Elastic is the leading platform for search-powered solutions, empowering organizations to find what they need faster, ensure smooth application performance, and safeguard against cyber threats. Their solutions are trusted by industry giants like Uber, Slack, and Microsoft, and we’re honored to have them as a key supporter of our community. We extend our sincere gratitude to Elastic for their continued commitment to fostering innovation and connecting with the brightest minds in the tech world at ShipItCon.

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The news of Women Who Code and Girls in Tech, Inc. shutting down this year is a stark reminder of the challenges faced by underrepresented groups in tech. At ShipItCon, we believe in giving back and fostering a more inclusive industry. Words are cheap, so we’re putting our money where our mouth is.

This year, we’re proud to announce our commitment to financially supporting Coding Grace, a local community that embodies the spirit of “For the community by the community.”

Here’s how we’ll be raising funds:

Raffle Tickets: Keep an eye out for raffle tickets at ShipItCon!

– Spin the Squishy Challenge: This fun activity will also contribute to our donation.
– Matching Funds: After expenses, we’ll top up the total amount raised to ensure a significant contribution.

Join us in making a difference! Every bit helps create a more diverse and thriving tech ecosystem.

More details here : https://shipitcon.com/good-causes/

Team ShipItCon : Tom, John, Ntsoaki, Serena, and Clare!

We’re thrilled to announce that 3 amazing speakers, Vessy Tasheva, Alma Tarfa and Mihai Paun, will be joining us at ShipItCon this year! Get ready to be inspired by their insights and expertise on the psychological state of flow and harnessing developer insights to maximise flow.

Vessy Tasheva

Vessy is founder & CEO of Vessy.com, specialising in organisational trust & culture strategy and leadership coaching for pre-IPO and publicly traded tech, gaming, and cybersecurity companies. Since 2017 Vessy has been exploring Trust in all of its dimensions from inter-organisational and organisational trust through team trust to interpersonal trust and self-trust and confidence. Earlier this year Vessy authored a third international independent report “2024 The Impact of Trust. As a leadership coach, Vessy works with a wide range of leaders from solo entrepreneurs and bootstrapping CEOs through team leads and leaders in between jobs to senior executives such as CFOs & CTOs. Vessy is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with MSc from Trinity College Dublin and has a private practice in the heart of Dublin.

Alma Tarfa

Alma is a Nigerian-Irish tech enthusiast with a passion for empowering people through technology. Having made the transition from a Full stack developer to people leadership role within the last 2 years, Alma is an Engineering Manager in Workhuman leading the Mobile application team.

She is fascinated with improving processes and remove impediments in workflows and has been part of a diverse working group in Workhuman looking at how to create an environment where developers and technologists can thrive so they get do their best work.

In her free time you will find Alma planning her next trip or meet ups with friends and family over food.

Mihai Paun

Mihai is a seasoned engineering leader passionate about enabling happy, productive and inclusive teams that collaborate effectively to deliver outsized results.

Drawing from his experience as a software engineer and engineering leader, working with organisations of all sizes from Series A startups to large financial institutions, Mihai enjoys geeking out on what makes high-performing teams tick, principles of product development flow, effective organisational structures and dynamics, and systems thinking. When he is not consumed by a book, Mihai loves spending time with his dog, Plato, playing board games or discovering new music.

Set Sail with Ntsoaki, Our ShipItCon Dublin MC!

Ahoy, ShipItCon voyagers! We’re excited to announce that the phenomenal Ntsoaki (CK) will be our trusty Master of Ceremonies, navigating the high seas of knowledge at ShipItCon Dublin on August 30th!

Get ready for an engaging and informative journey as Ntsoaki steers the course of our conference. Their charisma and expertise will keep you entertained, informed, and excited throughout the day.

Here’s why you won’t want to miss Ntsoaki’s magic:

• Masterful MC: Ntsoaki brings a wealth of experience to the stage, ensuring a smooth flow and keeping the energy high throughout the day.
• Knowledge Navigator: Expect insightful commentary and thought-provoking questions that will dredge up those golden nuggets of knowledge from our speakers.
• Engaging Host: Ntsoaki’s infectious enthusiasm will make you feel right at home and ensure you get the most out of your ShipItCon experience.

Dive into Flow with our Panel Discussion!

Get ready for deep dives and lively discussions at ShipItCon Dublin 2024! We’re excited to announce the return of our highly-requested panel discussion, this year focusing on the captivating theme of Flow.

Moderated by the industry veteran Damien Marshall, Technical Director at Demonware, this panel will bring together experts from various disciplines to explore the concept of Flow and its significance in their respective fields.

For more details check out : https://shipitcon.com/panel

Don’t miss your chance to learn from these industry leaders and network with other code shipping enthusiasts at ShipItCon!

Tickets are selling fast, so register today!

Stay tuned for more speaker announcements!

We’ll be revealing more of the fantastic speakers joining us at ShipItCon Dublin in the coming weeks. Follow us on social media for the latest updates!

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Moderated by the industry veteran Damien Marshall, Technical Director at Demonware, this panel will bring together experts from various disciplines to explore the concept of Flow and its significance in their respective fields.

What is Flow?

Flow is a mental state of complete immersion in an activity, characterized by energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment. It’s that feeling of being “in the zone,” completely absorbed and productive. But how does Flow manifest across different disciplines?

Our esteemed moderator, Damien Marshall, will guide our panelists through a dynamic discussion, delving into how Flow impacts software development, design, marketing, and more. You’ll gain insights on:

• Achieving Flow states within your team
• Fostering a culture that encourages Flow
• Leveraging Flow to optimize performance
• Understanding the science behind Flow

This is your chance to:

• Learn from experienced professionals across various disciplines
• Gain practical tips and strategies to achieve Flow in your own work
• Engage in stimulating discussions and ask burning questions

Stay tuned for more announcements about our panelists!

We’ll be revealing the amazing individuals joining Damien on stage very soon. Get ready for a thought-provoking exploration of Flow at ShipItCon Dublin!

Tickets are officially on sale now.

Speaker Announcement:

Our first confirmed speaker is Sam Newman! We’re delighted to welcome back Sam, who previously spoke at ShipItCon 2019, back to Dublin. Sam’s talk on Microservices received so much positive feedback that we’ve been trying to get Sam to return every year since. This year the stars aligned and we couldn’t be happier.

New sponsors:

A huge thanks to the folks at Phorest for once again supporting ShipItCon. And a big ShipItCon welcome to new Gold sponsors Honeycomb.io!

For more details on our sponsors check out the Sponsors page : https://shipitcon.com/sponsor

Now in its fifth year, ShipItCon will take place on August 30th 2024 at the Round Room, Mansion House, Dublin. Save the date!

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Today, we’re announcing Elastic as our first ever Community Champion Sponsor. With Elastic’s support we will be providing tickets and financial assistance to those folks who work tirelessly within the tech community in Ireland. A huge thanks to Naoise and the team over at Elastic for their support.

Now in its fifth year, ShipItCon will take place on August 30th 2024 at the Round Room, Mansion House, Dublin. Save the date!

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Today, we’re announcing Belfast-based technology start-up Cloudsmith as Platinum sponsor for one of Europe’s most vibrant, independent tech conferences, ShipItCon.

Each year, ShipItCon brings together software engineers and technologists from across Ireland and Europe to engage with a single, weighty topic. Previous topics have included “The Unknown” and “Failure”. The theme for 2024 is TBC.

Cloudsmith CEO, Glenn Weinstein, confirmed the sponsorship announcement today, saying “We couldn’t be more excited about sponsoring ShipItCon. It’s a conference we attend and value a great deal. The quality of the content is always exceptional, and the enthusiasm of the ShipItCon community is unmatched. Playing a role in the ongoing success of ShipItCon is important to us”.

Now in its fifth year, ShipItCon will take place on August 30th 2024 at the Round Room, Mansion House, Dublin. Save the date!

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Welcome back folks! We have a few announcements to make before the end of the year festivities begin. First up we are delighted to announce that our friends and long time supporters of ShipItCon are this year’s first Platinum Sponsor.  Every year Cian and his team at NineDots step up and without their support ShipItCon probably wouldn’t have happened this year or last. Please give a huge thanks and a big hug to the NineDots folks who are helping grow and support community events like ShipItCon all year round.

Team ShipItCon

Role/Company : Principal Architect for Platform Engineering and Technology Solutions at IBM

Mihai is the Principal Architect for Platform Engineering and Technology Solutions at IBM, responsible for Cloud Native and AI Solutions. He is a Red Hat Certified Architect, CKA/CKS, a leader in the IBM Open Innovation community, and advocate for open source development. Mihai is driving the development of Retrieval Augmentation Generation platforms, and solutions for Generative AI at IBM that leverage WatsonX, Vector databases, LangChain, HuggingFace and open source AI models.

Session Title : Building scalable GenAI Retrieval Augmented Generation platforms with Kubernetes, LangChain, HuggingFace and Vector DBs

Description   :

Mihai will share lessons learned building Retrieval Augmented Generation, or “Chat with Documents” platforms and APIs that scale, and deploy on Kubernetes. His talk will cover use cases for Generative AI, limitations of Large Language Models, use of RAG, Vector Databases and Fine Tuning to overcome model limitations and build solutions that connect to your data and provide content grounding, limit hallucinations and form the basis of explainable AI. In terms of technology, he will cover LLAMA2, HuggingFace TGIS, SentenceTransformers embedding models using Python, LangChain, and Weaviate and ChromaDB vector databases. He’ll also share tips on writing code using LLM, including building an agent for Ansible and containers.

Role/Company: Director of Engineering at Glofox

Rob Meaney is passionate about learning better ways of solving problems for people with people and software. He works with organisations to cultivate an environment in which teams are both happy and successful. Rob’s approach to software product development helped take Irish startups Trustev, Poppulo and Glofox to acquisition.

Currently, he’s working as Director of Engineering for Glofox. Rob is co-author of “A team guide to testability” with Ash Winter, a keynote speaker, co-founder of Ministry of Test Cork and organiser of RebelCon.

Previously he has held positions as Head of Testing, Test Manager, Automation Architect and Test Engineer with companies of varying sizes, from large multinationals like Intel, Ericsson & EMC to early-stage startups like Trustev.

Session Title : TBC

Description:

In this talk Rob will share his experiences  of how to use data to guide investments in product, tech debt, quality, operability etc. Rob will talk about creating the culture, establishing the principles and the enabling practices that support this approach.