Topic: Building Cross Platform Web Apps in Five Painful Steps.

Summary: Building for cross platform has moved beyond being an option, and on to being a necessity. Studies show that developers are increasing turning to the web to build applications that run across platforms but it seems choosing "web" is only the first of a very many decision. NativeScript, TypeScript, React.js, React native, Angular, Ionic, SPA, PWA, and the list goes on. In this light hearted yet informative session, we'll discuss the woes of being a developer working with web technologies, and some of the solutions to reaching all your users with a single cross platform app.

About speaker

Jeff Burtoft is a Principal Program Manager for Web Apps at Microsoft and a devoted supporter of the JavaScript/HTML5 community. He loves Web Standards, JavaScript and 1980's skateboarding videos. Additionally, Jeff is co-author of HTML5 Hacks (O'Reilly Media), a core developer for Manifoldjs and PWABuilder, and a contributor to other open source projects. Jeff blogs at thishereweb.com and can be found on twitter @boyofgreen.

blog: thishereweb.com
Frameworks: Manifoldjs.com, https://github.com/boyofgreen/ManUp.js
book:HTML Hacks for O'Reilly

Topic: Progressive Web Apps: the Web strikes back

The Web strikes back with Progressive Web Apps, a new approach that let us create Apps from Web technologies with great performance, offline support, installation and push notification abilities. We will introduce PWAs, the APIs involved and the secrets that nobody tells you about. Are they ready to replace native apps? If you are a native iOS or Android developer, should you be looking at PWA technologies?

During the session, we will see live examples of apps and we will cover how we can create them including the APIs that will let the user install, use the app offline and receive push notifications without using native code or distributing through an App Store.

During the talk, we will cover the secrets that we need to know to create a successful experience, such as challenges, new APIS, and hacks that can enhance the user experience while doing Progressive Web Apps.

About speaker

Maximiliano Firtman (@firt) is a mobile + web developer, trainer, speaker, and writer.

He has authored many books, including "Programming the Mobile Web" and "High Performance Mobile Web" published by O'Reilly Media, and many online courses at Lynda, LinkedIn Learning, Safari, Udemy and more publishers.

He did technical trainings for Apple, Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo!, PayPal, Intel, Cisco, HP, Turner, eBay, Comcast, Intuit, Network Solutions, MercadoLibre and other.

He is a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide and he has been widely recognized for his work in the mobile-web community. He teaches mobile, HTML5, PWA and web performance trainings for top companies around the world.

Topic: Web App Security Validation

This talk will be about an automated way of Vulnerability Assessment and Management that includes a real-time demo of the Archery tool, how to use it for Vulnerability Assessment Automation and Management. We'll discuss how we can utilize open-source tools to perform vulnerability assessment in a robust way and manage them using Archery tool. Archery is an open-source vulnerability assessment and management tool that helps developers and pentesters to perform scans and manage vulnerabilities. It uses popular open-source tools and also supports commercial tools to perform comprehensive scanning for web application and network. It also performs web application dynamic authenticated scanning and covers the whole applications by using selenium. The developers can also utilize the tool for implementation of their DevOps CI/CD environment.

About speaker:

Anand Tiwari is an information security professional with nearly 5 years of experience in offensive security, with expertise in Mobile and Web Application Security. Currently working with Philips HealthCare in securing medical devices. He has authored Archery—open source tool and has presented at Black Hat and DEFCON conferences. In his free time, he enjoys coding and experimenting with various open source security tools. Twitter handle: @anandtiwarics

Harnessing the Creative Genius Within Your Organisation
"I haven't failed, I just found 10,000 ways that won't work"
A methodology that is at the heart of General Electrics' strategy of improvement and innovation is Lean Six Sigma, a framework that builds success and growth by eliminating waste and reducing errors in a business process.
For an inventor in the last century, or for today's businesses success is never an accident. Can one methodology really create an organisation of incredible people? Being a creative genius doesn't stem from knowing all the answers, but from asking the right questions. Lean Six Sigma encourages us to question absolutely everything we know about our business. At the conference Kiran will explore this framework and concept in greater depth.
Kiran will also look at the commonalities between some of the great feats of creative genius in history and modern-day society and at how their philosophies aligned with the Lean Six Sigma principles. She presents ways in which businesses can create an organisation that promotes targeted innovation and embraces change using Lean Six Sigma principles and demonstrates some simple and effective tools that can be applied and understood by anybody in an organisation.


Kiran Kachela
Director of Continuous Improvement Projects
Black Belt Lean Six Sigma and Change Management Practitioner
Kiran is the creator and director of Continuous Improvement Projects Ltd, a consultancy established in 2012, specialising in delivering lasting organisational change to businesses across a diverse spectrum of industries.
She is a qualified Black Belt Lean Six Sigma Practitioner and an experienced Project and Change Management leader.
With a portfolio spanning large FTSE companies, leading global academic institutions and government organisations such as the Ministry of Justice and Healthcare Trusts, Kiran brings with her a wealth of specialist knowledge which has allowed her to develop highly effective methods of executing organisational change.
As a mother and a professional businesswoman Kiran is passionate about instilling her two daughters with the belief that anything can be achieved through hard work and determination. A huge advocate of education and child development, she volunteers at the 'Inspiring the Future' charity which connects schools with professionals. She is also a school governor and delivers speeches and workshops at educational institutions to inspire students with the confidence to pursue their dreams.

David is a well-known public activist and serial IT entrepreneur. In May 2002 together with his mates, he co-founded the TemplateMonster company.

The business is run by a 35 year old CEO – David Braun – who has built a team of 427 people, and through everybody's combined efforts reached $15M in revenue.

He is the happy father of 3 children, a drummer and passionate social activist in the development of the local small businesses.

Working as CEO for TemplateMonster for 13 years he has launched numerous IT projects. Since 2002 he has invested in multiple projects, such as MotoCMS, Photodoto, Site2you, Designfloat.

Topic: Self-organization and holakratia.

As a Project manager, ScrumMaster and Agile coach I have been working in software development since 2006.

Some time ago as a startup member I have developed a tool for myself —effectcup.com, anImpact mapping software.

As a lecturer I work in universities and business schools since 2001.I also speak at the conferences,

As a consultant I have helped several IT companies to implement Agile way in their work.

Today I'm helping several public agencies to move make their processes more Agile. I'm also convincing other industries besides IT to try Agile in their work at Kyiv-Mohyla business school.

Topic: First IT steps in digitalizing and modernization of huge non-IT company..

Anna is Dubai-based seasoned Project Management Executive with leadership experience of 10 years in IT industry. In her more recent corporate role, she is IT Project Manager delivering in-house applications and training programs. Anna is a bold thought leader in these spaces, and has been sought as a panelist and speaker on the topic through Women in Tech conferences, Project Management days, Mobile tech and outsourcing conferences, other start up events, and non-profit organizations.

Her passion extends into empowering women in the workforce and has volunteered heavily for the cause. She is also lead instructor for IAMPM school, author of 4 training programs and has plans to run a show on Leadership & Diversity. In her spare time, she enjoys long trips to beautiful places, endurance workouts and movies. You can follow her at lavrovanna.com

Topic: "insights - from QA to Test Automation in Enterprise"

QA and Tech-Ops director at NeoGames with more than 18 years of experience. Prior to the that his role was a configuration and release manager in OpenTV Israel, responsible for every aspect of the system's configuration and deployment (Development\Production), and products' releases.

Specialties: Client/Server systems, Integrations with 3rd Parties, deployment processes, Oracle programming(PL/SQL), Web sites, Interactive TV, Gaming, Gambling, billing and financial transactions.

Topic: Phishing and how to fight it

Email is the most widespread and successful method of communication ever devised, used by billions of people around the world. This talk will cover some of the security challenges around email, and the opportunities available to the security community to make email more secure in the 21st century.

About speaker

Dr. Andy Yen is the CEO and Founder of ProtonMail, the world's largest encrypted email provider. A physicists by training, Andy has over 8 years of experience in distributed computing for particle physics applications. He was a researcher at CERN from 2009 to 2015, where ProtonMail's founding team met. Dr. Yen has a PhD in Physics from Harvard, and degrees in Economics and Physics from Caltech.

Senior Software Test Automation Engineer with technical Master Degree in sphere of Information Security.

His main specialization is functional automation testing of web applications. Also he has experience in performance testing.

Sergey likes to contribute to and work with open-source tools. Experienced in starting Test Automation for project from scratch. Have strong expertise of building CI process for test automation. Passionate about Java/Groovy language, also have experience work with Python. Good knowledge of relational databases.

Topic: "Специфика кибербезопасности украинских медиа: почему мы изобретаем велосипед"

Отличие медиабизнеса от всего корпоративного сегмента заключается не только в производстве и дистрибуции контента, но и в специфике управления большим штатом творческих сотрудников. Это накладывает свой отпечаток на back-office процессы, в том числе - обеспечение кибербезопасности. В виду того, что за короткий промежуток времени мы нарастили большой объем вещания, наша компания пока что не может полагаться на зарубежные облачные ИТ-сервисы , которые использует остальной корпоративный сегмент. В первую очередь, это связано с тем, что наш абонент находится в Украине, а предлагаемые сервисы – в других странах. В своем докладе Юрий расскажет, как IT-команда 1+1 медиа разработала и внедрила подходы к обеспечению кибербезопасности в условиях ограниченного выбора решений по защите данных.

О спикере

Юрий Мирей работает в 1+1 медиа с 2015 года. Сегодня роль Юрия включает в себя предоставление сервисов для бизнес-подразделений медиахолдинга. Он формирует ИТ-стратегию и бюджет медиагруппы. Благодаря технологиям и решениям, которые активно внедряет руководимый Юрием ИТ-департамент, группа получает конкурентное преимущество на медиарынке Украины. В 2017 году Юрий стал лучшим ИТ-директором Украины в номинации «Медиа» по версии онлайн-издания «Компьютерное обозрение».

Topic: Testing artificial intelligence: which side to approach?

Software engineer passioned about quality. About 12 years experience in IT in various roles: engineer, team lead, architect, manager, consultant, trainer. Currently he is programming mostly in Python and Scala but used to write in other languages (Ruby, Java, C#, JavaScript).

Topic: Fail Fast & Cheap Approach: How to create a Top 5 application in the US market for 6 months

BetterMe is the fastest-growing family of Health&Fitness apps on the US market. With over 10 million installs and Social media community of over 6 million. BetterMe is moving toward helping as many people as possible to create their happiness and promote their own healthy lifestyle choices. In this talk we'll share key ideas how to organize development & shape great mobile product fast.

Topic: Tools for remote debugging of iOS and Android apps

Steve McConnell stated, that average team after release spends 3-to-10x times more time fixing defects than it would before release. In this talk we'll discover a rich set of tools to prevent defects before release as well as saving time hunting production bugs. Let's make mobile development productive again!

About speaker

Sergey has more than 10 years of engineering experience and most of them were dedicated to mobile development. Sergey is now CTO and co-founder of Techery and AppSpector - the ultimate debugging tool for any engineering force. He's an active member of Ukrainian mobile community, often sharing his experience about app's architecture, performance and mobile teams productivity.

Topic: «Seamless staging»

Point that the projects where we involved in, have no separate staging server where QA-engineers are able to check everything before real users see result. This approach, for all its apparent shortcomings, shows itself to be extremely effective. It is able to make releases as often as possible, to avoid common problems related to rollback process. Of course, this requires sacrifice and serious preparation, which will be discussed in the speech.

About speaker

Alexey Osipenko, CTO cimon.io. A developer with more than 10 years of experience in the IT, who has worked in many positions from an ordinary developer to a project manager. One of the leading "Lambada night show" (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaR4anr4WFLDK7eeYEFmAlg), the author of the telegram channel "Extrapolation IT" (https://t.me/itextrapolation)

Topic: Communication with Clients: How to be Effective

Jeff will share his take on the specifics of working with foreign customers. Conference attendees will learn 10 rules of effective communication that will help them to build a long-term partnership with clients.

Jeff is actively involved with the business development processes of Dev-Pro. The rules are based on his 20+ years' experience working with Ukrainian outsourcing companies, and currently being president of one of them.

Jeff will speak about the communication culture established at Dev-Pro. Attendees will learn how to save client's time by providing them with visibility and proper email communication. Topics include problem-solving practices and "the best and the worst" examples from everyday work.

For the end of the speech, participants will know how to communicate with clients to demonstrate their team's professionalism and build a trustworthy relationship with the customers.

Topic: Internal startups. Long, expensive, never-ending.

During my speech we will go over cases of companies that are just starting to launch innovative products as well as of those successfully doing so. We will go through and analyze major problems they encounter:

• Employees being busy with their jobs, ideas die before seeing the light of the day
  
• Employees spend money on projects but results are still to be seen
  
• Employees don't have product development know how and use company's budget to develop mechanisms that have already been developed
  
• Team leaders don't take responsibility for the project and the product and wait to be told what to do
  

We will find ways of solving those problems, will understand how much money and time it takes to resolve them. Will consider options of launching new products (Purchasing (M&A), developing together, developing internally (R&D))

By the end of this workshop participants will have a clear idea of how to most effectively build a system for launching innovative products, what budgets are required for it and what results one can expect.

About speaker

Tracker at IIDF, Coach at Global Venture Alliance, Business Development Director at B2BFamily

Yann Kronberg has over 18 years of technology management experience in the software, open source & Ad Tech industries, including multiple successful start-up ventures and one IPO. He has a proven background in building world class products for the AdTech, big data Industry & Data Science. When he is not researching the latest optimization algorithm, he spends his time exploring the tensorflow project and tensorflow.js.

Yann currently serves as the CTO of Zazmic a Service provider specializing in big data, data science & AdTech, where he managed the Product and Technology Team, which comprised of 230 staff globally (clients include Ericsson, Rakuten, Adxperience & France Telecom).Yann Kronberg has also served as head of Product at Lifestreet, Senior Director of Product at Velti where he led the product team building world-class Ad Tech product line. Other key roles include leadership positions with Adinfuse (AdNetwork acquired by Velti) and Siebel Systems (an Oracle Company).

Topic: Lessons learned scrum mastering distributed teams.

Antonio is a Delivery Manager with over 18 years' experience in the IT industry and specialises in Agile methodologies. He comes from a technical background, starting his career as a Java Developer in Spain in 2000, moving to different roles within IT in three different countries.

Antonio is passionate about creating and implementing the best solution while continually seeking to improve work methodologies. He is convinced that most of the problems in IT are due to lack of communication.

Antonio usually speaks about Agile, DevOps, Project Management and Team management at conferences across Europe and US, such as DevOps Days, JAX, TopConf and Voxxed Days.

Topic: Outsourcing is a dead-end. Practical steps on how to evolve your business model

Current problems of a classic IT outsourcing model: why a short-sighted business does not generate high profit.

Successful principles of building a highly marginal product business, and what challenges you should be ready for.

About speaker

Sergey Korolev is a Managing Director at Railsware with more than 15 years of experience in IT: from startups to enterprises. An Engineer, Product Owner, Business Leader.

Topic: How to turn risks to selling points

Anatoliy got Master's degree in Applied Mathematics, Informatics, and Programming in the Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics. He started his career as a software developer and went all the way up the career ladder having tested all positions from a beginner software developer, a team lead, a technical project manager and a project manager, to a delivery director.

Anatoliy became a part of Sigma Software in 2008. As a project manager, he joined several complex and challenging projects, which were successfully completed. In 2009, Anatoly became the manager of the Microsoft Solutions Department. And grew the team from 17 people to almost 200 eight years later. In 2017, Anatoly got the position of Delivery Director. For many years along his career path, he has been actively involved in business development and crisis management. Anatoly also has coached project managers for about 10 years.

This is frank speech about the fails and lessons learnt when dealing with risks. Here you will not hear a standard academic theory of risk management, only hands-on experience. We are going to focus on how to voice risks in a way to be heard and to earn trust from a customer.
Who would benefit from visiting the meetup:
Project managers, team leaders, sales managers, business development managers.

What you are going to learn:

• how a simple and clear risk wording can actually increase sales (through attractive offers)
  
• how it can motivate a client and a team on their way to remove obstacles
  
• how it influences forming the absolute trust from your Customer`s side
  
  

Join and you will know what to do if

• you foresee an inevitable misfortune, but the client does not hear you and shows no reaction to risks reporting
  
• your customer thinks that risks you bring up are "your problems"
  
  

Topic: Internet marketing for IT companies. Who is to blame? How to live? What to do?

Ian consults IT companies on brand development and marketing. Ian is a multidisciplinary IT professional with hands-on experience in technology research, UX architecture, project management and marketing.

7 years in information technology industry. Former software engineer. 4 years in software development (ITO,CIS), 3 years in business development, sales and marketing.

Business:
- Co-founded and running FullStackUA.com, a platform connecting IT execs with Ukrainian software development companies
- Co-founded and running Kaiiax, Management Consulting Firm for Tech companies
- Head of Software Development at KeyUA Software

Specialities:
Software Development, Product Management, Finance, Sales, Risk and Opportunity research.

Interests:
Fintech, Adtech, ML, Blockchain, ICO

Awards:
ITEM 2017 - Best speaker in Business & Sales thread

Topic: Through Trial and Error: How to Prepare a Trainee to the Wild World of Customer Projects.

AMC Bridge Campus as a training system that is based on 10+ years of a unique experience. Useful tips, poor advices and lessons learned – we'll openly share our failures and successes.
• How to obtain useful experience and necessary skills? We have developed an effective system that covers full training cycle from internship to team leadership – figures can prove it.
• Cutting-edge technologies and real projects published on app stores with thousands of downloads as the advanced and fruitful educational method

About speaker

Chief Operating Officer
Scientific background in Computer Simulation
25+ years in IT industry
Built AMC Bridge from 3 to 400+ engineers

Topic: Product as marketing channel for service business

Serial Entrepreneur with interests in

• Atlassian Product Line and tools. Rozdoum - Atlassian Expert and Vendor consulting worldwide and selling own add-ons on Atlassian Marketplace
• Eventor - Platform for event organizers to deliver all relevant data to participants mobile and available when internet fails.
• Automation of Logistics processes in Ukrainian Armed Forces. Mobile client for SAP platform. Project supported by NATO NSPA funding
• Software outsourcing. Building remote, dedicated teams for startups and successful business targeting extending development capacities. Expertise : Full stack Java, Mobile (iOS + Android). Domains: Atlassian, Liferay, Business Intelligence, EMail Martketing, Lead Management, Location Based Services.

Topic: 3 stories on growing Service Business with Product Startups

During the presentation we'll talk about Internal Product Startups that boosted Business for service-oriented companies (aka "outsourcing"). I'll share 3 real stories about how internal startups was initiated, developed and launched. We will discuss what worked and what didn't, what was the lessons learnt. I'll share major benefits we achieved with internal product startups.

Roman Kolodchak is a Vice President of Products & Services Success at SoftServe. With over 15 years in IT and 10 years in Consulting and Management, Roman and his team focus on professional development, competency management, developing external communities and partnerships, and solution methodology both for ISV and Enterprises. He also helps establish the overall client excellence direction at SoftServe. Roman has successfully executed cross-company initiatives and established new competencies like SaaS and cloud and acting as an active consultant. Since 2014, he is in charge of establishing and managing service product management and further product management directions at SoftServe.

Topic: From Outsource to Niche Product Guide

CPO/CEO at Tamaranga.com
Background: Software Developer/UX Designer
In IT from 2005
From Zaporozhie, Ukraine
Now Auckland, New Zealand
Remote Team, 7 People

Topic: Redesign of management methodologies

Alexander is Operational Director with 5+ years experience in developing product lines for an organization. His passion for innovation led him into 3D-printing oriented company Kwambio where he developed and launched a unique production-line for manufacturing ceramic objects by 3D-printers.

Since autumn 2017 he has been leading the development of 3d-Printer as Product Manager. In January 2018 he participated in CES 2018 in Las-Vegas with the first prototype of the printer. Next point is launching of the production line for 3D printers assembly.

He is good at discovering tools and practices, sharing and spreading ideas. He has fun with implementation and improving production processes and facilitation of his teams.

Topic: Supplemented reality - development and prospects. Implemented cases in Ukraine and in the world

Alex Velychko, CEO Yaskravo has more than 10 years of managerial experience. Have worked with Augmented Reality technology for 3 years. CTO has 16+ of custom software development and system architecture. Co-owner of IT-startup company Yaskravo (Ukraine)

Topic: Hidden complexities in microservices testing

For the last couple of years it become a widespread approach for building a robust backend systems.
But why are they so popular?
Do they make a tester's work more easy or complex?
How to approach to testing and automating of microservices?
What challenges for testers do microservices bring?
How to handle these challenges and get the maximum from your testing?
In my talk I an going to share my own insights from testing and automating complex systems based on microservices architecture.
Let's test microservices effectively together!

About speaker

Main professional activity of Oleksandr is dedicated to make test automation efforts more effective and engineers more productive. He has 6+ years of experience implementing test automation solutions at Sitecore, SoftServe and Deutsche Bank.
Right now Oleksandr works as QA Automation Lead at Playtika - helping to make UI, API and microservice level automation more scalable and reliable.
Twitter handle: @al8xr

Topic: How to hack PrivatMono your favorite bank

Volodymyr Vorobyov is an entrepreneur and software development consultant for over 15 years. In 2011, he founded RubyGarage, a boutique Ruby on Rails software house. Together with his team, Volodymyr helps businesses across the globe bring to life their tech ideas.

Working with businesses from various domains, Volodymyr came across the common priority of today's software development. Which is - security in all its dimensions.
He decided to take an essence of his knowledge of how to stop and prevent a security breach, expertise in penetration testing, and most challenging cases in banking industry to bring to the table in his topic:

How to hack PrivatMono your favorite bank
You'll find out:
- How bank robberies happen in the digital age
- Typical attack scheme
- Penetration testing and its results
- Network perimeter vulnerabilities
- Internal network infrastructure

Тема: Android Application Security Assessment

Доклад раскрывает способы проверки на наличие уязвимостей, их соотношение с уязвимостями. которые описаны OWASP Mobile TOP 10. Наглядная демонстрация работы инструментов в связке друг с другом на реальных кейсах. Кейсы описывают статическое и динамическое тестирование приложений.

О спикере

Михаил Антонишин, технический специалист компании Hacken, бывший сотрудник CERT-UA и команды кибербезопасности Национального банка Украины.
Специализируюсь на проведении аудитов ИБ, анализа уязвимостей веб и мобильных приложений.

Topic: Scaled Agile Framework: Implementation Approaches and Lessons Learned

Bullet points:

• Scaled Agile Framework: what is it and how you can use it effectively.
• The pros and cons of the Scaled Agile Framework through personal experience.

About Speaker

• 10+ of software engineering experience: Desktop app Development, Web Development, Mobile Development
• AFe 4 Certifications: Certified SAFe 4 Practitioner, Certified SAFe 4 Scrum Master
• SAFe 4 Advanced Certifications: Certified SAFe 4 Program Consultant