Web Unleashed 2020
Talks
A fireside chat with Mina Markham
Join us for an intimate and interactive interview where Chris Coyier (Co-Founder , CodePen) interviews Mina Markham! Read more…
Anagogic Inference Of Sorting Algorithms
What hides between the lines of so-called “boring” algorithms we all know about? Can sorting lists of values become almost a mystical experience when combined with creativity and artistic direction?… Read more…
Mynah Marie
Earth To Abigail
Ask Me Anything with RBC’s Digital and Recruitment Teams
RBC is Canada’s largest bank, with 86,000 + employees and 17 million clients in Canada, the US and 34 other countries. We apply imagination and insight to cutting-edge technology to… Read more…
Build Your Fullstack Utility Belt
Building a web application is much easier said than done. As developers, we handle a lot of moving parts; designing the frontend, structuring the backend, and then setting up a… Read more…
Joshua Alphonse
Corvid by Wix
Building Beautiful Experiences with Flutter
Google Flutter is a refreshing take on multi-platform application development, allowing devs to create visually rich, highly engaging experiences that run on mobile, web, desktop, and beyond. This session will… Read more…
Grant Skinner
gskinner.com
Building Expertise and Community through Chapters
This talk will introduce and explore the idea of ‘chapters’, and specifically, how they are implemented within RBC’s digital department.
The chapter working model has implications in terms of both… Read more…
Deploy Your Static Web App with Your Favourite Framework in Minutes
You’ve built an app and you want it to scale. Do you want CI/CD, custom domains, SSL certificates, APIs, global scale of your static assets, authentication, and authorization? Whether your… Read more…
John Papa
Microsoft
Design Thinking for Developers
There’s no magic involved in breaking a gnarly, overwhelming project into actionable tasks – just a lot of Post-its™️.
In this presentation, Martin unpacks Design Thinking as “a process for… Read more…
Martin Laws
Shopify
Forms – Live by Playmodes
Forms is a generative audiovisual synthesis bot; the synaesthetic dream of a digital brain. A custom software generates abstract visual music scores in real-time, giving birth to myriads of audiovisual… Read more…
Santi Vilanova
Playmodes
From Milliseconds to Millions: A Look at the Numbers Powering Web Performance
We all know performance is big business, but how big? Let’s take a look at some of the numbers powering the web performance industry from both sides of the table.… Read more…
Harry Roberts
CSS Wizardry Ltd.
Gatsby in the Shadows
Join Gatsby’s Head of Product, Dustin Schau, on the Gatsby YouTube channel for Gatsby in the Shadows about how to use your existing monolithic CMS to experiment and build a… Read more…
Good Technical Debt
How would you spend a tech debt mortgage? “Technical debt” is a dirty word in the software engineering field, but financial debt isn’t universally reviled in the same way: the… Read more…
Jon Thornton
Squarespace
How to Expose Your Web App as an API
Join us during the extended break to explore more of the essential tools you’ll need for your fullstack utility belt.
In this session, you’ll learn how to expose your web… Read more…
Improving the Web VisuA11Y
Web accessibility has become more of a buzzword than a process to make the web more accessible to a variety of users. Even when good accessibility is implemented in applications,… Read more…
Obinna Ekwuno
Cloudflare
Kijiji Meet & Greet
Kijiji is the #1 online classifieds platform in Canada and one of Canada’s top ten most-visited digital properties.* We’re a leader in helping Canadians find and trade goods and services… Read more…
LIVEbits
Contrasting with contemporary and often obscure resources, bytebeat expresses an obscene computational elegance. Opposed to humanization or mimesis, bytebeat finds aesthetic value in low-level programming and the contingencies of specific… Read more…
Gabriel Vinazza (aka GEDE)
Master Gatsby
Gatsby is a JavaScript framework for creating blazing fast and super modern websites with react.js. What makes it so good? Isn’t it just another static site generator? I hear it’s… Read more…
Wes Bos
wesbos.com
Meet and Greet with Rogers Digital and Technology Recruitment team
Join us on at the Rogers Communications virtual booth where you will have the opportunity to engage with leaders of our Digital Development team and learn about our Digital transformation… Read more…
Serverless at the End of the Universe
Serverless functions are extremely good at what they do – providing planet-scale computing power for your applications. Where serverless functions fall short, however, is state management. When missing state management… Read more…
Simona Cotin
Microsoft
Skilling Up with Microsoft
Join us at the Microsoft virtual booth to learn about the free Cloud Skills Challenge toolkit and our Canada Wide Developer Digital Meetup Tour.
This activation will be hosted on… Read more…
Systems of Systems
Design systems create an umbrella to to define the future of our design work, but they aren’t the biggest umbrella — they exist under broader social, political, and infrastructural systems… Read more…
Tatiana Mac
tatianamac.com
The Evolution of Shopify’s Colour System
Check out how Shopify’s colour system evolved to support new user and business needs, and how Polaris uses design tokens to propagate design decisions.
This activity is on October 7… Read more…
The World-Wide Work
These days, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. The tech industry is facing a veritable raft of ethical, moral, and political crises. Automation and industrialization are reshaping our world. Sitting in… Read more…
Ethan Marcotte
ethanmarcotte.com
What if the Real 10× Developer was the Friends We Made Along the Way?
Every so often the 10× developer trope makes the rounds. The debates get heated: what is a 10× developer? are these traits we should treasure or avoid? do 10× developers… Read more…
Jason Lengstorf
Learn With Jason
What Technologies are Relevant in Today’s Marketplace?
With more platforms releasing their own technologies, it can be a challenge to determine which technologies you should focus on learning. In this panel, hear from tech leaders who can… Read more…
What’s New In CSS?
New features are arriving in our browsers faster these days, and in this talk I will share some of the new CSS that is landing in browsers right now. We’ll… Read more…
Rachel Andrew
Google
