Welcome keynote
summary
Conference frames itself as community-driven and cross‑technology, reporting 394 attendees and a satellite Voxxed at CERN next Saturday plus a kids workshop for 60 kids; keynote traces software engineering to the 1968 NATO report, emphasizes iterative design, short feedback loops, CI and unit tests, warns about 350 million lines in modern cars (Tesla) and that humans struggle beyond ~10,000 lines of code, criticizes ORMs as leaky abstractions and urges design fundamentals, decomposition and stronger communication.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Conference overview
- 5:52Conference promises
- 11:35Software engineering history
- 20:26Software engineering fundamentals
- 30:43Improving as engineers
- 44:39Team dynamics
- 55:15Future of software engineering
- 56:22Q&A on waterfall








