This is the first Software Developer Conference with a 100% focus on Black and Brown software developers and it's popping off in Detroit on Saturday February 29, 2020

What Makes This Conference Unique:

All sessions will be led by developers and will contain an actual code walk-thru. All presentors have a 3 slide limit and everything else has to be code. We want attendees to be exposed to some of the hottest topics in software development. You can follow along on your laptop or you can test the code out later because each speaker will provide a Github repo with the completed code.

We have an Happy Hour after the conference where you can network and mingle with other developers

Where Does The Profits Go?

The profits from the conference will go to funding Detroit Black Tech initiatives and events. Conferences are expensive so we don't expect a large profit, but we rather offer the Detroit Black Tech community an experience such as this conference versus asking for membership dues or donations.

Price

Early Bird Tickets is $75 and ends on Dec 29th

Event Schedule

The schedule may change and we will add links to the speaks once they have been confirmed.

Event Host: Katrina Turnbow

8:30 am - Registration

9:00 am - Welcome

9:15 am - Working with GoLang

10:00 am - DevOps - Where Infrastructure and Coding Meets (Speaker: Brianna McCullough)

11:00 am - Blockchain Development using Solidity

12:00 pm - Lunch (will be provided) and Continue Coding

1:00 pm - AI - Crawl, Walk, Run

2:00 pm - Application Testing (Speaker: Angie Jones)

3:00 pm Kubernetes - Setting up your first cluster and deploying an app (Ofiliojo Ichaba)

4:00 pm Security - Secure by Design (Speaker: Xavier Johnson)

5:00 pm - Closing

5:15 - 8:00 pm Happy Hour with Speed Networking (Optional)