Node+JS Interactive Day Two Recap

Node+JS Interactive Day Two
Day two of Node+JS Interactive was filled with incredible talks and break out sessions, workshops on certifications and keynotes highlighting new projects and key research and trends important to developers. We even had Nick Nisi from JS Party, an awesome podcaster from the JavaScript community, join us on-site for a live taping of the show!

Below are just a few highlights!

Breakouts
Marian from Pioneerasdev talks about her journey founding an amazing organization that helps women and girls in Colombia learn how to code and find tech jobs. Their group has skyrocketed in numbers going from 5 members to more than 1,200 in less than five years.

Members of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee spend some time talking about the health of the project, what’s to come, and where they could use some help.

Joe Sepi, IBM Software Engineer and Dev Advocate, as well as CPC Chair, gave his presentation on Promises API in Node.js Core to a packed room

Nick Nisi, a panelist at JS Party, is shown here, interviewing  Vladamir de Turckiem on Node.JS loader hooks. Nick also did a great job getting a bunch of folks on the show including Marian Villa, founder of Pioneerasdev, Rich Trott and Anna Henningsen on Node.js worker threads and Chris Wilcox and Jason Etcovitch on bots. 

Felix Rieseberg, Senior Staff Engineer at Slack and a member of the Electron outreach working group gave a talk on Electron and how to build cross-platform applications. 

Ben Morss and Kristofer Baxter, both Googlers, talk about productive Web development powered by AMP.

Keynotes
The afternoon keynotes kicked off with the wonderful Christian Bromann, Senior Lead Software Engineer at Sauce Labs and a Programming Committee Leader for Node+JS Interactive, as Master of Ceremony. In addition to being a great MC, he was a great partner in getting quality talks and keynotes selected.

Jory Burson moderates a panel with two new OpenJS Foundation incubation projects, AMP and Electron. John Kleinschmidt, Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft and Ben Morss, Developer Advocate from Google, talk through their respective projects and the benefits of joining the Foundation.

Kadir Topal from Mozilla delivered key results of the recently finalized MDN Developers needs assessment.

The keynotes were capped off with a panel on 2020 Tech Trends. The panel brought together developer advocates, industry experts and influencers within the media to discuss big topics inclusion security, monoculture in tech and diversity trends. Day one keynoter, Ellie Galloway, also got a much-deserved shout out! Panelists include moderate Nick Niki from JS Party, Liz Parody from NodeSource, Alex Williams from The New Stack and Chris Aniszczyk from the Linux Foundation.

This year’s event wouldn’t be possible without the generous support from our sponsors:

Google Cloud – Diamond
Microsoft Azure – Platinum
Heroku, IBM and Sentry – Gold
NearForm, Red Hat Openshift, Universite, de Montreal – Silver

Finally, we look forward to seeing everyone in Austin, TX  June 23 and 24th at the next global OpenJS Foundation conference!

Thanks to the amazing community for making our time together so worthwhile!