2024's Schedule
8:00 AM — 9:00 AM
Conference Venue Doors & Registration Opens
ATL / Main Stage
9:00 AM — 9:45 AM
Building Diverse and High Performing Teams: Lessons from Microsoft
Ruhiyyih Mahalati
ATL / Main Stage
9:00 AM — 9:45 AM
From Magic to Mechanics: Demystifying GPU Programming
Adam Gaidi
North Atlanta / Stage 1
9:00 AM — 9:45 AM
Getting Good (or Better) at Code Reviews
Rhia Dixon
South Atlanta / Stage 2
9:00 AM — 9:45 AM
Soar Above The Cloud: How Local-First Software Can Help Users and Developers
Keith Kurak
West Atlanta / Stage 4
9:00 AM — 9:45 AM
The Cavalry Ain’t Comin’: Building Equitable Career Paths into Tech Before it is Too Late
Leon Noel
East Atlanta / Stage 3
9:00 AM — 9:45 AM
Langchain, OpenAI, LLMs, oh my! Finding your way home through AI
Kedasha Kerr
A.I. Stage / Expo Hall
9:00 AM — 10:00 AM
Breakfast & Networking w/ New Relic
New Relic Hackathon & Workshops Zone
10:00 AM — 10:45 AM
The Undeniable Executive
Tony Gauda
ATL / Main Stage
10:00 AM — 10:45 AM
Generative UI with React Server Components
Lee Robinson
North Atlanta / Stage 1
10:00 AM — 10:45 AM
Get Out Of Your Way: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome in Tech From a Non-Traditional Journey
Ashley B Webster
West Atlanta / Stage 4
10:00 AM — 10:45 AM
Navigating Innovation: Legal Challenges and Opportunities in AI
Marques Matthews
Natasha Allen
South Atlanta / Stage 2
10:00 AM — 10:45 AM
The Engineering Manager's Odyssey: Navigating Growth and Evolution in Your Career
Taylor Poindexter
East Atlanta / Stage 3
10:00 AM — 12:00 PM
[WORKSHOP] What's Wrong With My App Using OpenTelemetry To Observe Your Code, sponsored by New Relic
New Relic Hackathon & Workshops Zone
10:00 AM — 10:45 AM
How Cities Engineer Serendipity to Make It a Startup District
Jon Birdsong
Atlanta Tech Week Stage (Hotel Indigo)
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM
Cloud & Infrastructure Meetup, sponsored by AWS
3rd floor conference venue lobby
11:00 AM — 11:45 AM
Leading with Purpose: Navigating Leadership, Culture, and Innovation in Tech
Doyin Sobowale
Christopher Daniel
ATL / Main Stage
11:00 AM — 11:45 AM
Revolutionizing Public Safety: Cutting Gun-Related Deaths by 50% Through Tech Innovation
Yemi Akisanya
North Atlanta / Stage 1
11:00 AM — 11:45 AM
Art and Branding Behind Tech
Hank Washington
South Atlanta / Stage 2
11:00 AM — 11:45 AM
They Hope You Fail, And I Do Too
Matthew Castilla
East Atlanta / Stage 3
11:00 AM — 11:45 AM
Should you really be including GenAI in your products?
Apurva Misra
A.I. Stage / Expo Hall
11:00 AM — 11:45 AM
Make it or break it: a practitioner’s perspective on the key success factors for building AI systems
Sergio Rio
Atlanta Tech Week Stage (Hotel Indigo)
12:00 PM — 12:45 PM
Partnership to personalized: Experience design in the era of tech convergence w/ Delta
Julian Anugom
Joe Dunleavy
Sarah Honeyman
Kara Nishida
Shane Goronkin
ATL / Main Stage
12:00 PM — 12:45 PM
Hostile JavaScript: Attacking and Defending the Browser
Todd Gardner
North Atlanta / Stage 1
12:00 PM — 12:45 PM
Lag? What Lag?! How Remix Makes Your App Feel Faster than the Internet
Shaundai Person
South Atlanta / Stage 2
12:00 PM — 12:45 PM
Two Decades in Tech: A Survival Guide
Annyce Davis
East Atlanta / Stage 3
12:00 PM — 12:45 PM
Understanding Unicode
Evan Hahn
West Atlanta / Stage 4
12:00 PM — 12:45 PM
How to cure generative AI hallucinations with observability
Jemiah Sius
A.I. Stage / Expo Hall
12:00 PM — 1:00 PM
All Hackathon Projects Due!
New Relic Hackathon & Workshops Zone
12:00 PM — 12:45 PM
Building an AI engineer
Animesh Koratana
Atlanta Tech Week Stage (Hotel Indigo)
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM
[VIP] Networking Happy Hour
Food Truck Park
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM
Render Meetups - Nashville, Chicago, NYC/Tri-State
Food Truck Park
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM
LatinX in Tech Meetup, sponsored by Credit Karma
3rd floor conference venue lobby
1:10 PM — 2:10 PM
Grand Closing
Kelsey Hightower
ATL / Main Stage
2:15 PM — 3:00 PM
How I Bought Booze with a JSON Web Token
Angie Jones
North Atlanta / Stage 1
2:15 PM — 3:00 PM
Observability in a Serverless environment
Dolly Desir
South Atlanta / Stage 2
2:15 PM — 3:00 PM
OWSAP Top Ten and How to Defend against them
Malcolm Player
East Atlanta / Stage 3
2:15 PM — 3:00 PM
Typescript and Your Codebase, They deserve each other!
Danny Thompson
West Atlanta / Stage 4
2:15 PM — 3:00 PM
The ABCs of Generative AI
Brooke Jamieson
A.I. Stage / Expo Hall
2:15 PM — 3:00 PM
Top 5 Projects Pitching To Judges
New Relic Hackathon & Workshops Zone
3:00 PM — 4:00 PM
Ice Cream Social + Hackathon Project Showcase
New Relic Hackathon & Workshops Zone
3:00 PM — 4:00 PM
D9 Greeks In Tech Meetup
3rd floor conference venue lobby
3:10 PM — 3:55 PM
JAMSTACK 2024 and Beyond
Matt Biilmann
ATL / Main Stage
3:10 PM — 3:55 PM
How to become a confident engineer
Christian Nwamba
North Atlanta / Stage 1
3:10 PM — 3:55 PM
Maximizing Your Potential in Tech Interviews: The Three Cs to Success
James Q Quick
South Atlanta / Stage 2
3:10 PM — 3:55 PM
Remix Your React Router Applications!
Sean McQuaid
East Atlanta / Stage 3
3:10 PM — 3:55 PM
What's a dev gotta do to make a div around here?
Austin Gil
West Atlanta / Stage 4
3:10 PM — 3:55 PM
The Prompt Engineer and the AI Agents in Javascript
Ron Dagdag
A.I. Stage / Expo Hall
4:05 PM — 4:50 PM
Building Blocks from Innovation to Impact: The Power of Money Moves
Kia Richards
Amber Hazeley
Ashley Blackmon-Hynson
Oseyi Ikuenobe
ATL / Main Stage
4:05 PM — 4:50 PM
How to protect yourself from the biggest Internet threats
Ignat Korchagin
North Atlanta / Stage 1
4:05 PM — 4:50 PM
Down The Wire: Investigating Modern Web Performance, and Solving UX Bottlenecks.
Henri Helvetica
South Atlanta / Stage 2
4:05 PM — 4:50 PM
Rust and Docker: Let's build an AI-powered app!
Francesco Ciulla
East Atlanta / Stage 3
4:05 PM — 4:50 PM
Y'all Gotta Learn to Keep a Secret
Leron Gray
West Atlanta / Stage 4
4:05 PM — 4:50 PM
Using LLM's to Develop Academic Misinformation
Lucas Potter
Xavier Palmer
A.I. Stage / Expo Hall
4:55 PM — 5:00 PM
New Relic Hackathon Winner Announcement
ATL / Main Stage
5:00 PM — 6:00 PM
Champions of Change: Leading and Scaling Teams to Transform Organizations
Justin Samuels
Detavio Samuels
Shannon Sharpe
ATL / Main Stage
5:00 PM — 12:50 AM
[VIP Only] - Official Pre-Game by Makeswift
Around Atlanta - Networking Events
6:30 PM — 6:50 PM
Conference Venue Doors & Registration Closed
ATL / Main Stage
7:00 PM — 1:00 AM
Render Haus Party
The Eastern
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