Agenda

Agenda

RESTFest 2017 is in the history books!

Below is the final agenda for this year's RESTFest. If you were an attendee, feel free to update the agenda and your People Page to make sure all this data is up-to-date. We'll "freeze" this page in a few weeks to make sure it remains available to search engines and future research.

Wednesday Pre-Fest Workshop

The Pre-Fest Workshop is a full-day hands-on event where attendees can learn the details of building both back-end and front-end solutions for the Web. This year, the workshop is led by RESTFest alumni, Shelby-Switzer and Mike-Amundsen.

• 8:30 - 9:00 : Welcome, Breakfast
• 9:00 - 9:45 : What is REST?
• 9:45 - 10:30 : Designing a REST API
• 10:30 - 11:00 : Break
• 11:00 - 11:45 : Implementing a REST Server
• 11:45 - 12:30 : Validating your REST Server
• 12:30 - 1:30 : Lunch
• 1:30 - 2:15 : The Basics of a REST Client
• 2:15 - 3:00 : Designing a REST Client
• 3:00 - 3:30 : Break
• 3:30 - 4:15 : Implementing a REST Client
• 4:15 - 5:00 : Validating your REST Client

Thursday HackDay

HackDay is a chance for all RESTFest participants to join together an collaborate on one or more projects. This year's HackDay theme is Open Data and will be led by Shelby-Switzer. Whether your a developer, designer, deployment maven, documentation wizard, or just plain ready to help, we need all types this year to help build out real open data sites and projects. We also start some of the Featured-Talk and Five-in-Five talks Friday afternoon.

• 8:30 - 9:00 : Welcome, Breakfast
• 9:00 - 9:30 : The Challenges of Open Data APIs: Introduction to Open Data APIs and specific projects for the hack day that will help the Open Data ecosystem
• 9:30 - 10:00 : Form Teams
• 10:00 - 12:30 : Hack Session
• 12:30 - 1:30 : Lunch
• 1:30 - 4:00 : Hack Session
• 4:00 - 5:00 : Stand-Ups, Demos
• 5:00 - 10:00 : GET /Greenville Crawl

Friday, StackDay & Keynote

StackDay is a chance for all of us to show off cool tools and libraries we use when working on the Web. If you'be built some tools, show them off! If you really enjoy working with some platform, libraries, or other tools we'd love to learn more about them and how you use them.

Friday night is also when we host the Keynote. This year's talk is "Time to Redecentralise the Web" by Irina Bolychevsky.

Finally, Friday night is GameNight. Bring your family-friendly board games and card games for a night of fun.

• 8:30 - 9:00 : Welcome, Breakfast
• 9:00 - 10:30 : StackDay Talks
  • Subscribe to the API design programatically by Adam Kliment
  • CQRS + Rest by Matt Bishop
  • LuxUI by Joshua Kalis
• 10:30 - 10:45 : Break
• 10:45 - 12:00 : StackDay Talks
  • IOT API Management Framework Demo by Owen Rubel
  • Un-dux your Front-end by Nate Abele
  • RESTful WordPress in 2017 by Doug Cone
• 12:00 - 1:00 : Lunch
• 1:00 - 2:30 : Feature Talks
  • Resource Modeling for Robust APIs by Shawn Schantz
  • "REST Community Service" by Erik Wilde
  • "API that we need" by Alexander Semerenko
• 2:30 - 3:00 : Break
• 3:00 - 4:30 : StackDay Talks and 5in5 Talks
  • "Let's Fix HAL!" by Erik Wilde
  • "Try Ionic Framework In Your Next Mobile App" by John Bohannon
  • "Stop burning your customers and users" by Michael Hibay
  • Email aliasing (Throttlehq.com) by AJ Danelz
  • How Vimeo's API handles complex video privacy by Aaron Hedges
  • Why to AVOID AWS API Gateway and Lambdas
  • REST is Easy! by Joshua T Kalis
  • Legacy Code & Testing by Ryan Maas
  • Working at a Small Company by Daniel Carton
  • Hello RESTFest - Robby Flair
  • Alex Berk
• 4:30 - 5:00 - Daily WrapUp
• 5:00 - 7:00 : Open time
  Dinner Suggestions
• 6:00 – Coffee + Donut Bar opens (in conference venue)
• 7:00 - 8:30 : RESTFest Keynote
• 8:30 - 10:00 : Board Game Night

Saturday, TalkDay (5in5 & Feature Talks)

TalkDay is when Everyone Talks and Everyone Listens. All attendees have the oppty to share their thoughts and ideas in an open, supportive and positive environment of collaboration.

We wrap up this year's RESTFest with our "RESTFest After Party" (details to come).

• 8:30 - 9:30 : Welcome, Breakfast & Star Trek Continues!
• 9:30 - 10:30 : Feature Talks
  • Building a MUD in Elixir by Eric Oestrich
  • The New API Pattern
• 10:30 - 10:45 : Break
• 10:45 - 12:00 : 5in5 Talks and Panel Discussions
  • 5in5 Microservices Journey by Miguel Quintero
  • 5in5 Talk A CRUD Design Tool Ronnie Mitra
  • 5in5 Talk Handling Developer Objections To Hypermedia by Scott Smith
  • 5in5 Talk #4 "My friend the Postman by Doug Cone"
  • 5in5 Beacons by Natalie Polk
  • 5in5 Kanban in Software Development by Dan Abend
  • 5in5 Microservice tips by Randall Randall
  • 5in5 Dev tools you might not know about by Mitchell Mahoney
  • 5in5 RESTful JSON by Adam Kliment
  • 5in5 [Hypermedia as a Resource] by Matthew Slesinski
• 12:00 - 1:00 : Lunch
• 1:00 - 2:00 : Feature Talks and 5in5 Talks
  • "Human Conversational Services" by Michael Hibay
  • 5in5 APIOPs Atlanta by Miguel Quintero
  • 5in5 Hypermedia APIs: Why Bother by Paul Kuykendall
  • 5in5 AWS Lambda Speed-of-Light Testing by Matt Bishop
  • 5in5 That's Not Funny! by Ryan McAllen
• 2:00 - 2:15 : Break
• 2:15 - 3:30 : 5in5 Talks and Panel Discussions
  • Client <> API specifiction <> Server lifecycle by Adam kliment
  • 5in5 Something Something Networks Something by Nate Abele
  • 5in5 Innovating coding education in Greenville by Pamela Wood Browne
  • 5in5 OTP Hot Upgrade by Eric Oestrich
  • "Linksets: Links as First Class Citizens" by Erik Wilde
  • 5in5 Quickly setup an embedded C test framework by David Gardner
  • "Three Types of Microservice Components" -- Mike Amundsen
  • "Open Referral: An API for Human Services" by Shelby Switzer
  • "Context...y'all" by BigBlueHat (aka Benjamin Young)
  • "Is It A Bear?" with Josh
• 3:45 - 4:00 - Break
• 4:00 - 5:00 : Final Talks and WrapUp
  • 5in5 API Constitutions by Adam Kliment
  • Additional 5in5 Talks and Discussions/Panels
• 6:30 - 9:00: REST Fest After Party