Career advice, AI ethics and inspiring the next dev generation to care about the web at Web Unleashed

I just got back from Toronto, Canada, where I attended Web Unleashed a FITC organised three day conference with fifty talks in four tracks. Despite this size, the event felt cozy and not too spread out. There was a lot to learn and a truly stellar line-up of speakers to choose from.

Originally I was lined up to give a workshop together with Burke Holland on developer toolchain setup, but there were not enough sign-ups, so I “only” spoke on a panel about “Life as a lead developer”, gave a talk about AI, ethics and building human interfaces and the closing keynote.

“Life of a Senior Dev” [@FITC](https://twitter.com/FITC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [#webu2018](https://twitter.com/hashtag/webu2018?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)... that is just a dream to see all these people together... [pic.twitter.com/aztRMhT3AT](https://t.co/aztRMhT3AT)

— David Dias (@TheDavidDias) [October 1, 2018](https://twitter.com/TheDavidDias/status/1046816279661694976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) The [slides of the AI and ethics talk are available here](https://noti.st/codepo8/VRRAYl/building-human-interfaces-powered-by-ai) and I made a gist with [all the resources I mentioned](http://aka.ms/human-ai).

Excited to use [@codepo8](https://twitter.com/codepo8?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) and co.’s [https://t.co/U7taVv1AiZ](https://t.co/U7taVv1AiZ). It will help us create a better web. [@FITC](https://twitter.com/FITC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [#webu18](https://twitter.com/hashtag/webu18?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/pIpcWzGRDV](https://t.co/pIpcWzGRDV)

— Marathon Consulting (@MarathonIT) [October 2, 2018](https://twitter.com/MarathonIT/status/1047239530259124224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) The [closing keynote slides are also on noti.st](https://noti.st/codepo8/t7iMgM/watch-this-space) together with the resources mentioned in that one. The resources mentioned in this one are here:

• [Space Jam Web Site](http://warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm)
• [Creating Users, not Addicts](https://medium.com/journey-group/creating-users-not-addicts-73e1774297c7)
• [European Internet Copyright Laws](http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20180906IPR12103/parliament-adopts-its-position-on-digital-copyright-rules) – link tax and upload filter
• [FCC Net Neutrality ruling](https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-takes-action-restore-internet-freedom)
• [Trump Administration sueing California](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/10/01/trump-administration-is-suing-california-quash-its-new-net-neutrality-law/)
• [Internet cables attacked by sharks](http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/08/15/shark_attacks_threaten_google_s_undersea_internet_cables_video.html?via=gdpr-consent)
• [Former Google chief prediciting two internets: the US one, and a Chinese one](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/09/21/former-google-chief-predicts-internet-will-split-by-chinese-web-an-american-one/)
• [China shutting down thousands of web sites](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-internet/china-shuts-thousands-of-websites-in-clean-up-campaign-xinhua-idUSKCN1M302F)
• [China’s digital dictatorship](http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/china-social-credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship/10200278)
• [Beaker Browser](https://beakerbrowser.com/) and [Dat Project](https://datproject.org/)
• [Tim Berners Lee’s Solid and Inrupt](https://medium.com/@timberners_lee/one-small-step-for-the-web-87f92217d085) and the [Fast Company Coverage](https://www.fastcompany.com/90243936/exclusive-tim-berners-lee-tells-us-his-radical-new-plan-to-upend-the-world-wide-web)
• [Mozilla Developer Network](https://developer.mozilla.org/)
• [Can I use](https://caniuse.com/)
• [Front End Checklist](/2018/10/05/career-advice-ai-ethics-and-inspiring-the-next-dev-generation-to-care-about-the-web-at-web-unleashed/frontendchecklist.io)
• [Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/)
• [Webhint](https://webhint.io/)
• [Webhint Visual Studio Code extension](https://bit-ly/webhint-for-code)

I will write more about the subject of the closing keynote soon here. I want to thank everyone involved in this event and hope that people learned something from my efforts. It is impressive how many great speakers were present and I had a wonderful time with some of the most relaxed parties. I also realised that no matter how hard I try, I will never have the same presence as the devrel expert at the Shopify booth: