The largest regional tech conference devoted to all things OPEN: Hardware, Standards, Source and Data. OpenWest works closely with many of the local user groups to plan, develop and operate the conference.

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Wednesday, 13th July 2016

	General	EH2-A - Javascript	EH2-B - Tools	EH2-C - Geek Life	EH2-D - Security	200B - Ops	200C - Data	200D - QA/CI	300A - Architecture	300B - Languages	300C - Languages	300D - Languages	400 - Web	200A - Business
08:00	Registration														08:00
09:00	Welcome Utah Open Source Foundation														09:00
09:15	Keynote Joshua Simmons														09:15
09:45	Keynote Jeff Beatty														09:45
10:30		How To Make Front-End More Functional Julia Gao	Spacemacs: The Best of Both the Emacs and Vim Worlds Travis B. Hartwell	Recognizing emotions in faces McKayl Bergman	Your OS is Spying on You - Open Source Privacy on Closed Source Operating Systems Seth Johnson	Introduction to Docker Jeff Anderson	MySQL tricks to solve day-to-day problems Sasha Pachev	Developers and Testers: Nemeses or Soulmates Brian Campbell	Speed up app development with prefabricated, extensible, open-source backends Michael Glukhovsky	Deep Learning For Developers Ben Taylor	Introduction to Xamarin Forms Alma Jensen	An Introduction to J for Data Analysis Alpheus Madsen	What the heck is WebAssembly, and do I have to learn C now? Dan Callahan		10:30
11:30			The practice and evolution of HTTP traffic monitoring Aaron Mildenstein	Haiku: An Introduction to a Free Operating System Designed Specifically for Personal Computing Rusty Keele	Security Tools Workshop Allen Day		In Texas, We just call it Data Keith Casey	Failing Fast Dave Buchanan	Web Scalability Concepts Tod Hansmann	The CMS is Dead, Long Live the CMS! Duke Speer	Introduction to Xamarin Forms Continued Alma Jensen	Perl's Worst Best Practices Daina Pettit	Serve The Web Like It's 2016 Matt Holt	Dealing with Customers: Translating from Human to Computer Mike Straw	11:30
12:30	Lunch Break														12:30
14:00		Introduction to TypeScript Samantha Quiñones	Automate Yo'self John Anderson	Fountain Pens: "He who writes, remains" Erik Falor, Zach Gibbs	Userspace cryptographically secure random number generators Aaron Toponce	OpenStack Advanced Topics Spencer Krum	How To Predict Text Better Than Anyone Else - Sentiment / Email / Resumes Ben Taylor	Beating legacy code into shape with the help of Selenium Sasha Pachev	Offloading processes with work queues Dave Buchanan	Groovy and Spock, expressive unit tests Jeremy Mefford	Up & Running with Propel 2 Benjamin Bankes	How to Get Started With Functional Progrmaming Julia Gao	HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) 101 Trevor Hunsaker	A Crash Course in Tech Management VM Brasseur	14:00
15:00		Using Angular with Scala.js Gregg Hernandez	Customizing Vim: An Introduction to your .vimrc Kyle Rich	Life Driven Development: Striving for Balance Graham Daniels	Defending Webapplication with Web Application Firewalls (WAFS) - ModSecurity Lance Buttars	Bridging Private Cloud Infrastructure with Traditional Virtualization Brandon Johnson	InfluxDB for Collecting, Storing, and Visualizing Internet of Things (IoT) Data Cam Peterson	Join the Testing culture. David Oswald	A Practical Introduction to Reactive Programming Seth House	Deploying your NodeJS web app to production Dennis Beatty	Building PHP Daemons & Long Running Processes Tim Lytle	Write your own Logstash plugin for fun and profit Aaron Mildenstein	Super Charge Your CSS with PostCSS Luke Larsen	"Legacy": A Retrospective Jessica Mauerhan	15:00
16:00		Getting Stuff Done Using VSCode Joe Skeen	Modern Commandline Tools Amjith Ramanujam	Regular Expressions for Fun and Profit Spencer Christensen	temp John Mcintosh	Packer: VM Image automation Clint Savage	Materialized Views In Postgresql Kyle Waters	Automating test automation Derek Clifford	Data synchronization using end to end push architecture Scott Leonard		Language Proliferation Must Stop Christopher Neugebauer	Learn Go Sean Murphy	CSS Flexbox Fundamentals Dale McKinnon	Don't Be a Startup, Be a Business Tod Hansmann	16:00

Thursday, 14th July 2016

General

EH2-A - Javascript

EH2-B - Tools

EH2-C - Geek Life

EH2-D - Security

200A - Business

200B - Ops

200C - Data

200D - Community

300A - Architecture

300B - Languages

300C - Languages

300D - Languages

400 - Mobile

09:00

Utah Open Source Foundation

09:00

09:15

TBA

09:15

09:45

09:45

10:30

Creating Scalable Angular 2 Apps

James Lambert

Acme: A User Interface for Programmers

Computer History Books that are Worth Reading

Robust 2nd Factor Authentication

How to Gamify Technical Debt and Introduce Change Successfully

Docker: compose, swarm, and networking

Jeff Anderson

Integrating RDBMS with Big Data V3.0 now with SPARK!

How your company can become a good open source citizen

Jared Smith

L10N/i18n: Primer for Developers

Mark-Anthony Torrocha

Data Types in PHP

Mark Niebergall

Web Services in Go

Asynchronous Micro-Services in Python with Ioflo

How to get started with Android Studio

10:30

11:30

Mastering the 'Lazy' Mindset Using Gulp.js

Git Roots and Branches

Scott Wiersdorf

Chrome Productivity Hacks 101

Dmitry Pashkevich

How to securely store passwords on disk

Aaron Toponce

How to Deal with Introverts

Charles McGarvey

Debugging Methods for Linux Servers

Taking Your MongoDB to the Next Level with Authentication and Access Control

What the Wright brothers can teach us about Open Source development

12 Reasons Your API Sucks

Asynchronous Programming Fundamentals

Samantha Quiñones

Apache Spark for Java Developers

Harsha Puthalapattu

Why be functional?

Which one may be right for you? - Hybrid vs Native.

Harish devulapalli

11:30

12:30

12:30

14:00

Handling Async Actions with Redux Saga

Jake Trent

What NetHack lacks in graphics it makes up with characters (Spoilers!)

Securing the Stack

7 lessons from a first-time team lead

Beyond Config Mgmt with Salt!

Managing and Tuning Elasticsearch and Logstash

Aaron Mildenstein

Insights from the 8th Annual Community Leadership Summit

Rethinking Loops

"Xtract"-ing useful data from XML

Comprehending Comprehensions in Python

Introduction to Elixir and Phoenix

Travis Elnicky, Arthur Weagel

The New Mobile Web: Service Worker, Push, and App Manifests

14:00

15:00

Javascript for Devs of the Old Code

Sonarqube for code quality, how static analysis can really help

Your Logic is Flawed: Logical Fallacies

SELinux is not black voodoo magic

Trevor Sharpe

"Fail Fast Fail Often" Hype or Expert Advice?

OpenStack For Humans

Spencer Krum

Implementing Redis Cluster

Running an Open-source Project at Low Cost and Large Scale

James L. Simister

Caching on the Bleeding Edge

Samantha Quiñones

A Few of my Favorite Python Things

How to cheat at Dungeons and Dragons, weighted data randomization, and perl.

UI Automation for iOS in Xcode

Konnor Willison

15:00

16:00

Building your API Utility Belt

Are you getting the high speed internet you're paying for?

Dustin Davis

What is that Application really doing?

Troy Jessup

The Keys to Productivity

Btrfs vs ZFS and the future of storage

Aaron Toponce

A Primer for Your Next Data Science Proof of Concept on the Cloud

Alton Alexander

Welcoming Everyone: Five Years of Inclusion and Outreach Programmes at PyCon Australia

Christopher Neugebauer

Better Interaction Designs Through State Machines

Jerome Broekhuijsen

Modern Perl for the Unfrozen Paleolithic Perl Programmer

NodeJS + Express + MongoDB = Simple Backend Bliss

Learn Testing in Python Commando Style

Intro to React Native

16:00

Friday, 15th July 2016

General

EH2-B - Tools

EH2-C - Hardware

EH2-D - Security

200A - Business

200B - Ops

200C - Data

200D - Community

300A - Architecture

300B - Languages

300C - Languages

300D - Languages

400 - UI/UX

EH2-A - Javascript

09:00

Utah Open Source Foundation

09:00

09:15

Tom Hatch

09:15

09:45

Karen Sandler

09:45

10:30

Vagrant: Automated Testing, Configuration, and Deployment of your development environments

Clint Savage

Hands-on Mechanical Keyboards

Erik Falor, Zach Gibbs

The State of HTTPS: the importance of securing all web traffic and why Utah should take the lead

Fix the Feedback Loop

Mitchell Cox, McKayl Bergman

Introduction to rkt

Data Processing with Apache Spark

Harsha Puthalapattu

Breaking the Stereotype

Why "BlockChain": The disruptive disintermediation of infrastructure with "blockchain" technology.

Double Loop: TDD & BDD Done Right

Jessica Mauerhan

Pyramid - Inbetween Flask and Django

Intro to Haskell

50 Ways in Code You Can "Fight for the User" Starting Today

10:30

11:30

Bitcoin / Blockchain 101

Introduction to Embedded Systems Programming

Scott Overholser

Using LetsEncrypt and Optimizing TLS

Christopher Hopkins

Fail Early, Fail Often, Fail Well

Simplify your AWS configuration with Cumulus

Keilan Jackson, Mark Siebert

Learning PostgreSQL (for users of MySQL/MariaDB)

Jared Smith

Have It Your Way: Maximizing Drive-Thru Contributions

Good Bad and Ugly of OAuth2 and Openid-Connect

Beginning CUDA Programming

Debugging PHP with Xdebug

Mark Niebergall

Introduction to PSGI

Charles McGarvey

Getting your users "Hooked" to your UX - Making habit-forming products

Creating TypeScript Declaration Files and Contributing to DefinitelyTyped

11:30

12:30

12:30

14:00

An Introduction to LaTeX as an Alternative to Office Software

The Challenge of Robust and Reliable I/O Libraries for Arduino

Getting TUF on Docker Security

Jeff Anderson

The $0 startup: Starting a business with no money!

Moving to Microservices with Docker

Become a Tree Hugger of Data Science

Aaron Johnson, Matt Harrison

THE CODE MANIFESTO: EMPOWERING OUR COMMUNITY

Introducing functional first development

Cryptography With PHP

Mark Niebergall

Java 8 Streams, a how-to workshop

Introduction to multiplayer game development

Reaching your global user base through localization

Jeff Beatty

Aurelia Über Alles

Dustin Davis

14:00

15:00

Advanced Development Environments with Vagrant

Recent Advances in Microcontrollers and Takeing Advantage of Them

Chad Kidder

Adventures of a Contract Developer

Understanding systemd

Aaron Toponce

Applications come and go, but data accumulate

Starting and Sustaining A User Group

What does asynchronous really mean?

Functional Programming in Scala with Scalaz

Gregg Hernandez

Python Magic...Methods

Scott Overholser

A Modest Introduction to Swift

Building Great Products

Blake Simkins

Start using Promises today: a hands-on guide

Dmitry Pashkevich

15:00

16:00

Intermediate Vim

Hack the World Around You with the Raspberry Pi

Red Teaming: Going Beyond the Technology

Dealing with Customers: Translating from Computer to Human

Introduction to Ceph

Networking for Introverts

Mark-Anthony Torrocha

Cheap Burstable Processing with AWS Lambda

Sam Curren

Django REST Framework Crash Course

What the WordPress REST API means for Javascript Developers

Thermonuclear Design: boosting the yield of user experience design

16:00

Saturday, 16th July 2016

	EH2-B - Tutorials	EH2-C - Tutorials	EH2-D - Tutorials	300A - Tutorials	300B - Tutorials	300C - Tutorials	300D - Tutorials	General
09:00	Git Basics Mike Straw	Introduction to the Elastic Stack Aaron Mildenstein	ng-upgrade - Angular 2 for the Angular 1.x JavaScripter Samuel H Skeen	Demonstrations of Scalable Machine Learning Alton Alexander	SaltStack 101 David Boucha	KiCAD Primer Dennis Millard	VDT - Free Software Environment for FPGA Development Andrey Filippov		09:00
10:45	Git Basics Mike Straw	Introduction to the Elastic Stack Aaron Mildenstein			SaltStack 101 David Boucha	Embedded Linux Dennis Millard			10:45
12:00								Lunch Break	12:00
13:00	Leveraging Google Tag Manager for Marketing, Analytics, and User Feedback Johnathan Kent	What’s New in JavaScript: Hands on ES2015 (ES6) Dan Callahan	Becoming a Web Developer Joshua Simmons	WordPress Workshop Velda Christensen	Secure Data Collection with the Open-source OpenDOF Technology James L. Simister	Using Game Design to Develop Critical Thinking Skills Curtis Jensen	Using FreeCAD for Automatic Model Conversion from CAD Formats to X3D Objects Mikhail Karpenko		13:00

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Hosts: Steve Meyers, Victor Villa
Event Website:
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Call for Papers: Closed.