Animation can work wonders for the look and feel of a website. Used carefully it can enhance the user experience by providing context, focus and feedback to users, as well as making mundane interactions a little more fun. When combined with the flexibility of SVG, developers can easily create animated graphics that help their users and add personality to their websites using just a few lines of code.

This workshop is aimed at absolute beginners who would like to learn how to animate images on the web. A basic knowledge of CSS and JavaScript is helpful but not required as everything you'll need to know will be explained during the workshop. The main thing is to have a go, and have fun!

During the workshop we will cover:

• The basics of SVG
• Animating SVG using CSS
• Animating SVG using GreenSock’s JavaScript animation library
• Tips for optimizing performance
• Tips for browser compatibility

By the end of the workshop you will have created your very own animation you can use to impress and entertain your friends and colleagues.

Link to slides: http://slides.com/catmackenzie/animating-svg?token=LIfmFA5X

As technology moves forward in a rapidly increasing pace, new expectations on tailored products and services are arising. At the same time change seems to be the new constant and you need to innovate to still be in the game a few years up the road.

Design Thinking is a mindset and a method of human centered innovation that meet the challenges of tomorrow. In this workshop we will dive in and get our hands dirty, getting a taste of what design thinking is all about. 

As a developer in 2018, you make amazing and impressive solutions, but what happens when we strip away all those "fancy pants" tools & frameworks that you love so much? Can you make a website without emmet, sass/less, and without watching your own work along the way?

We are hosting a "Coding in the dark" competition with a small twist. The competition involves creating a website using a simple editor and a desired endresult. Your task is to make a website based on this without ever getting to test it or see your progress along the way.

The winner will be announced at the end of the workshop, and in addition to fame & glory, will receive an amazing price!

Animation can work wonders for the look and feel of a website. Used carefully it can enhance the user experience by providing context, focus and feedback to users, as well as making mundane interactions a little more fun. When combined with the flexibility of SVG, developers can easily create animated graphics that help their users and add personality to their websites using just a few lines of code.

This workshop is aimed at absolute beginners who would like to learn how to animate images on the web. A basic knowledge of CSS and JavaScript is helpful but not required as everything you'll need to know will be explained during the workshop. The main thing is to have a go, and have fun!

During the workshop we will cover:

• The basics of SVG
• Animating SVG using CSS
• Animating SVG using GreenSock’s JavaScript animation library
• Tips for optimizing performance
• Tips for browser compatibility

By the end of the workshop you will have created your very own animation you can use to impress and entertain your friends and colleagues.

Link to slides: http://slides.com/catmackenzie/animating-svg?token=LIfmFA5X

As technology moves forward in a rapidly increasing pace, new expectations on tailored products and services are arising. At the same time change seems to be the new constant and you need to innovate to still be in the game a few years up the road.

Design Thinking is a mindset and a method of human centered innovation that meet the challenges of tomorrow. In this workshop we will dive in and get our hands dirty, getting a taste of what design thinking is all about. 

Heard about Kotlin? Or maybe you just havent dared using it yet?

In this workshop you will learn the basics in Kotlin syntax, learn how its interop with Java, and then jump into some hands-on kotlin coding where you will get the feel for the power of Kotlin. After this workshop you should be set to go out and start using Kotlin in your existing Java applications today!

Blockchain has existed since Bitcoin was launched in 2009, are now more hyped than ever before. In this workshop we will show you how to write and run code on the Ethereum blockchain.

The goal is that within four hours we will develop and deploy a mini economy system where we generate coins that we can send between verified users with smart contracts on Ethereum.

The technologies you will use in this workshop will be the Ethereum network, the programming language Solidity, the framework Truffle, and the Ethereum browser Mist.

Tests are written to test the functionality to be implemented, so if you like to see the tests go from red to green, this is the workshop for you!

Azure Functions enables you to write serverless code to handle events at scale, with minimal overhead and cost. In this workshop you'll learn what Azure Functions is intended for, why you might want to use it.

First, you'll learn how to work with C# and node functions. N

Next, you'll use many different triggers and binding types supported by Azure functions including monitoring queues.

Then, you'll explore how to work with blob storage, sending emails, and how to develop in Visual Studio Code. Finally, you'll discover how to automate deployments from GIT as well as how to debug and monitor our functions.

We know that people who are empowered are more creative, more productive and more satisfied with their work and so produce better results for their organisations. So why is there so much disempowerment in the workplace?

In this workshop we’ll share our experiences of disempowerment, invent even more ways to disempower our teams and colleagues and discuss how we might identify disempowerment when it’s happening to others.

We’ll then work together to figure out what could be done differently to move from a disempowered organisation to an empowered one.

Participants will take away:

• Insights into what disempowerment looks like
• Options for tackling disempowerment

Apache Kafka is a de facto standard streaming data processing platform, being widely deployed as a messaging system, and having a robust data integration framework (Kafka Connect) and stream processing API (Kafka Streams) to meet the needs that common attend real-time message processing. But there’s more!

Kafka now offers KSQL, a declarative, SQL-like stream processing language that lets you define powerful stream-processing applications easily. What once took some moderately sophisticated Java code can now be done at the command line with a familiar and eminently approachable syntax. Come to this workshop for a detailed overview of KSQL with live coding on live streaming data.

Whenever you are presenting or discussing an idea, concept or a prduct it is essential that eveyone involved have the same excact understanding of what is being discussed and decided upon.

Visualisation and storytelling are excellent for this as it uses what humans have used to convey information and experiences up through the ages (stories and visuals)

In this workshop you will get to realise that everyone can draw (no need to be a Davinci, Rembrandt or Stan Lee for that matter) and how this combined with a bit of storytelling, which we will also do some practicing of, enables you to get every one on the same page without lenghty back and forths due to missunderstandings and missconceptions.

Bring a smile and a willingness to try something different and you will get familiar with a valuable tool for explaining things to those without intimate knowledge of your field or just for fun.

Web Animation has evolved greatly in the past years. Now that Flash is dead, a lot of new animation libraries have popped up. Nevertheless not everyone is doing web animations all the time and has the time to learn new libraries, so this workshop focuses on the options of doing native animations with what the web platform has to offer.

The workshop will include the following topics:

* When to use web animations

* The basics of CSS Animation & the Web Animations Api

* The differences between CSS & WAAPI animation

* Using CSS Variables with Javascript to create interactive animations

* Tips for creating performant animation

Participants should have basic knowledge of CSS and Javascript and enjoy using motion to enhance user experience.

Heard about Kotlin? Or maybe you just havent dared using it yet?

In this workshop you will learn the basics in Kotlin syntax, learn how its interop with Java, and then jump into some hands-on kotlin coding where you will get the feel for the power of Kotlin. After this workshop you should be set to go out and start using Kotlin in your existing Java applications today!

Blockchain has existed since Bitcoin was launched in 2009, are now more hyped than ever before. In this workshop we will show you how to write and run code on the Ethereum blockchain.

The goal is that within four hours we will develop and deploy a mini economy system where we generate coins that we can send between verified users with smart contracts on Ethereum.

The technologies you will use in this workshop will be the Ethereum network, the programming language Solidity, the framework Truffle, and the Ethereum browser Mist.

Tests are written to test the functionality to be implemented, so if you like to see the tests go from red to green, this is the workshop for you!

Azure Functions enables you to write serverless code to handle events at scale, with minimal overhead and cost. In this workshop you'll learn what Azure Functions is intended for, why you might want to use it.

First, you'll learn how to work with C# and node functions. N

Next, you'll use many different triggers and binding types supported by Azure functions including monitoring queues.

Then, you'll explore how to work with blob storage, sending emails, and how to develop in Visual Studio Code. Finally, you'll discover how to automate deployments from GIT as well as how to debug and monitor our functions.

Apache Kafka is a de facto standard streaming data processing platform, being widely deployed as a messaging system, and having a robust data integration framework (Kafka Connect) and stream processing API (Kafka Streams) to meet the needs that common attend real-time message processing. But there’s more!

Kafka now offers KSQL, a declarative, SQL-like stream processing language that lets you define powerful stream-processing applications easily. What once took some moderately sophisticated Java code can now be done at the command line with a familiar and eminently approachable syntax. Come to this workshop for a detailed overview of KSQL with live coding on live streaming data.

Whenever you are presenting or discussing an idea, concept or a prduct it is essential that eveyone involved have the same excact understanding of what is being discussed and decided upon.

Visualisation and storytelling are excellent for this as it uses what humans have used to convey information and experiences up through the ages (stories and visuals)

In this workshop you will get to realise that everyone can draw (no need to be a Davinci, Rembrandt or Stan Lee for that matter) and how this combined with a bit of storytelling, which we will also do some practicing of, enables you to get every one on the same page without lenghty back and forths due to missunderstandings and missconceptions.

Bring a smile and a willingness to try something different and you will get familiar with a valuable tool for explaining things to those without intimate knowledge of your field or just for fun.

Web Animation has evolved greatly in the past years. Now that Flash is dead, a lot of new animation libraries have popped up. Nevertheless not everyone is doing web animations all the time and has the time to learn new libraries, so this workshop focuses on the options of doing native animations with what the web platform has to offer.

The workshop will include the following topics:

* When to use web animations

* The basics of CSS Animation & the Web Animations Api

* The differences between CSS & WAAPI animation

* Using CSS Variables with Javascript to create interactive animations

* Tips for creating performant animation

Participants should have basic knowledge of CSS and Javascript and enjoy using motion to enhance user experience.

The way we visually present code today would do little to surprise the first owner of the 1955 IBM typewriter that introduced the Courier typeface. Since then, we’ve gained little more than bigger monitors, syntax colouring and better monospace typefaces. Meanwhile, layout and typography, already centuries old during the desktop publishing revolution thirty years ago, are the basis for how we read all kinds of text that aren’t code.

The goal of this talk is to reconsider what code looks like, and why programmers’ tools seem stuck in the 1970s. This talk first explores how layout and typography can make code beautiful, and then considers the disruptive potential of visual programming. The most important impact of both trends turns out to be code readability. After all, as Knuth pointed out, ‘Programs are meant to be read by humans, and only incidentally for computers to execute.’

Cash is disappearing and our children see us parents using our seemingly bottomless debit and credit cards. How can we teach our kids the value of money in a cashless world? That was the problem SpareBank 1 gave us in March in 2017. Since then we've worked with product development of bank services for kids 6 to 15 years of age, with hypothesis driven development and lean startup.

We want to share our experiences with product development in large organizations. Which challanges did we face, and what do you need from the organization to make hypothesis driven product development work?

After this presentation you should be able to answer: Is it possible to work with product development inside your organization?

In the spring of 2017, BEKK developed a Proof of Concept for the Norwegian Tax Authority (Skatteetaten) that explored the possibility of automatically generating tax deduction cards (skattekort) using Machine Learning. This was followed by another Proof of Concept in the summer of 2017 in which we aimed to automatically detect former residents of Norway who had emigrated without notifying the government. In this talk we will present the knowledge and experiences we gained from these Proofs of Concept. How do you organize the development of a Machine Learning PoC? How does the development process for a Machine Learning application differ from that of an ordinary enterprise application? And what (unexpected) problems did we encounter on the way to two successful Proofs of Concept?

Rewind back to the beginning of autumn of 2016. The Directorate of Fisheries, headquartered here in Bergen, faced several growing pains. The ever demanding changes from new fishing and aquaculture regulations, two large IT-projects by outside consultants, and personnel changes within the IT department had definitely taken it's toll on the situation.

The directorate was a traditional Java Enterprise with a large monolithic Oracle database in the center of it all. Several generations of Java applications had accumulated over the years. All of them had their own hand-crafted runtime environment and deployment procedures. Automated build and deployments was not common practice up until this point, and as a result deployments were error prone, and far apart.

Shortly after I arrived, a DevOps task force was assembled and we started working our way to the root cause, and we discovered three major concerns we wanted to tackle; 

1. move away from manual builds and deployment by automating everything
2. reduce the number of different runtime-environments and simplify deployments
3. introduce higher level of monitoring and insight into the applications

Our goal was simple; push - build - deploy. We wanted the best possible developer experience and simplicity and insight for the operational personnel.

We quickly established that containers was the best way forward and would give us much needed headroom in the future for taking on new technologies, and that Kubernetes was the best fit for the job. It would also allow us to move into the cloud easily when that would come.

This task would not be easy moving about a hundred different services across multiple generations of Java-code onto one common platform. We certainly had our difficulties and setbacks where we had to start over but by the time we reached the summer our first application on the new platform went into production, and shortly there after several more.

Now, a little over one year in we are almost a 100% done with the first transition phase, and we will at that point reach 400 container running at any given time in our two clusters. This is the story of how we made this transformation to a Cloud Native First Architecture on Kubernetes happen, what lessons we have learned along the way, and some thought on where we want to go next.

Numerous companies are trying to boost their innovation capabilities through intrapreneurship initiatives. Unfortunately many of such initiatives don't succeed as expected; They do not manage to produce radicaly new innovations for their organization.  But what factors drive or inhibit successful intrapreneurship the most? 

In a recent study I was able to perform in depth interviews of attendants of intrapreneurship initiatives from several norwegian organizations. They were asked about what factors affect their initiatives the most and what benefits they expect from running intrapreneurship initiatives.

This presentation presents important insight from this study.

Sbanken redesigned the way customers apply for a mortage. We could have just made it prettier, but that wouldn't make much difference for the customer - or the business. We had to make it BETTER! Janniche will show how UX changed everything through solving the right problem in the right way, with the right people. Close collabotration with product, development and designers - finding possibilities within the constraints of the system - we designed and redesigned over 9 months, and the effort paid off many times over. UX is not a hot fix - it is hard work! 

Through working with customers we have experienced the challenging and inspiring methods in Google Design Sprint. I would like to fasciliate parts of the Google Design Sprint to inspire people to use this themselves. We test some of the methods, and share ideas on how to expand this toolbox with our own methods. 

Is your Alexa giving you sass? Does your banking mobile app give you more confidence than your car’s software morals? Does your insurance app cause headaches?

This is the stuff we create! Giving life to experiences that rock people’s world, release by release and creating the future product by product feels like the coolest thing in the world...but ever felt there some things we could and should be doing with it? How do we create a bright future with software products? Innovative technology products and the people who use it are the waters that we naturally navigate through which means we can create an ethical future...

Let’s clip that pesky AI apocalypse in the bud...


Mike Rawling, a ux veteran of products and projects of all sizes and shapes, takes attendees on a multi-dimensional, time travelling experience, teasing apart science fiction from fact in the product design and development process where we will together create a healthy, ethical approach on the future of what we do and how we create it, in this rapidly changing landscape of INhuman politics, DISrupted devices, niche platforms and EXploding markets to complement our our XP, Agile, Lean,  design and development principles.

All intelligences, Human and Artificial, are cordially invited!

This session will be made richer by a wide range of team members, from new through to experienced, from technical to design in any aspect of product development and methodology: Agile Lean/XP, UX, product design or software development are welcomed in this session.

Primarily for: Developers, Tester/test leads, Project managers, Architects, UX specialists, Product developers, Managers, Agile coaches, Designers, biological computers and AIs, ...

This workshop is based on the classic 1982 paper "Functional Geometry" by Peter Henderson. The paper shows the decomposition and reconstruction of Escher's woodcutting "Square Limit", a beautiful recursive tesselation of interleaving fish, using functional programming. We will use Elm as our implementation language as we follow in Henderson's footsteps to create our own Square Limit as an SVG. We'll see that framing a problem in the right way enables us to solve it in interesting and elegant ways. The problem in this case is the transformation and combination of pictures to form new and more complex pictures. If we think of an picture not as a collection of colored pixels but rather as a function from a bounding rectangle to a rendering, we can define simple yet powerful picture combinators that allow us accomplish our task with ease and elegance.

You do not have to be an experienced Elm programmer to follow this workshop.

WebAssembly is here! This new aspect of the web platform will enable
JavaScript developers to do all kinds of new, fun, and interesting
things on the web. In this workshop, we'll teach you about WebAssembly
in detail, and show you how to get started with WebAssembly through
Rust

It eventually happened: Progressive Web Applications took a worthy place in the modern web landscape, and there is no more need to convince developers why to go for performant, reliable, and engaging apps. Most likely, your web application is not the exception: adding PWA features is getting it to the next level of user experience.

In our 100% hands-on session, we'll take a regular app and make it progressive. We'll create and register Service Worker, build App Shell, generate Application Manifest, send Push Notifications.We'll get a practical experience with Workbox - a PWA library, allowing us to perform these tasks really fast. The result of our workshop: fast, installable, offline-capable, mobile-network-friendly, re-engageable app. 

Get a chance to get hand-on experience with the sensors of the future. Explore your inner creativity and having fun while doing so. This session allow you to innovate and find new ways to use Disruptive Technologies Sensor solution to solve real world problems. It includes learning about the conceptual components of the solution as well as hardware specifications and the APIs. Through building real life applications, participants get the necessary theoretical and practical experience enabling them to integrate the sensors to virtually any scenario.

Prerequisites

• Intermediate level of programming experience (C#, JavaScript, Java, C++ etc.)
• Experience with REST API

Through working with customers we have experienced the challenging and inspiring methods in Google Design Sprint. I would like to fasciliate parts of the Google Design Sprint to inspire people to use this themselves. We test some of the methods, and share ideas on how to expand this toolbox with our own methods. 

Is your Alexa giving you sass? Does your banking mobile app give you more confidence than your car’s software morals? Does your insurance app cause headaches?

This is the stuff we create! Giving life to experiences that rock people’s world, release by release and creating the future product by product feels like the coolest thing in the world...but ever felt there some things we could and should be doing with it? How do we create a bright future with software products? Innovative technology products and the people who use it are the waters that we naturally navigate through which means we can create an ethical future...

Let’s clip that pesky AI apocalypse in the bud...


Mike Rawling, a ux veteran of products and projects of all sizes and shapes, takes attendees on a multi-dimensional, time travelling experience, teasing apart science fiction from fact in the product design and development process where we will together create a healthy, ethical approach on the future of what we do and how we create it, in this rapidly changing landscape of INhuman politics, DISrupted devices, niche platforms and EXploding markets to complement our our XP, Agile, Lean,  design and development principles.

All intelligences, Human and Artificial, are cordially invited!

This session will be made richer by a wide range of team members, from new through to experienced, from technical to design in any aspect of product development and methodology: Agile Lean/XP, UX, product design or software development are welcomed in this session.

Primarily for: Developers, Tester/test leads, Project managers, Architects, UX specialists, Product developers, Managers, Agile coaches, Designers, biological computers and AIs, ...

This workshop is based on the classic 1982 paper "Functional Geometry" by Peter Henderson. The paper shows the decomposition and reconstruction of Escher's woodcutting "Square Limit", a beautiful recursive tesselation of interleaving fish, using functional programming. We will use Elm as our implementation language as we follow in Henderson's footsteps to create our own Square Limit as an SVG. We'll see that framing a problem in the right way enables us to solve it in interesting and elegant ways. The problem in this case is the transformation and combination of pictures to form new and more complex pictures. If we think of an picture not as a collection of colored pixels but rather as a function from a bounding rectangle to a rendering, we can define simple yet powerful picture combinators that allow us accomplish our task with ease and elegance.

You do not have to be an experienced Elm programmer to follow this workshop.

WebAssembly is here! This new aspect of the web platform will enable
JavaScript developers to do all kinds of new, fun, and interesting
things on the web. In this workshop, we'll teach you about WebAssembly
in detail, and show you how to get started with WebAssembly through
Rust

It eventually happened: Progressive Web Applications took a worthy place in the modern web landscape, and there is no more need to convince developers why to go for performant, reliable, and engaging apps. Most likely, your web application is not the exception: adding PWA features is getting it to the next level of user experience.

In our 100% hands-on session, we'll take a regular app and make it progressive. We'll create and register Service Worker, build App Shell, generate Application Manifest, send Push Notifications.We'll get a practical experience with Workbox - a PWA library, allowing us to perform these tasks really fast. The result of our workshop: fast, installable, offline-capable, mobile-network-friendly, re-engageable app. 

Get a chance to get hand-on experience with the sensors of the future. Explore your inner creativity and having fun while doing so. This session allow you to innovate and find new ways to use Disruptive Technologies Sensor solution to solve real world problems. It includes learning about the conceptual components of the solution as well as hardware specifications and the APIs. Through building real life applications, participants get the necessary theoretical and practical experience enabling them to integrate the sensors to virtually any scenario.

Prerequisites

• Intermediate level of programming experience (C#, JavaScript, Java, C++ etc.)
• Experience with REST API

It can be hard to know where to begin when making sure your website is accessible to all. Automatic tools are a good start but they don't cover everything. You have to know which tools to use and you have to know what the tools don't cover.

In this interactive, hands-on workshop we'll cover techniques for discovering accessibility issues. You'll learn how to use tools and manual tests to identify some of the most common problems. It's up to you if you want to test a site you're working with or have fun discovering all the bugs someone else are responsible for. Let's work together to make the web more accessible to all!

When designing and developing an application you make hundreds of choices that influence the user experience. These choices are based upon your own experience and knowledge. However, often we design and develop without being aware of the consequences of the choices we make. We follow conventional interaction patterns and design guidelines without necessarily understanding the basis for them or how they affect the user experience.

User testing reveals some of the mistakes we make, but not all. Often we question ourselves why users act in a certain way. Why can’t the user see the error message we present or a specific menu item?

In this workshop you will learn more about our senses, how we think and our limitations so you can understand the reason behind different UX-principles. This way you can use them correctly, understand when they are legible and when it’s ok to ignore them.

I created the Meeting Card Game to demonstrate how meetings can be a terrible waste of time, and also an awesome time with people working hard with a shared intent and purpose. Come play with me and we will simulate the worst and best that meetings can be - and learn some tools and techniques along the way to get better at making some meetings better, and coping with the ones that suck.

This workshop is based on the classic 1982 paper "Functional Geometry" by Peter Henderson. The paper shows the decomposition and reconstruction of Escher's woodcutting "Square Limit", a beautiful recursive tesselation of interleaving fish, using functional programming. We will use Elm as our implementation language as we follow in Henderson's footsteps to create our own Square Limit as an SVG. We'll see that framing a problem in the right way enables us to solve it in interesting and elegant ways. The problem in this case is the transformation and combination of pictures to form new and more complex pictures. If we think of an picture not as a collection of colored pixels but rather as a function from a bounding rectangle to a rendering, we can define simple yet powerful picture combinators that allow us accomplish our task with ease and elegance.

You do not have to be an experienced Elm programmer to follow this workshop.

Splitting your application into a bunch of microservices is a non trivial task with a lot of challenges, that might end up in with a complete different system in terms of architecture, components and more importantly the API surface you’re exposing; and that’s breaking the clients.

Can we prevent that somehow?

In this presentation we will start with a sample monolithic application and start to refactor it into a set of microservices using a naive approach, taming all the problems that will rise one by one, discovering how a REST architectural style for the WebAPI as well as an API Gateway are invaluable tools for journey.

At the end of the presentation, we’ll see how we can switch from the monolithic version to the microservices version without breaking the clients at all.

WebVR allows us to build Virtual Reality web apps that are available to everyone with a somewhat recent browser.

In this workshop we will work with A-Frame to build our own worlds to explore right from the browser.

We will cover

• WebGL and WebVR basics
• A-Frame introduction
• Working with external 3D content
• Working with additional A-Frame components

Learn how to use the TypeScript compiler as a tool for writing correct, bug-free code.

Many of us have switched from JavaScript to TypeScript as our language for daily project work. TypeScript improves JavaScript by adding types and a compiler, which by itself can significantly reduce the amount of bugs in your code. But we can do better: by using the type system actively, the compiler goes from being a simple type checker to a mighty coding assistant.

In this workshop, we will explore the possibilities of the TypeScript type system, and how we can actively use it to write correct, bug-free code. We will use interfaces and union types to precisely define our objects, making impossible states impossible. These techniques will save us from writing a lot of tests, and will enable the compiler to guide us towards the correct solution. We will also explore how to configure the TypeScript compiler to catch as many bugs as possible at compile-time.

After this workshop you will no longer think of the compiler as a stumbling block, but rather as a tool that helps you produce high quality code.