RubyConf Mini

November 15 - 17 • Providence, RI

Schedule

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Tuesday, November 15

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM • Bristol/Kent

Breakfast

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM • Providence Ballroom

Opening Address

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM • Providence Ballroom

Anyone Can Play Guitar (With Ruby)

Kevin Murphy

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM • Newport/Washington

Making .is_a? Fast

John Hawthorn

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM • Providence Ballroom

How We Implemented Salary Transparency (And Why It Matters)

Hilary Stohs-Krause

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM • Newport/Washington

Solo: Building Successful Web Apps By Your Lonesome

Jeremy Smith

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM • Waterplace Ballroom

Lunch

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM • Newport/Washington

Crystal for Rubyists

Kirk Haines

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM • Providence Ballroom

Empathetic Pair Programming with Nonviolent Communication

Stephanie Minn

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM • Bristol/Kent

Afternoon Snack

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM • Providence Ballroom

Knowing When To Walk Away

Lindsay Kelly

2:45 PM - 3:45 PM • Providence Ballroom

Keynote: Persuasive Communication

Barbara Tannenbaum

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM • Providence Ballroom

Podcast Panel

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM • Rooftop at the Providence G (100 Dorrance St)

WNB.rb Networking Reception

Wednesday, November 16

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM • Bristol/Kent

Breakfast

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM • Providence Ballroom

Keynote: A Ruby Mystery Story

Nadia Odunayo

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM • Providence Ballroom

Zen and the Art of Incremental Automation

Aji Slater

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM • Newport/Washington

RubyGems.org MFA: The Past, Present and Future

Jenny Shen

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM • Providence Ballroom

Weaving and seaming mocks

Vladimir Dementyev

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM • Newport/Washington

The Three-Encoding Problem

Kevin Menard

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM • Waterplace Ballroom

Lunch

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM • Newport/Washington

From Start to Published, Create a game with Ruby!

Cameron Gose

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM • Providence Ballroom

Syntax Tree

Kevin Newton

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM • Bristol/Kent

Afternoon Snack

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM • Providence Ballroom

Here Be Dragons: The Hidden Gems of Tech Debt

Ernesto Tagwerker

2:45 PM - 3:45 PM • Providence Ballroom

Transgender Issues Panel

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM • Providence Ballroom

Keynote: DNS

Julia Evans

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM • AS220, 115 Empire Street

Splitwise Sponsor Session: Game Night

Thursday, November 17

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM • Bristol/Kent

Breakfast

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM • Providence Ballroom

Sponsor Panel

9:30 - 10:00 AM • Providence Ballroom

Lightning Talks

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM • Providence Ballroom

Inclusivity: Hiring is just the beginning

Andrea Fomera, Julie

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM • Newport/Washington

Shopify Sponsor Session: Ruby Office Hours with Shopify Engineering

Rose Wiegley, Ufuk Kayserilioglu

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM • Providence Ballroom

A Brewer’s Guide to Filtering out Complexity and Churn

Fito von Zastrow, Alan Ridlehoover

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM • Newport/Washington

We Need Someone Technical on the Call

Brittany Martin

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM • Waterplace Ballroom

Lunch

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM • Newport/Washington

Start a Ruby Internship

Chelsea Kaufman, Adam Cuppy

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM • Providence Ballroom

Teaching Ruby to Count

Joël Quenneville

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM • Providence Ballroom

Functional programming for fun and profit!!

Jenny Shih

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM • Providence Ballroom

TDD on the Shoulders of Giants

Jared Norman

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM • Newport/Washington

Looking Into Peephole Optimizations

Maple Ong

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM • Providence Ballroom

Who Wants to be a Ruby Engineer?

Drew Bragg

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM • Newport/Washington

Splitwise Sponsor Session: Declare Victory with Class Macros

Jess Hottenstein

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM • Providence Ballroom

Keynote

Rose Wiegley