The 1600 Day Streak: Language Learning, Product Building, and the Power of Persistence

Have you heard of Duolingo? Have you managed to keep your daily streak strong? How about for 1600 days? This talk explores the surprising parallels between language learning and product building. All in the context of shaping and creating a product content framework for technical products and platforms and the 1600 day journey that shaped it so far.
We'll delve into the importance of consistency, incremental progress, and effective feedback. We'll then discuss how these principles can be applied to the creation of a robust content framework, toolkit and its components. This framework will empower your teams to communicate clearly and effectively, onboard new customers efficiently, and ultimately drive product success and adoption.

From Chaos to Clarity: Mastering Deep Work in a Distracted World

In today's fast-paced, AI driven world, distractions are everywhere, making it increasingly challenging to focus on work that requires intense concentration and creativity.

Do your workdays work for you? Or do you have too many meetings, no time for a break, and can't manage to get focus time to finish your tasks or do deep work?
Join us to find clarity amongst the chaos, explore strategies to cultivate focus, enhance productivity, and achieve valuable results.

During our time together we'll:
- Discover how to harness the power of deep work to unlock your full potential, boost your career, and lead a more fulfilling life.
- Take you through the methods you can use to create an effective schedule to allow you to stay on track, manage multiple projects, maintain your well-being and personal growth with only 30 minutes a week.
- Understand how to focus on work that provides value and how to most efficiently schedule your time to enable you to focus.

Whether you're seeking to improve your work habits or striving for personal growth, this talk will provide you with the tools and insights needed to thrive in a distraction-filled environment.

The structure of the workshop will be:
Describing what is deep work and how it's different from flow, what is the cost of distractions and chaos, how to do deep work
Then we'll move onto specific strategies and tactics that I've tried and that others recommend, specifically, calendar blocking and calendar zero, the 3-3-3 method of limiting goals, combining these
Finally, for the super busy folks, one technique that could help without the discipline and time commitment of the other frameworks, using momentum to maximize all the small blocks of time you can muster in a day to still achieve your goals and do deep work in small sprints.
Finally finishing with a challenge for the audience to try to block 10 minutes at the end or beginning of their next day to bring some focus and time for Deep Work in the next week and experiment, taking it from there and learning what does and doesn't work.

Docs Are Everyone's Business

When you begin showing your product docs the care they need and even go a step further, and make them inner or open sourced, the experience for customers and teams will change, because docs are everyone's business.
The goal is to make it easy for teams and customers to use and love your product, with the help of documentation.

So, what did we learn, and how did we do it?
In this talk, Alex will take you through the then and now journey of how product docs evolve, how the community and customers contributed to the changes and how you can do it too!

Engineering with AI: Balancing innovation, productivity and risk

Engineering organizations need structured approaches to adopt AI tools safely and effectively. This focused session presents a practical framework for engineering teams to adopt AI while maintaining security and compliance standards, as well as an overview of the new AI wave, what it means for engineering roles and how our world of might change in the next few years because of it.

We'll dive into examples of when and where engineering with AI might be beneficial, what it means to implement AI safely and responsibly, as well as how do you partner with your engineers to do it and measure it effectively.

This session is ideal for engineering leaders, managers and architects responsible for implementing or advocating for AI tools in tech or engineering environments. You'll leave with practical tools to begin building and testing your own AI adoption framework and strategy.

Make your (remote) workdays work for you

Do your workdays work for you? Or do you have too many meetings, no time for a break and can't manage to get focus time to finish your tasks. I used to have the same issues, but I found a way to make my workdays work for me using less than half an hour every week.

During our time together, I'll take you through the method you can use to create an effective schedule to allow you to stay on track, manage multiple projects, maintain your wellbeing and personal growth.

Find your North Star: Your New Manager Compass to Success

Ever felt like you were thrown into a manager role without a roadmap? Then this talk is your compass!

Discover essential tools and practical tips to navigate this wondrous journey. From effective communication and onboarding to building strong teams and feedback loops, by the end of this session, you'll be equipped with the skills and tools needed to conquer your new role and set your team up for success.

Get ready to build your own roadmap and toolkit to success and thrive as a manager that makes a lasting impact on your team!

Why care about building a cloud center of excellence

What is a Cloud COE (Center of Excellence), why should you care or who needs one? All questions you might have already.

If you want to learn more about how you can transform your cloud adoption, get business value from your cloud investments and accelerate your capability building, a cloud center of excellence can help you with that!

To get value from cloud, you will have to not only modernize technologies but change your culture and people, as well as processes and organization as a whole. Join us to learn more about strategies in leading cloud transformation, whether you have 200 or 200.000 employees!

Preferred duration would be between 20-40 minutes, to a technical audience but not necessarily only cloud engineers or experts, but also business leaders interested in cloud transformation.