Unscripted: What can software learn from improvisation?

Wednesday Sep 30

10:15 –

11:00

Thoughtworks Live Stage

Kent Beck plays guitar. Charles Humble is half of the ambient techno duo Twofish. Between them they've also spent about sixty years building software and thinking about how it gets built.

Short loops, listening, recovering from mistakes in front of people. How big is the overlap? And what can software learn from improvisation?

This is our unscripted stage. No slides, no script, and no idea where it ends up.

Kent Beck

Creator of Extreme Programming, Co-authored the Agile Manifesto

Charles Humble

Designing and running sustainable software systems

Keynotes

Thursday Oct 1 @ 13:15

AI as an Amplifier: State of AI-assisted Software Development

Nathen Harvey

Friday Oct 2 @ 13:15

A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence

Tim Berglund

Wednesday Sep 30 @ 09:00

Grokking the Brain: What AI Reveals About How You Really Learn

Barbara Oakley

Wednesday Sep 30 @ 13:15

Jam-oriented programming: Bringing improvizational jazz to engineering

Lu Wilson

Thursday Oct 1 @ 17:45

Everything is Cyber-Broken

Troy Hunt

Scott Helme

Thursday Oct 1 @ 09:00

What are YOUR experiences with AI supported development?

Cole Medin

Gojko Adzic

Marie-Alice Blete

Adam Tornhill

Wednesday Sep 30 @ 17:45

Among the Agents: What it's like inside a company staffed (almost) entirely by AI

Evan Ratliff

Friday Oct 2 @ 09:00

Climbing inside the machine

Linda Liukas

Friday Oct 2 @ 16:45

The Augmented Forest

Kent Beck