Ekobit DevArena 2017

TL;DR

In this post, I’ll show you some pictures and notes from the Ekobit DevArena 2017 conference.

Previous conferences

In case you’re interested, here are the posts from the previous three that I attended:

This is how the accreditation looked like on the back side, with the list of presentations per each track (4 in total):

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Conference oppening

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Awards for fastest signups

This year I got a Kitronik :MOVE mini for BBC micro:bit for making it to the top 10 people who signed up first. Can’t wait to play with this one ?. You can check the other awards here.

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As always, if you were active on the talks, you could get one of these:

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Which would then go to the drawing pot, for a chance to win yet another set of great prizes at the end of the conference… 

A great intro presentation by Damir Sabol, the founder of Iskon. Though, you may know him better as the man behind the Microblink company that makes a world know PhotoMath app.

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[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”32″ override_thumbnail_settings=”0″ thumbnail_width=”120″ thumbnail_height=”90″ thumbnail_crop=”1″ images_per_page=”20″ number_of_columns=”0″ ajax_pagination=”0″ show_all_in_lightbox=”0″ use_imagebrowser_effect=”0″ show_slideshow_link=”1″ slideshow_link_text=”[Show as slideshow]” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails”]DevOps presentation had a cool intro showing how (fast) Uber solved one problem when Croatian taxi drivers went on strike.

[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”33″ override_thumbnail_settings=”0″ thumbnail_width=”120″ thumbnail_height=”90″ thumbnail_crop=”1″ images_per_page=”20″ number_of_columns=”0″ ajax_pagination=”0″ show_all_in_lightbox=”0″ use_imagebrowser_effect=”0″ show_slideshow_link=”1″ slideshow_link_text=”[Show as slideshow]” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails”]The discussion on the presentation titled “Worst experiences from working in an agile team” was great with lots of practical input from attendees.

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Till next time, CODE ON! ?

Written by Nikola Brežnjak