Tech Heads 2022

TechHeads is a two day conference focused on emerging trends and practices for dev teams, with topics ranging from web, cloud and mobile to security and UX.

Speakers

Abdallah Shaban

Amazon Web Services

#flutter #fullstack #serverless

Abdallah Shaban

Amplify your web and mobile apps development with Flutter. Full stack, cloud-powered, serverless.

It is critical that developers deliver applications with uncompromising user experience, performance, and scale. I will show you how to develop and operate cloud-powered applications, at scale. We will navigate use cases like authentication, fine-grained access control, and APIs (REST and GraphQL). We’ll dive into a Flutter application to show how your applications can easily integrate with cloud-powered services.

About

Abdallah Shaban is a Senior Product Manager at AWS Amplify, helping Javascript and Flutter developers create apps that delight their users. Abdallah comes from a background with product roles in telecommunication, E-commerce, and Supply chain, and most recently in development tools with AWS Amplify.

Alexander Mohlin

Alexander Mohlin

Softhouse Consulting

#security #agiledevelopment

Alexander Mohlin

Security in agile development - is it possible?

Security is considered as non-functional requirements. Since agile user stories tend to focus on functional requirements rather than non-functional ones, security is often down prioritized. If these requirements aren’t prioritized - is it possible to integrate security into agile development?

About

Alexander Mohlin is a consulting security architect at Softhouse Consulting with over eight years of experience in the security industry. He has previously specialised in incorporating security in agile development.

Amir Elion

Amir Elion

Amazon Web Services

#innovation #amazon

Amir Elion

Innovaton at Amazon

How does a large company like Amazon foster a culture of innovation and continue to operate like a startup in many aspects? In this talk, I’ll highlight what drives Amazon’s long-term innovation at speed and scale, resulting in new offering such as AWS, Kindle, and the Amazon Go Store with “just walk out” technology. I also go through failures such as the Fire Phone and what we learned from it. I’ll explain how Amazon starts from customers and works backward to deliver products and services.

About

Amir Elion has led dozens of management, innovation and soft-skills processes, and has a proven track record of leading successful project, product and solution teams, change management and business processes.

Anders Arpteg

Anders Arpteg

Swedish Security Service

#artificialintelligence #machinelearning #deeplearning

Anders Arpteg

AI in the service of democracy

If we can use AI for what it's good for and humans for what they are good at, then we have a possibility to maximize the benevolent use of AI. This is what we aim for at Swedish Security Service: to defend the Swedish democracy and make sure that “what should not happen, does not happen".

About

Anders Arpteg, Ph.D., Director of Data Science at the Swedish Security Service (Säkerhetspolisen). Previously heading up research teams at Spotify and Peltarion, worked with national AI initiatives such as AI Sweden and the Swedish AI Agenda, and received awards such as Lifetime achievement in AI.

Andreas Johansson

Andreas Johansson

Tietoevry

#infrastructureascode #aws #terraform

Andreas Johansson

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in practice, how do you really do it?

Practical demonstration of how to establish a virtual datacenter in the Cloud Domain (AWS) using Terraform.

About

Andreas is a Software Developer with deep environmental knowledge in the Cloud Domain, especially AWS.

Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder

Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder

Amelsec

#informationsecurity #cybersecurity #internetinfrastructure #DNSSEC

Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder

What are the keys to the internet and how are they protected?

To protect one of the most important parts of the internet, the domain name system, the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) invented Secure DNS, or DNSSEC. During my presentation I will go through the role of cryptographic keys in securing the DNS, how we safely store and use the trust anchor, give an overview of normal operations, explain the adaptations we’ve made for COVID-19, and the role of trusted community representatives. And tell you about my life as crypto officer.

About

Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder has been Chief Information Security Officer at Internetstiftelsen, the Internet Foundation in Sweden for almost 20 years. She is ranked as one of Sweden’s leading experts on IT security. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), Section XII, Information Technology, a board member of the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket), the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (Försvarets Materielverk), the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket), .IE (the Irish top level domain administrator) and the Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute (IRI).

David Jacoby

David Jacoby

Unbreached / Sprinkler Security Sweden

#hacking #ethicalhacking #exploitation

David Jacoby

How companies actually get hacked!

What actually happens when you click on a malicious link or open that attachment? What about the debate that MacOS is more secure than for example Windows? I will in my presentation go through a MacOS Attack Chain by doing a live hacking session showing Userland rootkits, techniques for Userland phishing, obtaining root access, bypassing password manager and much more. I will also demystify how cyber criminals actually hack into organisations, and demonstrate these attacks.

About

David Jacoby is one of Sweden's least spotlight shy hackers and IT security experts. He has over 25 years of experience in professional hacking and has won several awards both as a speaker and for his unique research and work to stop digital crime.

Filip Trönnberg

Filip Trönnberg

Bontouch

#security #internet #cats

Filip Trönnberg

How to securely fetch cute cats from the Internet

Ever wondered how https and TLS actually work and what makes them secure? Then this lightweight deep dive is for you. We’ll touch on a range of topics including certificate chains, signing, symmetric, and asymmetric cryptography. Will there be cute cats too? (spoiler: yes)

About

Filip is an iOS Developer at Bontouch with a focus on finance. Currently tech lead for the Swish app.

Gunnar Grosch

Gunnar Grosch

Amazon Web Services

#chaosengineering

Gunnar Grosch

Resilient and well-architected apps with chaos engineering

Well-architected applications are designed and built to be secure, high-performing, and resilient. You need to test your application and validate that it operates as designed and is resilient to failures. In this session, you will learn how to apply chaos engineering using AWS Fault Injection Simulator, stress your application, simulate disruptive events, and observe how the system responds. This will enable you to iteratively improve the resiliency and performance of your system using architecture best practices.

About

Gunnar is a Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services (AWS) based in Sweden. He has previously worked as both a frontend and backend developer, as an operations engineer within cloud infrastructure, and as a technical trainer, in addition to several different management roles.

Henrik Leion

Henrik Leion

Tietoevry

#infrastructureascode #aws #terraform

Henrik Leion

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in practice, how do you really do it?

Practical demonstration of how to establish a virtual datacenter in the Cloud Domain (AWS) using Terraform

About

Henrik is a Senior Software Architect since 15 + years, also Domain Architect within Telecom.

Jesper Håkansson

Jesper Håkansson

Beanloop

#javascript #typescript #frontend

Jesper Håkansson

Why TypeScript matters (presentation will be held in Swedish)

This talk will walk you through what typescript is, why it matters, some myths about it, as well as some more advanced usage.

About

With a wide technical competence, Jesper as fullstack Developer deep dive and manage all parts in an application project. He’s a fullstack problem solver and very much productive with great focus of qualitative code which is fully functional in the long term.

Johan Leitet

Johan Leitet

Linnaeus University

#web3 #blockchain #tokenomics

Johan Leitet

Web3, bored apes or a decentralized revolution?

About 40% of the world's population are active Facebook users. The web started as a genuinely decentralized initiative in the early nineties. Since then user data has grown more valuable for the evolving big tech. Is this the way, or can we as developers help form a new decentralized future?

About

Johan has been working in the education sector for 20+ years, mainly teaching science classes in programming, network- and web technology.

Josefine Söderin

Josefine Söderin

Bontouch

#accessibility #inclusivedesign

Josefine Söderin

What are inclusive products and why should I care?

Learn why designing and building products that work for everyone is a win-win situation and will make your products better for everyone who uses them.

About

Josefine is a UX designer at Bontouch where she designs apps with a focus on making life easier for the people who use them.

Marcus Persson

Marcus Persson

Kalmar Energi

#microservices

Marcus Persson

How to build a future tech-stack with microservices

The concept of microservices has existed for a while. But how does this affect our life here in Kalmar and what are the challenges that are related to building a reliable and scalable solution?

About

Business developer IT and former system developer with, at the moment, focus on IT architecture and data strategy.

Maxe Axelsson

Maxe Axelsson

Scandinavian Edtech Productions

#UX/UI #frontend #media #edtech

Maxe Axelsson

Digital edtech solutions for business and education

Edtech stands for Educational Technology and is the common term for different types of digital learning productions for schools, businesses and the public sector. All organizations and people must develop themselves and evolve to be competitive and keep updated. This is why Edtech is one of the fastest growing industries in the world right now. With the use of the latest technology in Learning Managent Systems, content creation and intuitive UX design, Edtech can extend the traditional pedagogics of “classroom way of learning” into the digital domain and all of its limitless possibilities. E-learning and information videos with professionally created content and interactive elements have proven to be a very efficient way of learning “on demand”, regardless of physical location. Edtech solutions and productions are in very high demand today.

About

Maxe has been working as a producer in the media Industry for over 30 years and is today CEO and owner of Scandinavian Edtech Productions and Pama music group.

Nicole Landgraff

Nicole Landgraff

Delibr

#agilecoaching #outcomedriven #productmanagement #productled

Nicole Landgraff

Making outcome-driven product management come to life

Learn about outcome-driven product management, why an increasing number of digital businesses are going from being feature factories to being product-led and how to go from building whatever is handed to you to building what will actually help your users and drive business goals.

About

Nicole has more than 10 years of experience in digital business. She has experience from different industries, departments, roles and cultures - always focusing on how to make teams and businesses more lean and mean. She has worked as Product manager and Scrum master at PriceRunner and is the founder of entertainment startup Hitchat. She is currently working as COO/PM at Delibr - a tool for helping product teams realise their product dreams.

Niklas Emevi

Niklas Emevi

Linnaeus University

#web3 #blockchain #tokenomics

Niklas Emevi

Web3, bored apes or a decentralized revolution?

About 40% of the world's population are active Facebook users. The web started as a genuinely decentralized initiative in the early nineties. Since then user data has grown more valuable for the evolving big tech. Is this the way, or can we as developers help form a new decentralized future?

About

Niklas has a background as a software developer and architect and has a practical and pragmatic view of software projects after many years in various big and small development projects.

Osama Zarraa

Osama Zarraa

Kalmar Energi

#microservices

Osama Zarraa

How to build a future tech-stack with microservices

The concept of microservices has existed for a while. But how does this affect our life here in Kalmar and what are the challenges that are related to building a reliable and scalable solution?

About

System developer with a decade of experience in building software applications with more focus on big data and software architecture.

Robert Söderbjörn

Robert Söderbjörn

Bontouch

#ui #android #mobile

Robert Söderbjörn

Jetpack Compose, the future of Android user interface development

In this presentation, Robert will illustrate some of the current pain points of developing user interfaces for Android and show how a new framework by Google, Jetpack Compose, introduces a declarative programming model, reduces boiler-plate and makes user interface programming fun again.

About

Robert started coding on a C64 home computer and hasn't been able to stop since. For the past five years, he has been an Android developer at leading innovation studio Bontouch where he has worked in the SJ and PostNord app teams. He is also active in recruitment, team planning and management.

Samuel Horn af Rantzien

Samuel Horn af Rantzien

Prismic

#jamstack #frontend

Samuel Horn af Rantzien

Building Scalable Micro Front-ends on the Jamstack

I’ll give an overview of the Jamstack and the many ways it improves front-end performance and developer experience. Through a real-world case study, you’ll learn how to build a Jamstack site for a high-growth startup.

About

Samuel is a Creative developer with a background in design currently living in Kalmar, working fully remote at Prismic. He’s heavily invested in the Jamstack ecosystem and its surrounding technologies, with a penchant for modern frameworks, smooth animations, and performant static sites.

Sebastian Olsson

Sebastian Olsson

Truesec

#security

Sebastian Olsson

What’s in your application? Securing your code and the things around it

To create software, we just write some code. And design architecture. And integrate libraries. And manage build pipelines. And deploy apps. And monitor and react to alarms...

About

Sebastian enjoys projects where security is a core requirement, especially if it includes working on protocols, identities, and distributed systems. His work often includes analyzing the security of software architecture and development life cycles as well as auditing security critical code.

Stefan Petersson

Stefan Petersson

Tietoevry

#UX/UI #frontend #media #edtech

Stefan Petersson

Digital edtech solutions for business and education

Edtech stands for Educational Technology and is the common term for different types of digital learning productions for schools, businesses and the public sector. All organizations and people must develop themselves and evolve to be competitive and keep updated. This is why Edtech is one of the fastest growing industries in the world right now. With the use of the latest technology in Learning Managent Systems, content creation and intuitive UX design, Edtech can extend the traditional pedagogics of “classroom way of learning” into the digital domain and all of its limitless possibilities. E-learning and information videos with professionally created content and interactive elements have proven to be a very efficient way of learning “on demand”, regardless of physical location. Edtech solutions and productions are in very high demand today.

About

Stefan has been working in the IT Industry since 1995 in different manager roles with a strong focus on business development and partner collaborations.

Tommy Feldt

Tommy Feldt

Useit Consulting Sweden

#accessibility #inclusivedesign

Tommy Feldt

What are inclusive products and why should I care?

Learn why designing and building products that work for everyone is a win-win situation and will make your products better for everyone who uses them.

About

Tommy Feldt is a senior accessibility specialist at Useit. He coaches agile teams and organizations on how to build inclusive and accessible websites and apps.

Conference moderators

Peter Bergehamn

Peter Bergehamn

Linnaeus University

#conferencemoderator

Peter Bergehamn

About

Peter has a background as IT Manager in several large organizations, both public and private. Today, he serves as IT Manager at Linnaeus University and prior to joining Linnaeus he was Head of IT/digitalization at Region Kronoberg. At Region Kronoberg, digitalization of health and social care was a top priority. Cyber security has also risen in importande during the span of Peter’s career and what was once seen as a little uninteresting and boring is now highly critical. Peter is looking forward to TechHeads 2022 and the topics that will be discussed and wishes all attendees a warm welcome to Kalmar in September!

Anna McCann

Anna McCann

Tietoevry

#conferencemoderator

Anna McCann

About

Anna started in IT as it relates to disaster management. After working in the field during several Presidential-declared disasters, she took the knowledge of what the user needs and started with application development. As a project manager she has implemented software solutions worldwide for the US Navy. Now back home in Sweden, she is a Senior Project Manager at TietoEvry.

Preliminary Program

The conference program features keynote presentations as well as two parallel tracks: one for developers and one for system architects / project managers / designers.

Presentations in the developers' track

  • Alexander Mohlin, Softhouse Consulting: Security in agile development - is it possible?
  • Filip Trönnberg, Bontouch: How to securely fetch cute cats from the internet
  • Jesper Håkansson, Beanloop: Why TypeScript Matters (presentation will be held in Swedish)
  • Robert Söderbjörn, Bontouch: Jetpack Compose: the future of Android user interface development
  • Samuel Horn af Rantzien, Prismic: Building scalable micro fron-ends on the Jamstack
  • Sebastian Olsson, Truesec: What's in your application? Securing your code and the things around it

Presentations in the system architects / project managers / designers' track

  • Andreas Johansson & Henrik Leion, Tietoevry: Infrastructure as code (IaC) in practice - how do you really do it?
  • Johan Leitet & Niklas Emevi, Linnaeus University: Web3, bored apes or a decentralized revolution?
  • Josefin Söderin, Bontouch & Tommy Feldt, Useit Consulting Sweden: What are inclusive products and why should I care?
  • Marcus Persson & Osama Zarraa, Kalmar Energi: How to build a future tech-stack with microservices
  • Nicole Landgraff, Delibr: Making outcome-driven product management come to life
  • Stefan Pettersson, Tietoevry & Maxe Axelsson, Edtech Solutions: Digital edtech solutions for business and education