GOTO Amsterdam 2019 Recap~ 2 min.

The GOTO Amsterdam is a conference about different topics like machine learning, programming and people skills. I wanted to attend such a big and well-known conference that has a broader range of topics so that I can see talks about things I don‘t necessarily work with on a daily basis. The location was the Beurs Van Berlage in central Amsterdam – a beautiful old building with amazing rooms. The organization of the GOTO Amsterdam was really good – lots of volunteers and regular staff everywhere, nice food and drinks, schedule on time – I have nothing to complain about. Also the talks had a high standard and were really good – well done, program committee!

You can find all the sketchnotes of the talks that I attended further down. Let me know if you would like to get some in higher resolution and contact me for any questions or comments.

Turning your customers into fans

Bruce Dickinson

Mind as code – mindfulness for developers and knowledge workers

Markus Wittwer

Death of the IT manager – being a tech lead in a modern IT organization

Han Markslag & Marcin Pakulnicki

Practical API design

Ronnie Mitra

It‘s a small world after all – how thinking small is changing software development big times

Sander Hoogendoorn

PopcornFlow: If change is hard, make it continuous

Claudio Perrone

Machine ethics

Nell Watson

Millisecond full stack acceptance tests

Aslak Hellesøy

Selenium tests the object oriented way

Corina Pip

The grand challenge and promise of quantum computing

Lieven Vandersypen

Systems and service monitoring with Prometheus

Julius Volz

5 things you need to know about serverless

Gojko Adzic

Continuous delivery and theory of constraints

Steve Smith

Energy and education access for remote communities

Jaideep Bansal

Building and evolving infrastructure (as code)

Kief Morris

Build agility with design sprints

Gary Crawford

The Happy Movement: How business is the key to making the world a happier place

Evan Sutter

Taking security seriously

Philippe de Ryck

All in all I can say that I spent an amazing time at the GoTo Amsterdam and I hope that I can join another edition of it.