Online 7th edition of I TAKE Unconference
Bringing good news for the tech community: the I T.A.K.E. Unconference comes back with the 7th edition on the 7th of April 2020.
With so many events canceled this Spring, we’ve decided the time came to innovate and change the format once more in order to answer to today’s needs and challenges.
As firm believers in continuous improvement, we plan to overcome the barriers that might restrict learning in this period. How we plan to do that? By going online and bringing you international speakers and top-notch practitioners in the comfort of your own office or home.
How is the 7th edition of I TAKE Unconference special?
- Focus is placed upon new innovative approaches to modular architecture
- Brings together international speakers and top-notch professionals from Europe, the USA and all over the world
- The sessions include practical examples with the latest techniques applied in various environments, programming languages & technologies
- Fast-paced, dynamic learning atmosphere
- Overcoming travel challenges of this Spring
We invite you to discover more on Modular Architecture in the Age of Cloud Computing – this edition’s topic.
Want to be part of this not-to-miss event? You are welcome to join our group of supporters and partners and bring innovation one step further. Just let us know and we can make it happen.
Let’s continue sharing knowledge by preserving the feeling of a community of peers who learn together.
Meet the speakers – Part 3
Software craftsmen from more than 15 countries will meet in the heart of Bucharest, 19-20 May, at I T.A.K.E Unconference! For 2 days, around 30 speakers will share insights, latest trends, and deliver hands-on sessions.
In Meet the Speakers Part I and Part II, we shared more about the first 10 speakers who will make this year event a one not to be missed. Below, you can read more about the next 5:
Yegor Buhayenko, CTO at Teamed.io, USA
Talk To Your Microservice Via a Chat Bot, not UI (Talk)
It seems that chat bots are a more effective way of interaction between web (micro-)services and users than traditional HTML user interfaces.
Alexandru Badiu, Development Lead at Corbis, Romania
Maintaining a Node.JS OSS package (Live coding)
How to setup a development pipeline for your Node.JS project.
Hugo Meeser, Owner at Bridge Global, Netherlands
How to successfully manage remote teams (Workshop)
Participants will create a best practice board in teams of 5-6 people.
Ionut G. Stan, Software Developer at Eloquentix, Romania
Let’s Write a Parser! (Live coding)
One weird trick to write parsers. Compiler engineers will hate you!
Milen Dyankov, Senior Consultant at Liferay, Poland
Microservices and Modularity or the difference between treatment and cure! (Live coding)
An attempt to analyze the problems microservices claim to solve and explore other possible solutions!
Want to challenge the current programming practices as these software craftsmen are doing? Want to experience new techniques, debate on the existing ones or even pair program in the I T.A.K.E Unconference space?
Get your Super Early Bird ticket today!
Stay tuned. We will continue publishing more about the program, speakers and the dynamic learning practices awaiting you.
Thrilled to see you in May!
Patroklos Papapetrou’s I T.A.K.E. Unconference 2015 Retrospective
Blog post by Patroklos Papapetrou, originally appeared on his blog. Republished with permission. Thanks Patroklos for your active participation during the unconference.
ITAKE Unconference 2015 Retrospective
Last week I had the chance to attend both as a speaker and an attendee my first un-conference. Actually I would categorize ITAKE as a mix of conference and un-conference. The overall agenda and the way the event is structured is very intelligent and it makes people communicate more and exchange ideas in various ways. To be honest it’s the first event I attended where speakers and attendees are all together, writing code, pairing, solving problems while having dinner, discussing, listening and sharing knowledge. It doesn’t matter if you are a famous keynote speaker or a junior developer who just graduated from the university. Everyone can talk and discuss for every possible topic that interests you. Here are the “little” things I loved about ITAKE.
- Talk duration : 35′ including questions. Oh yes. No more endless talks with 50+ slides and audience looking at the windows or the watch ready to jump out of the room. In the beginning I was struggling to find which slides I could remove from my presentations but at the end I enjoyed so much my talks that I think I will always do the same even I have 50′ for my talks
- Small rooms : 40 people at most except the keynote sessions. The feeling that you get when you discuss ( not present ) your topic in front of 40 people in a very small room is awesome. People feel so free to ask questions during the talk and that’s why I regard it as discussion rather than talk. Besides when the room gets crowded and people are forced to stand up because there are no more seats, the feeling as a presenter is even better 😉
- The Venue : Amazing hotel, great organization, excellent food and coffee all two days in the center of the beautiful city of Bucharest.
- Open space : OK I have to admit. Before going to the event, I was very skeptical about the open-space part of ITAKE. How 250+ people will get organized in 20′ and discuss so many topics in a structured way? Well, if you want to know how it’s done, then book your calendar for next year’s ITAKE. 42 different topics were discussed in the different open space spots.
Our facilitator, Mike Sutton, was amazing. He literally moved us like puppets and from empty space we had a full of interest topics in just a few minutes.
My contribution:
- Holding down your technical debt with SonarQube : My oldie but Goldie talk squeezed in 35′
- How to boost development’s team speed : My newest mini-workshop. Amazing how many suggestions and ideas we exchanged with all the participants.
- Continuous Inspection as part of Continuous Deployment : Open space topic with tens of attendees and several side-topics came up to the “table” during the discussion
- Real-life stories from teams that moved from tradition deployment to cloud deployment : As expected, there were not that many stories but I learned a lot of stuff from people that are effectively using Amazon for the cloud infrastructure and deployments.
I had the chance to meet also all the organizers and the folks behind ITAKE un-conference. You rock guys and I’m pretty sure that the event will become better and better every day. Thank you for having me part of this year’s event and looking forward to seeing you around Europe in another (un-)conference.
Did you also attend the unconference? Are you curious what others said? People are talking about it on Twitter using the #itakeunconf hashtag.