A Cross-Discipline Software Conference for Everyone If you want to attend an event where you can learn from a wide variety of perspectives, then our conference is for you. Abstractions is a multi-disciplinary conference that brings together everyone involved in modern software development to teach, learn, and connect. With three full days of amazing content from a huge list of diverse speakers, we hope you’ll join us and designers, developers, DevOps, managers, quality assurance, support, and community leaders from around the world.

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Featured Speakers Abstractions features a lineup of world class software influencers that have shaped the way we all work. Karen Sandler Executive Director Software Freedom Conservancy, GNOME Foundation Guillermo Rauch CEO & co-founder of ZEIT/now.sh J. Paul Reed Build & release engineering / DevOps consultant Seth Vargo Developer Relations Engineer, Google Cloud Author, Learning Chef Jon Yablonski Product Designer GM, AIGA Detroit, Author “Humane by Design” Heather Miller Carnegie Mellon, Executive Director of the Scala Center Fereshteh Forough Founded first coding school for girls in Afghanistan Aaron Patterson Github Rails core, Ruby core Chris Coyier Founder of CSS-Tricks, Co-founder Codepen, ShopTalk podcast Jem Young Netflix Engineering, Frontend Happy Hour Podcast Adekunle Oduye Design Technologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Stephen Ball Senior Engineer, Tanium, Author, "Deliberate Git" Matt Griffin UX Lead, Shopify PJ Hagerty Founder, devrelate Simone Giertz Swedish YouTuber, Inventor, and Robot Enthusiast Zed

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Location Abstractions II will be held at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Ranked one of the world’s most liveable cities, the former steel city of Pittsburgh is now an advancing leader in education, robotics, and software engineering. Home to companies such as Duolingo, Oculus Research, Uber ATC, Google, and IBM Watson, Pittsburgh is a city of constant reinvention and resilience. Be closer to the Abstractions community by staying at the official hotel of Abstractions II in the heart of downtown Pittsburgh.

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