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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

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

6:30pm

Software Architecture Boot Camp: Architecture 101 Conference Room DIpek Ozkaya

8:30am

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

9:00am

Keynote: Software Is Details Pikes PeakKevlin Henney

10:30am

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

11:00am

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

11:30am

Blending Product Thinking with Architecture Conference Room BJoel Tosi

1:00pm

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

1:30pm

Agile Architecture and Design Conference Room APradyumn Sharma

2:00pm

Pragmatic Architecture, Today Conference Room ABart Blommaerts

3:00pm

Crowdsourcing Software Architecture: The Distributed Architect Conference Room AStefan Toth

3:30pm

Microservices Architecture: Lessons Learned Conference Room BSairam Tadigadapa

4:30pm

Short Break TBA

4:45pm

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

5:00pm

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

5:15pm

Love Your Architecture II Pikes PeakPaulo Merson

6:30pm

SATURN Celebration Reception Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum

8:30am

Morning Remarks Pikes Peak

9:00am

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

10:30am

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

11:00am

CD for DBs: Database Deployment Strategies Conference Room BChris Fulton

11:30am

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

1:00pm

Deliver Fast with Confidence Conference Room BJoe Yoder

1:30pm

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

2:00pm

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

3:00pm

Office Hours Conference Room D

3:30pm

Building Smarter Apps with Cognitive APIs Conference Room BPavel Veller

4:00pm

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

4:30pm

Short Break TBA

4:45pm

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

5:00pm

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

5:15pm

Enterprise IT: How to Avoid Mediocrity Pikes PeakJørn Ølmheim

8:30am

Morning Remarks Pikes Peak

9:00am

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

9:30am

Slide Roulette! Pikes PeakGeorge Fairbanks • Michael Keeling

10:30am

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

11:00am

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

11:30am

Smelling Out a Bad Security Culture Conference Room AHarald Wesenberg

1:00pm

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

1:30pm

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

2:00pm

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

2:45pm

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

3:45pm

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

4:15pm

Conference Awards and Closing Remarks Pikes Peak

5:00pm

Unofficial Offsite Happy Hour To be announced