How to Prepare and Train Young Technical Talent

Thursday, 4:00 PM EST

According to every metric half of the IT industry has less then 5 years of experience. This fact identifies a challenge of skill gap that most organizations are not prepared handle. As leaders, we need to help young talent to fill their gaps to become productive contributors quickly. This session will provide strategies and lessons learned from hiring and training over 130 recent college grads over the last 7 years through an immersive bootcamp and oversight. You will learn how to make your young talent more successful and therefor your organization more successful.

This session will include proven strategies for:

• evaluating inexperienced talent
• designing curriculum
• supporting materials
• providing role models
• providing continued oversight
• retaining talent

Is Serverless Really Less?

Friday, 2:30 PM EST

Serverless, Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) and Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) are the new rage. They promise less cost, less hardware, less operations people and less time to market. But is it really less? What is serverless? Is it different than what you are doing today? Is it the right direction and architecture for your business? What are its strengths and weaknesses? How does it impact your development and operations processes? This session will answer all your questions about serverless and help you determine if it an approach worth pursuing.

This session will insure managers and technical leaders have a good knowledge of what serverless is and is not. It will explain the unique challenges and benefits offered by serverless architectures. It will provide insights into the skills and training teams will need to be successful. It will also explain budgeting and and estimating this new model of infrastructure and development.