Track Overview
Modern Language Innovations
We’ll explore contemporary programming languages, how they are designed, and their goals and visions for the future of programming. We’ll touch on some of the trickiest aspects of programming (memory management, concurrency/parallelism, etc) and dive deep into how contemporary languages are building features to make expressing these programs more productive, safe, and ergonomic.
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Full Stack Dart
Wednesday Nov 10 / 11:10AM EST
Dart emerged from Google a little after Go, as "a client-optimized language for fast apps on any platform”. It has recently surged in popularity as the language behind the Flutter framework for Android, iOS, Desktop and Web apps. Cloud providers are now positioning themselves to...

Chris Swan
Engineer, The @ Company
Secure, Performant Platform Extensibility through WebAssembly
Wednesday Nov 10 / 12:10PM EST
Server-side WebAssembly is at the core of platform extensibility at Shopify. It enables third-party developers to extend the platform with synchronous, custom business logic. In this talk, Saúl explores how server-side WebAssembly can be leveraged to enable synchronous, secure and...

Saúl Cabrera
Software Developer @Shopify
Languages of Cloud Native
Wednesday Nov 10 / 01:10PM EST
How are languages adopted in practice? How and why did Go dominate cloud native code such as Docker and Kubernetes? Why are other languages being adopted? This talk looks back at the early history, talking to Solomon Hykes about the development of Docker in Go, and looks at more recent trends in...

Justin Cormack
CTO @Docker
Fireside Chat w/ Docker CTO
Wednesday Nov 10 / 02:10PM EST
This session is a new addition to the schedule and has been added recently.In this fireside chat with Docker CTO Justin Cormack, we’ll discuss the present and future of cloud tech, ebpf, isolation, kernel improvements, and much more.

Justin Cormack
CTO @Docker
Speakers from this track

Chris Swan
Engineer, The @ Company
Chris Swan is an Engineer at The @ Company, building the @platform, a technology that is putting people in control of their data and removing the frictions and surveillance associated with today’s Internet. He was previously a Fellow at DXC Technology where he held various CTO roles. Before...
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Saúl Cabrera
Software Developer @Shopify
Saúl Cabrera is a self-driven, and proactive software engineer, highly passionate about functional programming, concurrency, and compilers. Saúl currently works at Shopify making commerce extensible through WebAssembly.
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Justin Cormack
CTO @Docker
Justin Cormack is the CTO at Docker, working on unikernels.
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Track Host

Werner Schuster
Conference Chair & InfoQ Editor Functional Programming, @Wolfram
Werner Schuster (@murphee) sometimes writes software, sometimes writes about software. He focuses on languages, VMs and compilers, HTML5/Javascript, and recently more on performance optimisation.
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