Speaker: Dr. Anita Sengupta
Dr. Anita Sengupta has been developing spacecraft technologies enabling the exploration of Mars, Venus, and deep space for the past decade at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). She started her career working on the Delta IV launch vehicle and communications satellites in the aerospace industry. After joining NASA JPL, she began her PhD research on improving the efficiency and lifetime of the ion thrusters that are now powering NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft, on its journey to Vesta and Ceres in the main asteroid belt. After that, she was responsible for the supersonic parachute system that was integral to the entry, descent, and landing of NASA’s Curiosity rover on August 6th 2012. She is currently the Project and Mission Manager for the Cold Atom Laboratory, a laser cooling atomic physics facility to be launched to the International Space Station in August of 2017. Dr. Sengupta will talk about the motivation for Mars exploration and the challenges of landing on a planet over 500 million kilometers from Earth. She will share her personal experiences in space exploration and discus the importance of pursuing a career in science and technology. She received her MS (’00) and PhD (’05) is Aerospace engineering from USC where she is also a Research Associate professor in the Astronautics Department teaching undergraduate spacecraft design
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Tracks
Monday, 26 June
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Microservices: Patterns & Practices
Practical experiences and lessons with Microservices.
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Java - Propelling the Ecosystem Forward
Lessons from Java 8, prepping for Java 9, and looking ahead at Java 10. Innovators in Java.
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High Velocity Dev Teams
Working Smarter as a team. Improving value delivery of engineers. Lean and Agile principles.
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Modern Browser-Based Apps
Reactive, cross platform, progressive - webapp tech today.
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Innovations in Fintech
Technology, tools and techniques supporting modern financial services.
Tuesday, 27 June
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Case studies from the most relevant names in software.
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Developer Experience: Level up Your Engineering Effectiveness
Trends, tools and projects that we're using to maximally empower your developers.
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Chaos & Resilience
Failures, edge cases and how we're embracing them.
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Stream Processing at Large
Rapidly moving data at scale.
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Building Security Infrastructure
How our industry is being attacked and what you can do about it.
Wednesday, 28 June
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Next Gen APIs: Designs, Protocols, and Evolution
Practical deep-dives into public and internal API design, tooling and techniques for evolving them, and binary and graph-based protocols.
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Immutable Infrastructures: Orchestration, Serverless, and More
What's next in infrastructure. How cloud function like lambda are making their way into production.
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Machine Learning 2.0
Machine Learning 2.0, Deep Learning & Deep Learning Datasets.
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Modern CS in the Real World
Applied, practical, & real-world dive into industry adoption of modern CS.
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Optimizing Yourself
Maximizing your impact as an engineer, as a leader, and as a person.
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Ask Me Anything (AMA)