Monday

• Creating Effective Teams at Google – Matt Sakaguchi
• Top Five Secrets to Improving Team Communication – Debbie Madden
• The Paved PaaS to Microservices – Yunong Xiao
• Development Metrics you should use (but don’t) – Cat Swetel
• The Java Evolution of Eclipse Collections – Kristen O’Leary
• Java @Speed – Making the most of modern hardware – Gil Tene
• Migrating Speedment to Java 9-vidn Lawesson
• JVM Death Match – from IBM, Azul and Oracle

Tuesday

• Lessons learned from fighting nation states in cyberspace – Dmitri Alpervitch
• Removing Friction in the Developer Experience – Adrian Trenaman
• Unifying Banks & Blockchains @Coinbase – Jim Posen
• I had to work in the afternoon due to a planned event so missed a few sessions here
• Choose your own Adventure: Chaos Engineering – Nora Jones

Wednesday

• Data as DNA Building a Company on Data – Kathy Polinsky
• The Effective Remote Developer – David Copeland
• On Getting Old(er) In Tech – Don Denoncourt
• Managing Millions of Data Services @ Heroku – Gabe Enslin
• Practical Empathy – Pavneet Singh Saund
• Deep Listening – Creating Conversational Aglity – Brian Branagan

Random info about the conferenece

• Each track has an open space.
• 5 editorial tracks and one sponsor track
• Different tracks each day
• 130 speakers
• 900 attendees
• Hallway track – 25 minutes between sessions so time to talk
• Badges are shorter with names bigger so easier to see name
• Have a white lanyard you can wear to optout of photos
• Healthy food – gulten free and vegan options
• Vote green/yellow/red after each session. If go online, can see how you voted and provide text feedback.
• Track preview so you gt. 30 second glance at each session and can pick better