Edge Academy 2016 - one Netlight way of creating together, this week all over Europe

What do you get when you mix competence, creativity and business sense together with a big portion of deep engagement and people who really cares?

You get Edge Academy, an intimate yearly IT festival during a week happening in all Netlight offices all over Europe. By us consultants, for us consultants.

Sounds interesting, one must really say, but what’s the agenda or theme? Of course whatever is currently relevant, or Edge as we call it within Netlight. That is whatever makes challenges or opportunities to our clients and our clients as being leaders and drivers of the digital future. What this may be in detail, all of our consultants know together (that’s why the agenda can’t be set by anyone else) so let’s have a peak into the schedule of what is currently Edge to us.

Also this is as good answer as any to the question - what does Netlight actually do currently? 
What we do in six months or in a year? Nobody knows, and that's the excitement, ask us then and we'll let you know.

And not to forget, I guess the question of WHY is quite relevant here as well. WHY Edge Academy? 

Well, we do this because this is how we create together. This is how we share competence and experience. This is one of many platforms where people meet and share and discuss anything on their mind. This is how people grow. This is how we create the inspiring working climate where everyone has the same and equal right to take place, to talk and to be seen – no matter age, seniority, consultant level, gender, background, knowledge area, culture, interest or role. This is where we all expand our networks so that we learn how to navigate the shared Netlight bank of knowledge and experience, to find the relevant competence needed when needed. This is how we help each other and in that help ourselves. This is how our clients get the best value out of each consultant and out of Netlight as a whole. 
Simply this is how we achieve win-win for all – clients, employees and Netlight as a company.

  

Some topics and sessions (workshops, presentations, discussions…) taken from the schedule of our offices throughout Europe

(Munich, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Hamburg, Berlin and London) 

• Modular Design in Practice
• The Amazing World of E-sports
• Evolution of Malware
• Testing in Cross Functional Teams in a Continuous Delivery Environment
• Feedback - giving and receiving and the nature of it
• Learnings from a project with Unreal Engine
• Unity Workshop - Let's Flappy Bird!
• Social Media - From Good to Great
• Drive for Change
• How to Make a Career at Your Client – grow your client and yourself
• ES6 & the Future of Javascript
• Get Some Drive Into WebDrive and Automated GUI Testing
• Git Workshop
• Lightning talks followed by discussion of all various topics such as BI, Architecture, Development (FE & BE), Management, Frameworks, Infra, Hosting, Equality, Industries, Success stories, Failures, Best Practices etc. etc.
• The naked truth – Let’s talk about mental illness
• Handling a Growing Agile Team
• Future of Swedish E-commerce
• Why SZ Managed Complex Projects Where Others Tend to Fail
• Be a Mensch
• Agile Inspection Leader
• Ok, but by when does it have to be done?
• An Introduction to Service Design and Design Thinking (Workshop)
• Negotiating Like the Indians
• Anatomy, Stretching and Workplace Injuries
• Service Discovery and Automagic Infrastructure
• Analysis of User Story Estimations in Agile Software Development
• Lessons learnt of Scaled Agile Framework SAFe
• What Is Netlight Doing for Women in Tech?
• Why Netlight Loves Media
• Renbergs Consultant panel 
• Understand Your Subconscious
• Python Scrapy on AWS - Flat Search in Munich
• Hands on With ASP.NET and Powerful .NET Tools and Plugins
• Thinking Like Apple
• Functional Programming
• this-is-fine.jpg - What Happened at PAYBACK
• Agile Development of Healthcare Web Applications
• What Does a Successful Retrospective Look Like?
• Slackbot - Your Personal Robot
• DevOps: What Is the Fuzz About?
• Sorry, the Lifestyle You Ordered Is Currently Out of Stock!' Being a Mensch in a Brutal World!
• Written Sales
• Zombie Apocalypse - Simulated
• A Way Toward Microservices // a Practical Overview
• Once Upon a Time in Unterföhring: A ProSieben/Maxdome Story
• Netlight Episode VII: The Mensch Awakens
• How to Grow Your Client Through Equality
• Building Reactive Web Applications With Scala and Akka
• Twitter Sentiment Analysis
• Emotion Recognition and Applications - Improving Your Product's User Experience
• Unconference
• Issue Classification Using Systems Thinking and the Cynefin Framework
• Peculiarities in the Public Sector - My Lessons Learned
• Building a Realtime News Service
• LinusLAN * 4
• The Power of Smart Communication
• 1+1=2
• Checkout the Checkout - UX Optimizations of the Booking Workflow
• Game Development and the Future of Apps
• Clean Code
• Edge Conference 2016 – Brainstorming Workshop Kick-off
• How to Go Steady?
• 10 Success Principles Growing You as a Person
• JavaScript & ES6
• The Unopinionated Comparison Between Scala and Java
• Building Traffic Light for a client
• The Impact of Organizations on Software Architecture
• Get Some Drive Into WebDrive and Automated GUI Testing
• Usability and Beyond: How to Evaluate Your Product
• I Get Knocked Down but I Get Up Again - Mastering Failure and Stress
• ASP.NET 5
• Understanding Risk and Spending Time Where It Matters the Most.
• The Power of Smart Communication
• How to Quickly Make, and Deploy, Simple API's
• What Is a Good Technology Stack Today?
• Are YOU visible?
• AC/DC: AWS, CoreOS, Docker and Consul
• Emerging Markets: About Autonomous Cars and Digital Dexterity
• Introduction to React Native
• Firefighting in Project Management
• .NET Memory Management
• Using Web APIs and Machine Learning to Predict Bundesliga Results
• Global Learning @ Spotify
• Techniques to Enhance Your Presentation Skills

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academy.netlight.com

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