New York-based global hedge fund Schonfeld Strategic Advisors has announced that it will be the presenting sponsor of the 2022 edition of SoFlo DevCon.
Taking place at Nova Southeastern University in Davie on April 16th, this year marks the 17th annual edition of DevCon (formerly known as Code Camp). The event is part of the broader “South Florida Tech Month” in April which includes a host of innovation-focused conferences and events stretching from Miami to Palm Beach.
“We are very excited to be the presenting sponsor of SoFlo DevCon,” Schonfeld’s Chief Technology Officer, David Neigler, told South Florida Tech Hub.
Registration & Check-In
Lunch & Keynote Presentation
After Party Happy Hour
A software developer’s conference and a FREE one-day geek fest with speakers presenting on the most requested topics in development!
This is a conference put on by the community and for the community whwre you can hear from leaders, peers, and even give your own talk. It’s always free to attendees from South Florida!
Register for FREE. Show up at 8:00 AM. Get some breakfast. Choose the tracks and sessions you’d like to attend. Get lunch mid-day and listen to our keynote. Close out the day around 5:15 pm with raffles!
All you really need is yourself, but you can feel free to bring a laptop, headphones, and an open mind and eagerness to learn. Oh, and bring your resume if you are looking for an opportunity.
Breakfast is provided to those early risers who get there by 8:30 am. Free tshirt and swag bag to the first 300 guests in attendance. Access to over 70 educational sessions. Lunch is provided mid-day with access to main keynote. Raffle tickets are drawn at the event of the day around 5:15 pm.
Definitely not! We welcome designers, project managers, creatives, entrepreneurs, founders, and anyone connected to the tech and innovation community in South Florida.
Eugenio Jaramillo
Top 5 Soft Skills to Boost Your Career
8:30 AM
Morgan Levy, Ph.D.
Burnout to Balance: Battling Burnout and Creating Sustainable Balance
9:45 AM
Alejandro Sanchez
Your First Coding Job To Your Dream Coding Job
11:00 AM
Patricia Ojeda
Learn To Build A Social Network That Supports Your Professional Endeavors
1:30 PM
Will Walker
Career Development in the Hybrid Business Environment
2:45 PM
Miriam Dorsett
Taking Control of Technology to Prioritize Your Mental Health
4:00 PM
Erik Mintz
How Disruption Occurs in Emerging Product Categories
8:30 AM
Carrie Moore
The Art of Quick & Nimble
9:45 AM
Aaron Chavez
Practical Steps to Take Your Idea To A Revenue Generating Business
11:00 AM
Jared Shapiro
Making Tech Sexy
1:30 PM
Sly Buford
How to Grow, Scale and Exit Your Tech Company
2:45 PM
Chad Folkening
How To Actually Make Money on The Blockchain
4:00 PM
OPEN
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8:30 AM
Nick Mohnacky
Augmented Intelligence, Co-creating with AI
9:45 AM
Saïda Florexil & Aakriti Gupta
wikiHow: Tech for Accessibility Edition
11:00 AM
Michel Lacle
Scaling an AI team on a Shoestring
1:30 PM
Barkha Herman
NextGen AI: Machine Teaching & Deep Reinforcement Learning
2:45 PM
Trevor Drummond
That’s Bananas! AI Image Recognition for Everyone, End-to-End
4:00 PM
Adelmo Orozco
Taking Machine Learning to its Practical Limits
8:30 AM
Edwin Hernandez
Machine Learning Techniques for Natural Language Processing
9:45 AM
William Hahn, Ph.D
Picture This: Machine Learning and Computer Vision
11:00 AM
Mark Moyou
Deploying ML Models on Open-source Inference Servers for GPUs & CPUs
1:30 PM
OPEN
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2:45 PM
Tahl Milburn
Intro to Practical Vision, Language, and Other Machine Learning
4:00 PM
David Hartmann
Blockchain — Real Life Use Cases Beyond the Buzz
8:30 AM
Meggie Soliman
Blockchain: Innovation of the Future
9:45 AM
Daniel Uribe
How #BioNFTs can help in Genome-Guided Clinical Trials
11:00 AM
Russell Fustino
Building Blockchain dApps using JavaScript
1:30 PM
Zach Weiner
I’m a Data Maxi and You Should Be Too
2:45 PM
Todd Albert
The State and Future of Web3
4:00 PM
Panel Discussion | NFT Art – More Than a Meme
Panelists: Raysa Suarez, Brandon Ginsberg, Elizabeth Irizarry
8:30 AM
Rob Petrosino
MetaVerse | What Foundation Should You Be Building?
9:45 AM
Damian Montero
Web3 & NFT: Code a Real Crypto Login
11:00 AM
Ariana Pareja
How To Find a Job In The Metaverse
1:30 PM
Panel Discussion | What are DOAs?
Panelists: Jorge Cortes, Mike Maniscalco, Laura Cole, Monica Rajas
2:45 PM
Drs Sara and Avi Rushinek
Show & Tell: 360° AI Remote Assisted Reality Tech in The Metaverse
4:00 PM
Vyom Upadhya
Tech is easy. People, not so much: Managing Stakeholders as a Leader
8:30 AM
Greg Taffet
Manager’s POV: Web3, Metaverse, Blockchain, NFTS, and Related Technologies
9:45 AM
Marilyn Rousseau
Top 5 Steps: Techie to Tech Leader
11:00 AM
Barkha Herman
Ally to All: Creating Inclusive & Diverse Workplaces in an Increasingly Divided World
1:30 PM
Alex Funkhouser
For Love or Money, your Technology Career
2:45 PM
Elizabeth Decker
Build a Great Relationship with your Manager
4:00 PM
Daniel Vaughn
A Programming Language for UI Designers
8:30 AM
Ally Campbell
The Importance of User Testing
9:45 AM
Catalina Arango
Human-Centered Design Thinking for AI
11:00 AM
Elizabeth Decker
Overview of Power Automate and Power Apps: Microsoft’s Low-code Automation Solution
1:30 PM
Emily Cleary
Hack Days: How to Run a UX Ideation Workshop
2:45 PM
Chris Johnston
Product Design In An Agile Environment
4:00 PM
Pierre Donyegro
Intro to GitHub
8:30 AM
Push Pradhan
Deliver Software Sooner: Lessons From DevOps In The Real World
9:45 AM
Mitchell Ashley
Level Up With These 5 DevOps and Cloud Technologies
11:00 AM
James Riley
How Containerizing Dev Environments Improves Onboarding, Productivity, and Security
1:30 PM
Cecil Phillip
Building Your Payment Flows with Stripe
2:45 PM
Surya Challa
Why Event Driven Microservices : “Scaling 10x” in 3 Pictures
4:00 PM
Michael Corbit
Soft Skills and Interview Preparedness
8:30 AM
Roberta Barbosa
Reinventing Yourself After a Tech Career Crisis
9:45 AM
Willy Orozco
Make a Positive Impact Without Quitting Your Day Job
11:00 AM
Jessica Cavallaro & Roslyn Jackson
Disruptors In Education: How Agile Can Transform Education To Prepare Students For The Future
1:30 PM
CeCe Espuet
Benefits of Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
2:45 PM
TBD
Diversity In Tech
4:00 PM
OPEN
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8:30 AM
Misha Klopukh
ML on the Edge: Turning Your RPi Into an AI in Under 45 Minutes
9:45 AM
Tahl Milburn
Getting To Know Raspberry Pi with Cool Hardware Extension (HATS) and Python
11:00 AM
OPEN
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1:30 PM
Ken Crawford
Bake a Raspberry Application Cluster Pi (Yum)
2:45 PM
Dwight Goins
7 Things To Know About Quantum Computing
4:00 PM
Kim Scribner & Prateek Singh
A Hot Cup of Agile Lean Coffee
8:30 AM
Cristina Escalante
Proposing, Negotiating and Communicating Contracts in an Agile Environment
9:45 AM
Erik Lindgren
Why Go Agile?
11:00 AM
Fred Obiero
Selecting the Appropriate PM Tools & Techniques
1:30 PM
Wes Dumey
The Role of a Traveling Consultant (Excelling in the Gig Economy)
2:45 PM
Lisa Pratt-Sanchez
The Agile Way – Where less delivers more value
4:00 PM
Ron Tarro
Hacking Your Investor Pitch
8:30 AM
Ken Hall
An Investor’s View: Product Led Growth 2.0
9:45 AM
Ariana Pareja
Bootstrapping vs Fundraising
11:00 AM
PANEL DISCUSSION | Why is Fractional RealEstate Investing the Future?
Panelists: Julio Caceres, Cedric Teboul, Margarita Franco, Mike Owen
1:30 PM
PANEL DISCUSSION: The Future of Technology in Finance
Rusty Conover, Drashti Trivedi, Wesley Maness (Schonfeld)
2:45 PM
Maggie Vo
How to Get Venture Capital to Invest In You
4:00 PM
OPEN
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8:30 AM
Camilo Payan
The Fault In Our Code: Debugging Methods For Every Stage
9:45 AM
OPEN
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11:00 AM
Jeyanthi Rajaselvarasu
Mobile App Design and Testing
1:30 PM
Rick Martinez
Using Test-Driven Design to Build Better Interfaces & Structure for Software
2:45 PM
Kevin Boles
SQL Server Unit Testing
4:00 PM
Gio Punzo
The Future of Streaming is Interactivity
8:30 AM
Jeyanthi Rajaselvarasu
SAAS Application Design Insight
9:45 AM
Cecilia Brusatori
Data Analysis using Power BI and Excel on Microsoft Analytics Platform
11:00 AM
Dwight Goins
Azure Development with IoT
1:30 PM
Herman Remy
A Look Into The Future of VR Software & Hardware
2:45 PM
Kelvin Llaverias
Using SaaS, Cloud & IoT to Bring Sugar To Your Table
4:00 PM
Mitchell Kelman
Our Mobile World
8:30 AM
Trestian Stewart
Building Modern Web Apps Using Angular
9:45 AM
Robert Hellestrae
Create iOS, Android apps with .Net, C# and Xamarin
11:00 AM
David Silverlight
Introduction to .Net Maui for the Xamarin.Forms Developer
1:30 PM
David Crook
Intro to Production Python Coding
2:45 AM
Jonathan Sanchez
Code & Build It Once for Any Device with React Native
4:00 PM
David Cobb
Learn Azure With PowerShell
8:30 AM
Ricardo de Andrade
Using Google CloudRun to Easily Deploy & Scale Apps
9:45 AM
Jared Rhodes
Home Lab – Private Cloud on a budget
11:00 AM
Kevin Boles
Migrating SQL Server Applications to the Cloud
1:30 PM
Patrick Hannah
Serverless Without Code
2:45 PM
Hector García
Azure Functions for Enterprise Applications & Heavy Duty Tasks
4:00 PM
