Building Your First Voice Experience with Alexa

This workshop will dive right in to getting you set up and started building a voice-based experience with Alexa. You will leave this session with a working Alexa skill that you can customize and publish as your own.

We will cover topics around voice design best practices, voice interactions, persistence, and making calls to external APIs.

This session will be taught using node.js, but you don't have to have prior experience as a node developer.

PREREQUISITES

In order to get off to a fast start, please create accounts on both of these websites before the session:

Amazon Developer Portal - http://developer.amazon.com

Amazon Web Services - http://aws.amazon.com

Jeff Blankenburg

Amazon Alexa

Jeff Blankenburg spent the early part of his career in digital advertising, building websites for Victoria’s Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Ford Motor Company, among others. He also spent 8 years at Microsoft, primarily as an evangelist for any new technology he could get his hands on. Today, he works on the Amazon Alexa team helping developers make Alexa even smarter. Jeff has also spoken at conferences all over the world, including London, Munich, Sydney, Tokyo, and New York, covering topics ranging from software development technologies to soft skill techniques. He also serves as an organizer for the Stir Trek conference.

Building Single Page Applications with VueJS and ASP.NET Core

The landscape of building web applications has changed a bit of the past five to ten years. The tools have matured so drastically that it can be a challenge to figure out the best way to incorporate your existing knowledge with new tools.

In this full-day workshop, you will explore building a Single Page Application (SPA) with VueJS and using an API built with ASP.NET Core.

Students will work directly on a Single Page Application that they can use later for review!

We will cover the following topics:

• Project Setup and Integration
• Vue overview using Single File Components
• Vue Router: for managing client-side routes
• Vuex: for global state management
• Axios: for making cross-platform
• ASP.NET Core 3.0 overview - including controllers and identity

Kevin Griffin

Owner of Swift Kick, Microsoft MVP

Kevin Griffin is an author, teacher, mentor, and consultant focusing in software development. He is also a 11-time Microsoft MVP, specializing in ASP.NET and web development. As the owner of Swift Kick, a software training and services company, Kevin specializes in helping businesses push their technology stacks into the 21st century. You can often find Kevin speaking at conferences and user groups across the country or blogging at https://consultwithgriff.com.

Workshop Duo: GitHub Actions Application Security

CI/CD with GitHub Actions

Learn about building applications using GitHub Actions. We will learn diverse ways to trigger our builds, build different of types of applications, and matrix builds. We'll be writing our pipelines in YAML and learning how to share data between steps, conditionals, and caching. Finally, we'll learn how to deploy our code to various places (PaaS, Containers).

Application Security, Basic, Intermediate, Advanced

Joe will be joining us to teach a dynamic course to help us think like an attacker and give us all the coding tips we need to stop them cold in their tracks. Even the most experienced developers are sure to pick up some new tips and tricks. This hands-on half-day workshop will have something for everyone. Before we start, there will be some setup for labs and tools – so plan some time in advance and bring your Windows, Macintosh, or Linux laptop!

We will cover problems and solutions as they relate to application security and principles of application security, demo a purposefully vulnerable web application, and work with tools. Then we will cover some specifics, at a pace for everyone!

Authentication: Covers all aspects of secure authentication, including building secure login screens, password storage, secure interactions between sites, and an overview of many other topics.

Injection: SQL, command, LDAP injection, just to name a few. Sending your commands to a backend system

Browser attacks: Finding and exploiting cross site scripting vulnerabilities

It will be easier if you bring a basic understanding of HTTP protocols and web applications.

Prior to the session, please install Burp Suite Community Edition from Portswigger.

Chris Ayers

Practice Lead for DevOps and App Modernization

Chris is the Practice Lead for DevOps and App Modernization with a history of Full-Stack Development and Cloud Architecture. Chris has a focus in modern applications built with microservices, containers, Single Page Apps, RESTful APIs, and cloud technologies following agile practices. In his free time, Chris is a speaker at numerous meetups, an avid reader, and a gamer.

Joe Kuemerle

Product Security Engineer

Joe Kuemerle is a security engineer, developer and speaker in the greater New York City area specializing in application security, development, database, and application lifecycle topics. Joe is active in the technical community as well as a speaker at local, regional, and national events. Joe blogs at www.kuemerle.com and is on Twitter as @jkuemerle.

Contain Your Enthusiasm - A Full Day with Containers and Kubernetes

Spend a day learning about container technology from the ground up. Starting with Container Fundamentals, moving to Kubernetes Concepts, then Kubernetes tools for managing multi-cluster, and multi-cloud environments.

In this full-day workshop, you will learn:

• Container Concepts and Fundamentals
• Authoring and Managing Containers
• Kubernetes Fundamentals
• Getting Started with Kubernetes
• Deploying and Managing Applications with Kubernetes

We may cover additional topics depending on how fast the workshop progresses. Other topics may include:

• 12 Factor Application Development and Kubernetes
• Breaking the Monolith to move to Microservices
• Microservices Architectures

Attendees must have a laptop with administrator access as they will need to install software. The presentation will be tailored to support users with Windows, Mac, and Linux laptops.

Jason Van Brackel

Engineering Product Manager at Cisco

Speaker details coming soon!