beCamp 2018 Schedule

The 2018 schedule will be voted on and finalized on the evening of September 28th.

Venue

Rice Hall @ UVA

Friday, September 28th

4:30pm - 5:00pm: Volunteers arrive to help setup event space.

5:00pm: Doors open.

~6:30: Dinner arrives.

~7:15pm: Intros & Haiku, Sponsor Highlights, Topic Proposals, Topic Organization & Scheduling, Saturday Schedule posted to website

Saturday, September 29th

9:00 am: Doors open; breakfast and coffee.

9:30am - 10:15am

Good Grief: Sharing About Loss

Jessica Otey
Share
Davis Commons

Topology and Embedding: Systems, Games, and Designs

Noah Healy
Present
Blue Room (109)

Let's Build A Blockchain

John Feminella
Present
Orange Room (108)

Everyone Can Do Great Presentations

Matt Dick
Present
Yellow Room (107)

How To Break Into Data Science

Patrick Harrison
Share
Red Room (242)

10:20am - 11:05am

Effective Technical Mentorship (How To Weaponize Junior Devs)

Brent Baumgartner
Share
Davis Commons

Understanding Type Systems

John Feminella
Present
Blue Room (109)

Career Workshop Brainstorm

Courtney and Shayna
Share
Orange Room (108)

A Controversy-Adjacent Discussion of a Mathematical Model of GMVH [Session Retitled]

Noah Healey
Share
Yellow Room (107)

From Strangers to Best Friends In 45 Minutes

Alex Zorychta
Present
Red Room (242)

11:10am - 11:55am

Ranked Choice Voting

Sally Hudson
Present
Davis Commons

Credit-Card-Sized AI To Control A Drone

Tim Emerick
Present
Blue Room (109)

Going Solar

Sidd Dalal
Present
Orange Room (108)

CTO Panel

Ron DuPlain
Present/Share
Yellow Room (107)

Fail Better, Harder Stronger: How To Keep Going Forward

Vital Boisset
Share
Red Room (242)

12:05pm - 12:35pm

Lightning Talks

Davis Commons

12:35pm - 1:25pm

Lunch

Davis Commons

1:25pm - 1:55pm

Lightning Talks

Davis Commons

2:00pm - 2:45pm

Introduction to Distributed Systems

John Feminella
Present
Davis Commons

Web Accessibility

Dylan Sheffer
Present
Blue Room (109)

How To Get A Career

George Hartogensis
Learn
Orange Room (108)

Tree Branch

Robin Macklin
Share
Yellow Room (107)

Go (Boardgame)

Michael Holroyd
Present
Red Room (242)

2:50pm - 3:35pm

Intuitive, Visual, Tangible, Algorithms

Phil Varner
Present
Davis Commons

Let's Talk Kubernetes

Cushing W
Share
Blue Room (109)

Open Source Local Home Automation

Taylor Vierrether
Present/Share
Orange Room (108)

Open A Discussion To Address The Low Percentage Of Women In ICT Field

Nadia Jean Charles
Present
Yellow Room (107)

How to Create and Maintain High-quality Meaningful Social Connections In The Age Of Anti-Social Media

Alex Zorychta
Share
Red Room (242)

3:40pm - 4:05pm

Wrap-up

Davis Commons

4:05pm - Whenever

Cleanup

All Rooms