ThoughtWorks Chicago: Build Your Own Radar

Build Your Own Radar (https://info.thoughtworks.com/chicago-byo-radar-2017.html)

Chef or Ansible? Learn React Native or jump into Swift? Which techniques are hot and which are not?

Join ThoughtWorks for a night of food, drink, and mingling as we explore how technologists can grapple with these questions and make smart choices about the tools, techniques, frameworks, and languages they use in their projects.

Our speakers will talk about the themes behind the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar, which compiles years of experience across different domains to provide well thought-out opinions on many of the trends that are coming and going today. You'll finish off the night by learning how to build your own radar and how to use it as a tool to help you and your projects.

Rebecca Parsons

Dr. Rebecca Parsons is ThoughtWorks’ Chief Technology Officer. She has more years of application development experience than she cares to admit, in industries ranging from telecommunications to emergent internet services. She has extensive experience leading in the creation of large-scale distributed object applications and the integration of disparate systems.

Neal Ford

Neal's titles are Director, Software Architect, and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks. He is also the designer and developer of applications, articles, video presentations, and author and/or editor of an increasingly large number of books spanning a variety of subjects and technologies, including his most recent Presentation Patterns and Functional Thinking. His professional focus includes designing and building of large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally known speaker, speaking at over 700 developer conferences worldwide, delivering more than 3000 presentations.

Agenda

6:00-6:30pm: Registration & Refreshments
6:30-6:40pm: Welcome & Introduction to Tech Radar
6:40-7:40pm: Theme Speakers (15 minutes each)
7:40-7:50pm: Break
7:50-8:50pm: Build Your Own Radar
8:50-9:00pm: Closing & Questions

All attendees are expected to abide by our Code of Conduct (https://www.meetup.com/devops/pages/19194929/Code_of_Conduct/).