So I went to “We are developers” in Vienna…

A few days ago, I went to the We are developers congress in Vienna, Austria. The “Woodstock for developers” actually turned out to be a very well organized, but less wild event full of pretty amazing presenters and content. It was a developer conference, not as focused about all kind of web matters, but more holistically about development. Hence a lot of the topic revolved around DevOps, high level languages, Artificial Intelligence and Cloud matters.

My personal contributions were:

A two hour “workshop” on building intelligent, human interfaces using machine learning systems. You can look up the notes and links of this workshop. For bonus points, I got confused about the date of this workshop. As I just returned from Seattle there was a time-difference confusion and I arrived an hour before the workshop. I hadn’t slept for 30 hours and arrived 20 minutes late for it. However, people seemed to have enjoyed it and I got good feedback.

‚AI has no morals and ethics, but used wrongly - it can amplify our biases‘ [@codepo8](https://twitter.com/codepo8?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [@WeAreDevs](https://twitter.com/WeAreDevs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [#MSFTxWAD](https://twitter.com/hashtag/MSFTxWAD?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [#WADWorkshops](https://twitter.com/hashtag/WADWorkshops?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [#WeAreDevelopers](https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeAreDevelopers?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/8utA6Ow1kT](https://t.co/8utA6Ow1kT)

— bernadette welly (@dettewell) [May 16, 2018](https://twitter.com/dettewell/status/996737574382260225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) On the second day I gave one of the opening talks (“Killing the golden calf of coding”) and it was incredibly scary to be on a huge stage like that, were earlier Steve Wozniak worked his magic. The slides of the talk are on SlideShare:

[Killing the golden calf of coding – We are Developers keynote](//www.slideshare.net/cheilmann/killing-the-golden-calf-of-coding-we-are-developers-keynote) from [Christian Heilmann](https://www.slideshare.net/cheilmann)

Feedback was phenomenal:

[@codepo8](https://twitter.com/codepo8?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) just said “there is no truth in: we will fix it later, let’s just finish the sprint”, and I couldn’t agree more with this quote [#WeAreDevs](https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeAreDevs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/beTkAHh4sS](https://t.co/beTkAHh4sS)

— Jeremias Menichelli (@jeremenichelli) [May 17, 2018](https://twitter.com/jeremenichelli/status/997023679824453632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

[@codepo8](https://twitter.com/codepo8?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) talking about how coding is perceived and it’s future [@WeAreDevs](https://twitter.com/WeAreDevs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [#loveenthusiasm](https://twitter.com/hashtag/loveenthusiasm?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [#microsoft](https://twitter.com/hashtag/microsoft?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [#vienna](https://twitter.com/hashtag/vienna?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [#WeAreDevs](https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeAreDevs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/BjhiUOjvLo](https://t.co/BjhiUOjvLo)

— Tereza Iofciu (she/her) [@terezaif](https://vis.social/@terezaif) ? (@terezaif) [May 17, 2018](https://twitter.com/terezaif/status/997020137525010433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

"2018 ist ein guter Zeitpunkt, um zu erkennen, dass die Verwendung von CLI nicht mehr unsere Aufmerksamkeit erfordern sollte" – [@codepo8](https://twitter.com/codepo8?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) in "Sacrificing The Golden Calf of Coding" [@WeAreDevs](https://twitter.com/WeAreDevs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [#WeAreDevs](https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeAreDevs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [#Coding](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Coding?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [#CLI](https://twitter.com/hashtag/CLI?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [#Development](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Development?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/I16etlBzJz](https://t.co/I16etlBzJz)

— mediaman GmbH (@mediamanDE) [May 17, 2018](https://twitter.com/mediamanDE/status/997025802586734592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) I also took part in an Artificial Intelligence panel talking about the ethics and boundaries of AI.

A pitfall of [#artificialintelligence](https://twitter.com/hashtag/artificialintelligence?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [#ai](https://twitter.com/hashtag/ai?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) and [#machinelearning](https://twitter.com/hashtag/machinelearning?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)? "It's not yet democratized, we don't yet have the social progress and means to distribute the huge advantages." [@codepo8](https://twitter.com/codepo8?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)'s words to that effect [@WeAreDevs](https://twitter.com/WeAreDevs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [#WeAreDevs](https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeAreDevs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [#WeAreDevelopers2018](https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeAreDevelopers2018?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/oACK1yNv5w](https://t.co/oACK1yNv5w)

— Martin Schimak ? (@martinschimak) [May 17, 2018](https://twitter.com/martinschimak/status/997044598492016640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) On the third day I was the MC on the main stage, introducing and running the Q&A for Bitcoin expert Andreas Antonopulous, Ripple CTO Stefan Thomas, Google Angular expert Stephen Fluin, Futurist Martin Wezowski, Google iOS security expert Felix Krause, styled components inventor Max Stoiber and Stackoverflow/Fog Creek founder Joel Spolsky. All in all, it was a very well organized event and it was great to meet some of my heroes (John and Brenda Romero of Wolfenstein/Doom fame) and many new ones. I want to thank the organisers for having me and trusting me with so many things. I’m only sorry that I was pretty much shattered all the way as I had just come back from a few daunting days in Seattle the day before. I will come back to the event, as it is exciting and different at the same time.