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An engineer’s guide to starting your company - DEV1878B
This session aims to provide a step-by-step guide for engineers who want to start a company, raise your first million, and gain your first 1,000 customers. Hear from Dani Grant, Jam CEO, about everything Jam has learned—from day zero to raising over $10 million and earning 125,000+ users. She'll break down each step along the path to growth and share actual examples of Jam's email outreach to venture capitalists (VCs), fundraising pitch decks, and outbound messages aimed at early users. In this session, you'll see how engineers have the power to change the world through software, and Dani will make sure you’re armed with information you need to raise capital, attract users, and go forth to build your startup.
From data scientist to developer: How GlaxoSmithKline upskilled 1,300 GitHub beginners in one year - DEV1707B
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) set a groundbreaking precedent within the pharmaceutical industry by leveraging GitHub for clinical trial reporting. In this session, Eleanor Sparling, data scientist at GSK, will discuss how GSK tackled large-scale change and upskilling, and redefined workflows to capitalize on automation. Eleanor will also share the downstream effects on quality control and measures taken to ensure regulatory compliance.
Building 1 billion developers - 1951K
With our vision for AI clear, we’ve set our sights on another generation-defining aspiration: making GitHub the future of 1 billion developers. But this aspiration isn’t just about GitHub—it’s about the millions (and soon billion) developers changing the world with software for the sake of humanity. In this keynote, GitHub COO, Kyle Daigle, together with our community, will showcase how every developer, from the enterprise to open source developer, student to professional, plays a critical role in this journey, making our aspiration one that’s shared by all who create with code—wherever they are, whoever they are.
The sky’s the limit: Supercharge innovation through GitHub Certifications - DEV1580O
Your GitHub adoption is underway — repos are migrated, code is flowing, and vulnerabilities are fixed. But have you truly set up your team for success? In this fireside chat with KPMG's Christina Liberto, Associate, Cyber Threat Management, and Jackie Mak, Consulting Manager, learn why it's worth getting certified in GitHub Foundations, Actions, Admin, GitHub Advanced Security, and Copilot. Empower developers with practical strategies and tactics that can be put to immediate use, and learn how getting certified helps to quickly generate big wins and deliver on business outcomes.
Accelerate with AI: Build your own GitHub Copilot Extension - AI1894S
AI is a critical tool for accelerating software development today. That said, AI tooling isn't always tailored to your business use case. In this session with GitHub's Alexis Abril, senior partner engineer, and Dimitrios Philliou, product manager, GitHub Copilot Extensions, you'll learn how to extend GitHub Copilot and begin to develop your own tailor-made AI solutions. Note: This stage has limited capacity and will seat attendees at a first come first serve basis. Adding this session to your schedule does not reserve a seat. Please attend early.
Unlocking creativity within the constraints of corporate development - DEV1459L
Enterprises are tightly regulated and necessary controls limit what employees can do, often to the detriment of developers. A developer's ability to innovate and experiment is stymied by privileged admin access to corporate-issued devices and developer tools that are pre-configured and deployed by central IT. Join this discussion facilitated by Jim Richer, distinguished engineer, at TD Bank, to take a look at what these controls are and how to enforce them—all while still championing creativity.
Is AI fundamentally changing the way that we write code? - AI2024L
Join fellow developers in this collaborative session where you'll explore the real-world impact of AI tools like GitHub Copilot on coding workflows. Facilitators, Burke Holland, principal cloud advocate at Microsoft, Harald Kirschner, a VS Code team member at Microsoft, and Allison Weins, staff product manager - GitHub Copilot at GitHub, will dive into practical applications—from automating tasks to balancing AI suggestions with human oversight. As a group, you'll address common challenges like ensuring code quality, managing AI integration, and navigating complex problem-solving with these tools. Use this session as a space to exchange experiences, discuss concerns, and discover practical solutions for AI-driven development.
Shaping an inclusive AI future by empowering women in data - AI1347L
Diverse voices are indispensable in steering the course of data—and its profound impact on AI. In this session, Autumn Nash, software development engineer at AWS and Merry Cimakasky, masters student at Georgia Tech, will facilitate a conversation about the reciprocal benefits that come from investing in and enhancing women's data skills specifically. They will share unique challenges faced by women in tech, which includes military spouses, women of color, and mothers, and will help attendees recognize and emphasize how imperative it is to build and foster a diverse workforce in data to combat bias. Learn how to attract and retain women in data-centric fields, and help to shape more fair and accurate AI.
Developer’s Cafe: Let's chat and co-create the future of development with AI - AI1609L
Some of the best conversations happen over coffee. That's why we're inviting you to the "Developer's Cafe," facilitated by Jenny Hwang, Julie Stuart, and Ya Gao, all from the user research team at GitHub. We all have a hand in co-creating the future of development with AI, and this space is designed for intimate conversations with fellow attendees to discuss how we can influence our best-case scenarios for using AI in software development.
GitHub Copilot can do that?! - AI1973O
Learn how to get the most out of GitHub Copilot, including a few ways that might surprise you! Join GitHub's Kedasha Kerr, a developer advocate, as she walks through some of the newest and least-expected ways to use Copilot to reduce the number of those mundane tasks (that you’ve probably been avoiding).
It's a no brainer! How using AI for app requirements leads to better development outcomes - AI1886D
Did you know that 70% of development projects fail due to poor requirements? Crowdbotics helps ensure projects succeed—and speeds them up by taking a strategic approach to AI. In this session with Cory Hymel, VP of Innovation and Research at Crowdbotics, you’ll see how the platform uses AI to dramatically improve the creation of product requirements and enterprise context and leverage that knowledge to accelerate the rest of the software development lifecycle. You'll also learn how the platform integrates with GitHub Copilot to improve outcomes and help your team innovate with unprecedented speed and efficiency, from requirements to deployment.
Open source for all: Skilling the next generation of developers - DEV1844L
There are similarities between diversity and inclusion efforts in tech today and software development in the early days of open source. That is to say: even with many resources and funds invested, efforts are often disjointed, siloed, or sidelined. As GitHub scales to becomes home for one billion global developers, we aim to fix this. Join facilitators, Ruth Ikegah, open source consultant at CHAOSS, and Sarah Oyetubo, senior DI&B program manager at GitHub, for a discussion on how to foster collaboration and help skill new developers, lowering the barrier of entry to open source for all.
Promotion unlocked: Level up your career and expand your influence - DEV1945W
If you've been thinking about transitioning into a principal/staff engineering role, or wonder how to even make this shift, this workshop is for you. Join GitHub's Marion Lang, principal software engineer, and Taylor Blau, staff software engineer, for this GitHub's Experts workshop designed to help you grow beyond an individual contributor and into a position of technical leadership. Marion and Taylor will explore the must-have skills for any successful principal/staff engineer and promise that if you attend with a growth mindset, you'll leave with a tangible plan for next leveling your career. As a bonus, you'll also meet a lot of other growth-oriented engineers.