Name: NDC Sydney 2021
Start: 2021-11-03
End: 2021-11-05
Location: NDC Sydney

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NDC Sydney 2021

Online Event

Inspiring Software Developers since 2008

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NDC Sydney Goes Online

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5 Online Workshops

Machine Learning

.NET

Architecture

Cloud

Serverless

Microservices

Microsoft

Softskills

Methodology

People

Workskills

Tools

Mobile

Ethics

DevOps

Security

JavaScript

Soft Skills

Agile

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3-5 November 2021

NDC Goes Online

3-track Online Conference

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Online Event | 2 days of Workshops - 1 day of Conference Sessions

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The online event will take place using Slack, with workshops and conference sessions being conducted via WebEx. All of our workshops and conference sessions are run in real-time.

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Technological developments have a purpose: serving people. That’s what Telstra Purple is all about. We believe it’s people who give purpose to technology, and it’s the power of purposeful technology that inspires people. We are a global team of experts consulting on, delivering and managing leading-edge technology experiences. We solve problems, we design, we listen, we learn, we share. Putting purpose and people at the core of everything we do brings a brilliantly connected future closer to your reach.



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Jernej Kavka (JK) is a Microsoft AI MVP, SSW Solution Architect, and organizer of several user groups like APAC AI and Global AI The Podcast. JK is a full-stack .NET developer, but his passion lies in Azure Cognitive Services, AI and machine learning. He is the main architect behind SSW's virtual receptionist - SophieAI: https://sswsophie.com

He is also very active in the developer community and enjoys speaking at conferences like NDC, DDD, as well as User Groups and Hack Days.

Eldert can be described as an Azure MVP, Technology Lead, Cloud Solution Architect, blogger, public speaker and technical author. He can regularly be seen on conferences and user groups, speaking on Cloud related topics, with a strong focus on Azure. His experience with the Cloud comes from his daily work with these technologies in many innovative projects with various clients, as well as his drive to further dive into the latest developments in his spare time. Eldert enjoys sharing his knowledge with the community, and believes this is the best way to each other obtain more and better opportunities.

Olena is a Senior Software Developer from Berlin in Germany. She has previously worked in a service company based in Ukraine and took a part in the creation of various products from small startups, B2B applications, to enterprise platforms.
Moreover, she is passionate about new technologies, clean code, and best practices.
In her free time, when she’s not spending it on hobbies, she likes to build demos around real-life use cases, share knowledge with others, and the opposite, learn about someone else's experience.

I am a self-driven technology leader with proven skills in leadership, decision-making, and quick learning. I have over 13 years of hands-on experience in cloud and web technologies. I apply emerging technologies and processes to bring efficiency to enterprise technology operations. As a leader, I have successfully established and led engineering teams and designed enterprise applications to solve organizational challenges. I foster innovation, collaboration and bring improvement to engineering teams.

I have authored three books and a free workshop on Microservices orchestrators and Service Mesh: Azure Service Fabric- Microservices with Azure, by Packt, Kubernetes- Kubernetes Succinctly, Istio- Istio Succinctly, by Syncfusion, and Fast Track Istio Workshop on Katacoda. I am an active Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional), and DZone MVB (Most Valuable Blogger). You can connect with me through my blog: https://thecloudblog.net.

Tarun works as a Solution Architect in Sydney, Australia with over fourteen years of work experience. He has extensive experience working as a Cloud Architect with various MNCs throughout the world. As a Cloud Architect, he worked on large-scale and complex IT engagements for enterprises and helped them build new applications and migrate existing applications to the Cloud. He worked for over four years with Microsoft, where he was primarily working on Microsoft Azure solutions. He has also worked with an Augmented Reality startup, Foyr.com, to build an Automated Interior Designer product for Real Estate Developers. He has worked extensively on cloud computing and IoT applications and has extensive experience working on cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure, AWS, and GCP. Tarun has authored two books on Kubernetes and Istio.

Arafat is a Solution Architect at EY and Microsoft MVP (AI). He has been working with Global ISVs of Microsoft and developing some next-gen solutions using cutting-edge Microsoft technologies.

Arafat co-founded Global AI - The Podcast which talks about everything around Microsoft AI. He's also an active contributor for the community and co-founded the Bot Builder Community Project on GitHub. He loves to code / write / speak about Microsoft Azure AI, .NET and Power Platform.

Rob is a software consultant, developer and technical leader with a passion for delivering systems that perform at scale. Rob has over 15 years of experience building distributed systems on the web stack and has read more RFCs than he cares to admit. Rob is an active member of the Perth IT community and regularly shares his ideas at various Meetups and conferences around Australia and internationally. He is also a co-organiser of DDD Perth, the largest IT conference in Western Australia.

Although it doesn’t look like it, Yaser is an almond croissant addict cleverly disguised as a successful web developer. Since it was relatively clear early on that it would be slightly more than difficult to make a living out of thin air and sitting in a café eating a croissant and drinking a cappuccino, he’s focused his energy on the web, which happily has proven itself to be a wonderful decision.

Apart from that, he has a hunger for public speaking, hence a number of talks in big conferences like NDC and Voxxed Days around the world under his belt.

Talking to people to find the questions + talking to data to find the answers!
Brooke is the Head of Enablement - AI/ML and Data at Blackbook.ai, an Australian based consulting firm specialising in automation, artificial intelligence, data and digital. Brooke has degrees in Mathematics and Data Engineering, and combines this with professional experience to work together with clients to consult, deploy and nurture intelligent solutions. Overall, they specialise in researching & developing technically robust solutions that help “non-data people” harness the power of AI for their industry, and communicate this effectively.

Outside of their 'day job', Brooke speaks at Data, AI, Software Engineering, UX and Business conferences and events to Australian and international audiences, and has guest lectured two subjects at the University of Queensland Business School. Brooke is proudly a volunteer member of the Queensland National Science Week Committee, and is always on the lookout for new ways to promote STEM pathways to young people, especially young women and members of the LGBTIQA+ community from regional Australia.

Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas (@ragss) works as a Developer Advocate with a mission to help developers build highly secure, scalable and available systems. His areas of focus are containers, Open Source and DevSecOps. His general interest is in distributed systems, with a specialization in Cloud Computing and Big Data. He worked on Kubernetes, Azure, Cloud Foundry, OpenStack and Hadoop during its early stages and helped customers with implementations. He writes for InfoQ, has spoken on a variety of technical topics at conferences around the world, written for developer portals, organized Hands-on Labs and taught graduate and online classes in the evening.

Rags brings with him over 30 years of hands-on software development and over 20 years of solutions architecture and technology evangelism experience. He has evangelized and influenced the architecture of a number of emerging technology areas. He is also a repeat JavaOne rock star speaker award winner.

Rags holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Center of Advanced Computer
Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He likes to hike (has hiked the Everest Base Camp), run and generally be outdoors, but most of all loves to eat. He umpires baseball and generally enjoys watching just about every professional sport.


Software Architect @SSW building enterprise applications in a variety of industries. An enthusiastic engineer using the latest technologies, primarily with .NET, Microsoft Azure and Machine Learning.


https://www.ssw.com.au/people/patrick-zhao/

Matt is a Software Architect, Scrum Master, public speaker, writer and trainer.

Matt loves making things, and uses that passion to fuel his work with .NET, EF / EF Core, Xamarin, MAUI, Azure and Blazor. 

Drawing on a combination of hands-on experience and enterprise governance practices, Matt is able to make connections between business and technology to deliver user and business focused outcomes.

Matt has worked in IT for 15 years, and in addition to his development work has a background in infrastructure and management and consulting.

Michael is the CEO of Andromeda, Product Architect for FlexePark, an International Keynote Speaker, a Google Developer Expert in Firebase, and a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies. For more than 25 years he has been writing code and geeking out over technology. He is passionate about keeping things simple and focusing on what provides real value to the end user. Michael enjoys speaking at conferences and user groups, and mentoring other developers and entrepreneurs. He is the author of Programming Languages ABC++, Approachable Accessibility, and Architecting CSS.

Rob Richardson is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, React and Vue. He’s a Microsoft MVP, published author, frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software development. You can find this and other talks at https://robrich.org/presentations and follow him on twitter at @rob_rich.

Bryden is a Solution Architect with over 25 years professional experience. He has a wealth of knowledge from a diverse range of areas but with particular focus on database, web services, Microsoft Azure and SaaS based solutions. He's had dealings with customers ranging from the world's largest companies right through to small business. He has a strong understanding of how software will deliver business value to his customers.

Jan has been developing software for well over 15 years. 
Currently, he is working at 4Dotnet as a Cloud Solution Architect and is awarded by Microsoft with the Microsoft MVP award.
His main focus is on developing highly performant and scalable solutions using the awesome services provided by the Microsoft Azure platform. Because of his expertise, he has been able to help out multiple customers to bring their on-premises solution to the cloud and guide them towards a better software development ecosystem.

Whenever Jan finds something interesting to write about, he shares his findings on his blog (https://jan-v.nl).

Melissa Houghton is a Lead Software Engineer at Azenix and a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies.

Her work is focused on application development using Angular, .NET, and Azure, but she has a wide variety of skills and is always open to learning new things.

An advocate for women in tech with a passion for leadership, technology and giving back to the community. She frequents tech events, is an international conference speaker and organiser of DDD Melbourne conference, Melb․NET meetup, and Microsoft AU New Breakpoint Community.

Originally from California, Melissa loves to travel and now lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Phil is a developer evangelist for Twilio and a Google Developer Expert. He's been in the web industry for 10 years building with JavaScript and Ruby. He can be found hanging out at meetups and conferences, playing with new technologies and APIs or writing open source code online. Sometimes he makes his own beer, but he's more likely to be found discovering new ones around the world.

Phil tweets at @philnash and you can find him elsewhere online at https://philna.sh.

Aaron is a Developer Advocate at Microsoft. Having spent 15 years doing web development he's seen it all, from browser wars, the rise of AJAX and the fall of 20 JavaScript frameworks (and that was just yesterday!). Always tinkering with something new he explores crazy ideas like writing your own implementation of numbers in .NET, creating IoC in JavaScript or implementing tic-tac-toe using git commits.

Lars is an author, trainer, Microsoft MVP, community leader, aspiring Microsoft Azure expert and part time classic car collector. He is heavily involved in the space of cloud computing services, especially Azure, loves HoloLens and mixed reality, and is a published author, solution architect and writer for numerous publications. He has been a part of the software development community for the past 20 years and co-organises the DDD Melbourne community conference, organises developer events with Microsoft, and also runs a part time car restoration business. He has spoken at numerous technical events around the world and is an expert in Australian Outback Internet.

William is a Lead Software Engineer at Azenix with a strong focus on enterprise scale Application Development, Automation, DevOps, and Containerization. He works closely with clients to build solutions, mentor development teams and have fun during the whole process.

In his spare time, he dives into the world of Bots, Machine Learning and 3D Graphics.

William is an active member of the Melbourne developer community where you can find him attending or presenting at user groups, hack days and conferences every time he has a chance!

Jason Taylor is a solution architect, trainer, mentor, and full stack developer with 20 years professional experience. Currently, Jason specializes in teaching and building enterprise applications utilising .NET, Angular, React, Vue.js, Blazor, and Azure. Jason loves a challenge and is skilled at progressing from a simple proposal into a well-defined, coded, and tested solution.

Eric Rabinovich is a results-driven VP of Engineering with over 19 years of experience in technology and problem solving, and more than ten years of experience holding different management positions. He has worked with small startups, mid-size companies, and large enterprises in industries including biotech, smart cities, IoT, e-learning, and e-commerce. He is experienced in both B2B and B2C in mobile & web environments. Eric believes in and loves mentoring and training developers and leaders, and setting clear objectives for the continuous improvement of knowledge, processes, and personal growth.

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