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Breakfast & registration

10:00 am

- Cynthia Rich, GitHub

From rerere to subtree, this session will show you common use cases for some of the less common Git commands. This hands-on session will include plenty of ways to level up your Git nerdiness as we round out the bunch with reset and filter-branch. This session is intended for intermediate to advanced Git users who aren't afraid of a little command line.

Cynthia Rich

Services Learning Manager @ GitHub

Code Git GitHub talk

- Jamie Strusz and Stefan Stölzle, GitHub

Ever wanted to mess around with programming an Arduino? In this workshop, you'll learn a little history on the Internet of Things and its impact on society. Then, you'll work in groups to assemble a breadboard with an Arduino, sensor, and 16x2 LCD to display temperature and humidity. Finally, we'll learn how to set up a pipeline to automatically test your code and push to the device using GitHub and Travis CI! Attendees of all experience levels will be able to take advantage of this workshop.

Jamie Strusz

Services Engineer @ GitHub

Stefan Stölzle

Services Engineer @ GitHub

Automation Code Git GitHub talk Integrations Open Source

- Matt Desmond and James Garcia, GitHub

The Open Source community has been building and creating amazing software for decades, In this session, you'll analyze what's worked, what hasn't, and discuss the best way to implement InnerSource in your organization. In this conversational style session, you'll have the opportunity to listen to others' stories on their experiences, and share your own. This session is ideal for individuals looking to improve the way their team functions by focusing on working smarter rather than harder. Individuals working in teams and leaders of all experience levels should enjoy this session.

Matt Desmond

Trainer @ GitHub

James Garcia

Services Account Engineer @ GitHub

Collaboration Community GitHub talk Open Source People

11:30 am

Break

11:40 am

- Hector Alfaro, GitHub

Working with a team in Git is easy, if you follow a few simple rules. In this session, you will learn how to optimize your workflows to avoid common challenges that arise in teams and how to get out of sticky situations like merge conflicts. This session is ideal for those who are just getting started with Git and GitHub.

Hector Alfaro

Trainer @ GitHub

Collaboration Git GitHub talk Operations

- Michael Johnson and Briana Swift, GitHub

In this workshop, you'll learn how GitHub uses ChatOps to make the life of a developer easier and more enjoyable. Then you'll fork an existing instance of Hubot, an open-source version of the chatbot we use at GitHub, and get it up and running within minutes. But, this is more than just a glorified demo. In addition to a functional chatbot, you'll walk away with detailed playbooks of advanced chatops functionality so you can implement the chatbot in your own chat environment. Attendees of all experience levels will benefit from this workshop.

Briana Swift

Trainer @ GitHub

Michael Johnson

Services Engineer @ GitHub

Automation Code GitHub talk Hubot Integrations

- Amanda Gelender and Nadia Gathers, GitHub

1 in 5 people in the US struggles with mental health. Despite the prevalence of mental health challenges amongst tech sector employees, few companies have effectively built space to support employees’ neurodiversity. This session is for people interested in learning more about mental health and wellness in tech: We will cover how mental health challenges impact our sector, alternative frameworks for understanding mental health, and resources for building communities of support. This session is intended for leaders of all experience levels.

Nadia Gathers

Internal Communications Manager @ GitHub

Amanda Gelender

Interim Director, Social Impact @ GitHub

Community GitHub talk People

1:10 pm

Lunch

2:10 pm

- Cynthia Rich, GitHub

You've made commits with 'git add' and 'git commit', but have you ever wondered what is actually happening when you run these commands? Git commands come in two flavors, porcelain commands like 'git add' and plumbing commands like 'git update-index'. In this session, you will learn how to amaze your friends using only Git plumbing commands to handle common tasks in Git. This session will be most enjoyable for intermediate to advanced Git users.

Cynthia Rich

Services Learning Manager @ GitHub

Code Git GitHub talk

- Eric Hollenberry and Nathan Henderson, GitHub

Have you heard about Electron, a framework to build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS? Do you learn by doing? Are you craving to build your own desktop applications? If you answered yes, this is the workshop for you! You'll walk away with a fully functional Electron desktop app that you can take apart and customize, along with the knowledge to confidently start building your own Electron apps. This workshop is intended for developers of all experience levels looking to build desktop applications.

Eric Hollenberry

Trainer @ GitHub

Nathan Henderson

Services Principal Engineer @ GitHub

Code Electron Git GitHub talk

- James Garcia, GitHub

The GitHub platform is not just for those who write code. It is a place to learn, grow and share with your community, in the public with GitHub.com and internally with GitHub Enterprise. Developers choose Git as their version control system, join them using GitHub's UI to discuss, create, and collaborate to build great content. This session is intended for leaders new to using Git and GitHub.

James Garcia

Services Account Engineer @ GitHub

Collaboration Community Enterprise GitHub talk People

3:40 pm

Break

3:50 pm

- Stefan Stölzle and Grace Park, GitHub

Workflows come in all shapes and sizes. Teams developing web apps have slightly different needs than those working with embedded software, and you have probably heard more than one recommendation on the "best" workflow. In working with hundreds of customers, we have learned that the best workflow is the simplest workflow. It is easier to teach and easier to follow -- both of which result in more consistent application. In this session, we will break out the markers and learn how you can trim the fluff from your workflows. Attendees of all experience levels will enjoy this workshop.

Stefan Stölzle

Services Engineer @ GitHub

Grace Park

Services Solution Engineer @ GitHub

Architecture Collaboration GitHub talk Operations

- Josh Lewis, Heroku

Continuous Integration and continuous delivery are the key to code quality, product agility, and engineering velocity. In this session, you’ll learn how your team can use GitHub, Heroku Pipelines, and Heroku CI to make continuous delivery simple and flexible. The Git-based methodology provides for a pipeline through which code begins as a fully executable pull request, goes through automated unit and integration tests, is automatically merged to test and staging apps, and is then deployed to production with a single click. Some customers are able to deploy features and fixes up to 500+ times a week, with very few rollbacks from production. Developers with an intermediate level of experience will benefit the most from this workshop.

Josh Lewis

Engineer @ Heroku

Automation Code GitHub Integrator Talk GitHub Partner Talk Integrations Operations

- Bianca Escalante, GitHub

As a leader of an open source project, online community, user group, or in the workplace, you play an integral part in crafting the culture of your group. It falls on your shoulders to help create healthy communities and teams that are as diverse and inclusive as possible, but what does that mean? Where do you start? You'll walk away from this workshop with the answers to these questions, and practical strategies for you to use in all your interactions. This workshop is intended for intermediate to experienced leaders.

Bianca Escalante

Senior Manager, Social Impact @ GitHub

Collaboration Community GitHub talk Open Source People

5:20 - 7:00pm

Heroku social

Stage 1: Milky Way

Stage 2: Andromeda

Stage 3: Centaurus

Stage 4: Pegasus

9:00 am

Breakfast & Registration

10:00 am

Opening Keynote

- Chris Wanstrath, Co-Founder & CEO @ GitHub

Chris Wanstrath

Co-Founder & CEO @ GitHub

11:00 am

Break

11:10 am

- Brooks Swinnerton, GitHub

In this talk, Brooks Swinnerton will discuss why GitHub made the decision to create a public GraphQL API and the things that they’ve learned along the way with respect to authorization, API design, and tooling. The interesting challenges of a public GraphQL API aren’t limited to your codebase; we will also discuss some of the ways that GitHub is working to introduce the new world of GraphQL to its users and integrators, as well as how we plan to support and grow the API for years to come.

Brooks Swinnerton

Platform Interface Engineer @ GitHub

Code GraphQL Integrations Open Source GitHub talk

- Alvaro Ramirez del Villar & Frank Lamar, Home Depot

As engineering teams move toward different build systems that rely on polling, it will be essential for GitHub Enterprise admin to know how to identify, educate, and help remediate the build system. If they can’t, their instance will become unstable and ultimately fail. When it happened to us, our team came up with the best solution: We diagnosed and created the automation required for monitoring and remediating the problem. And we gave back to the open source community in the process. Now, we can help others navigate such a tricky problem by not only showing them what we did, but also by giving them monitoring and remediation tips. Theme: Realities of Managing GitHub at Scale Intended Audience Takeaways: How to monitor total clones and pushes, different avenues for communicating with development community Intended Audience: GitHub Admins, Software Engineers, Engineering Managers

Frank Lamar

Sr. Software Engineer @ Home Depot

Alvaro Ramirez del Villar

Software Engineer @ Home Depot

Architecture Enterprise Scaling GitHub Admin

- Sid Sidhu, Box; Natalie Bradley, Accenture Federal Services; Thomas Aidan Curran, Deutsche Börse Group; Michael Filosa, GitHub

Highly regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and government all struggle with implementing modern software development practices due to the burden of regulatory compliance. Processes established years ago still govern, despite the software development landscape changing dramatically. What we’ve come to discover, however, is that organizations are implementing new and innovative solutions around tools, process, talent and culture to help scale their releases. In this panel, you will hear experts from Box, Deutsche Börse and Accenture Federal Services discuss strategies to overcome the constraints of how their software is developed, tested and maintained while staying compliant with regulations.

Michael Filosa

Solution Engineering Manager @ GitHub

Natalie Bradley

Senior Manager @ Accenture Federal Services

Sid Sidhu

Senior Engineering Manager @ Box

Thomas Aidan Curran

Chief Innovation Officer @ Deutsche Börse Group

Operations Enterprise

- Amy Dickens, GitHub Campus Expert

Taking time out is difficult; but coming back to work can be much harder. In a world where technology is constantly evolving, it is understandable that developers who need to take time off may experience huge amounts of anxiety about what they might face on their return. In this talk, we will discuss the concept of inner source culture, introduce how open source methods can reduce work related anxiety and provide tips to foster openness in your teams to support healthier minds and happier developers. Using one of GitHub’s community building programs as an example, we will see how creating open communications can promote inclusivity and equal opportunities in diverse teams of remote individuals.

Amy Dickens

PhD Student @ GitHub Campus Expert

People Open Source Community

11:50 am

Break

12:00 pm

- Ashley Ellis Pierce, GitHub

Often we know that our code needs refactoring, but we have no idea where to start. Maybe we studied some common code smells and learned about the things that we should be avoiding, but memorizing the rules doesn’t automatically lead to fixing all problems. In this talk, we explore how you can use GitHub to recognize and address violations to each of the SOLID principles. Using diffs, commit history and pull requests you can learn to recognize patterns in code that point to problems. These same tools can help you correct those issues and write more maintainable code.

Ashley Ellis Pierce

Application Engineer @ GitHub

Code GitHub talk

- Dylan Vassallo, Stripe

Stripe recently moved 600 repos from GitHub to GitHub Enterprise with (almost) no disruption to our internal users. We considered declaring a “git holiday” for this, but even one day of downtime would have been unacceptable and we needed to be able to roll back quickly if something went wrong. We instead developed an incremental and reversible plan that made it possible for us to perform a nearly-seamless online migration. In this talk I’ll explain our approach to risky infrastructure changes like this one and share some specific learnings from our GitHub Enterprise project.

Dylan Vassallo

Engineer @ Stripe

Architecture Enterprise

- Edward Thomson, Microsoft

A few short years ago, Microsoft called Open Source a "cancer", and likened it to "communism". Today, Microsoft is the organization with the most contributors to open source projects on GitHub. Learn how Microsoft transformed its business to embrace and extend open source technologies, like the Git version control system - but not extinguish them! Learn how that led to Microsoft open sourcing key development tools, like the .NET Framework. Finally, learn how their success with open source led them to adopt open source workflows within the company: a strategy called "inner source".

Edward Thomson

Program Manager for Git @ Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services

Operations Enterprise Open Source Git

- Stephanie Slattery, Clique Studios

Roughly 1 in 5 people in America live with a disability and legal actions against inaccessible sites are becoming more and more common. It would be irresponsible to ignore the needs of all our users when developing for the web, so why don't we design accessible sites to begin with? In this talk, I'll explain the basics of web accessibility, including the guidelines you should be following, the adaptive technologies commonly in use, and help you better advocate for users with disabilities in your work.

Stephanie Slattery

Front End Engineer @ Clique Studios

People Product Design

12:40 pm

Lunch

1:40 pm

- Merritt Anderson, VP, Employee Experience & Engagement @ GitHub
- Jared Jones, Business Development Program Manager @ GitHub
- Danielle Leong, Application Engineer @ GitHub

Hear from GitHub’s VP of EEE, Merritt Q. Anderson who will talk about how embedding inclusion and belonging into company culture improves the GitHub experience—both for employees and users. GitHub’s Jared Jones will introduce GitHub’s inaugural employee resource group (ERG), the blacktocats and application engineer, Danielle Leong, will discuss the work our community and safety team is doing to build inclusion into our platform.

Merritt Anderson

VP of Employee Experience and Engagement @ GitHub

Jared Jones

Business Development Program Manager @ GitHub

Danielle Leong

Engineer, Community & Safety @ GitHub

2:10 pm

- Monica Arrambide, CEO & Founder @ Maven

Hear from Monica Ann Arrambide, Queer Latinx Activist with 27 years working with LGBT+ youth in the nonprofit sector.

Monica Arrambide

CEO & Founder @ Maven

2:40 pm

Break

2:50 pm

- Jamie Jones, GitHub

GitHub has a rich API available for developers and consumers alike, but it can be a bit daunting to build a full fledged integration. This talk will center on using Probot to accelerate the process, and best practices related to this. It will also touch on some existing PRobot apps teams can use today, as well as some ideas for where your next app could go!

Jamie Jones

Government Solutions Architect @ GitHub

Code Integrations Hubot GitHub talk

- Kashyap Parikh, Amit Mishra, and Daniel Martinez, Credit Karma

We will discuss how GitHub and self service continuous integration (CI) helps Credit Karma rapidly deliver new features to over 60 million members. We will review how Credit Karma streamlined and scaled growing CI needs stemming from an army of engineers decomposing monolith into services. Are you a developer who wants to easily manage and customize CI and CD? Do you work in a team environment where everyone collaborates and depends on CI for automation and delivery of clean code to production? We will share a case study of how we evolved from a single, standalone CI instance to a self service, dockerized CI infrastructure combined with bots, webhooks and GitHub APIs. We will cover the features and powerful APIs of GitHub.com that were most valuable in this process, and how using GitHub.com freed up time previously spent on maintaining the underlying infrastructure. Credit Karma’s development teams are now empowered to spin up their own CI instances and add custom checks as part of their CI process to ensure quality code. This allows teams to focus simply on developing and delivering services. Participants will take away with an understanding of how to build an effective, scalable CI pipeline leveraging GitHub APIs to deliver your services into production.

Kashyap Parikh

Director of Engineering @ Credit Karma

Amit Mishra

Senior Build and Release Engineer @ Credit Karma

Daniel Martinez

Engineer on the Platform Integration Efficiency Team @ Credit Karma

Architecture Enterprise Integrations Scaling GitHub Automation

- Tal Niv, GitHub

Developers build and ship software in a complex environment governed by laws, regulations, norms, and standard practices—policies. Policy decisions directly impact software every day. This talk will walk you through what GitHub defines as policy, why we do policy at GitHub, how we do policy, what we aim to achieve for all of us, and will focus on a couple of current examples.

Tal Niv

VP of Law & Policy @ GitHub

Operations Collaboration Open Source GitHub talk

- Felipe Hoffa, Google

“Data gives us insights into how people build software, and the activities of open source communities on GitHub represent one of the richest datasets ever created of people working together at scale.”—GitHub Universe 2016 With Google BigQuery anyone can easily analyze the more than five years of GitHub metadata and 42+ terabytes of open source code. Felipe Hoffa explains how to leverage this data to understand the community and code related to any language or project. Relevant for open source creators, users, and choosers, this is data that you can leverage to make better choices.

Felipe Hoffa

Developer Advocate @ Google

Code Open Source Community

3:30 pm

Break

4:00 pm

- Stefan Stölzle and Grace Park, GitHub, GitHub

Stefan Stölzle

Services Engineer @ GitHub

Grace Park

Services Solution Engineer @ GitHub

Code GitHub talk

- Rob Zuber, CircleCI

As companies scale, they’re likely to break things out into microservices. When that time comes, engineers are too eager to embrace their newfound freedom, throwing out the good with the bad. But this clean slate approach can have a severe impact on team velocity. Conventional wisdom maintains that decoupling reigns supreme, but the truth is that there’s a spectrum, depending on team size and complexity of the codebase. Learn how CircleCI walks the line between monolith and microservice, as CTO Rob Zuber discusses how we optimized service creation by embracing consistency and shared tooling.

Rob Zuber

CTO @ CircleCI

Code Architecture GitHub Partner Talk

- Lindsey Bieda, GitHub

In an age where oversharing information is the norm, users need to be increasingly aware of what they make public to an internet that never forgets. In this talk, we'll take a look at identity on the web and what users and sites can do to help protect personal information. We'll do an in-depth look at the safety and privacy tools on GitHub, user consent-driven feature designs, and best practices for keeping your users safe on your site.

Lindsey Bieda

Application Engineer, Community & Safety @ GitHub

Operations People Security GitHub talk

- Trent Willis, Netflix

“Move Fast & Break Things”, “Get Shit Done”, “Disrupt”. These are mantras of the tech and design industry. They praise speed and hard work but overlook a core element: people. When building software, we devote hundreds of hours to planning, organizing, building, and launching, but we often only spend a very small fraction of that same time thinking about the people responsible for those activities. Soft skills and emotional intelligence are critical components to building great software. In general, I have found technical audiences do not get as much exposure to these topics as they should. Understanding each other and knowing practical ways to keep each other motivated and encouraged will help us go beyond what our individual technical skills can accomplish. Let's talk about how we can proactively care for our team with the same passion we use when caring for our software. We’ll explore practical ways to change how we engage with each other to help us build a more supportive working environment and also deliver better products, faster.

Trent Willis

Senior UI Engineer @ Netflix

People Enterprise

4:40 pm

Break

4:50 pm

- Keavy McMinn, GitHub

GitHub's Platform offers powerful authentication tools and APIs to build the perfect tool to complete your workflow. Whether you're interested in building an integration for the GitHub Marketplace or scratch an itch by creating a tool for your team, this session will introduce you to GitHub's API, build a real GitHub integration step-by-step, and describe the differences in GitHub's Platform offerings. By the end of this session, you should be able to hit the ground running in building your own integration.

Keavy McMinn

Senior Platform Engineer @ GitHub

Code Integrations GitHub talk

- Lars Schneider, Autodesk & Todd O'Connor, Adobe

Managing GitHub Enterprise is much more than just provisioning an appliance. In this talk we will cover techniques and strategies how to manage a large scale appliance efficiently. We will share best practices for the initial setup, solutions for common issues, as well as debugging recommendations and tips for interacting with the GitHub support team. All topics will be accompanied by hands on tutorials or code examples that are directly applicable by GitHub Enterprise administrators. This talk gives GitHub Enterprise administrators of any size installation tips on how to setup, manage, and monitor their installation and obtain tech support help. Lars and Todd are qualified to speak on this topic as they administer GitHub Enterprise installations of over 3,500 and 8,000 users respectively and have day-to-day hands on experience with the topics covered in this talk.

Todd O'Connor

Senior SCM Engineer @ Adobe

Lars Schneider

Technical Lead for Git @ Autodesk

Architecture Enterprise Admin Scaling GitHub

- David Malan, Harvard University

CS50 is Harvard University's largest course and edX's largest MOOC. For years, the course relied on homegrown tools to manage students' homework submissions and teaching assistants' grading workflows. The course eventually migrated those tools to the cloud, leveraging IaaS but still reinventing too many wheels. The course has since embraced PaaS, with its server-side tools now Dockerized, and SaaS, with its client-side tools now implemented as abstractions atop GitHub. Via the latter, in particular, have we increased our efficiency and reduced our costs. We present in this session how and why we have leveraged GitHub to support CS50's thousands of students and hundreds of teachers.

David Malan

Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science @ Harvard University

Operations Integrations Education

- Jamie Strusz, GitHub

Invisible diseases (mental health conditions, neurologic disease, rheumatic disease, etc.) are harder to identify, vary widely, and are often misunderstood and stigmatized. As someone with Young Onset Parkinson's Disease, I'm personally familiar with how my working conditions, the attitudes of my colleagues, and my ability to disclose has affected the course of my disease. The theme of this talk is about how an empathetic, positive, and flexible work atmosphere is beneficial for people living with chronic disease, based on my personal account. Being productive and thriving at GitHub despite having Young Onset Parkinson's Disease has largely depended on working with empathetic people, but also the ability to work remotely, flexibility, and ultimately feel supported enough to disclose to those I work with. Companies can foster an atmosphere of trust that allows those dealing with chronic illness to self care, whether they choose to disclose or not.

Jamie Strusz

Services Engineer @ GitHub

People GitHub talk

7:30 - 12:00

github universe after party

Stage 1: Milky Way

Stage 2: Andromeda

Stage 3: Centaurus

Stage 4: Pegasus

9:00 am

Breakfast & Registration

10:00 am

Opening Keynote

- Jason Warner, SVP Technology @ GitHub

Jason Warner

Senior VP of Technology @ GitHub

11:00 am

Break

11:10 am

- Max Brunsfeld, GitHub

Developer tools that support multiple languages generally have very limited regex-based code-analysis capabilities. Tree-sitter is a new parsing system that aims to change this paradigm. We're in the process of integrating Tree-sitter into both GitHub.com and Atom, which will allow us to analyze code accurately and in real-time, paving the way for better syntax highlighting, code navigation, and refactoring support. We'll demo some new features that Tree-sitter has enabled in GitHub.com and Atom, discuss its implementation, and share thoughts on ways it could be used in the future.

Max Brunsfeld

Application Engineer @ GitHub

Code Atom Integrations GitHub Talk

- Shelley Vohr and Zeke Sikelianos, GitHub

In this session we'll take a high-level look at the Electron project. First, we'll kick off with a lightning presentation to illustrate what Electron is and how it works. Then we'll have a fireside chat with two members of GitHub's Electron team, addressing some of the most common questions we hear from the Electron community. The content should be useful to existing Electron developers as well as people just learning about the project.

Shelley Vohr

Application Engineer, Electron @ GitHub

Zeke Sikelianos

Electron Engineer @ GitHub

Electron GitHub Talk

- E. Dunham, Mozilla

The Servo browser engine, written in Rust, is a Mozilla initiative to test novel approaches to rendering the web and build components to improve Firefox. This talk is a tour through the infrastructure that powers Servo's development, showing how the project leverages GitHub to build a welcoming and highly productive international community. After this talk you'll understand how Servo gets the most out of GitHub and hopefully be inspired to improve your own projects with ideas from our tooling and culture as well.

E. Dunham

DevOps Engineer @ Mozilla

Architecture Open Source Community

- Monica Arrambide, Maven

With social media apps, digital photo enhancement at your fingertips, video capturing on your phone and 24hr virtual connecting, have you ever wonder what impact this technology has on a developing mind? What about a young person questioning their sexual identities and/or gender identity? When youth are becoming digital architects of a virtual self that has all the tech tool power of creating, editing and enhancing, what happens to the “real you?” The theme of this talk is about social awareness of tech impact on a young developing mind. With virtual spaces having unlimited access to youth, we need to create conversations on social responsibility with tech inventions. What policies and safeguards can the tech sector agree to implement when creating new tech tools? In the real world we have strict regulations in regards to what youth have access to (smoking, driving, porn, etc.), while the virtual world there is no strict regulations our outlines for youth.

Monica Arrambide

CEO & Founder @ Maven

People

11:50 am

Break

12:00 pm

- Machisté Quintana, Slack

One of Electron’s most compelling draws is the ability to not only build a desktop app with web technologies, but also to build around a pre-existing web app as a foundation. However, here there be dragons - performance hiccups, security vulnerabilities, and maintainability woes lurk in the shadows, waiting for you to unwittingly take a wrong turn. Come learn about best practices and common pitfalls to sharing code and UI components between the web and Electron worlds, learned from working on one of the most widely used production Electron apps.

Code Electron Integrations Security

- Terri Burns, Twitter

Last year, NPR did a story answering the question, can computers be racist? (Yes.) Not soon after, Microsoft launched an AI chatbot experiment, called Tay, which shut down when the software began spewing hateful speech online. One of the known fears of AI and machine learning is the notion of algorithmic bias, which can create or indirectly allow machines to learn prejudiced behavior. In this talk, we will explore what it really means to “teach” a computer to have prejudices, and what can happen product managers, designers, and engineers are not cognizant of their own biases. Appropriate for both technical and non-technical audiences. What Attendees Can Expect to Learn: Examples of “bad” computing, how personal beliefs and prejudice can manifest in code and product development, and ways to avoid personal bias in algorithms and products.

Terri Burns

Associate Product Manager @ Twitter

Architecture Product Design

- Meena Polich & Brooke Roundy, GitHub

Presented by Meena Polich, Managing Ops Counsel and Brooke Roundy, Legal Project Manager at GitHub, we’ll show you how our legal team uses GitHub. To most, GitHub is a platform by engineers, for engineers. The truth is, anyone can be a developer. Our legal team has embraced using GitHub to pioneer innovative legal practices for our business. We’re going to give you an overview and brief demo on why and how we use GitHub. The beauty of the platform is that anyone can learn how to use it. We’re going to show you how legal professionals can use GitHub to collaborate meaningfully, building the best businesses and software in the world.

Meena Polich

Managing Operations Counsel @ GitHub

Brooke Roundy

Legal Project Manager and Policy Analyst @ GitHub

Operations Collaboration GitHub Talk

- Kyle Daigle, GitHub

GitHub has a vibrant ecosystem of developer tools that our customers use every day. When the API launched 8 years ago, a few small integrations started to build businesses on top of GitHub's Platform. Today, there are thousands of tools that build on-top of GitHub to provide unique features and functionality to GitHub customers. In this session, we'll share best practices from some of GitHub's integration partners, lessons in scaling integrations for open source, business, and enterprise customers, and discuss how to sell your integration in GitHub Marketplace. You'll leave this talk with some tips for building a SAAS business on a thriving Platform like GitHub.

Kyle Daigle

Senior API Engineering Manager @ GitHub

Code Integrations GitHub Integrator Talk GitHub talk

12:40 pm

Lunch

1:40 pm

- Charity Majors, Co-Founder & Engineer @ honeycomb.io
- Sam Lambert, Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering @ GitHub

Join us for a spirited conversation with Charity Majors from Honeycomb.io and Sam Lambert from GitHub about trends in software development. Charity Majors brings her battle stories and experience in metrics and monitoring from Parse, Facebook, and Linden Lab to discuss why she created a company focused on observability for a distributed world.

Charity Majors

Co-Founder & Engineer @ honeycomb.io

Sam Lambert

Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering @ GitHub

2:10 pm

- Manohar Paluri, Research Lead, Computer Vision @ Facebook

Pushing the frontiers of video understanding is necessary to get closer to general AI. This talk, which has a large emphasis on approaching problems with a multi-modal understanding, will detail Facebook’s video understanding efforts, highlighting aspects from platform, models, data and infrastructure tools, as well as exploring how partnering with GitHub has been instrumental in the company’s progress on this front.

Manohar Paluri

Research Lead, Computer Vision @ Facebook

2:40 pm

Break

2:50 pm

- Bill Higgins, IBM and Jason Warner, GitHub

People often say that in order to achieve sustainable excellence in software, you need to get the culture right. This is true, but at this level, not very actionable. Over our years of building and deploying tools to development teams, we have found that providing the right tools can act as a catalyst for positive culture change. When you provide the right tools to your development teams at scale, you show that you’re serious about changing the way they work. When you help teams learn and master the modern practices that the tools enable, your teams get better at their craft. Your investment in tools and practices help create an environment that attracts and retains top talent. This is all easier said than done, and in this 40 minute panel discussion Bill Higgins, IBM Distinguished Engineer, along with Jason Warner, SVP of Technology of GitHub, discuss concrete strategies for rolling out great tools at scale, including: choosing the right tools, finding and empowering user champions, enabling effective continuous learning (in the context of doing work), gaining the support of senior leadership. Bill and Jason have many years of experience building and deploying tools, and now work closely together on the evolution of GitHub for Business and using GitHub at IBM.

Jason Warner

Senior VP of Technology @ GitHub

Bill Higgins

Distinguished Engineer @ IBM

Operations Enterprise Scaling GitHub GitHub talk

- John Arthorne, Shopify

Our company was steadily growing the number of production services, to the point where we had several hundred running web applications, most of which had poorly defined ownership and ad-hoc infrastructure. These applications had a patchwork of tools such as build and deployment automation, monitoring, alerting, and load testing, but with very little consistency and lots of gaps. This talk will dive into our approach to infrastructure automation, which involved integrating our GitHub repositories with automation tools through a common infrastructure database. This automation tracks required actions for service owners through GitHub Issues, and generates pull requests for common configuration and software changes. This talk will summarize lessons learned and how to leverage GitHub APIs and web hooks to build similar infrastructure automation tools.

John Arthorne

Production Engineering Lead @ Shopify

Architecture Automation Integrations Enterprise

- Eileen Uchitelle, GitHub

If contributing to open source was only about writing code, it would be easy. In reality open source exposes our insecurities and makes us feel vulnerable. Vulnerability can inspire change, but can also paralyze us for fear of not being good enough. In this talk we'll look at how vulnerability affects open source contributors and explore how maintainers can foster a welcoming community. Contributors will learn how to identify projects with empathetic leaders who value GitHub’s community standards. Cultivating a better environment for contributing makes open source more sustainable for all.

Eileen Uchitelle

Senior Systems Engineer, Ruby Performance @ GitHub

People Open Source Community GitHub Talk

- Konrad Djimeli, GitHub Campus Expert

This talk is mainly about the Silicon Mountain community which is know to be Cameroon's largest growing tech community. Silicon Mountain is located in Buea, in the South-West region of Cameroon just at the foot of the Mount Fako. This community is still very new and has gone through some refinement to get to where it is now. This talk provides some insight on how technology is being used to solve problems in this part of the world, the problems we are facing and how we are overcoming them against all odds. The community hopes to have a huge impact in technology within Africa and also in the world.

Konrad Djimeli

Computer Science Student @ GitHub Campus Expert

People Community

3:30 pm

Break

4:00 pm

- David Stolarsky, The New York Times

At The New York Times we have built an entire CMS in which the only stateful layer is the GitHub API. This vastly simplifies our infrastructure setup and maintenance, and gives us powerful primitives on which to build a collaborative content editing system used by writers, designers, photographers, editors, and even web developers. In this talk you will learn: how The New York Times uses the GitHub API to store documents in the CMS's intermediate format, how we support collaborative editing via the GitHub API, how we catalog our posts via the GitHub API, how we are able to support legacy ("custom") development at the same time, and how the GitHub ecosystem, e.g. CI services empower our CMS even further.

David Stolarsky

Software Engineer @ The New York Times

Architecture Collaboration Integrations

- Frances Haugen and Patrick Phelps, Pinterest

How do Jupyter Notebooks change how data intensive teams work? How do we build heterogeneous data communities? This talk focuses on how the analytical teams at Pinterest adopted Jupyter Notebook and Jupyter Server and how it changed how analysis is undertaken and communicated. We'll discuss the social side of data science and why unifying data acquisition, analysis, and presentation fundamentally changes the way insights are generated. Tradeoffs between ease-of-use and reusable code production will also be covered along with security implications of adoption in an enterprise context.

Frances Haugen

Data Product Manager @ Pinterest

Patrick Phelps

Head of Ads Data Science @ Pinterest

Architecture Data Community Open Source Enterprise Security

- Sara Cope, GSA

Open source has become a key part of almost every software solution and is at the center of many of today’s innovations. However, it’s still considered the primary domain of foundations and smaller projects. It’s time to give enterprise OSS a seat at the table and embrace enterprise mixed source development environments where open source, proprietary products and internal code exist alongside each other. The General Services Administration (GSA), part of the US federal government, is leading the open source adoption efforts across government in spite of numerous bureaucratic hurdles; so if we can do it, you can too. In this talk, the GSA Digital Service team will dig into the challenges encountered when adopting enterprise-level OSS and creating a culture of “Open First”. We’ll take a look at policy development, creating a code inventory, conducting code scans for new development, establishing an internal open source community and more.

Sara Cope

Front End Developer @ U.S. General Services Administration

Code Open Source Enterprise Community

- Alicia Carr, PEVO

This talk is about underlying women's issues and how they can be solved with tech. PEVO is a national domestic violence app created to ensure women and victims have the right resources in their hand. PEVO is designed to educate women on their rights and alternatives on what to do and how to know if they are being victims of Domestic Violence. The app includes information on employment rights, immigration, shelters, etc. and is available in 6 different languages: English, Korean, Spanish, Arabic, Urdu and Hindi.

People

4:40 pm

Break

4:50 pm

- Brian Douglas, Netlify

GraphQL is a legitimate way to build and consume APIs with less front end frustration. It has only been out of developer preview but truly shaking up the way front-end and mobile applications are being developed. Getting into open source projects can be a daunting process, and there are a lot of existing tools out there to assist in getting your first open source pull request including Code Triage, IssueHub, and of course firstpr.me. Open Sauced is one more tool to help by providing a platform to organize notes on potential projects the user has not yet contributed to by leveraging the now public GitHub GraphQL API. This talk will compare the GraphQL benefits over REST and walk through the implementation of live code implementing the open source GraphQL features using the Apollo project.

Brian Douglas

Web Developer @ Netlify

Code GraphQL Enterprise Open Source Integrations

- Flora Dai, Pandora

Today, data is produced on a massive scale but the ability to retrieve real-time data with accuracy and efficiency is essential to utilize the information we store. We will discuss how to implement an efficient search with open-source technologies and how Pandora applied it to music curation.

Flora Dai

Software Engineer @ Pandora

Architecture Data Open Source Enterprise

- Cindy Payne and Jim Grafmeyer, Nationwide

Once the hard benefits of GitHub are established and GitHub is your enterprise standard tool, how do you convert thousands of users and code repositories in less than a year without an IT project? At Nationwide, GitHub has been seen as a catalyst for the DevOps culture and practices. So walk the DevOps talk with your enterprise GitHub migration and ditch the traditional IT project. Learn everything Nationwide did differently for this enterprise tool roll-out and how it's accelerating delivery.

Cindy Payne

Leader of Nationwide's Tech Consulting Group @ Nationwide

Jim Grafmeyer

Digital Solutions Architect @ Nationwide

Operations Enterprise

- Dr. Emily Anhalt

The tech industry is realizing more and more that in order for a company to grow, employees must grow as individuals. Humans are emotional beings, and we bring our humanity with us to work every single day. This translates into the product that is being made, which is felt by those using the product. In Silicon Valley, where so much of the culture and community is rooted in the tech scene, having emotionally fit and healthy leaders and employees will have a hugely important ripple effect on society. Intended Audience: This talk is for anyone working in tech who wants to better understand the intersection of their emotional and occupational selves. It is for anyone who has worked with someone who seemed to be leaking their personal issues into the job. It is especially useful for anyone in a leadership position at work.

Dr. Emily Anhalt

Professional Psychologist

People

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Workshops

Conference Day 1

Conference Day 2

Breakfast & registration

Nerdy Git: all the super powered commands you have heard about, but are afraid to use

Cynthia Rich

GitHub and the Internet of Things: automate IoT hardware

Jamie Strusz

Stefan Stölzle

Creating an InnerSource culture

Matt Desmond

James Garcia

Break

Common challenges with Git in teams

Hector Alfaro

Build a chatbot

Briana Swift

Michael Johnson

Mental wellness in tech

Nadia Gathers

Amanda Gelender

Lunch

Building a Git repository using plumbing commands

Cynthia Rich

Electron: start to finish

Eric Hollenberry

Nathan Henderson

GitHub for managers

James Garcia

Break

Fine tuning your GitHub Flow: a deeper dive into GitHub workflows

Stefan Stölzle

Grace Park

How high performing software teams use Heroku pipelines for continuous delivery

Josh Lewis

Inclusion for leaders

Bianca Escalante

Heroku social

Breakfast & Registration

Opening Keynote

Chris Wanstrath

Break

Launching GitHub's public GraphQL API

Brooks Swinnerton

Managing GitHub at scale: episode II - attack of the clones

Frank Lamar

Alvaro Ramirez del Villar

Regulated industries, limitless possibilities: how Box, Deutsche Börse, and Accenture Federal Services stay compliant and innovative

Michael Filosa

Natalie Bradley

Sid Sidhu

Thomas Aidan Curran

Fostering open source culture for healthier minds

Amy Dickens

Break

GitHub driven refactoring

Ashley Ellis Pierce

Migrating to GitHub Enterprise safely and seamlessly

Dylan Vassallo

Microsoft <3's open source: becoming the biggest contributor

Edward Thomson

Accessibility: it's more than just screen readers

Stephanie Slattery

Lunch

Building inclusion from the inside out

Merritt Anderson

Jared Jones

Danielle Leong

Transformative changes in challenging times

Monica Arrambide

Break

Extending with GitHub: easy integrations with Probot

Jamie Jones

How GitHub combined with CI empowers rapid product delivery

Kashyap Parikh

Amit Mishra

Daniel Martinez

How tech policy is shaping the future of software

Tal Niv

What can we learn from 750 billion GitHub events and 42 TB of code?