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Lightning (Tech) Talks at Westside Bowl

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Lightning (Tech) Talks at Westside Bowl

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Code Youngstown is excited to invite you to our second (annual?) Lightning (Tech) Talk event!

We'll be hosting 7 tech-related talks, each up to 6 minutes long, at Westside Bowl on Tuesday August 24th at 6:00pm!

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.

Doors 6:00pm, talks 6:30pm. Food and drink purchasable at the bar.

Speakers:

Chris Palmer

  • Slick Python One-Liners
  • An introduction to comprehensions in python

Anthony Hake

  • Digital Divide - Our Solution
  • Without computers, internet, or skills to use them many Valley residents miss out on opportunities everyone should have access to. Anthony Hake discusses Oak Hill Collaborative's strategy to turn the Valley's "Digital Divide" into our "Digital Advantage".

Mike Walker

  • Design Patterns
  • Taking you from a Programmer to a Software Engineer

Chris Harwell:

  • How to get into tech: my non-conventional approach
  • How I got my first software engineering job and lessons I learned in the process

Joe Duncko:

  • SWBF2.events - A Side Project
  • From idea to 3,500 unique visitors a month

Sam Malaska

  • Modernizing frontend build systems
  • Examples and lessons from replacing Require.js with Webpack at Drund

Jacob Bryan McFall

  • Adventures in Indie Game Dev
  • An informal exploration into game development using Unity presented by SouthWater Games.

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To be able to hold the event safely, please help us in following CDC guidelines: masks are optional if vaccinated, but still encouraged. If you don't feel well, we ask that you not attend. Thank you!

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