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NSNorth Main Conference Schedule

Thursday, April 28th

08:00
Registration opens
09:00
Community Kickoff Begins
09:00
Technical Workshop Begins
12:00
Community / Workshop Lunch
13:30
Community Kickoff continues
13:30
Technical Workshop continues
18:00
Registration & Opening reception
19:15
Opening keynote by May-Li Khoe
20:30
After party by Shopify

Friday, April 29th

08:00
Breakfast
09:30
Gwen Weston
10:00
Janie Clayton
10:30
Break
11:00
Tom Creighton
11:30
Keynote Karaoke, part 1
12:00
Lunch
13:00
Ayaka Nonaka
13:30
Jon Edwards
14:00
Lightning Talk - Gene Goykman
14:30
Break
15:00
Lightning Talk - Charles Joseph
15:15
Liz Marley
16:00
Jonathan Rhyne
17:00
Hockey Hall Of Fame
19:00
Banquet Dinner
21:30
Board Game Night

Saturday, April 30th

08:00
Breakfast
09:00
Children's Program Begins
10:00
Michael Gorbach
10:40
Lightning Talk - Erik Person
11:00
Keynote Karaoke, part deux
12:00
Lunch
13:00
Rob Segal
13:40
Lightning Talk - Zev Eisenberg
14:00
Robleh Jama
14:30
Break
15:00
Lightning Talk - Dennis Pilarinos
15:15
Pamela Pavliscak
15:45
Closing remarks

Community Kickoff

Kickoff Schedule, Thursday, April 28th

08:00
Registration opens
09:00
Welcome
09:15
Keynote by Rebecca Garcia
10:00
Andray D. & Samuel A. “The Pipeline Problem with Diversity in Tech”
10:30
Break
11:00
Kirsten H. “Telling your story - Speaking for Non-Speakers”
11:30
Nael E. S.“A Fork In Your Career: To Code Or Not To Code”
12:00
Lunch
13:00
Melissa N. “The Higher the Fewer - Diversity in Senior Leadership”
13:30
Troy H. “How indie developers are becoming more like artists and why this is a positive change.”
14:00
Matt G. “My product owner is in grade 3”
14:30
Break
15:00
Anne C. “Truths Universally Acknowledged: Swift Design Patterns as Jane Austen Heroes”
15:30
Dal R. “Building your own mobile team”
16:00
Leonard C. “Storytelling for Techies: The Hero's Journey and You”
16:30
Closing remarks

Please head over to our Community Kickoff page to learn more.


Children's Program, Saturday, April 30th

Game Making with Scratch (9:00 - 11:30am)

You and your child will take part in this 2.5 hour session that will go through all the steps involved in how to make a game. Suitable for children aged 6+. Expert instructors and mentors from Toronto's Ladies Learning Code will be on hand.

From Checkers, to Tag, to Angry Birds, games are everywhere! This experience allows kids to discuss their favourite games and analyze the characteristics that make them engaging, addictive, and fun! As a group, we’ll explore a basic game design process -- from idea, to execution, to testing! Kids will be able to work individually or in pairs to brainstorm their very own game.

Required equipment: none

The Turtle in the Playground (1:00 - 3:30pm)

Our Technical Workshop instructor, Daniel Steinberg, will lead this fun, half-day workshop designed to introduce programming to children aged 8+. Participants direct a turtle towards its goal while learning the fundamentals of the Swift programming language and how to work with an Xcode 7 playground.

Required equipment: Apple laptop with the latest version of Xcode installed.

Mentors and volunteers will be available to help during both the morning and afternoon sessions.

About Your Instructors

Ladies Learning Code is a not-for-profit organization with the mission to be the leading resource for women and youth to become passionate builders - not just consumers - of technology by learning technical skills in a hands-on, social, and collaborative way. Ladies Learning Code

The code:mobile is Ladies Learning Code’s newest and biggest initiative to inspire and educate Canadian girls and boys to become passionate builders -- not just consumers of technology. Think: a computer lab on wheels. But, it’s more than just a truck or a computer lab. It’s a cross-Canada journey that will bring technology education to Canadian youth at community events, Summer Camps, schools, community centers, parks and more in major cities and underprivileged and remote communities, alike.Ladies Learning Code - code:mobile

From May to September 2016, we’ll be visiting our 22+ Chapter cities across Canada plus their surrounding cities and towns based on community requests. We’ll be visiting large and small, privileged and underprivileged communities stopping by at local parks, community centres, Summer Camps, street festivals and more - travelling an estimated 35,000km coast to coast and teaching over 10,000 kids to code!

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Daniel Steinberg is the author of the best selling books A Swift Kickstart and Developing iOS 7 Apps for iPad and iPhone (the official companion book to the popular iTunes U series from Stanford University).Daniel Steinberg

He has written apps for the iPhone and the iPad since the SDKs first appeared and has written programs for the Mac all the way back to System 7. Daniel presents iPhone, Cocoa, and Swift training and consults through his company Dim Sum Thinking. When he's not coding or talking about coding for the Mac, the iPhone, and the iPad he's probably cooking or hanging out with his wife and daughter.


Technical Workshop, Thursday, April 28th

The Technical Workshop is organized as a stand­-alone single ­day pre-­conference event that will take place on Thursday, April 28th, at the main venue.Daniel Steinberg

Join Daniel Steinberg for a day of Thinking in Swift

This fast-paced workshop shows you how to take advantage of Swift features to write more robust code that is easier to reason about. One of the strengths of Swift is that it can borrow the best from a multitude of paradigms. We’ll look at how to successfully weave together OO and functional code into a readable and flexible architecture and focus on protocol oriented programming.

This course is for programmers who know the fundamentals of the Swift Programming Language but still haven't mastered the paradigms.

Topics will include

About Your Instructor

Daniel is the author of the best selling books A Swift Kickstart and Developing iOS 7 Apps for iPad and iPhone (the official companion book to the popular iTunes U series from Stanford University).

He has written apps for the iPhone and the iPad since the SDKs first appeared and has written programs for the Mac all the way back to System 7. Daniel presents iPhone, Cocoa, and Swift training and consults through his company Dim Sum Thinking. When he's not coding or talking about coding for the Mac, the iPhone, and the iPad he's probably cooking or hanging out with his wife and daughter.


Lightning Talks

Lightning Talks are Back! They are very short, five minute, presentations where our attendees can present on a topic of their choice. These talks will be mixed in among the regular sessions on Friday and Saturday.