Track Overview
Social Responsibility: Implications of Building Modern Software
Software has an ever-increasing impact on individuals and society. Understanding these implications helps build software that works for all users. This track will look at some of the overlooked considerations that are central to building socially responsible modern software: the environmental impact, the impact of certain designs on global audiences, and the ethics of some of the things we build. Tune in for three different but important viewpoints on this topic.
From this track
How to Work in Tech and Not Wreck the Planet
Wednesday Nov 18 / 12:00PM EST
The world is changing. The past five years have been the warmest since records began. Human activity, including the IT industry, is driving worrying climate change. The cloud gives us dazzling computational possibilities, and … potentially uses a lot of energy.The beauty of the cloud is...
Holly Cummins
Senior Technical Staff Member @IBM Garage
Utopia or Dystopia? 10 Ways Tech Will Destroy Us All! Or Will It?
Wednesday Nov 18 / 12:50PM EST
Killer robots? Cyberwarfare? Mass surveillance? A fast spin through the major ethical issues facing the tech industry. Pros and potential cons...
anne currie
Chief Strategist @containersoluti (Container Solutions)
Building Inclusive Software: Considerations and Constraints
Wednesday Nov 18 / 01:40PM EST
Going beyond classic web accessibility considerations like screen reader support and multi-language support, Sitati’s talk will focus on less often discussed implementation decisions that exclude millions of users, especially those in the developing world where many classic assumptions...
Sitati Kituyi
CTO @Pula, former CTO @FrontlineSMS
Connecting the Dots: Considerations in Modern Software Development
Wednesday Nov 18 / 02:30PM EST
At QCon, we get the opportunity to hear about new and interesting ways to tackle the technical challenges we face. We leave energized and eager to apply some of the solutions and alternatives that we’ve learned with our own teams. However, it can be difficult to connect the dots between the...
Holly Cummins
Senior Technical Staff Member @IBM Garage
anne currie
Chief Strategist @containersoluti (Container Solutions)
Sitati Kituyi
CTO @Pula, former CTO @FrontlineSMS
Speakers from this track
Holly Cummins
Senior Technical Staff Member @IBM Garage
Holly Cummins is the worldwide development practice lead for the IBM Garage. As part of the Garage, Holly delivers technology-enabled innovation to clients across a range of industries, from banking to catering to retail to NGOs. She has led projects to count fish, help a blind athlete run...
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anne currie
Chief Strategist @containersoluti (Container Solutions)
Anne Currie has been in the tech industry for over 20 years working on everything from Microsoft Back Office Servers in the 90's to international online lingerie in the 00's to cutting edge devops and the impact of orchestrated containers in the 10's. Anne has co-founded tech startups...
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Sitati Kituyi
CTO @Pula, former CTO @FrontlineSMS
Sitati is an engineering team lead based in Nairobi, Kenya. In his current role as CTO at Pula, he leads a distributed engineering team in building agricultural insurance tech infrastructure, through which over 1.3 million smallholder farmers across Africa are insured. As CTO at FrontlineSMS, he...
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David Millar
Content & Product Manager @QCon
Track Host
David Millar
Content & Product Manager @QCon
I am the Content & Product Manager charged with pulling together QCon and InfoQ Live. Previously, I’ve worked as the product manager for FrontlineSMS - an award wining last-mile messaging platform used across Africa. I’ve also worked as a campaign technologist, assisting political...
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