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Developing new products and ideas is said to be done best with everyone in a room – the proverbial “garage.” How do you make sure ideas are seen, heard, and built on? What will happen to our creative output in a remote world? How can we design tools that enhance human creativity?

Georg Petschnigg, Chief Innovation Officer from WeTransfer, will draw from his extensive experiences building award winning products used by millions around the world to share how we can better enhance creativity and team collaboration in the current climate.

You’ve heard of the infrastructure cloud provided by AWS, Azure, and GCP because it has revolutionised the way organisations run the servers and tools that power their business. You’ve heard of the application cloud provided by companies such as Salesforce, Workday, and ServiceNow that’s brought the “front office” to the cloud.

As the adoption of both the infrastructure and application clouds has accelerated, businesses have been left with massive amounts of data spread across multiple different systems and cloud provider platforms. This has left them looking for a technology that enables them to un-silo, govern, and secure all of this private data and manage rapidly growing data workloads in the cloud. Snowflake, The Cloud Data Platform, is the technology that meets these needs by enabling the Data Cloud.

Attend this webinar to see the drivers behind the Data Cloud, and take an in-depth look into the innovations that Snowflake has made to enable it.

Learning outcomes:
- How Snowflake’s unique architecture uniquely supports the integrations and distributed workloads required of the Data Cloud
- What the future holds for the Data Cloud

Find out why adaptability and seamless access to all available data have become the competitive superpowers that every marketer needs to deliver relevant, accurate, timely, and consistent customer experiences.

The front-end ecosystem has gone through a radical transformation over the past few years. It has completely changed how we build products and the types of experiences we can offer to our users. As we approach the tail-end of this phase, what is considered table stakes? We will look at tools and techniques that are the building blocks — an essential requirement to take advantage of innovations within the industry. The front-end isn’t quite done changing just yet! There is a new wave of tooling updates that have given us new ways to organize products. These can help to divide the concerns of your product along with more customer-centric boundaries. They also speed up prototyping and reduce the time from ideation to deployment. Lastly, we will deep-dive into WebAssembly, WebXR & WebGPU. The impact these technologies have had on product strategy. And how they will expand the depth and breadth of your products in the future.

Learning outcomes:
- The impact WebAssembly, WebXR & WebGPU have had on product strategy.
- Which tools and techniques essential for taking advantage of innovations within the industry.
- The new wave of tooling updates that have given us new ways to organize products.

As the world went into lockdown, the commerce went online in a matter of days. The shift has forced thousands of businesses and their customers to change their habits and adopt new ones. Shopify, and especially their product team, has been at the center of this transformation. In this session you will hear how Shopify’s product team responded to the unfolding events and how their thinking about their products and their workflows has evolved since then.

Product teams are diverse and dedicated groups of developers, designers and managers that work closely together. Like most other teams, they now have to adapt to new ways of collaborating. How can they build trust and good communication for effective product innovation workflows fully remotely?

Whether you are building a startup or adding features to an existing data-intensive application, the underlying infrastructure and architecture is what will determine its scale, efficiency, and flexibility—and whether your app will gain user traction or not.

Snowflake provides builders and developers of data-intensive applications a platform to build solutions that meet the demands of today’s organizations and their customers.

Join Kevin McGinley, Field CTO at Snowflake, for a live webinar and Q&A session, where he will cover key best practices for building data apps using Snowflake.

Learning outcomes:
- Modern architecture for building apps that help break out of scalability, concurrency, and performance barriers
- Tips for keeping costs under control
- Key features that reduce DevOps overhead

The results from a casual Google search “How design and development are supposed to work together” net some loose themes with no actionable strategies: communicate, collaborate, and co-create. While these themes are the right direction, they leave a lot to be desired. How do you operationalize such broad thinkpiece advice?
Every problem, project, and company are different (and there are no silver bullet solutions). In order to build the best digital products and technology, and to really get designers and developers working together, we will share our experience in solving the “how” question, based on real-life examples. This webinar is a springboard for discussions with your own stakeholders on what you need to enable these three C’s at your company. At the end of the webinar, you will be able to explain the Dev-ignOps concept, enact some practical first steps within your teams, and demonstrate the practical benefits of the communication, collaboration, and co-creation process to your leadership team.

Learning outcomes:
- How do you operationalize the concepts of ‘communicate, collaborate, and co-create’.
- Practical first steps for your teams to enact DevineOps.
- How to communicate and align with stakeholders and leadership.

A YouTube exec turned startup founder shares insights to build teams and processes like you build your products.

Now more than ever we rely on tech businesses and their products to support our personal and social lives. While some celebrate this accelerating adoption, others warn of the ever-increasing influence of the Big Tech. Behind every tech product there are decisions made by designers, managers and engineers. What role do these professionals play in shaping the future of the online community? What should be their guiding principles for a more sustainable internet?