Fronteers BE at Ghent

Halloween just passed and by then so will St Nicholas (Sinterklaas), but you are still in for a treat? Join us on the 7th December at the Lighthouse (formerly OTA Insight) office in Ghent and we'll treat you to a few frontend talks! 🍭

P.S. Want to speak at a Fronteers BE event in 2024? Leave your info: https://tally.so/r/waXWX3

🎉 Evening Program 🎉

• ​18h00 - 🚪 Doors open & start of networking + food
• ​19h00 - 🙋‍♀️ Introduction by Fronteers BE & Lighthouse
• 19h20 - Talk #1: Our design system journey: Web Components and Ember by Arnaud Weyts
• 20h00 - 🍷 ----- Break ----- 🥤
• 20h20 - Talk #2: Finding the logic behind abstractions by Denis Valcke
• 21h00 - 🥤 Drinks and networking till the end of the event

About Lighthouse
Lighthouse is on a mission to help the hospitality industry visualise and leverage data for business success.

👩‍🏫 TALK & SPEAKER INFO 👨‍🏫

Talk #1: Our design system journey: Web Components and Ember by Arnaud Weyts

A design system built using Stencil.js, leveraging the Web Components API to make sure our components are framework-independent and just work™️. Sounds great right?

We’ll cover the inception of Lighthouse's design system, how we integrated it inside of our Ember apps and how everything held up.

About Arnaud
Arnaud Weyts is a Senior Frontend Engineer at Lighthouse. Together with the rest of the platform team he loves getting into the nitty gritty of technical issues and has a passion for incorporating design systems to make a product engineer's life easier.

Talk #2: Finding the logic behind abstractions by Denis Valcke
Development focus in recent years has moved from knowing languages like JavaScript to knowing frameworks and libraries like React, Angular, Redux. As our dependency on these abstractions grows, it's hard for newcomers to make sense of what is happening behind the screens. The intent of this talk is to pique your interest and show you that looking behind the veil isn't hard at all, but highly rewarding still.

About Denis
Denis is a lead JS developer at Studio Hyperdrive. As a self-taught coming into the web dev world 10 years ago, he tried to absorb as much knowledge as he could from peers and articles. Now he shares his knowledge to help students, trainees and peers. Make sure to go have a chat after the talk about development, beekeeping, a good book or TV show you've recently seen, ...
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Parking info
The Lighthouse office is on the 8th floor of the main Zuiderpoort building called Atrium.

For those arriving by car or by bike, there is parking space available in the underground Q-Park. (Bicycles can park in front of the building or via the tunnel in front of the "spaces" building.

Public transport
When arriving by train, the closest station is Ghent Sint-Pieters. After arriving, there are multiple buses you can take to the office building. Check Google Maps for the most up to date information. Alternatively you could also do it on foot which takes just under half an hour. (or with a bluebike)