One of the real values of the Codemotion community is that we offer insights and perspectives by people about their own experiences, not abstract academia. Take leadership. Every conference CTOs, CPOs and CIOs share their thoughts and experiences … Read more
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An ode to the Commodore 64 – Chiara Russo
This is my Commodore 64 and it's because of this that my passion for IT was born. With this I wrote my first lines of code. Who of you started in the same way, with a Commodore 64? Many, I'm sure! The Commodore 64 was the protagonist of an era, … Read more
Election technology: making voting great again?
Boris in No. 10, Putin in the Kremlin, Trump in the White House. Our voting decisions in national elections have an enormous impact, for better or for worse.But how to vote in an election is changing across the world, thanks to digital … Read more
Free coding lessons tackling women’s “imposter syndrome” in tech
Anna Brailsford, CEO at Code First: Girls, is training an army of coding women to infiltrate the "boys' club" of tech.Coding the future: Anna Brailsford What is Code First: Girls? Code First: Girls is one of the largest communities of … Read more
Jobs in artificial intelligence and robotics top LinkedIn list for 2020
Artificial intelligence specialist and robotics engineer are the fastest-growing jobs in the US, according to LinkedIn.The annual Emerging Jobs Report highlights the skills associated with these roles and the cities and industries in which … Read more
Dear recruiter: How can I get a job in tech with a disability?
Business consultant and disability advocate Neil Barnfather MBE tells us about what it's like having a disability in today's job market. Looking for a job is not always an easy task. Couple this endeavour with both practical and societal barriers and … Read more
Codemotion Berlin Shows the Future of Programming, Work, and Society
This year was the 6th edition of Codemotion Berlin. We welcomed over 1200 participants back to the Berlin Kulturbrauerei for a two-day event with six parallel tracks encompassing 16 topics including DevOps, GameDev, Front-end, Cloud, Cybersecurity, … Read more
Codemotion Berlin 2019: 1000+ reasons of success!
The sixth edition of Codemotion Berlin is complete! This year we returned to the Berlin Kulturbrauerei for the two-day event with six parallel tracks encompassing 16 topics. We have more than 1200 participants, attending talks covering topics such as … Read more
Interview with Danilo Poccia
Danilo Poccia works with startups and companies of any size to support their innovation. In his role as Evangelist at Amazon Web Services, he leverages his experience to help people bring their ideas to life, focusing on serverless architectures and … Read more
Interview with Ashi Krishnan
GitHub’s Ashi Krishnan is a senior software engineer and visual poet. If you’re wondering how these two worlds could possibly come together, Ashi’s inspiring Codemotion talks at Berlin and Milan explained all. In her talk, Living Things, Ashi … Read more
Interview with David Steiman
Software architect for KTEL Communications GmbH, David Steiman describes himself as an open source activist. David generously shared his time and expertise to the audience at Codemotion Berlin 2018 with his talk, Getting serious with private … Read more
Interview with Björn Rabenstein
Björn Rabenstein is a production engineer at SoundCloud and a Prometheus developer. Previously, Björn was a site reliability engineer at Google and a science number cruncher. His talk for Codemotion Berlin, About SRE – and how (not) to apply it, … Read more
Interview with Alex Fernández
Álex Fernández is a senior developer at Devo, a thriving Spanish company that collects huge amounts of data and keeps it in a searchable format for its customers. At a time when the collection and storage of data is a hot topic, the company is … Read more
Interview with Raffaella Isidori
As founder and creative director of the creative lab thesign.it, Raffaella Isidori builds brands and manages communication for businesses around the world. She is quick to point out that she does not run an agency. Indeed thesign.it it's “a … Read more
Interview with Johanna Janiszewski at Codemotion Berlin 2018
You need an inventive mind to make geometry fun for children. And game designer Johanna Janiszewski has proved a little imagination and playfulness goes a long way, especially in education. As the CEO and founder of Berlin-based game company … Read more
Interview with Alessandro Cinelli, Codemotion Berlin 2018
Alessandro Cinelli (also known as Cirpo) is currently working in London as engineering manager at DAZN. Joining a panel discussion on technical leadership with fellow industry experts Thiago de Faria, Armagan Amcalar and Daniel Gebler, Alessandro … Read more
How to comply with GDPR in a serverless world
Two of the biggest buzzwords of 2018 are Serverless and GDPR. So, when I saw a talk titled “How to go serverless and not violate the GDPR”, I was hooked! There are good reasons why everyone is talking about Serverless and GDPR. Serverless technology … Read more
The Godmother – the future of work is female
Men work hard to replace women with robots, but they are the ones to be replaced. This memorable quote sums up Agnieszka Walorska’s controversial talk at Codemotion Berlin 2018. Her thesis is simple – AI is amazingly good at taking on jobs that are … Read more
The what, why and how of Javascript functional programming
As programming geeks know, “classical” programming languages, like C/C++ and Java, are Imperative. This means you tell the computer how to do something and it does it. By contrast, functional languages are Declarative – you tell the computer the … Read more
Junior.next() – Moving on from the junior development mindset
We can all think of great developers and engineers. Either people we work with, people across the Twittersphere or talented developers sharing their knowledge at conferences. As great as those developers are, they weren’t born with all the skill and … Read more