Struggling to keep up with technology, or feeling overwhelmed with so many things to learn? Do you feel you are a competent developer, but you don't see the results in your career? Maybe you feel like you don't belong or that you are not good enough?

Those are common symptoms, you are not alone! This talk will show you what's behind those feelings, why you can't keep up, and how to solve that. Come learn what the last 10 years of brain science has shown about our career and what the best developers do differently. Discover the exact skills you need to have to grow, and how to apply them in your project today. Become a better Java developer, create unlimited growth and forge your own path to success.

Speaker: Since 1995, helping Java developers improve their careers and work on cool projects with great people, Bruno Souza, the Brazilian JavaMan, is the creator of Code4.Life, an initiative to accelerate developers' careers. Bruno is a Java Developer and Open Source Evangelist at Summa Technologies, and a Cloud Expert at ToolsCloud.

Developer communities are a personal passion, and Bruno worked actively with Java, NetBeans, Open Solaris, and many other open source communities. As founder and coordinator of SouJava (The Java Users Society), one of the world’s largest Java User Groups, Bruno led the expansion of the Java movement in Brazil. Founder of the Worldwide Java User Groups Community, Bruno helped the creation and organization of hundreds of JUGs worldwide.

A Java Developer since the early days, Bruno participated in some of the largest Java projects in Brazil. Bruno is an emeritus director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), served as President of the innovation-focused Campus Party Institute, and coordinated Nuvem, the Cloud Computing Lab of LSI/USP.

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