Gender Microaggressions in the Workplace

11 - 11:45 AM

• MCC 1/2: Mercedes Bernard: Empowering Early-Career Developers
• MCC 3: Janani Subbiah: Android, iOS and Web Best Friends Forever: The BFF pattern
• MCC4: Peter Ritchie: Naming Things

12 - 1:00 PM

• Lunch!
  Tossed Green Salad with Garden Greens, Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Red Onions, Chick Peas and Croutons on the Side, Served with Ranch & Balsamic Dressings
  Fresh Baked Rolls and Creamy Butter
  BBQ Chicken
  All-American Hamburgers, Impossible Burgers, Assorted Cheese Slices, Lettuce, Tomatoes, Sweet Onions, Pickle Spears, Relish, Mayo, Ketchup and Mustard
  Sliced Melon Assortment
  Fresh Berries
  Grapes and Bananas
  Corn Bread
  Corn on the Cob
  Baked Potatoes, Cheese, Sour Cream, Butter and Chives
  Buttery Pound Cake with Whipped Cream and Strawberries

1 - 1:45 PM

• MCC 1/2: Laura Mosher: Harry the Hedgehog Learns You A Communication
• MCC 3: Chris Nelson: Rewriting a Bus Detective: a real time app case study
• MCC4: Toria Gibbs: Search Engines: How They Work and Why You Need Them

2 - 2:45 PM

• MCC 1/2: Stephanie Vaughn: “I’m Just An Engineer” - What Are the Ethical Responsibilities of Developers?
• MCC4: Gary Fleming: Continuous Entropy

2:45 - 3:00 PM

• Snack!
  Mini Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches
  Celery
  Carrots
  Ranch Dip
  Apples
  Oranges
  Grapes
  Bananas
  String cheese
  Animal Crackers
  Juice Boxes

3 - 3:45 PM

• MCC 1/2: ahmed jalloh: Coding out the Clink
• MCC 3: Jamie Wright: Building a Realtime Websocket API in Phoenix
• MCC4: Matthew LaForest: Get Progressive with it

4 - 4:45 PM

• MCC 1/2: Marla Brizel Zeschin: Things I Wish I Knew Before Going Remote
• MCC 3: Maurice Hayward: You're Doing UX Unconsciously 😴, Now Let's Make It Conscious ⏰ and Intentional 💪
• MCC4: Fen Slattery: Digital Accessibility Beyond Legal Compliance

7 - 11:00 PM

• Attendee Party! Board games, lightning talks, KARAOKE!

Saturday, Jun 08

8:50 - 9:00 AM

• Opening Remarks

9 - 9:45 AM

• MCC 1/2: Maureen McElaney: Keynote - Digital Discrimination: Cognitive Bias in Machine Learning

10 - 10:45 AM

• MCC 1/2: Brandy Foster: I'm Still Black and You're Still Racist (aka Why your pro-diversity culture is hiding toxic racist parasites)
• MCC 3: Charles Hall: Accountability for Accessibility (a12y 4 a11y)
• MCC4: Jocelyn Harper: Open Source: Diversifying the Initiative

11 - 11:45 AM

• MCC 1/2: Coraline Ada Ehmke: Programming Empathy: Emotions as State Machines
• MCC 3: Andrew Burke: Punk Rock Software: Fast Websites and Cheeseburgers
• MCC4: Jennifer Tu: You Can’t Bubblebath The Burnout Away

12 - 1:00 PM

• Lunch!
  Radiatori Pasta Salad with Artichoke Hearts, Sun-dried Tomatoes, Baby Spinach, and Feta dressing
  Quinoa Tabbouleh
  Fattoush
  Freshly Baked Rolls and Creamy Butter
  Steamed Vegetables
  Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes
  Tamarind Israeli Couscous
  Chicken Piccata
  Yankee Pot Roast
  Honey-Orange Glazed Salmon
  Miniature pastries

1 - 1:45 PM

• MCC 1/2: Julien Fitzpatrick: Trans Eye for the Cis Ally: Ensuring an Inclusive Community
• MCC 3: Tori Brenneison: Teaching Skills for Technical Experts
• MCC4: Veronica Hanus: "Git hook[ed]” on images & up your documentation game

2 - 2:45 PM

• MCC 1/2: Cecy Correa: {Vulnerability: True} Surviving Code Reviews and Brutal Interviews
• MCC 3: Ben Lippi: Math For Fun and Profit – From Someone Who Hated Math Class
• MCC4: Denise Yu: Why are distributed systems so hard?

2:45 - 3:00 PM

• Snack!
  Salted Popcorn and Caramel Corn
  Warm Soft Pretzel Nuggets with Cheese Sauce and Assorted Gourmet Mustards
  Nacho Cheese Sauce with Tortilla Chips
  Sliced Jalapenos
  Germack In-Shell Peanuts
  Klondike Bars
  Cracker Jacks

3 - 3:45 PM

• MCC 1/2: Grishma Jena: Deciphering Data Science
• MCC 3: Mike Schutte: Dealing with /Regexion/
• MCC4: Arthur Doler: How to Work with People: A Guide to Playing Nicely with Others

4 - 4:45 PM

• MCC 1/2: Jana Beck: Developers, go the f*ck to sleep
• MCC 3: Sara Cashman: The Web and the World: The Next Billion Users and the Digital Gender Divide
• MCC4: Fabricio Nogueira Buzeto: The Error Of Our Ways - Continuous change by accepting failure

5 - 5:30 PM

• Conference closing and a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!!