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Ekobit DevArena 2018

TL;DR

In this post, I’ll show you some pictures and notes from the Ekobit DevArena 2018 conference.

Previous conferences

In case you’re interested, here are the posts from the previous four that I attended:

Breakfast

is the most important meal of the day ?

This is how the accreditation looked like on the back side, with the list of presentations per each track:

Conference opening

Awards

This year I was the fastest ‘painter’:

and for that I got a Sony phone:

Anyone wanna buy a phone? ?

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…

Keynote

The presenter was young Albert Gajšak who is the author of the awesome MAKERbuino and MAKERphone that just went live on Kickstarter a few days ago and already has $165k out of a $15k goal. Congrats!

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NativeScript

Julian Steiner spoke about NativeScript. As many of you know, I’m a die-hard Ionic/Cordova/Hybrid fan (for when it makes sense) so this looked interesting because it’s not hybrid in a way that you have a web-view. Instead, you can access all the native API directly via JavaScript.

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Serverless architecture

Standardly awesome Ratko Ćosić spoke about the serverless architecture:

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Machine learning

An excellent talk by Valentin Solina from Aether-Signum on how they used machine learning in some real-life projects.

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Motivation

Danijela Tokić Šantak gave a very interesting talk on what motivates knowledge workers these days.

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Flutter

Mislav Staržik talked about Flutter, an open-source mobile application development SDK created by Google. Seems interesting, but why Dart ?

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Phaser

Standardly awesome Ratko Ćosić showed off the game called Dice and Roll that he made with his family ?

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Till next time, drink lots of ☕! 

Written by Nikola Brežnjak