A discussion  about Tech Leadership, featuring some top tech leaders in our community. This will  lead into the workshop about Career Growth with Michell, Gretchen and Susan.

Presenters:

Michelle Gleeson

Susan Brander

Gretchen Scott

This session will be run by the Tech Diversity Lab team, Michelle Gleeson, Gretchen Scott and Susan Brander. All veterans of the tech industry, these co-founders have recently come together to consolidate all they know of building diverse, high-performing teams into a SaaS platform. They are excited to share their knowledge and experience about Career Growth and Development with the LAST community.

Content:

Come along to our presentation where we will guide you through building your own career progression plan. We will walk through the skills, contributions and opportunities that exist for you.

At the end of the session, you will be empowered to have meaningful conversations with your manager and direct reports about career planning and skill development.

Format

Interactive 60 minute workshop

Tags

Careers and Career Paths

Diversity

Leadership / Management

How awesome would it be if you could easily hire switched on developers who are highly engaged, hungry to learn, challenge the status quo, drive positive cultural change and are not burdened with skepticism from former employers? Starting a graduate program may sound like a lot of hard work, but even a low-fi implementation can produce far-reaching benefits.

In this session, you will hear about SEEK's journey towards a successful and sustainable graduate program. Learn why and how we got started, how it has evolved and the unanticipated benefits our graduates have brought. Along the way, we will discuss practical steps to ensure your graduate intake is diverse, your graduates get targeted, practical technical training and you are building an inclusive culture to support their career development.

IMPORTANT - As places are limited, please register specifically for this session. Also, please register for day 2 of LAST Conf, if you wish to attend the 2nd day.

You can also read more about the sessions in this blog post. If you are a developer with more experience, you might like to consider Agile Dev Immersion - Refactoring.

Get ready to Level Up your agile developer skills. Inspired by Code Retreat, we have run a similar session at LAST Conference for the past few years. We have felt that it's Important to support learning in technical disciplines that are extremely important in agile software development.

This is an intensive practice event for developers, inspired by the Code retreat movement. It focuses on the fundamentals of software development and design, including pair programming, test-driven development, OO and functional programming techniques, and new languages. By providing developers the opportunity to take part in focused practice, away from the pressures of 'getting things done', the format has proven itself to be a highly effective means of skill improvement. Practicing the basic principles of modular and object-oriented design, developers can improve their ability to write code that minimizes the cost of change over time.

This event is beginner friendly. However it is also suitable for those who have already attended similar sessions as we will be creating a tenpin bowling scorer rather than solving Game Of Life again. There is also a concurrent workshop for Refactoring legacy code that is aimed at more experienced devs.

Following the opening session, The Agile Developer Immersion workshop will take the remainder of the day, with breaks synchronised with the main conference. You will also be welcome to attend the end of day drinks!