Chris Heilmann dedicated the last 20 years of his life to make the web work and thrive. As a lead developer on some of the largest web products he learned that knowledge is not enough without teamwork and good handover. He dedicated most of his time since on educating, writing and sharing, presenting on average at 30 conferences a year. He strives to make code and coders work efficiently and get more done quickly without losing the understanding of what we do. He is the author of several JavaScript books and the Developer Evangelism handbook (http://developer-evangelism.com). He is currently a Senior Program Manager in Microsoft and spends a lot of time pondering how machine learning and AI can aid humans and replace jobs we're too important to do.
We are in the middle of a revolution of human and computer interaction. We’re also in the middle of a ridiculous hype that burns money, up-ends the lives of people and changes the market we work in. How can we survive this change and come out as winners? How can we ensure that decades of open efforts aren’t being taken over by corporate greed and hidden in closed environments? In this talk Chris Heilmann shows how this “revolution” isn’t new but has been tried before and gives you active advice on how to make yourself indispensable in a world of agents and services. Open isn’t dead, open just needs to lead the way. AI is here to stay and it is up to you to see it as a threat or as a chance to steer it into a good future.
for free. You
can too.
