2017 Schedule

##2017 schedule of talks

Refresh Austin meets the second Tuesday of every month, rain or shine! Here is the schedule for this year, and upcoming talks.

###Upcoming

####January 2017

First talk: TBD Speaker: TBD Description: TBD

Second talk: The State of Refresh Speaker: The Refresh Austin team Description: The Refresh Austin team will present an update on the status of the organization and solicit feedback from the community. This is your time to make suggestions on what topics you'd like to hear about in 2017!

Sponsor: TBD

February 2017

First talk: Getting Unstuck Speaker: Dan Newcomer Description: Have you ever felt stuck? Are the experiences that surround your daily routine a blocker to discovery? This is a conversation and experiment in helping others who might have run into the same ruts I may have- from one creative burnout to another.

Second talk: Building a Real World Inspired UI Speaker: Youssef Chaker Description: Showing how a "can do" attitude and some patience can tap into the power of CSS to create very complex, yet fun, UIs without resorting to images. In other terms, why developers and designers should not be scared of creating something fun.

Sponsor: TBD

####March 2017

No meeting due to SXSW!

####April 2017

First talk: Application Monitoring Overview Speaker: Jason Yee (Datadog) Description: The only way to avoid crippling issues and resolve critical outages is with complete system and application visibility. But how do you ensure 100% observability and identify potential blind spots? With the growing number of monitoring projects and hundreds of monitoring services vying for your attention and business, how do you balance full coverage with limited budgets?

In this session I’ll break down the expansive monitoring landscape into 5 categories and provide a framework to help you ensure full coverage. I’ll also touch on why these categories are important to your business and share the top criteria to consider when evaluating your options.

Second talk: TBD Speaker: Jon Loyens Description: TBD

Sponsor: TBD

####May 2017

First talk: The 5 existential crises of working in tech Speaker: Brandon Hayes Description: Have you ever felt like you are in the passenger seat of your career? By simply looking around and seeing how few 20+ year veterans you work with, you're actually staring our industry's sustainability problem right in the face. But the software industry needs you still contributing 20 years from now! Fret not, we can start fixing these problems, right now, in your own job.

Using in-depth research across companies of all sizes, you'll come away with a plan to start designing a sustainable career track to help you grow in skill, influence, and income now and long into the future.

Second talk: Indie Blogging Speaker: Manton Reece Description: TBD

Sponsor: TBD

####June 2017

First talk: Using the Happiness Metric to Develop a High Performing Team Speaker: Dan Corbin Description: Learn how incorporating the Happiness Metric into your continuous improvement process can result in a more focused, productive, and collaborative team. We'll discuss concrete ways you can use the metric to improve systemic issues which will result in not only in better team morale but more satisfied customers.