GitHub Constellation London

Doors Open

Welcome

One Billion, One Hundred, and One

Eleanor Harding, Twitter

From the challenge of designing at scale for the next billion people, through to the dynamics of design collaboration in a global team, down to the nuance of designing for one person as wonderful and complex as you - learn secrets from Twitter about scale and abstraction in design.

Microsoft loves Open Source - Becoming the Biggest Contributor

Edward Thomson, Microsoft

A few short years ago Microsoft called Open Source a cancer and likened it to communism. Today Microsoft is the organization with the most contributors to open source projects on GitHub. Learn how Microsoft transformed its business to embrace and extend open source technologies like the Git version control system - but not extinguish them. Learn how that led to Microsoft open sourcing key development tools, like the .NET Framework. Finally, learn how their success with open source led them to adopt open source workflows within the company - a strategy called inner source.

Afrotech Fest and the intentionality of alternative tech spaces

Debs Durojaiye, Afrotech Fest

This talk looks at the importance of creating intentional, alternative spaces for those often on the fringes of the wider tech conversation.

Determining Software Safety in Critical Systems

Heidy Khlaaf, Adelard LLP

Safety-Critical systems are prevalent in our everyday life. Yet, despite the increasing use of software in these systems, the tech community as a whole is largely unaware of issues, processes, and standards, that reign and govern them. This talk will thus provide an introductory overview of safety-critical systems, and how the software used within them can be assured and verified up to standards that ensure our safety.

Web Systems

Keith Cirkel, GitHub

A talk about GitHub's Web Systems team, and the way they help GitHub delivering features and keeping high quality code.

Networking

Close

Doors Open + Lunch

Welcome and Product Direction

Using All Tentacles of an Octocat - How Deliveroo automated workflows using GitHub features

Syed Humza Shah, Deliveroo

Deliveroo has been one of UK's fastest growing tech companies. Such growth comes with software challenges. Syed Humza Shah will go over three of these challenges, how Deliveroo solved them, and certain GitHub features that helped with the solutions.

Github at Hive - Good ideas and not so good ideas

Jay Harrison, Centrica Hive Ltd

Lessons learned from using Github.com for a large software endeavour for 6 years.

Coffee Break

From 0 to 3500 plus repos in 5 years - What do we do with repo 1?

Andrew Merrell, Sky

Mark Ison, Sky

We will discuss our journey from GitHub private to business and some of the challenges around discoverability but also some of the new capabilities centralising our repositories into a single location enables. We will cover some of the tools we created in the private (repo limited days) that assisted us in managing our org (some of this now no longer needed with SAML) and also auditing. How this data can enable us to ask questions such as - What’s our scala adoption rate?, Which libraries/frameworks are we adopting?. But we’re onto our next big challenge, with 3500 plus repos viewable, how we’re addressing some of the discoverability challenges to cut through the mess and find the diamond.

To the Dream of One Repo Hosting Tool

Scott Henson, Improbable

Enabling InnerSource at Lloyds Banking Group

James McLeod, Lloyds Banking Group

As Lloyds moves into a world communities, guilds and organisational learning, James McLeod explains how GitHub Enterprise brings engineers together in an ecosystem of InnerSource collaboration.

How GitHub does DevOps

Brent Beer, GitHub

Closing keynote

Networking Drinks and Partner Showcase