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+Title = "Modern Day Mashups: How AI Agents are Reviving the Programmable Web"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["angie-jones"]
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+At the risk of showing my age, I invite you to travel back with me to the early 2000s… the Mashup Era of web development. Mashups combined APIs from different vendors to create new services.
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+This was such an exciting time for developers, as the possibilities seemed endless. APIs like Google Maps, Twitter, and Flickr gave developers access to data they could use to create interactive user experiences that were simply delightful. However, the excitement eventually fizzled as developers realized they had to maintain these applications which were often side projects created for fun.
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+Now, 20 years later, that spark of excitement and curiosity has returned with the introduction of AI Agents. With the MCP (Model Context Protocol) open standard, developers can integrate data and functionality from multiple services without the burden of maintaining full systems. By connecting AI agents to various APIs, resources, and data sources, we get quick modern-day mashups that can accomplish countless tasks.
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+In this talk, we’ll explore how AI Agents are bringing fun and creativity back to software development and giving new life to the “programmable web”.

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+Title = "Building 10x Organizations using Modern Productivity Metrics"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["justin-reock"]
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+In this talk, we'll take a detailed, granular look at the barriers to
+productivity faced by developers today, and modern approaches for removing
+them. 10x developers may be a myth, but 10x organizations are very real, as
+proven by the influential study performed in the 1980s, 'The Coding War Games.'
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+Right now, here in early 2025, we seem to be experiencing YAPP (Yet Another
+Productivity Philosophy), and that philosophy is converging on developer
+experience. It seems that with every new method we invent for the delivery of
+products, whether physical or virtual, we reinvent productivity philosophies to
+go alongside them.
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+But which of these approaches actually work? DORA? SPACE? DevEx? What should we
+invest in and create urgency behind today, so that we don't find ourselves
+having the same discussion again in a decade?

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+Title = "Agile Confessions: What the Tech Industry Really Gets Wrong (and How We Fix It)"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["patrice-lindo"]
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+The tech industry loves its buzzwords—Agile! DevOps! CI/CD! AI! But let's be
+honest: behind the jargon is a treasure trove of mistakes, missteps, and
+"lessons learned the hard way." In this tongue-in-cheek yet thought-provoking
+session, we'll take a lighthearted look at the quirks of the industry, roast
+some common tech tropes, and dive into how we can actually do better.
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+This session isn't about throwing shade for fun (okay, maybe just a little).
+It's about leveraging humor and real talk to spotlight the blind spots holding
+us back and turning them into opportunities for growth. Whether it's the
+over-engineered solutions nobody asked for, Agile transformations that skipped
+the people part, or AI projects that forgot to ask, "What's the problem we're
+solving?"—we've all been there.
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+Expect some laughs, a few left-handed compliments, and plenty of actionable
+insights on building human-centered, tech-savvy solutions that bridge the gap
+between what we say we value and what we actually deliver.