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

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

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