Building a new world with ethical AI, COVID tech & Blazer.

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If 2020 has taught us anything, it is resilience.

Ask anyone in mid 2019, what they thought 2020 would bring, and no one would have foreseen a global pandemic.

But rather than getting stuck in the state of affairs, we need to move forward and start building something better.

We all need to be the change we want to see in the world.

So if you want to build a better future. One that's based on ethical AI, a cleaner planet and inclusiveness, then strap up your boots and let's get started:

Touchless Technology - Innovating in a Post-Pandemic World

COVID-19 has transformed our lives, and we are now more aware than ever of hygiene in public spaces. Recent Ultraleap research showed that just 12% of consumers believed that touchscreens in public spaces are hygienic and 50% said they are unlikely to use touchscreens again. Could there be a better solution? In this talk we’ll explore hand tracking and mid-air haptics, its challenges and its future - including use in VR/AR.

Safe, Responsible and Ethical AI

Machine Learning and AI have huge benefits. However there’s a growing concern about the safety, fairness and broader societal impact of AI. In this talk, we’ll see how ML and AI works, its strengths and weaknesses. We'll then discuss how poor or naive application of AI can lead to confidently inaccurate results, bias against some communities, loss of customer trust in your business, and further widen the digital divide.

Blazor - Client-side web apps in C# using WebAssembly

Blazor is Microsoft's brand new framework for building client-side web applications. So what makes it special? You write the code in C#, which runs in the browser using WebAssembly - with no Javascript involved! In this talk, we'll see how we can write applications using Blazor, and take a look at its syntax and component model. We'll discuss its advantages and disadvantages, and get an understanding of when it makes sense to use Blazor.

Applied Accessibility: Practical Tips for Building More Accessible Front-Ends

Building for accessibility ensures you reach as many users as possible. Designed for front end developers, in this session — a series of macro case studies from real client projects — Sara shares some frustrations, many lessons learned, and a lot of practical tips and tricks for building accessible front-end foundations that you can take and apply in your own projects right away.

JavaScript Saves the World

Data centers produce about 3% of the world's greenhouse gases and this is set to treble in the next 10 years. When building apps, we focus on minimizing costs, time to market, bugs, bundle size, application speed, SEO, but we spend almost no effort trying to minimize the damage our applications are making to the environment. Asim discusses how to build a green sustainable web application with NestJS and Serverless.

Mastering Collaboration – Making Working Together Less Painful and More Productive

Our relationship with collaboration is painful. We say we value teamwork, but it often gets messy and complicated. This session breaks down three ways we can work better together as product, developer, design, and business people to help their work shine.

Happy Learning!

The SitePoint Team