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SATURN 2017

Registration is open every day from 7:30 a.m. until the close of the day’s sessions.
Breakfast will be served starting at 6:30 a.m. for conference registrants in the Columbine Restaurant.
30-minute refreshment breaks are at 10:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. daily.
Lunch is 12:00-1:00 p.m. daily in the Columbine Restaurant.

David Aktary

AktaryTech
Founder
Austin, TX

David Aktary is an ex-IBMer who has been writing software for nearly 20 years. His eclectic background has taken him on detours through Wall Street, Hollywood, and collegiate head coaching, but software development and architecture have been constants since graduating with his BS in Computer Science from Michigan. After completing his MBA at Duke, he launched a technology and management consulting company that has become AktaryTech—a recognized leader in custom, full-stack JavaScript development in Los Angeles and Austin, Texas.

5:30pm MDT

Welcome Reception and New Attendee Orientation The Spotted Dog (Located on the Hilton's Ground Level)

6:30pm MDT

Software Architecture Boot Camp: Architecture 101 Conference Room DIpek Ozkaya

8:30am MDT

Welcome and Opening Remarks Pikes PeakPaulo Merson • Eoin Woods • Jørn Ølmheim

9:00am MDT

Keynote: Software Is Details Pikes PeakKevlin Henney

10:30am MDT

An Architect's Framework for Navigating Complexity Conference Room AKen Power

11:00am MDT

Keep CALM and Architect On: An Architect's Role in DevOps Conference Room CEric Ort • Terri Potts

11:30am MDT

Blending Product Thinking with Architecture Conference Room BJoel Tosi

1:00pm MDT

Software Architecture Boot Camp: Architecture Evaluation and Technical Debt Conference Room DIpek Ozkaya

1:30pm MDT

Agile Architecture and Design Conference Room APradyumn Sharma

2:00pm MDT

Pragmatic Architecture, Today Conference Room ABart Blommaerts

3:00pm MDT

Crowdsourcing Software Architecture: The Distributed Architect Conference Room AStefan Toth

3:30pm MDT

Microservices Architecture: Lessons Learned Conference Room BSairam Tadigadapa

4:30pm MDT

Short Break TBA

4:45pm MDT

Safety and Security in Mission-Critical IoT Systems Pikes PeakEinar Landre

5:00pm MDT

Story of an Architect Growing up in Mr. Agile's Neighborhood Pikes PeakAmine Chigani

5:15pm MDT

Love Your Architecture II Pikes PeakPaulo Merson

6:30pm MDT

SATURN Celebration Reception Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum

8:30am MDT

Morning Remarks Pikes Peak

9:00am MDT

Keynote: There Is No Such Thing as a Microservice! Pikes PeakChris Richardson

10:30am MDT

Automate ALL the Things: Taking Advantage of Free Tools to Automate Your End-to-End Release Pipelines Conference Room BAvantika Mathur

11:00am MDT

CD for DBs: Database Deployment Strategies Conference Room BChris Fulton

11:30am MDT

Reliable Statements About a Fault-Tolerant X-by-Wire eCar Conference Room DJoachim Fröhlich • Florian Krautwurm • Stefan Rothbauer

1:00pm MDT

Deliver Fast with Confidence Conference Room BJoe Yoder

1:30pm MDT

Is Your Project in Trouble on System Performance? Conference Room CCharles Chow

2:00pm MDT

How to Perform a Rapid Assessment of Any Software Architecture Conference Room ATim Kertis

3:00pm MDT

Office Hours Conference Room D

3:30pm MDT

Building Smarter Apps with Cognitive APIs Conference Room BPavel Veller

4:00pm MDT

Conjunctive Models: When One Model and Technology Is Not Enough and System Integration Reuse is a Must Conference Room BThomas Whitehouse

4:30pm MDT

Short Break TBA

4:45pm MDT

It Can Be Done! Growing an Architects' Community: My Journey Pikes PeakTracy Bannon

5:00pm MDT

Quality Metrics: Nutritional Labels for Code Pikes PeakG. Ann Campbell

5:15pm MDT

Enterprise IT: How to Avoid Mediocrity Pikes PeakJørn Ølmheim

8:30am MDT

Morning Remarks Pikes Peak

9:00am MDT

Linda Northrop Software Architecture Award Keynote: Visual Architecting Pikes PeakRuth Malan

9:30am MDT

Slide Roulette! Pikes PeakGeorge Fairbanks • Michael Keeling

10:30am MDT

Going Serverless: Building Production Applications Without Managing Infrastructure Conference Room CChristopher Phillips

11:00am MDT

Real-Life SOA Transformation: A Journey at Rackspace from Monolithic to SOA and Beyond Conference Room AMarco Cuellar • Yogeshwar Srikrishnan

11:30am MDT

Smelling Out a Bad Security Culture Conference Room AHarald Wesenberg

1:00pm MDT

Making the Switch to "Serverless" Full-Stack Development Conference Room BDavid Aktary

1:30pm MDT

Architecture Decision Records in Action Conference Room CMichael Keeling • Joe Runde

2:00pm MDT

High-Performance Multi-Threaded Immutable Store for C++ Conference Room CAdi Levin

2:45pm MDT

Keynote: Velocity in Software Development: Why Do Companies Slow Down, and What Can We Do About It? Pikes PeakJeromy Carriere

3:45pm MDT

Debrief of Workshop on Functional Programming Pikes PeakGeorge Fairbanks • Michael Keeling

4:15pm MDT

Conference Awards and Closing Remarks Pikes Peak

5:00pm MDT

Unofficial Offsite Happy Hour To be announced