Mid-Atlantic Developer Conference is a polyglot event, designed to bring together programmers from the region, regardless of their choice of platform, for two full days of learning from each other and building a stronger regional community.

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Friday, 13th July 2018

Sessions
09:00

Coding the Future

Todd Marks

10:15

Introduction to Web Components and Polymer

John Riviello

Driving Technical Change Within Large Organizations: Lessons From Four Years Rebuilding Healthcare.Gov

Christian Monaghan

APIs for Microservices

Mike Stowe

Procrastination as a Service: Caching and Queueing

Lawrence Shea

11:30

Will You Help Me End Pixelated Images on the Internet?

Julka Grodel

Let’s Encrypt All the Things: HTTPS at Scale

Philip Sharp

Building the World’s First Beer Tap Powered by Facial Recognition

Jeff McGehee

13:30

Empathy as a Service: Supporting Mental Health in the Tech Workplace

Nara Kasbergen

14:30

What I Learned About Health From Surveying 50k DC Developers

Matt Layman

Managing an Autonomous Transit Network with Open Source

Raj Singh

Modern Security With Microservices and the Cloud

Seth Vargo

GraphQL and your API

15:45

Find Your Inner Mentor

Katherine Walker

WebAssembly: Super-Charging Applications On and Off the Web

Till Schneidereit

Automated Accessibility Testing

Brian Thompson

Saturday, 14th July 2018

Sessions
09:15

Break Things to Fix Things: Testing More Than What “Should” Work

Ijeoma Ezeonyebuchi

Decoupled, Immutable REST APIs With Kafka Streams

Bobby Calderwood

Hands-On Getting Started With Docker

Frank Font

Customer Support with Cognitive Voice

Ketan Barve

10:30

Lost Art of Troubleshooting

Leon Fayer

Effective Gherkin: Quality Requirements for the Enterprise

Thomas Haver

DevOps for Small Teams

Joe Ferguson

11:45

Why Open Source Is Vital to Development and Developers

Jim Jagielski

13:30

Digital Meets Physical: Getting Started With ARKit

Tricia Katz

Leveraging Browser Service Workers to Improve Reliability and User Experience

Brian Thompson

You're an Expert. Here's How to Teach Like One.

Shannon Turner

Please Automatically Test Your Documentation!

Nik Everett

14:45

Build a Decentralized Application for the Ethereum Blockchain

Dana A. White

Introducing Juvet: Building Bots in Elixir

Jamie Wright

Web Ready Augmented Reality

Ali Spittel

16:00

Cultivating Community: Building Powerful Relationships by Communicating With Empathy

Sharon Steed