🚀 What a day at ConFoo can look like! Hope you're all having as much fun as we do. 😁
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Will ChatGPT take your job? The rise of conversational AIs — Gerard Sans
Do you want the good or the bad news first? End of last year, OpenAI took everyone by surprise by releasing c=ChatGPT. Microsoft, Meta and Google are now doubling down on AI chat-driven systems. Are you ready?
In this keynote, we'll explore the current and potential uses of multimodal conversational AIs. Let’s take a deep dive into this fascinating technology and consider what it means for our future as Developers.
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Build Amazing Things Securely — Laura Bell Main
We are in an age of technological revolution. The technologies that we read about in fiction and watched on tv shows as children are being built now, all around the world.
This is a time to be excited and hopeful about the benefits that technology can bring to all aspects of our lives and society, but also a time to be mindful of the risks we face.
In this talk, we discuss this exciting future and how we can work together to secure it.
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What Makes A Great Software Engineer? — Alexis Agahi
Is it your technical skills, your expertise, your social soft skills or your teamwork that make you a great software engineer? The next decade might completely change the perspective considering all significant progress that has been made in the machine learning field. So will the future of software engineers depend on our ability to describe a problem for a machine? Does it mean that we need to think differently about our team and expertise?
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An Unnatural History of Free, Libre and Open Source Software — Zak Greant
How does history repeat? If Free Software and Open Source made history, what kind of history was it and what future does it presage? In this talk, we’ll examine the past, present, and future of information technology and freedom, stopping along the way to visit ancient god-kings, hacker heretics, long-dead muftis, and ourselves in the year 2007.
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Les 24 prochains mois — Martin Gagnon
Dans les 24 derniers mois, les communautés de développement logiciel ont été au coeur des changements que la société a dû mettre de l'avant pour s'adapter aux nouvelles réalités. Qu'allez-vous faire avec toutes ces nouvelles opportunités, ces vieilles façons de faire qui se sont mises de côté et des nouvelles technologies qui ont émergé?
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Nerd sniping myself into a rabbit hole — Maarten Balliauw
Join me for this story about an adventure that has no practical use, probably violates Terms of Service, but was fun to build!
After buying a set of Sonos-compatible speakers at IKEA, I was disappointed there's no support for playing audio from a popular video streaming service.
Determined - and not knowing how deep the rabbit hole would be - I ventured on a trip to build an app for this...
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ConFoo 2021 call for paper is now open!
Age Discrimination in Tech — Robert Lefkowitz
Magic and when you should trust it — Bastian Hofmann
Writing code you won't hate tomorrow — Rafael Dohms