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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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
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
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
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’
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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Gareth Rushgrove
Product Manager @Docker
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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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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