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Latest talks (10-20 mins each.). Tech Confluence,, is a lunchtime meet-up of developers, designers and generally amazing people in downtown Denver to present and discuss software related topics. The focus is on software engineering, design, running projects and companies, and the intersection of technology and society.

Events are hybrid. See the individual events for the Zoom link or join us in person in Denver (normally at Flatirons School / SecureSet Academy)

Normal format is 
1.  Load up a plate of food, find a place to sit and say hello to some new people.
2. Three 10 minute talks.
3. Attendees volunteer to give an upcoming talk.
Optionally, stick around after to chat with speakers and attendees.

Past talks have included:

MVP to Scale, Paired Design Work, Agile process, Machine Learning, Node.js, Redis, OpenColorado.org, Pair programming, Backbone.js, Remote Pairing, CSS media queries, Google Prediction API, Integrated Design & Dev, Agile Testing, Generative Adversarial Networks, Improving Education
Pair Programming, Multi-Variate Testing, Creating a Bastion Server; Open source licensing, Increasing transparency, Amazon Web Services, Spritely, Information Design,
Android with Phonegap, Consumer Virtual Reality, Lexing and Parsing, Intro to Clojure, Amazon Authentication, 3D Printing, MongoDB, Apache Pig, CouchDB, BigQuery, S3, Mahout,
Regression Analysis, Yoga at your desk, Writing Better Bug Reports, Storm, Who Tests and Why, Mysql Schema Changes, Sharing Tests between Apps.
Applying Regression, VI tips and tricks, Designing APIs, Intern Diaries, Chrome debugger tips, Custom AMIs vs Trad Conf Mgmt, Language dependency parser, d3, App Stores,
Migrating MongoDB to Cassandra, Solr Cloud, Core.async, AngularJs, Structural search in chrome debugger, CloudFoundry, Amazon VPC, Managing multiple teams' backlogs,
Pebble Smart Watch, Monads, Gestures with Angular, ClojureScript, Dev Ops Intro, Cynefin and testing, Appstore apps for fun and profit, Generative testing, Software Engineering for CEOs, Docker,
Interpersonal Communication, Software Complexity, Microservices, Machine Learning overview, TensorFlow, HyperGAN. 
And that was just the first couple of years. We have had more than 250 talks and just passed 10 years of great community and sharing. Thank you!

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