Lightning (Tech) Talks at the Michael Kusalaba Library

Code Youngstown is excited to invite you to the brand new Michael Kusalaba Branch Public Library for our first Lightning (Tech) Talk event!

What is a Lightning Talk? A lightning talk is a very short presentation lasting only a few minutes, given at a conference or similar forum. Several lightning talks will usually be delivered by different speakers in a single session.

We'll be hosting ~5 talks, each up to 6 minutes long.

Speakers:

Ben Rinehart

• Basics of Design/UX for Backend Developers Who “Don’t Do Pretty"
• Some helpful basics, rules and tools that backend developers can use to ensure their apps look great and are usable by wide audiences with little knowledge needed of design theory.

James Kleeh

• Compile Your Queries with Micronaut!
• Micronaut Data is a database access toolkit that uses Ahead of Time (AoT) compilation to pre-compute queries for repository interfaces that are then executed by a thin, lightweight runtime layer.

Jeff Rimko

• FZF Demo
• FZF is a cross platform CLI fuzzy finder. Let's review installation and some use cases.

Keith Logan

• One Million Jobs - Doing the "Patchwork on the Pipeline"
• This tech talk is about raising the awareness concerning the one million tech jobs (available by 2020) vs. Youngstown's unemployment rate. The talk also highlights efforts to increase the visibility among people of color within the technology industry.

Chris Palmer

• Live Coding Music with Sonic-Pi
• A quick tutorial of how to get started with Sonic-Pi and a demonstration of live coding music

Lindsay Czopur

• Agile, Atlassian and You
• Discover best practices of highly effective Agile teams, including how the use of Atlassian tools like Jira help shape development methods. Explore what Jira is, the options it provides and how it used by some of the biggest and best teams in the world to develop the future of software. We will also discuss other Atlassian products, and how each can help your organization unleash the potential of Agile teams.

Aaron Hunt

• Civil: The Game
• Essentially, I am presenting my game. I'm 1.7 years into development,
  and things are going strong. I have a very strong community built, a
  website that pulls thousands of people, a Valve-verified Steam Page in
  the works, and more. I'd like to use this presentation time as a way to
  meet up with people who are interested in what I have to offer.