Pluralsight LIVE 2020

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Join Pluralsight CEO, Aaron Skonnard, as he reveals the latest product innovations and acquisitions, welcoming on stage his product executives, Brandon Peay and Kathryn Murphy, as well as our incredible customers.

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As Group CIO of BNP Paribas, Bernard Gavgani is uniquely positioned to share the challenges of the banking industry in a constantly evolving IT world. In his keynote he explores the IT strategy BNP Paribas in the face of these and insights that leaders, regardless of industry, can draw from as they tackle their own challenges.

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Hear the latest on how Microsoft is helping technologists and businesses achieve more.

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Hear about how Zions Bank pivoted and adapted quickly to better serve its customers during these unprecedented times.

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Aaron Skonnard sits down with Paul Daugherty, CTO at Accenture to discuss trends, best practices, and how Accenture is developing the skills of the future, today.

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Hear how Verizon is able to provide transparency to teams ensuring they know they are working on projects that matter, while building the culture, talent, and company of the future.

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Hear how Ericsson is supporting major business initiatives while achieving their goal to “democratize learning” by upskilling and reskilling employees.

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DBS’ transformation journey kicked off when tech giants were going global and start-ups were disrupting banking globally. DBS took a different approach to digital transformation and has been recognised as the World’s Best Bank for the third year in a row since 2018. Paul Cobban, Chief Data and Transformation Officer for DBS Bank will share insights into the bank’s transformation journey and the role that Culture by Design played in driving a pervasive start-up culture in a traditional financial institution. Culture is at the centre of DBS’ transformation story and Paul has recently co-authored a book “Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization”. Releasing in October 2020, this is a first-of-its-kind playbook for empowering individuals and teams to be their most curious and creative – every single day. DBS is a leading financial services group in Asia with a presence in 18 markets.

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Nearly 4.5 million consumers receive their benefits through the PlanSource platform. We sit down with their VP of Engineering to talk productivity, culture, and how engineering teams build business.

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Robert Smith of Vista Equity Partners sits down with Aaron Skonnard to share what he's learned throughout his career and where he sees the future of tech heading.

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Learn how The Home Depot is closing the talent pipeline and skills gaps, and hear the latest happening with Google Cloud.

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An engaging panel discussing Pluralsight RoleIQ to gauge technologist proficiency levels. We'll discuss the top three learnings from a people, process & technology perspective, initial expectations and what outcomes have been achieved, the range of skills organisations should invest in to create and maintain digital literacy, and practical tips on how to get your teams excited about learning.

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This panel on low- and no-code software development, also known as citizens' development, will define a trending segment of software innovation as a highly respected method of agile app delivery that more and more enterprises are embracing.

This is all about the democratization of software development, in which line-of-business employees can fine-tune the apps they use on a daily basis and even create new functionality--or even complete new apps--using easy-to-understand new platforms. We will identify exactly why no/low-code development is now a huge trend, even though it's been a programming discipline for about two decades.

We will compare and contrast the approaches the two companies use and discuss this trend and some use cases. We will also find out the ROI of a use case or two. It promises to be a valuable discussion with a lot of takeaways for any enterprise IT manager, CTO, CIO, software admin or developer.

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The 3 panelists joining us are either technologists in their own right or support high technology organisations and lead their respective organisations in navigating the new digital landscape. They will share with us what critical success factors played a role in their tech career journeys, and how diversity creates more opportunities in accelerating digitalization.

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The US Department of Defense (DoD) is in the early days of a radical transformation in technology and culture. The rapid advances in technology are forcing the DoD to rethink how it adopts and uses new capabilities to keep ahead of adversaries that are doing the same. Thriving in this dynamic environment requires a new breed of service members with digital talents on par with their counterparts in the commercial sector, both in the US and abroad. Building this talent is requiring each service to reimagine new career fields, new recruiting and hiring techniques, and new methods for training and educating a technically literate workforce. The panel members will address how they are approaching this complex problem in their respective services of the Army, Air Force, and Space Force, and will discuss the challenges of innovating inside the US’s largest bureaucracy.

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Learn how to maximize the combined power of Pluralsight & Degreed, and get a preview of work they're doing together to create a best-in-class path to building tech skills

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Are people at your organization overwhelmed with competing priorities? Is it difficult to build learning into the flow of work? Join us for this session to learn about habits and learning. By looking to make incremental improvements, you can build on existing habits to tie learning into what people are already doing. With a graduate degree in learning, work and change; and over 20 years working with organizations globally on their learning programs, Sarah Nicholl from Pluralsight will lead us through this session based on current research from behavioral economics and social psychology.

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Join Luke Dion, vice president of engineering operations at Cox Automotive, as he shares his team’s data-driven approach to developing skills and driving engineering effectiveness amidst the sudden shift and uncertainty due to COVID-19.

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Take an opportunity to compare/contrast three technical learning programs inside Liberty Mutual and get a better understanding of how they are promoting a continuous learning culture for their 5,000 tech employees.

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Excessive questions, task switching and the need to reassign or push back tickets break your workflow and keeps your engineering team from doing what they do best—delivering value to your customers. Hear Lilac Mohr & Mason Shea, the engineering and product leaders behind Flow’s new Delivery module show how the Delivery module can help you make lasting improvements to your workflow.

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Akkroo, the London (UK) based SaaS business Andy co-founded in 2012 was creating a new software category. After growing to 50 employees with only minimal external investment, the company was unexpectedly identified for a friendly acquisition by Phoenix based Integrate Inc. In early 2019, Andy and his team were “swallowed alive” when the deal was finalized. Tune in for a glimpse ‘behind the scenes’ as Andy shares personal lessons from various stages of the journey; through building product and engineering teams inside a start-up, to surviving initial growth and market fit, landing in the belly of the acquiring company, and ultimately serving on the executive team at Integrate as they rapidly grow the MarTech scale-up with lofty ambitions to transform the future of B2B marketing.

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Join Joe Pringle, AWS for an inside perspective on how to understand machine learning and how to put it to work in your role.

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Join this session to hear about BNY Mellon's learning journey.

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Join Pluralsight's Lisa Minogue-White and Wendy James, Leadership, Learning, Talent and Diversity Director at BT for a behind-the-scenes look at the data-driven approach BT is taking to transform their teams and drive their future skills agenda in 2020 and beyond.

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Future Crunch tackles what the Harvard Business Review calls, “the new competitive advantage.” You’ve heard of IQ and EQ; this century belongs to those that are quick to read and act on signals of change. People with a high Adaptability Quotient (AQ): the ability to thrive in unpredictable environments. Instead of being really good at doing one thing, adaptive people are really good at learning how to do new thing.

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In this breakout, you'll experience a conversation with Jennifer Robison.

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This session focuses on women in tech across Singapore.

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Accelerating Digitalization is more than implementing new digital business models, processes transformation, redesigning customer experiences and adoption of technologies. It is changing mindsets, culture and change across the organization to become digital at the core. We explore with these senior digital leaders, who have each evolved their own digital journey on how they were able to accelerate organization-wide digitalization. To be digital at the core, requires the entire organization to “Think, Act and Do” digital. How do we make every employee a digital employee, and empower them with the capabilities and skills-sets to navigate across the digital landscape.

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Join this session to hear the behind-the-scenes story of Nomura’s transformation journey and the unique steps they have taken as part of their transformation journey with a specific focus on the finance professionals who live under the Finance Transformation Office (FTO).

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Gus shares lessons that can be applied to businesses of all sizes and from all industries that are facing massive digital change. Adaptability, transformation and innovation are just some of the key themes he speaks to. Gus warns businesses of complacency, saying business leaders should be in a constant state of learning and discomfort, urging them not to stop chasing the future.

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The IT services industry is going through a transformation. Customers who were slow in adopting digital technology have now been compelled to adopt going digital at an accelerated pace due to the pandemic situation. Large enterprises like Cognizant and Mindtree were not aligned to this sudden rush of moving their army of engineers towards digital tech projects while continuing to support the mainstream software projects. Join this conversation to learn about how they made the shift.

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Hear from IAG Capability Leaders about the IAG's Agile transformation - 30 days dedicated to organisational capability uplift and how they adapted during a pandemic.

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How many times have you heard that HR or L&D "just don't get" what tech teams need? Join three innovative, tech-connected learning leaders for a conversation about how they've created a culture where learning is the norm for technology teams. Hear how Microsoft, T-Mobile and Starbucks are tackling the challenge of embracing their learning culture (yes, even in "these uncertain times") as they align learning practices with the needs of their technologists. You don't want to miss some of the “what we do best” insights from behind the scenes at these incredible companies!

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After 20 years as a developer, Jennifer Carlston has formed mental models around the learning process that have helped her acquire new skills quickly. How we code can help us learn and how we learn can help us code. In this session, Jennifer will help you become a better learner by providing concrete techniques and questions that can help you build skills more quickly through passionate and effective responses to events in your life.

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The pandemic has caused disruption in our learning culture and adaptability is the key to success. Learn how Liberty Mutual Insurance successfully changed their launch strategy this year for an enterprise-wide Secure Development Program targeting 3K engineers.

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Join Mannus Etten, founder of the Right Direction, as he takes you into the world of geospatial software and data. What are the possibilities? How might it enhance your software? We'll start with a brief introduction to the fields in which geospatial data and software is used, dive into the tools to start for yourself and even cover some examples in JavaScript and C#.

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Blockchain technology inverted the relationship between services and data. It allowed partners of all sizes to participate in a shared public interchange of information, rather than integrating with one central gatekeeper. Unfortunately, this power comes at a cost. The technical demands of proof-of-work and the complexities of smart contracts throw barriers between innovators and potential opportunities.

Immutable architectures achieve the benefits of blockchain without the cost and complexity. They provide a blueprint for a business decision infrastructure upon which independent business units can collaborate. I will show you how to construct this decision substrate within your own organization. It provides the same democratic participation in business exchanges as blockchain, but is far more sustainable and scalable.

Business units that iterate and innovate can compete to provide better services to their host organizations. The company as a whole gains an advantage from their ability to rapidly respond to market changes. They can then selectively and securely open parts of the decision substrate to other organizations, achieving the promise of blockchain without the cost.

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In this session Yvo Verbeek will share the success that Achmea has made with the Azure Bootcamps. The Azure bootcamps are part of the Learning Journey created to develop and certify employees for the Microsoft Cloud. In 8 weeks time employees are trained with the Pluralsight RoleIQ and gain the necessary knowledge to be fully prepared for the five day classroom pressure cooker. The successful combination of this blended approach created amazing results, so join this session to learn how you can achieve the same for your teams.

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The speed of technological change requires every organization to rapidly adapt tech strategies and technology skill sets across business goals, tech teams, roles, tech stacks, and skill levels. Yet adapting these skill sets requires transparency around what skills are needed and if those skills exist in your organization. In this session, we’ll talk about how Pluralsight Skills priorities helps overcome the complexity of managing technology skill development at scale. You’ll hear from our priorities Product Manager on how we worked with customers to build an experience that upskills your teams faster and gives you the analytics needed to know if you have the skills to deliver on your objectives.

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Join this Pluralsight LIVE 2020 session to learn about what you know and how you know it.

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In this session, you'll hear about digital transformation for ING's Tech Academy.

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This session is dedicated to entreprenurs, CxO's (CIO, CTO, Chief Data Officer, Chief Digital Officer, CEO, L&D) where we explain the importance of AI and data strategy for enabling their top line business initiatives for driving growth.

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Chances are that you have applications that do authentication. But do you really understand the authentication industry standards OAuth2 and OpenIDConnect? No? Maybe because of the fact that every tutorial on the internet seems complicated. In this session I'll explain the duo in a very easy-to-get way. I'll also show you how to set up the most simple OAuth/OpenID Connect environment possible and to build on that going forward. You'll see an OpenIdConnect identity provider and several different types of applications as clients in action.

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In this talk, we will outline one common fallacy in software development. It comes from inability to view software as a tool that operates on a different plane compared to traditional pen-and-paper business. In a typical scenario, customer would look for software as a replacement to traditional business, effectively robbing their business of the opportunity to transform into pure digital form. In this talk, we will explain how that fallacy happens, why development teams fail to notice it, and - most valuable - how that tragic error can be avoided in real software development. By the end of the demonstration, you will view software with different eyes: As a unique take on the business problem, rather than a rework of any existing practices.

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Discussing emotions at work can feel out of place or “unprofessional” for leaders and teams. And yet, everyone has feelings — anxiety about COVID, disappointment about changed plans in 2020, frustration with coworkers, and more.

Instead of being a distraction, talking about and sharing emotions at work is a key part of building a sense of belonging and trust on teams. And by helping teammates acknowledge and process their emotions, leaders can increase the effectiveness of their team, helping them to get more done, and feel better.

In this talk, we’ll explore how sharing emotions builds team belonging, how leaders can encourage sharing emotions, and how it can improve team effectiveness.

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Twenty years after the Agile Manifesto gave birth to the agile philosophy, the industry continues to converge more and more into a common agile approach and a standardization of the techniques and practices. Jeremy and Tommy are here to challenge some of those common conceptions and give you a rebellious answer to some of the most common agile-related questions.

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Join this session to discuss how your organisation can maximise employee engagement through learning, helping them adapt to rapidly changing business needs.

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For too long, the cyber security industry has attempted to use fear, uncertainty and doubt to engage with the human element. It's time for us to see things differently. This engaging talk draws on extensive research in the sociology and psychology of fear, as well as real-world case studies, to explain why we can't simply scare people into security, but how we can harness human bias to have a more positive impact on cybersecurity awareness, behaviour and culture.

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Developing security skills at scale and speed is a challenge for most organizations. Diagnosing needs and prescribing effective solutions is only possible by embracing a flexible, dynamic approach to skills development, as well as leveraging strategic internal and external partnerships. Join this session to learn best practices from a top security leader who has the experience, influence and passion to ensure his organization is skilled up and prepared to tackle the security challenges of today and into the future. Hear how they have built strong cross-functional relationships and partnered with Pluralsight to deliver on the ever-changing dynamics in the security world.

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Join Jennifer Oddo, head of IBM’s External Workforce and Apprenticeship Initiatives, as she explores their innovative approach to closing the skills gap and enabling talent from new and sometimes unexpected quarters. You’ll also hear directly from two apprentices about their experience and how it’s contributed to IBM’s--and their own--success

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The typical business innovation conversation revolves around the technology itself. But innovation has to start with the teams themselves. How do you keep technologists engaged with their work, with each other and ultimately with the company’s strategic initiatives? Diagnosing needs and prescribing effective solutions is only possible by embracing a flexible, dynamic approach leveraging strategic internal and external partnerships. This conversation between innovative leaders as they discuss their unique approaches to the challenges facing technology teams will leave you with fresh ideas and tactics to consider for keeping your own teams engaged and energized for the work ahead.

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Join Christine Burke, Executive Director - Transformation & Tech COO at Morgan Stanley to hear about her team's innovative journey.

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There are multiple reasons why you might choose to run your application on multiple clouds. Join this session to see a live demo of how you can split your application’s services across clouds with Anthos and still maintain central visibility, observability and management in one spot.

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Learn how NuWave utilized Pluralsight channels to bundle courses into a curriculum and provide not just training but also certifications in technologies such as Data Science, Big Data, Machine Learning and ETL. These certifications feature Pluralsight content curated by NuWave experts, Skill IQs to determine strengths and weaknesses and hands-on projects that prove competency.

NuWave Solutions provides services in the rapidly changing Big Data, Analytics and Cloud markets. Upskilling our workforce is a must and traditional methods of training such as in person vendor training, legacy online courses and college courses were not adequate. NuWave needed training that was up to date, curated, cost effective and flexible. We looked at the new breed of training platforms including Udemy, Coursera, Lynda and Pluralsight. In the end, NuWave teamed with Pluralsight to create our own online University.

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“Technology is key to thrive in the new normal of work," says Global Head of HR, Bank of Singapore. During this session, we will be discussing how changes to company objectives have affected the skills that are needed to move forward. We will also hear from tech leaders about how Pluralsight helps them overcome those challenges and bridge gaps faster.

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COVID-19 hit; country by country the world ground to a halt. We all became familiar with the headline stats, epidemiology became an interesting new profession. The R-number and contact tracing entered our lexicon as things we all knew about. One good if it’s low, the other something we needed to be able to do. March 21st Singapore released the TraceTogether app a Bluetooth, proximity-based digital contact tracing app. Many other countries had already started on similar journeys to build a system that could use technology to speed up and solve the problem of warning people when they became close contacts. The journey started on our national patron saints day March 17th – after 100 days (100 days in COVID time approximates to 3 years in the old world) an app was born (110 days there was a long labour). This is the story of all the apps born or buried during COVID-19 crisis to-date. It’s a story of rapid decision making, global collaboration, intense external scrutiny and hopefully redemption.

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Liberty Mutual Insurance identified a need across multiple technology groups for skilling in Python. They wanted to utilize a blended learning approach which would allow technologists with little to no programming experience to ‘new-skill’ in this language with the ability to work with a live instructor and practice along the way. Liberty partnered with a Pluralsight Author to design and deliver a blended learning program incorporating live instruction, book references, an in-browser coding environment, and Pluralsight self-paced content. The feedback from participants has been phenomenal. Liberty is offering a second cohort of the same Workshop and is planning a progression of the program in the same format for more experienced Python developers.

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What does it really mean when learners say “I don’t have time to learn?” And how disappointing is it when skilling up falls by the wayside as learners get distracted or lose motivation? Staying committed to skilling up can be tough, but it's also solvable. In this session, we’ll dive into the common challenges technologists face in staying engaged, what tips and tools can help you overcome them, and how Pluralsight is leveling up motivation and gamification in the platform to help learners reach their goals faster.

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Join this session with Lindsey Kneuven, Pluralsight's Chief Impact Officer, Jackie Smalls, Code.org's Chief Programs Officer, and Leonardo Ortiz Villacorta, Code.org's VP of International Partnerships to discuss equitable computer science education.

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Learn about Google Cloud's latest and upcoming Certifications, including the value they can provide to your career and your organization. In this session, Magda Jary, global GTM lead for certifications and badges, will share an overview of the learning paths, programs, and tools to get Google Cloud Certified, and how to use Pluralsight to do it. In addition, you’ll hear from story certified professionals at Home Depot and at Google about their certification journey.

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Join us for a conversation with Lindsey Kneuven, Pluralsight's Chief Impact Officer and Dr. Maliha Khan, Chief Programmes Officer at the Malala Fund, about the global education crisis, the impact of COVID-19 on girls’ education, and how we remain committed to equity outcomes as the gaps are widening.

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Join Pluralsight Chief Impact Officer, Lindsey Kneuven, for a conversation with innovative leaders from the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) about the global displacement crises, the impact of COVID-19 on those who are forced to flee, and the role of corporates and technology in the response.

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As a leader, you’re in a key position to help your organization remain competitive in your industry. In this session you will learn how to see things differently about selecting talent, increasing employee engagement, and equipping your talent in order to create a successful learning culture.

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Join us for a conversation with Brad Mallard, CTO Digital Technology Services, EMEIA at Fujitsu.

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Join these leaders as they discuss their innovative approach to enabling the federal civilian workforce of the future.

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The COVID-19 crisis has turned the government workforce upside down and created challenges like never before. That’s on top of the already existing IT skills gaps faced by State and Local governments. When running remote teams, it’s very easy for upskilling and reskilling to be abandoned and become lost in the day-to-day, but with the different workload requirements presented by the “new normal” we find ourselves with an opportunity to upskill our teams with an agile and iterative approach to technology learning. Hear how the City of Seattle and King County are stepping up to the challenge to enable their teams to provide citizen services – from their living rooms.

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The world runs on code. Here in 2020, you can't watch a movie, book a train ticket, or see a doctor without your details passing through all sorts of programs and services. From websites, to email, to cloud databases and mobile apps, code has become a vital part of the infrastructure that runs our society. Maintaining and managing these vast, complex codebases is a huge challenge for our industry - but whenever we talk about innovation in the field of software development, we talk about writing new code, new platforms, new frameworks. Courses, exams, and interviews are all about writing code - about writing small, standalone programs to demonstrate a particular algorithm or pattern - and then developers land their first professional role and suddenly they're expected to maintain a few hundred thousand lines of code they've never seen before. Join Dylan Beattie for an enlightening discussion about the problem of managing legacy code, the role of education in the world of modern software development – and the very nature of what it means to be a software engineer.

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Get started with Generative AI with AWS DeepComposer. AWS DeepComposer provides developers and students a creative way to get started with machine learning. Get hands-on with a musical keyboard and the latest machine learning techniques, designed to expand your ML skills.

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Open source software is collaboratively developed by people distributed across the globe, some of whom work for competing companies, many of whom have never met in person. As many of us are now experiencing exclusively virtual work and collaboration for the first time, the best practices and development methodologies of open source software have much to offer us as we consider how to remain effective in our communication, collaboration, and co-creation. In this talk, Leslie Hawthorn will explore the ways in which members of open source software projects structure their social systems to ensure that the best ideas come to the fore, so that participants feel mastery of their domain and experience consistent gratitude for their contributions, and how these processes are ultimately the catalyst for creativity and innovation.

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Learn how Microsoft Learn and Pluralsight can help you ensure that you or the people in your organization have the skills needed to meet the challenges of today’s cloud-based digital world.

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Telstra Health & NAB will share the complexities of dealing with large IT staff and the challenges of identifying where & when to invest in emerging technologies.

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Dive into Pluralsight’s new, hands-on cloud labs experience with a demo and more from our product manager! We’ll hear from a cloud-certified learner, doubleclick into how cloud certifications can help alleviate skills gaps for both individuals and organizations, and show you how Pluralsight aligns its content to certifications from Big 3 cloud providers and beyond.

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Join this session to discover how strategic upskilling drives digital transformation. Leaders will share success stories of the journey to accelerate digital transformation & adapting to rapidly changing business needs while aligning the expectations of executives, with actionable insights.

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“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn,” said Alvin Toffler who was an American writer, futurist, and businessman. The good news is that, It’s not too late to rethink how your organization makes tech skill development a core competency. During this session, we will be discussing identifying & addressing skills gaps for emerging technologies in the market, aligned to business needs. We will hear from the leaders about their thoughts on emerging technology projects.

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Join Pluralsight's Stan Hansen for a conversation with Junaid Ahmed and Michael Daly, two innovative leaders at Applied Materials, as they discuss their unique and successful approach to technology skills development--within a finance organization.

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When you’re building, not optimizing, you need everyone to learn from customers. But how do you build a team culture in which everyone, including backend engineers and compliance program managers, feels empowered to do research? I’ll share what I’ve learned so far on creative methods for how to coach, how to share insights, and how to impact company policies. You’ll walk away with a new approach to teaching non-researchers how to research, sharing insights from customers that get heard and impact decisions, and finally, ideas for selling your organization on policies that enable a more customer-centric culture.

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Over the history of time, the most paradigm-shifting innovations have shared a common trait. In this presentation, I go over some import innovations from the past that changed the world and have greatly impacted the way we live today, discussing the one thing they all had in common. In addition, I will discuss considerations all future innovations should include.

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For machine learning models, we all know more data is better. For convolutional neural networks, image augmentation provides a straightforward way to expand your training dataset, by applying simple transformations to the images you already have. In this talk I'll start by demoing the basic standard transforms using the albumentations python package, and work up to some more advanced strategies like CutMix and mixup. I will also discuss some findings of the RxRx1 kaggle competition that Recursion ran last summer, and how this demonstrated the power of these techniques when applied to our cellular image data.

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We will take a dive into what has and has not changed in the new world of work. Technology and disruptions enable everything from analytics to AI to organizational models and teams to better imagine and live out a new world of work; one in which who is doing the work, where the work is getting done, and what the work actually is are all changing...for the better.

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Co-located and remote work are as relevant as ever and teams working in transnational environments often face unique challenges building camaraderie and streamlining productivity. The speaker brings with her several years of research and collaboration with technology professionals working in global organizations in India. Using data from her research, the speaker will offer strategies for working in globalized teams in ways that emphasize ethical and culturally-aware collaboration. In particular, this session aims to help participants reduce marginalizing forces that can easily develop in teams working in co-located teams that span time zones, language traditions, and cultural norms.

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In September 2019, McKinsey called for the rise of the in-house “analytics academy” to up-skill employees’ data literacy and prepare organizations for the changes from artificial intelligence and automation.

In this session, I will share tips for designing effective data analytics training programs acquired from working with leading technology and development organizations.

Attendees will gain a step-by-step blueprint for building a data analytics academy, making the case to management, to identifying candidates and topics, to measuring its effectiveness.

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The worldwide pandemic of 2020 helped bring quick data-driven insights even further into the spotlight, but organizations realized their data and digital transformations were not ready to handle the shifting world. Through data literacy, organizations can truly capitalize on the data and analytical investments they have made, bringing the technical and non-technical together; data literacy brings the human element to the world of data and analytics.

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This session will present a winning workflow for Analysts, Developers and Engineers to harness the power of persuasion with data. Attendees will hear how to present the results of their development projects or analysis and drive their audience to act on those results.

The Persuasion Equation draws upon my personal experience battling imposter syndrome and uneasy audiences, and how I devised and improved a framework to make my voice heard within an organisation. There's a big difference between insights and action, and this session will cover the pathway to success in this area.

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Why is it, on every reality TV show, the youngest chef, designer, or creative always beats out their seasoned competitors with flashes of creativity? Inevitably, the contestant oscillates between first place and second to last throughout the entire season, before falling just short in the finale. At some point, they will have a moment of crisis and they will break down, with the show’s host rushing over for that episode’s requisite dramatic moment. The young contestant always takes a creative risk, in part because they don’t know it’s a risk and in part because they never learned “the right way”. This novel technique is equally likely to be dubbed genius, as it is possible to end in catastrophe.

Now, imagine if you coupled this contestant with the show’s battle-tested judge to create the next cake, dress, floral display (yes, there is now a flower arrangement reality competition)? How badass would their creation be? Here’s the kicker: the proverbial young creative and wizened judge both exist at your company. Let’s talk about how to break the cycle and unleash the young creator.

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We've all been thrown into the deep end when it comes to working 100% remote. How's it going for your team? Remote work can be a competitive advantage to build teams without geographic constraints from a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences and result in a more effective team than the traditional model of a single location for everyone. Learn best practices to implement and what pitfalls to avoid to turn working remotely into an advantage for your organization.

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This session is designed to help leaders rally around diversity and inclusion by increasing their perspective of each generation. We’ll review key insights learned through demographic research that will help leaders best understand how to collaborate across generational differences for greater engagement and inclusiveness.We’ll review defining attributes of each generation and some common workplace challenges and then identify solves for each through differing generational perspectives.As leaders better understand each generations needs and workplace personalities their ability to motivate and inspire their teams towards greater performance will improve.

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There are three great opportunities that technology brings to today’s businesses due to advancements in the cloud. Organizations that have adopted these approaches deliver business value faster, respond to user needs more rapidly, and reduce their time from idea to implementation. Learn how to equip your technical resources with the skills they need to implement these opportunities within your organization.

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On Thursday 13 June 2019, I had an anxiety attack in the workplace. I was overwhelmed, terrified and scared. On Monday 15 July 2019, I announced to my work I was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome when I was 3 years old - it was, and still is, the most important day of my life. Today I am embracing my journey and I want to share my story with you, but most importantly, I want to help people understand neurodiversity within the workplace; What does neurodiversity mean? What is the history of neurodiversity? And what benefits can neurodiverse people bring to the workplace? Join me for a conversation around the future of accessibility in the workplace, and how it must include neurodiverse perspectives. Are Australian and international companies doing enough to increase awareness around neurodiversity? Let's find out!

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This is a lighthearted story telling of how as an ethical hacker, I rob banks to make them more secure. See some of the biggest security fails and hear some of the incredible stories that almost 30 years of breaking into secure facilities has lead to me facing armed police, stealing helicopters and gold bars through to kidnapping security staff has enabled some companies to see things differently.

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While most people are still using Java 8 from six years ago, new versions of the language are being released every six months! The latest versions provide an abundance of new features such as functional programming capabilities, switch expressions, local variable type inference, additions to the Stream API, new factory methods for Collections, text blocks and much more. This talk will introduce Angie Jones' favorite new features of Java 9 - 14, provide practical examples of how these features can be used, and offer recommended practices and gotchas when using these features. Key takeaways include: An introduction of new features in the latest releases of Java (9 - 14), examples of how the features can be used, recommendations on good practices when using these features, gotchas and caveats, and greater command of the programming language.

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"Artificial Intelligence" may seem like a deeply complex and technical topic- but did you know you can build your own models with zero code? In this talk, Chloe Condon will share how you can build and train your own models and add even more intelligence to your apps with Azure AI + Cognitive Services!

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Together, we’ll explore the must-add features Slack uses to build web forms that generate leads for successful deals and reflect on the impact they’ve had.

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Visual representations of data inform how machine learning practitioners think, understand, and decide. Before charts are ever used for outward communication about a ML system, they are used by the system designers and operators themselves as a tool to make better modeling choices. Practitioners use visualization, from very familiar statistical graphics to creative and less standard plots, at the points of most important human decisions when other ways to validate those decisions can be difficult. Visualization approaches are used to understand both the data that serves as input for machine learning and the models that practitioners create. In this talk, learn about the process of building a ML model in the real world, how and when practitioners use visualization to make more effective choices, and considerations for ML visualization tooling.

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Developers today have so many tools to pick from to keep them accountable and on track. And, because of the field we're in, sometimes while finding the perfect solution, we end up building it ourselves! In this talk, Cassidy Williams will go through some of the technical details of a to-do app called todometer, how it came to be, and the power of open source to improve your own developer experience.

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Join Pluralsight EVP of Flow, Kathryn Murphy, as she moderates a conversation with her sisters exploring the bravery, the risks, and the lessons learned of navigating a career as a woman in tech.

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What does it mean to be multi-cloud? Are companies purposely using different clouds, or do companies become multi-cloud by accident? In this talk, we're going to explore the multi-cloud trend, and which use cases matter. We'll also dig into the dos and don'ts of multi-cloud, and explain the fundamentals required for success. The audience will leave this talk with a good understanding of the context, technologies, and practices that steer you in the right direction.

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Join this All Hands on Tech session for a conversation with Ned Bellavance.

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Join this All Hands on Tech session for a conversation with Dan Wahlin.

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Join this All Hands on Tech session for a conversation with Filip Ekberg.

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Join this All Hands on Tech session for a conversation with Katherine McNamara.

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Join this All Hands on Tech session for a conversation with Xavier Morera.

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Join this All Hands on Tech session for a conversation with David Gotrik.

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Join this All Hands on Tech session for a conversation with Jordan Morrow.

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Join this All Hands on Tech session for a conversation with Ross Bagurdes.

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Join this All Hands on Tech session for a conversation with Jeffrey Hicks.

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Join this All Hands on Tech session for a conversation with Shelley Benhoff.

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Join this All Hands on Tech session for a conversation with Janani Ravi.

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Join this All Hands on Tech session for a conversation with Julie Lerman.

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Don’t miss this thought-provoking conversation, moderated by Angie Jones, as our panelists Sherrell Dorsey, Jeffrey Henry and Valerie Williams explore the current state of equity, how to set a vision and intention for what’s next, and how to lead to change.