Speaker Profile: Scott Burns (@scottsburns)
Scott lives in Nashville, TN with his wife and two children. He works at Stratasan as a software developer attempting to reduce complexity where possible. In a previous life, he worked as an academic research engineer building analysis systems for processing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data collected from children. He, like many others, left science as part of the on-going academic brain drain.
Scott will be presenting “Empathy-as-a-Service” Sunday at 11AM. This talk discusses empathy in software development. Best practices in development can be framed as natural byproducts of more empathetic developers. We’ll explore the relationships between developers and users, non-technical colleagues and other developers to gain perspective on why improving ones capacity for empathy can have profound, lasting effects for our workplaces and communities.
Sponsor Profile: RethinkDB (@rethinkdb)
RethinkDB is the first open-source scalable database for the realtime web. It exposes an exciting new access model – instead of polling for changes, the developer can tell the database to continuously push updated query results to applications in realtime. RethinkDB allows developer to build scalable realtime apps in a fraction of the time with fewer engineering resources.