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Elin Brusberg

Elin Brusberg

Software development manager at Vitec Megler

Oslo, Norway

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About me:
Worked as a developer for many years, but sadly not a lot of time left for coding now.
I spend most of my days supporting the team and working long term on our technical and resource strategy.
On occasions lucky to share my experience with a wider audience, such as this.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Development
  • Developers life

Women in tech - Why and how?

Why women need more tech, why tech need more women, and ideas on how to make it happen.

What is the deal with women in IT?

Where are they hiding and why aren't they returning your calls?

I managed to achieve a 40% female ratio in my former admittedly small team of programmers and have some thoughts I'd like to share.

I had some theories on what was going on and decided to test it with a small-scale survey with questions on what life in tech is like for those identifying as women. The results were both surprising and not, and I will share it in this session.

Before you start recruiting diverse, think through why you're doing it, and how important it is to you. You will face obstacles, and you will need to be prepared.

In order to attract women to you company, you will need to do everything you are hopefully already doing to attract men - building a strong employment brand, providing a good technical stack, a thriving environment, possibilities to grow and advance your career, writing good and modern adverts, making sure your interviews is two-sided etc.

But you also need to make sure that the message is compatible with values more likely found in a female professional.

I will share my views and experience in all these fields, and maybe we can find some new ideas together?

Key points:
• Make your add appeal to female talent
• What you can expect to gain from it
• How to retain the experience
• Creating the right environment to let diversity shine

A bouquet of good and bad advice for young developers

Things I wish that someone told me earlier in my career so I could ignore it

Lightning Talks Friday

Lightning talks (approx 10-15 minutes each)

Talk 1: A bouquet of good and bad advice for young talents - Elin Brusberg

Things I wish that someone told me earlier in my career so I could ignore it

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Talk 2: Hidden features in MS Paint - Marianne Melhoos

In many cases, it can be easier to have something visual to look at when discussing solutions, whether it is a screenshot or a visual sketch. MS Paint is a tool that many people have come across at some point, but maybe not everyone knows the true potential of this small piece of ancient software. In this lightning talk I will speak about why Paint is my preferred drawing tool for my job as a developer and reveal some of its hidden features. Maybe I can show you something you did not know before?
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Talk 3: Sami stopwords - How far have we gotten and why does it matter? - Espen Klem

• What are stopwords
• What does the work with stopword-sami consist of
• NRK as a text source and how to improve the stopword lists over time. Manual work, redlists and content crawling.
• Solutions a stopword list can help you create: search engines, chatbots, plagiarism detection, sentiment analysis and other machine learning solutions.
• Demo North Sami stopword list to show what simple linguistic understanding can do

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Talk 4: Green Code 2020 - Anders Norås

Green computing is always about energy efficient servers, hardware without hazardous materials and other things that appeal to hardware buffs. Cloud computing is great, but what else can us programmers do to help the environment?
Back in 2010, Anders showed us how to be eco-friendly through writing better code and smarter business logic in his NDC lightning talk Green Code.

Now ten years later, at dawn of the decade where the world needs to deliver on the UN Sustainability Goals, Anders revisits his 2010 presentation to explore how we programmers can contribute to eco-friendliness by writing better code and designing better software.

A bouquet of good and bad advice for young developers

These are the things I wish someone had told me earlier so I could ignore it:

What to look for in an employer
What to think about in a job interview
Where do you see yourself in 5 years
Expert or generalist
Finding your mentor
Motivating yourself
Working efficiently
Clean code cheat sheet
Shortcuts and quick wins

Open heart surgery - Replacing our search index on the fly

Our long journey into replacing our current search index answering 2 million queries daily with minimal disruption and loss. Our most embarrassing moments and proudest successes and some thoughts on how we could have done it better.

A bouquet of good and bad advice for young developers

Things I wish someone would have told me earlier so I could ignore it.

Join me if you will on this epic journey through your career.
Starting with the CV, moving on to the interview and ending with the rest of you life!

After many years experience both as a developer and a manager, I have some good or bad advice on most part of your journey. Soft skills, hard skills, we will do a quick lighthearted run through them all.

Key points:

What to look for in an employer
What to think about in a job interview
Where do you see yourself in 5 years
Expert or generalist
Finding your mentor
Motivating yourself
Working efficiently
Clean code cheat sheet
Shortcuts and quick wins

Swetugg Gothenburg 2023 Sessionize Event

October 2023 Göteborg, Sweden

Swetugg Stockholm 2023 Sessionize Event

February 2023 Stockholm, Sweden

DevOpsDays Oslo 2022 Sessionize Event

November 2022 Oslo, Norway

NDC Oslo 2022 Sessionize Event

September 2022 Oslo, Norway

Elin Brusberg

Software development manager at Vitec Megler

Oslo, Norway

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