ECMAScript 6 Deep Dive and Node.js in an Aircraft

Two great talks in one awesome night!

ECMAScript 6 Deep Dive

With the recent implementation of ECMAScript 6 (ES6), JavaScript has seen the addition of several powerful features such as Classes, Destructuring, Modules, Symbols, Generators and much, much more. In this talk, we will begin with an overview of new features in ES6. Next, we will dive deeper into ES6 through the use of code examples, while analyzing the advantages against their ES5 counterparts.

About the Speaker

David Leonard is currently in his last year at the City College of New York, where he is pursuing his Master's Degree in Computer Science. He recently completed an internship with Yahoo! over the Summer in Sunnyvale, California, and will be joining Yahoo! full-time in New York City after graduating in Spring 2016. A Game Developer at heart, he lives and breathes JavaScript and enjoys learning and teaching all that he can about emerging technologies.

Node.js in an Aircraft: Case Finnair A350 IFE

Deploying software into an aircraft is like trying to navigate through a jungle of corporate processes. It's difficult and it's time consuming. Furthermore, from the passengers perspective, the experience is exactly the same as anywhere in the Internet. The only thing that is different with deploying software to an airplane is everything.
The session will explain how Reaktor brought Finnair's IFE into the 21th century.

About the Speaker

Petteri Parkkila works at Reaktor (http://reaktor.com) (@reaktornow), a Finnish creative software company. He and his team designed and implemented the Inflight Entertainment System for Finnair, the leading airline in Scandinavia. Petteri has over 10 years of experience in the software industry from which the last 3 years is in the domain of aircraft software. Software technologies throughout his career cover both imperative as well as declarative programming languages.