Name: NDC Minnesota 2022
Start: 2022-11-15
End: 2022-11-18
Location: NDC Minnesota

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NDC Minnesota 2022  | 4-Day Workshop Event

NDC Minnesota 2022 is a 4-day, in-person event focusing on hands-on workshops, inspirational keynotes and evening events. Every day starts off with a keynote in the plenary room before attendees break out into workshops for the rest of the day.

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NDC Minnesota is an in-person event, but you can attend online as well. As an online-attendee you will have access to all the same workshops via Cisco Webex, as well as a dedicated slack workspace for communication with fellow attendees and speakers.

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We have rooms available at the Hilton Minneapolis, situated close to the conference venue. Rate $179/night.

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All delegates, speakers, partners, sponsors, and volunteers at any NDC event agree to the following code of conduct. Organizers will enforce this code throughout the event.

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João is an independent consultant focus on supporting organisations creating purposeful systems. As part of his consultancy practice he helps organisations bridging their strategy to the execution. He is passion about the evolution of sociotechnical systems.

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When he is not on his duties, you can find him travelling with his daughter and wife, or laying down on the beach reading a book. João is an amateur cook in his remaining time.

Mark Seemann helps programmers make code easier to maintain. His professional interests include functional programming, object–oriented development, software architecture, as well as software development in general. Apart from writing books about Code That Fits in Your Head and Dependency Injection he has also created several Pluralsight courses, Clean Coders videos, and written numerous articles and blog posts about programming.

Originally poised to become a rock star or (failing that) graphic novelist (in the European tradition) he one day found himself with insufficient talent for either, a master’s degree in Economics, and a desire for working with computers. He has been doing the latter intermittently since 1995. When not working with software or spending time with his family, Mark enjoys reading, listening to and playing music, as well as preparing or consuming gourmet food and wine.

Nick is a software engineer and Developer Technologies Microsoft MVP based in London. He is creating educational content on YouTube about everything .NET and C#.

Carl Franklin is Executive Vice President of App vNext, a software development firm focused on the latest methodologies and technologies. Carl is a 20+ year veteran of the software industry, co-host and founder of .NET Rocks!, the first and most widely listened to podcast for .NET developers, a Microsoft MVP for Kinect for Windows, and Senior Executive of Pwop Studios, a full-service audio and video production/post production studio located in Southeastern Connecticut.

Often considered an instigator of controversy, Hackle advocates programming as a thinking game; he strives for simplicity and elegance, and enjoys sharing his learnings in pragmatic, idiomatic and accessible ways.


Richard Campbell wrote his first line of code in 1977. His career has spanned the computing industry both on the hardware and software sides, development and operations. He was a co-founder of Strangeloop Networks, acquired by Radware in 2013 and was on the board of directors of Telerik which was acquired by Progress Software in 2014. Today he is a consultant and advisor to a number of successful technology firms and is the founder and chairman of Humanitarian Toolbox (www.htbox.org), a public charity that builds open source software for disaster relief. Richard is also the host of two podcasts: .NET Rocks! (www.dotnetrocks.com) for .NET developers and RunAs Radio (www.runasradio.com) for IT Professionals.

Anjuan Simmons is a technologist with a successful track record of delivering technology solutions from the user interface to the database. He is an energetic and informative speaker who presents at conferences, seminars, schools, and community centers around the world on topics including Agile software development, diversity, and leadership. Anjuan has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Texas A&M University.

Lauren Hayward Schaefer is a developer advocate at Grammarly. She began her career as a software engineer for IBM, where she held various roles, including full-stack developer, test automation specialist, social media lead, and growth hacking engineer. She went on to be a developer advocate at SugarCRM and MongoDB. She is a keynote speaker who is skilled in taking hard-to-understand topics and making them seem simple. Lauren holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and is the co-inventor of fourteen issued United States patents.

MongoDB

Megan has been writing and editing professionally for nearly 15 years and is also a published author. She works alongside MongoDB's developer advocates and other creators to craft content that shines. Megan got her degree in Communication Studies from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.

Michael is a member of the GraphQL technical steering committee, a Microsoft MVP, and the author of the Hot Chocolate project (https://github.com/ChilliCream/hotchocolate), a platform for building GraphQL servers and clients in .NET. This open-source project has been his main focus for the last couple of years. 

Apart from his work in the open-source community, Michael works as a consultant to help companies move to GraphQL. You can tune into the Hot Chocolate project on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillicream

Follow me on GitHub: https://bit.ly/michaelGitHub
Follow me on Twitter: https://bit.ly/michaelTwitter
Connect on LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/michaelLinkedIn
Subscribe on YouTube: https://youtube.chillicream.com
MVP: https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5003672

Brandon is a  Developer Advocate at AWS where he gets to work closely with the developer community and help fellow mobile app and cloud developers make 5-star apps.

An avid mobile app developer, Brandon loves to code and has contributed to and published countless apps!

SafeStack

With over twenty years of experience in software development and information security, Laura Bell specialises in bringing cyber security into organisations of every shape and size.

, a community-centric online education platform giving developers, testers and architects around the world the skills they need to build high-quality, secure software at speed.

Laura is an experienced conference speaker, trainer, and regular panel member, and has spoken at a range of events such as BlackHat USA, Velocity, and OSCON on the subjects of privacy, covert communications, agile cyber security, and cyber security mindset.

Brock Allen is a consultant specializing in .NET, web development, and web-based security. He also is an instructor for the training company DevelopMentor, associate consultant for Thinktecture, a contributor to the Thinktecture IdentityModel and IdentityServer open source projects and a contributor to the ASP.NET platform.

Joe DeCock is a software consultant and trainer from the Twin Cities. He has more than a decade of experience working on software in a variety of industries, including Healthcare, Finance, Television, Legal, and Publishing. He specializes in Identity, .NET and IdentityServer.
Outside of work, Joe enjoys cooking, board games, and spending time with his family.

Kesha Williams is an award-winning technology leader teaching others how to transform their lives through technology. She has 25+ years of experience architecting, designing, and building enterprise web applications. Her passions include teaching cloud topics and leading software engineering teams. Kesha holds multiple AWS certifications and is recognized as an AWS Machine Learning Hero, Alexa Champion, AWS Ambassador, and HackerRank All-Star. She currently serves as the Program Director of Slalom's Cloud Residency and on the Board of Directors for Women in Voice.

Billy is internationally known for his work on user experience design and native software development. His team, based in Nashville, Tennessee, has created modern apps hailed around the world for innovation and effective use of advanced user interface technologies. Billy is a Microsoft Regional Director, an MVP for Windows Development, and was named a Software Legend in 2002. You can see Billy at major conferences all over the world, usually doing sessions to help developers to become more focused on designing and developing software that users love.

Hannes is a developer, a coach and a father of 3.

In .NET development, he has always had a passion for performance, databases, distributed systems and large scale applications. But most of all, he likes playing devil’s advocate in technical discussions by drawing the ‘it depends’ card.

As a coach, he is enthousiastic about knowledge sharing, personal growth and building careers. All this while keeping in mind that the pace needs to be sustainable.

In his free time, when he’s not building LEGO® castles with his kids, he likes to spend time building guitars, playing chess or poker, tasting whisky and doing all round geeky stuff.

You can occasionally find him on an afterparty stage at PubConf or with Dylan Beattie & the Linebreakers.

Omnia Retail

Software development is a life long passion that started with my first computer (Commodore 16) at the age of 8 and continues to this day.

My current areas of software interest are around building reliable, robust and anti-fragile "appropriately sized services".

At various times in my youth I've played rugby, did amateur boxing for a while finally switch to ice hockey which I've played on and off for around 8 years.

Martin is a front-end geek, data architect, and software engineer with multi-year experience helping companies around the world. He enjoys solving problems by coding in creative ways and actively participates in multiple open-source projects.

Todd Gardner is a software entrepreneur and developer who has built multiple profitable products. He pushes for simple tools, maintainable software, and balancing complexity with risk. He is the cofounder of TrackJS and Request Metrics, where he helps thousands of developers build faster and more reliable websites. He also produces the PubConf software comedy show.

Dr. Aneika L. Simmons teaches courses about leadership, organization behavior, and human resources at Sam Houston State University. She completed her doctorate degree in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at Texas A&M University. Prior to pursuing her PhD, Dr. Simmons worked for Accenture and Cap Gemini Ernst and Young as an information technology consultant. She also has a Masters degree in Organizational Communication from the University of Houston.

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NDC Minnesota 2022 | 4-Day Workshop Event