On Kotlin #9

Source Talks Community is proud to present - On Kotlin #9

About Softwire
Hosted by Softwire: We're thrilled to be partnering with Softwire, one of the UK's leading software development consultancies. Softwire is trusted by well-known organisations across the public and private sectors to deliver their high-profile digital projects.

Event Agenda
The format will be 5X Quickfire Presentations from various experts within the On Kotlin community, sharing their knowledge and demonstrating key insights into the programming language.

* Food and a selection of beers and soft drinks will be available for in person attendees.

This event will be in-person only, with video playback of the keynotes will be available via Source Group International's YouTube channel page in the days following the event.

📆 Thursday 19th September, 2024
⏱️ Event starts at 6:00 pm BST
📍 Softwire, 315 Highgate Studios, 53-79 Highgate Road, London, NW5 1TL

How to get there
🚆Closest Overground station - Gospel Oak (Overground)
🚉Closest Tube station - Tufnell park (Northern Line)

Capacity for attendees is limited to 90 people and this event will reach capacity. Be sure to register now to secure your space.

↓ Announced Speakers + Presentations ↓

Derek M Jones - (Director at Knowledge Software)
Presentation Title: The evidence around developer migration from Java to Kotlin
Bio: Derek spent 15 years writing compilers to process the code that developers wrote, and then another 10 years working in source code analysis trying to figure out what they meant to write. His latest book Evidence-based software engineering"
analyses all the publicly available software engineering data
pdf+code+all data freely available here: http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/

Apurva Akochar - (Associate Director of Engineering at Simple Machines)
Presentation Title: Ktor: A Mindset Change Beyond Spring
Bio: Apurva is the Associate Director of Engineering at Simple Machines, with extensive experience in Kotlin across diverse domains like IoT, Banking, Telecommunications, and Airlines. Her global career spans Austria, the UAE, the UK, Germany, and Portugal. Passionate about scalable solutions, she enjoys collaborating with teams to transform ideas into robust software.

Recently, she’s been exploring Ktor to push the boundaries of Kotlin beyond traditional uses. As a strong advocate for enhancing developer experience, Apurva is committed to creating efficient and enjoyable development environments.

Albert Latacz - (Partner at Clockwork and Lead Software Engineer)
Presentation Title: Shift-Left Kotlin - Towards sooner feedback
Bio: An engineering lead with a hands-on approach and a track record in building reliable software systems in banking, media and retail industries. Albert focuses on lean, incremental development, pragmatic programming, and delivering value without sacrificing quality. Recently, he has been passionate about mono-repositories and enhancing developer experience. Albert co-founded Monopolis, an Internal Developer Portal SaaS, to automate best practices and boost productivity for teams and organizations.

Aya Stead (Software Developer @ Softwire)
Presentation Title: Kotlin as a teaching language
Bio: I’m Aya, a Software Developer at Softwire with a passion for writing fun projects and solving interesting problems. With an interest in neurodiversity in tech, and better ways we can teach developers, I care about creating an inclusive and accessible industry to help new developers get started.

Franck Rasolo (Founding Partner at Clockwork / Principal Consultant at Typesafe Solutions)

Presentation Title: Enforcing software architecture rules in Kotlin: going from ArchUnit to Konsist.
Bio: Franck Rasolo is a hands-on software architect, engineer, and mentor with well over two decades of experience delivering reliable, repeatable, observable infrastructure and software systems to end users like clockwork using engineering discipline, extreme Programming practices, and much software automation.

As a proponent of delivering working software in short iterations and small increments, Franck has helped many teams improve their process with excellent results.

We look forward to seeing you at the event - sign up to secure your place!