67: Keeping Fluent with Web Technology

Summary

How do you keep up with the vast amounts of web technology released daily? It can be a losing battle for some and a opportunity for others. One person in our community that comes to mind is Peter Cooper (@peterc) from Cooper Press.

Join us as we learn how his work at O'Reilly has shaped some of his strategies for this as well as what Cooper Press provides and Conferences like OSCon & Fluent

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October 20 | 10:00am PT | Banfield, Lombardo, & Wax

The Design Sprint is the first, and for some projects the most significant, phase of a design thinking process. It gets the entire product design and development team on the same page, reduces the risk of downstream mistakes, and generates vision-lead goals for the team to measure their success. Join Richard Banfield, C. Todd Lombardo, and Trace Wax as they explain why and how Design Sprints work and how you can use Design Sprints to enhance your own design process.

Resources

• Fluent - http://conferences.oreilly.com/fluent-javascript-html-ca
• Cooper Press - https://cooperpress.com/

Panelists

• Erik Isaksen (@eisaksen) - Front End Development Lead at Deloitte Digital & Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies
• Chetan Karande (@karande_c) - Senior Software Engineer at Omgeo LLC, FluentConf Speaker, & Creator of OWASP Node Goat