YOW! Sydney 2019 has come and gone and what a conference it was. Here is my summary of the talks I attended (with sketchnotes). You can access a PDF of my sketchnotes here. Or find them all on twitter under #YOW19 and #Sketchnotes. Hopefully I’ll see you at the 2020 conference.
If you are interested in starting with sketchnotes, I have hints and tips here.
Table of Contents
Keynotes
Day 1: Gene Kim and The Unicorn Project
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Gene Kim is a well established author and consultant in the DevOps space. He’s written The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook and now his third book The Unicorn Project. I’m looking forward to reading the next one in the series. You can see a similar talk from DevOps Days Portland on youtube here:
Day 2: Troy Hunt and we are all pwned
Troy Hunt always gives an entertaining presentation and he’s a security expert from the Gold Coast, Queensland. He runs a website called, Have I been PWNED and the answer is most definitely always yes. He’s got a similar talk from NDC Sydney here:
Other Talks
Graphs & Investigative Journalism by Michael Hunger
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Quantum Computing by Matthew Keesan
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Growing your own Design Heuristics by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
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Interaction Protocols by Martin Thompson
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Level Up Quality, Security and Safety by Todd Montgomery
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Frictionless Frontends by Mandy Michael
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Full Stack Accessibility by Larene Le Gassick
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Standards by Nicola Nye
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Inventing the Future by Allen Wirfs-Brock
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Technical leadership matters by Dave Thomas
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How I CTO by Gil Tene
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