TL;DR
In this post, I’ll show you some pictures and notes from the Ekobit DevArena 2017 conference.
Previous conferences
In case you’re interested, here are the posts from the previous three that I attended:
This is how the accreditation looked like on the back side, with the list of presentations per each track (4 in total):
Conference oppening
Awards for fastest signups
This year I got a Kitronik :MOVE mini for BBC micro:bit for making it to the top 10 people who signed up first. Can’t wait to play with this one ?. You can check the other awards here.
As always, if you were active on the talks, you could get one of these:
Which would then go to the drawing pot, for a chance to win yet another set of great prizes at the end of the conference…
A great intro presentation by Damir Sabol, the founder of Iskon. Though, you may know him better as the man behind the Microblink company that makes a world know PhotoMath app.
[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”31″ override_thumbnail_settings=”0″ thumbnail_width=”120″ thumbnail_height=”90″ thumbnail_crop=”1″ images_per_page=”20″ number_of_columns=”0″ ajax_pagination=”0″ show_all_in_lightbox=”0″ use_imagebrowser_effect=”0″ show_slideshow_link=”1″ slideshow_link_text=”[Show as slideshow]” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails”]There were a lot of presentations that covered the ever so slightly eyebrow raising GDPR law ?
[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”32″ override_thumbnail_settings=”0″ thumbnail_width=”120″ thumbnail_height=”90″ thumbnail_crop=”1″ images_per_page=”20″ number_of_columns=”0″ ajax_pagination=”0″ show_all_in_lightbox=”0″ use_imagebrowser_effect=”0″ show_slideshow_link=”1″ slideshow_link_text=”[Show as slideshow]” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails”]DevOps presentation had a cool intro showing how (fast) Uber solved one problem when Croatian taxi drivers went on strike.
[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”33″ override_thumbnail_settings=”0″ thumbnail_width=”120″ thumbnail_height=”90″ thumbnail_crop=”1″ images_per_page=”20″ number_of_columns=”0″ ajax_pagination=”0″ show_all_in_lightbox=”0″ use_imagebrowser_effect=”0″ show_slideshow_link=”1″ slideshow_link_text=”[Show as slideshow]” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails”]The discussion on the presentation titled “Worst experiences from working in an agile team” was great with lots of practical input from attendees.
[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”34″ override_thumbnail_settings=”0″ thumbnail_width=”120″ thumbnail_height=”90″ thumbnail_crop=”1″ images_per_page=”20″ number_of_columns=”0″ ajax_pagination=”0″ show_all_in_lightbox=”0″ use_imagebrowser_effect=”0″ show_slideshow_link=”1″ slideshow_link_text=”[Show as slideshow]” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails”]Challenges of the virtual communication and team work was very valuable for me…
[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”35″ override_thumbnail_settings=”0″ thumbnail_width=”120″ thumbnail_height=”90″ thumbnail_crop=”1″ images_per_page=”20″ number_of_columns=”0″ ajax_pagination=”0″ show_all_in_lightbox=”0″ use_imagebrowser_effect=”0″ show_slideshow_link=”1″ slideshow_link_text=”[Show as slideshow]” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails”]Standardly awesome Ratko Ćosić was “cooking” this year ??
[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”36″ override_thumbnail_settings=”0″ thumbnail_width=”120″ thumbnail_height=”90″ thumbnail_crop=”1″ images_per_page=”20″ number_of_columns=”0″ ajax_pagination=”0″ show_all_in_lightbox=”0″ use_imagebrowser_effect=”0″ show_slideshow_link=”1″ slideshow_link_text=”[Show as slideshow]” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails”]All in all, yet another great conference!
Till next time, CODE ON! ?
@DevArena 2017 was great! I got a micro:bit ? ❤️ https://t.co/cBzDjcmWrD
— Nikola Brežnjak (@HitmanHR) October 28, 2017