Inge Amdal Halvorsen
Consulant, Bouvet
Haugesund, Norway
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Inge Amdal Halvorsen is a developer, historian, philosopher, teacher, and storyteller. With a genuine interest in quirky and esoteric knowledge, and a penchant for diving into rabbit holes, he is a fountain of footnotes and fun facts. With a blend of mythology, code, and curious observations, his talks are certain to make audiences laugh, think, and occasionally question reality.
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The Sorcerers Apprentice - The myth of AI, and how the stories we tell, shape our reality
This talk examines the long cultural lineage behind our contemporary understanding of artificial intelligence; showing that the hopes, anxieties, and imagined futures surrounding new technologies are far older than the technologies themselves.
Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, we trace a thread through history and myth, exploring how stories about autonomous machines and artificial beings have shaped our expectations of real technological change. By situating today’s discussions about large language models and “vibe‑coding” within this broader historical and cultural continuum, the talk argues that our current debates are not unprecedented, but part of a much older narrative tradition.
Rather than offering predictions or technical deep‑dives, the session highlights how the stories we tell about technology influence the technologies we build, and how understanding this narrative inheritance can help us navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of AI today.
Time, the final frontier
Time as a concept, is something that lives between the real - the Earth orbiting the sun; the imagined - the calendars and the clock; and the purely subjective - the length of a techtalk.
As developers we need to balance both the conceptual understanding of time - in as much as giving an estimate of finished projects; and the factual - as in making models that are safe, and will stand the march of, as it were, time.
In this talk, we’ll trace the winding history of timekeeping — from Roman emperors and papal edits to spreadsheet bugs and legacy code. Along the way, we’ll look at how programming languages like JavaScript and C# inherited the chaos, and how we try (and fail) to tame it.
Whether you love history, hate time zones, or just want your app to handle daylight saving without breaking, this session includes history, bugs, regrets, and just enough practical advice to get you safely to the future.
What my cats taught me about implementing a new framework
Learning a new framework is hard. So hard, in fact, that even my cats had opinions. In this talk, I’ll share the unexpected lessons I learned from installing a chip-controlled cat flap: how early adopters embrace change, how traditionalists resist, and why users will always find creative workarounds.
No previous knowledge of cats necessary.
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