Shift Miami 2024

Developer Experience & API

Shift Miami is back, continuing its tradition of delivering immersive experiences that unite developers, tech enthusiasts, and industry experts. In 2024, we delve into the heart of digital evolution by exploring the impactful synergy of APIs in the realm of Developer Experience.

Speakers:

Industry thought leaders on API design and management.
Representatives from major API-centric companies.
Developers with significant contributions to the API community.
Tech masters are focusing on API trends and future predictions.

Tickets are required to attend. Click here for more information.

This is a hybrid event. Join the event virtually at https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-miami-presents-shift-miami-2024/
or in person at

Pérez Art Museum Miami - 1103 Biscayne Boulevard Miami, 33132

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Agenda

Day 1

7:00 PM: Setting the Tone

Kickstart your Shift Miami journey with a pre-conference gathering in the evening. It’s a chance to mingle with fellow attendees, speakers, and the who’s who of the tech industry. Set the tone for the insightful days ahead as you network in a relaxed, friendly ambiance.

Day 2

9:00 AM: Conference Day

The core of Shift Miami unfolds on this day.

Dive into a series of engaging sessions led by industry trailblazers. Each session is meticulously curated to unravel the impact of APIs in enhancing Developer Experience.

The learning and interaction continue into the evening with an afterparty. Unwind, discuss the day’s insights, and foster new connections in a lively, fun setting.

Day 3

9:00 AM: Workshops Day

Roll up your sleeves for a hands-on experience during our workshop sessions. Led by seasoned experts, these workshops are designed to provide practical skills and deeper understanding of APIs in the realm of Developer Experience.

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Speakers

Mary Thengvall - Camunda (Director of Developer Relations)

Mary Thengvall is a connector of people at heart, personally and professionally. She loves digging into the strategy of how to build and foster developer communities and has been doing so for over 10 years. Mary is the Director of Developer Relations at Camunda, a source-available and developer-friendly product that allows you to design, automate, and improve any process across your organizati…

Katie Miller - Data Protocol (Developer Relations Advisor)

Katie Miller is a Developer Marketing leader and currently advising Data Protocol, after having built and managed developer programs and marketing initiatives for Slack, Asana, and Google. While her career has taken some interesting twists and turns (dental school admissions, cookbook editing to name a few), at its core has been a commitment to creating a better world by empowering people thro…

Christian Bach - Netlify (Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer)

Chris Bach is Chief Strategy and Creative Officer and co-founder of Netlify, launched in 2015 and today is one of the most popular web development platforms. He is on the Board of the MACH Alliance, is an avid investor in the modern web ecosystem, and sits on a number of executive and advisory boards. Before Netlify he spent 14 years in the agency world as a founder, CEO and Chief Digital Offi…

Adrienne Braganza Tacke - Cisco (Sr. Developer Advocate & DevNet Community Programs Lead)

Adrienne Tacke is a Filipina software engineer, keynote speaker, published author of the book Coding for Kids: Python, and a LinkedIn Learning instructor who specializes in Cloud Development courses. Perhaps most important, however, is that she spends way too much money on desserts and ungodly amounts of time playing Age of Empires II.

Talia Nassi - Akamai Technologies (Lead Developer Advocate)

Talia Nassi is a Lead Developer Advocate at Akamai Technologies and international keynote speaker who delivers content on building in the cloud, testing, and Linode. She enjoys helping developers understand how to build efficient applications in the cloud seamlessly and at scale.

Larry Maccherone - Contrast Security (DevSecOps Architect)

Larry's work has empowered 600 development teams to take ownership of the security of their software. He embodies a rare combination of deep cybersecurity background with current software development experience. He was a founding Director at Carnegie Mellon's CyLab and co-led the launch of Build-Security-In initiative but is also the author of a dozen or so open source projects, one of which g…

Brian Rinaldi - LaunchDarkly (Developer Experience Engineer)

Brian Rinaldi is a Developer Experience Engineer at LaunchDarkly with over 20 years experience as a developer for the web. Brian is actively involved in the community running developer meetups via CFE.dev and Orlando Devs. He's the editor of the Jamstacked newsletter and co-author of The Jamstack Book from Manning.

Baruch Sadogursky - Gradle (Principal Developer Advocate)

Baruch Sadogursky (@jbaruch) did Java before it had generics, DevOps before there was Docker, and DevRel before it had a name. He started DevRel at JFrog when it was ten people and took it all the way to a successful $6B IPO by helping engineers solve problems. Now Baruch keeps helping engineers solve problems but also helps companies help engineers solve problems. He is a co-author of the "Li…

Meade Kincke - Imperfektus (Founder & CEO)

A thought leader with over 17 years of experience and expertise. As a visionary and accomplished forerunner, Meade consistently drives innovation, scales organisations, and has held pivotal roles in various high-growth startups to Fortune 500 companies. His passion for fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning has not only resulted in remarkable achievements, bu…

Christine Spang - Nylas (CTO/Co-founder)

Christine Spang is the Co-Founder & CTO of Nylas, where she leads Nylas' engineering and technical strategy along with her focus on building, delivering, and scaling Nylas' services worldwide. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Christine has been recognized for her work with APIs, software development, and the greater technical community and has spoken at numerous events such as Collision, PyCo…

Jeremy Meiss

Jeremy is a Developer Relations and Community leader, formerly the Director of DevRel & Community at CircleCI, and previously at Solace, Auth0, and XDA. With almost 30 years in Tech, covering just about every functional area including Support, SysAdmin, Application Developer, Program Manager, and Business Analyst, Jeremy is active in the DevRel and DevOps communities, and is a co-creator o…

Emmy Cao - Wix (Developer Advocate)

With an education in psychology and social sciences as well as tech industry work experience, Emmy loves to talk about where technology intersects with humanity. Currently, they work as a developer advocate at Wix and love helping and learning from the developer community.

Sean Falconer - Skyflow (Head of Marketing & Developer Relations)

Sean Falconer is Head of Developer Relations at Skyflow. Sean spends his time building, writing, speaking, and connecting with communities about engineering and data privacy. He has a wide range of interests and expertise, including full stack development, developer experience, and API design. Prior to Skyflow, Sean led developer relations for Google's Business Communications product suite and…

Alex DeBrie - DeBrie Advisory (Principal)

Alex is an AWS Data Hero, an independent consultant, and the author of The DynamoDB Book, the comprehensive guide to data modeling with DynamoDB. He was an early employee at Serverless, Inc., creators of the Serverless Framework, and was an early community member in the serverless space. His consulting and training work focuses on serverless architectures and database optimization. You can fin…

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