Web Zurich

Whatapp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/FxOfVTK9nf431xHtVl3eGK
Website: https://webzurich.ch

18:30 ~ 19:00
Arrival time with drinks, chat

19:00 ~ 19:10
Welcome and introduction

19:10 ~ 19:30
Anita Metodieva
The FRIDGE framework
Managing challenges in an era of disruptions and nostalgia.

19:30 ~ 19:50
Bogdan Ilie
How to not use AI. Or staying sane in a frenzied world
Since the advent of transformer models, the cost of being wrong has gone down a lot... That is, if you're just wrong about an experiment you're running or a PoC you're building.

But if you let yourself get used to Tab+Accept in your day-to-day, you're not only risking decision fatigue, but also potentially throwing your dopamine response off balance, leading to judgement errors, degrading skill, and maybe even burnout.

I'm going to be sharing first-hand experiences and learnings from many others about how they make it work. I'll be pulling in examples from my work, from building a community and conference in Zurich, from mentoring at hackathons with up to 600 participants, and from interacting with hundreds of engineers over the past two years.

Let's have an honest conversation about the slot-machine harnesses and what we can do to ensure a sustainable future for our problem-solving brains.

19:50 ~ 20:10
Faris Aziz
Engineering ZurichJS
For the first time, we’re pulling back the curtain on the engineering behind ZurichJS Conf before the conference goes live.

This is the story of designing and running a multi-hundred-person international conference as a side project, from the product ideas and operational tooling to the systems that keep tickets affordable, workflows resilient, and a tiny team moving quickly.

Across more than 1,000 commits, we’ve had to build, distribute, scale, and continuously iterate on the platform under severe time constraints and limited resources.

This talk is about what that actually looked like, the creative product decisions behind it, the shortcuts that worked, the ones that did not, and the lessons from building something that has to operate like a real platform without the team or resources normally behind one.

20:10 onward
More drinks & chat
We look forward to see you there!

Location
https://zurich.impacthub.ch/space/bogen_d/
Viaduktstrasse 93, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland

Visit our website https://webzurich.ch/ for more information about the Web Zurich community.

This event is supported by Impact Hub Zürich, The global community of entrepreneurial people prototyping the future of business. At Impact Hub, you can connect, collaborate, co-work and create great content in an inspiring environment.

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About the organizers

• Bogdan Ilie is a user advocate. He's dipped his toes into Web Development, Technical Writing, Marketing, Design, and more. That makes him uniquely predisposed to identify improvement opportunities anywhere in the chain, or come up with unique solutions to problems. Nowadays, he's building websites and webapps at novu ag, using his beloved framework, Vue.
• Faris Aziz is a front-end master and Staff Software Engineer at Smallpdf, after his Engineering management job at Navro, a fintech company in the UK. Faris is a mentor, conference speaker, and workshop instructor, most recently at CityJS and other major conferences. He has contributed to open-source projects like Raycast and has mentored on platforms like Mentor Cruise. His projects include work on GCN, Eurosport, Discovery+, Fiit (a top UK fitness app), and he was the founding engineer of Navro in London. He also serves as a technical mentor at the Bletchley Institute.
• Nadja Hesselbjerg is a Zurich-based frontend developer with a flair for crafting sleek, user-friendly web experiences. With a passion for innovative UX/UI design, she transforms complex ideas into intuitive digital solutions. Her multicultural background adds a unique perspective to her work. When she's not coding, Nadja is likely exploring the latest design trends or enjoying the vibrant Swiss tech scene.

Who are the awesome sponsors and partners?

• Fin is your Tax advisor in Switzerland, guiding you through all the jargon and financial and tax matters. Expat? Easily file your Swiss Tax Return with

FIN. Trusted by ZurichJS members

• GYFF is a Swiss platform that facilitates connections between IT experts and businesses, where they vet both the companies and the freelancers, so the collaboration goes smoothly.

Get involved

• Have an interesting idea?
• Something missing from all meetups in this space?
• Do you have feedback?
• Wanna buy us a coffee?
• Got a venue idea? We love rotating locations to showcase Zurich’s tech ecosystem. Reach out, we’re always scouting fresh spots for our upcoming events.

There are multiple ways to get in touch:

• conf.zurichjs.com - get your conference ticket and find out more!
• meetup.zurichjs.com - the source of truth for all things zurichjs, including all social links to follow us and interact with us online

Our goal is to create a space where everyone can bring value and feel like they are getting something out of it.
We are open to sponsorships and partnerships, and we would appreciate you sharing the event and message us about opportunities.
We are also committed to fostering a respectful and psychologically safe space where anyone can share their ideas. If this is your first time speaking, or if you need help preparing for a talk, we are happy to offer guidance and support.

Check out the workshops here: https://conf.zurichjs.com/workshops

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