Track Overview

Tech Ethics in Action

The systems we build impact directly on people’s lives, sorting winners from losers. As software engineers we are not paid to think about the ethical impact of the work we do. In this track we will explore real-world examples of systems that have had profound negative impacts, and explore the lessons we can learn from this.


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SESSION + Live Q&A Tech Ethics

Tech Ethics in Action Panel

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Theo Schlossnagle

Founder and CEO @Circonus, Editorial board of ACM's ‘Queue’

Alexander Steinhart

Psychologist, Technologist @ThoughtWorks

Yanqing Cheng

Software Development Manager @metaswitch

Tim Kadlec

Performance consultant and trainer

Jenny Mulholland

Woman in tech @softwireuk

Anne Currie

Chief Strategist @containersoluti (Container Solutions)

Gareth Rushgrove

Product Manager @Docker

Kavita Kapoor

SESSION + Live Q&A Tech Ethics

Responsibly Smashing Pandora’s Box

The ethical and technological landscape we live in is moving faster than ever before, and our ethical intuitions are woefully ill-equipped to cope with the changes.  As tech innovators, we are part of the force driving this acceleration, but as residents of the world, we are also the ones...

Yanqing Cheng

Software Development Manager @metaswitch

SESSION + Live Q&A Tech Ethics

Ethical Tech - A Psychologist's Perspective

This talk explores the digital revolution from a psychological perspective, with scientific research on human needs and biases in mind, it takes a look at the thin line between taking advantage of an understanding of psychology and exploiting it and at emerging, alternative design and technology...

Alexander Steinhart

Psychologist, Technologist @ThoughtWorks

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A Young Profession Coping With Ethical Debt

The concept of professional ethics is not new to the world, but it is fairly new to computing because computing itself is so new. Ethics and its requirement as a part of professionalism started with monks and quickly embraced the three occupations of importance: religious service, law, and...

Theo Schlossnagle

Founder and CEO @Circonus, Editorial board of ACM's ‘Queue’

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Focusing On What Matters

We work and live in a bubble. Our limited perspective of what it means to use technology influences the way we build, the tools we use, and the tasks we prioritize. In the process, we risk losing the most powerful thing about the internet: its ubiquity. It's critically important that we broaden...

Tim Kadlec

Performance consultant and trainer


Speakers from this track

Theo Schlossnagle

Founder and CEO @Circonus, Editorial board of ACM's ‘Queue’

Theo founded Circonus in 2010, and continues to be its principal architect. After earning undergraduate and graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University in computer science with a focus on graphics and randomized algorithms in distributed systems, he went on to research resource allocation...

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Alexander Steinhart

Psychologist, Technologist @ThoughtWorks

Alexander lives and works in Berlin and has a rather interesting background in psychology as well as technology.

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Yanqing Cheng

Software Development Manager @metaswitch

Yanqing Cheng is a software development manager at Metaswitch, where she works on high-scale networking systems software.  Networking technology is an exciting mix of forward-looking ideas with decades-old protocols, which provide insights into the constant balancing act between innovation...

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Tim Kadlec

Performance consultant and trainer

Tim is a developer, consultant and trainer focused on building a web everyone can use. He is the author of High Performance Images (O'Reilly, 2016) and Implementing Responsive Design: Building sites for an anywhere, everywhere web (New Riders, 2012), and was a contributing author for Smashing...

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Jenny Mulholland

Woman in tech @softwireuk

Over the last 10 years Jenny has held many different roles in tech, including developer, test lead, project manager, and technical pre-sales. Currently a technical account manager at Softwire, Jenny specialises in the public sector - a sector which is increasingly recognising the value of...

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Anne Currie

Chief Strategist @containersoluti (Container Solutions)

Anne Currie has been in the tech industry for over 20 years working on everything from Microsoft Back Office Servers in the 90's to international online lingerie in the 00's to cutting edge devops and the impact of orchestrated containers in the 10's. Anne has co-founded tech startups...

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Gareth Rushgrove

Product Manager @Docker

Gareth Rushgrove is a product manager at Docker. He works remotely from Cambridge, UK, helping to build interesting tools for people to better manage infrastructure and applications. Previously he worked for the UK Government Digital Service focused on infrastructure, operations and information...

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Track Host

Gareth Rushgrove

Product Manager @Docker

Gareth Rushgrove is a product manager at Docker. He works remotely from Cambridge, UK, helping to build interesting tools for people to better manage infrastructure and applications. Previously he worked for the UK Government Digital Service focused on infrastructure, operations and information...

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Track Host

Anne Currie

Chief Strategist @containersoluti (Container Solutions)

Anne Currie has been in the tech industry for over 20 years working on everything from Microsoft Back Office Servers in the 90's to international online lingerie in the 00's to cutting edge devops and the impact of orchestrated containers in the 10's. Anne has co-founded tech startups...

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