Design Thinking process is a human-centred process used to innovatively and creatively solve real-life problems for a particular group of people.

It has brought many businesses lots of happy customers and helped entrepreneurs from all around the world, to solve problems with innovative new solutions.

In the 5-step process, students and employees deal with realistic issues to provide meaningful solutions. The process is taught in top design and business schools around the world.

Linda Liukas believes that a movement in technology is already happening and that we need to engage everyone -- especially the next generation -- to take part.

She wants to create a more diverse and colourful world of technology, starting with the poetry of code.

Project-Based Learning is a method that involves students in a long-term in-depth investigation of a real world challenge.

Instead of raw memorization of facts or following instructions that present a smooth path to knowledge, students work on a problem that develops several skills simultaneously.

By doing so, they are more likely to retain information, develop their creativity, communication and critical thinking. Plus – they learn how to learn!

“Active learning” means you participate, collaborate with others, and apply concepts to the real world. It requires hard mental effort but leads to better retention and an understanding of the material that can be transferred to other situations.

To understand why active learning works so well, it helps to know that when our brain decides what to remember, it asks itself two fundamental questions: Can I understand? And do I need to know?

How will software development evolve in the 2020s?

What new devices are coming? Will Artificial Intelligence take over everything? How will people connect to the web in the next ten years? And what about Quantum Computing? All these topics and more will shape our future!

Josh Kaufman is the author of the #1 international bestseller, 'The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business', as well as the upcoming book 'The First 20 Hours: Mastering the Toughest Part of Learning Anything.' Josh specializes in teaching people from all walks of life how to master practical knowledge and skills.

In his talk, he shares how having his first child inspired him to approach learning in a whole new way.

Co-writer of the Agile Manifesto, Jeff Sutherland is one of the world's leading experts of organizational management. He explains how to be agile, not just in software development but in every business to disrupt the field.

A former US Air Force "Top Gun," Jeff Sutherland is the co-creator of the SCRUM process. This methodology, developed in 1993 and formalized in 1995 with Ken Schwaber, has since been adopted by the vast majority of software development companies around the world.

Since Kent Beck wrote the book on TDD in 2002 a lot of words have been dedicated to the subject. But many of them propagated misunderstandings of Kent's original rules so that TDD practice bears little resemblance to Kent's original ideas.

In this talk, we re-discover Kent's original proposition, discover where key misunderstandings occurred and look at a better approach to TDD that supports software development instead of impeding it.

The interview is based on Sam Newman's new book "Monolith to Microservices": Upgrade your microservices knowledge by listening to a spirited conversation between two living legends: Sam Newman and Martin Fowler.

The two touch upon the main reasons for using or not using microservices, and, if you decide to do use microservices, what else you should change along the way to fully benefit from the switch, plus much more.