GitHub / Universe 2015 - Featured Presentations

Marianna Tessel is the SVP of Engineering at Docker, which actively contributes to the open source project and is also responsible for Docker’s commercial product offerings. Prior to Docker, she was a VP of engineering at VMware, where she led an engineering team developing various VMware vSphere subsystems as well as working with VMware’s tech ecosystem. Prior to VMware, Marianna was the VP of engineering for Ariba (now part of SAP). Before Ariba, Tessel was part of General Magic, starting there as an engineer and rising to vice president. Marianna holds a few technology patents.

About GitHub Universe:
Great software is more than code. GitHub Universe serves as a showcase for how people work together to solve the hard problems of developing software.

For more information on GitHub Universe, check the website:
http://githubuniverse.com

Marco Annunziata is the Chief Economist of General Electric, responsible for the global economic analysis that guides GE’s business strategy. A member of the European Central Bank's Shadow Council and of the European Council of Economists, Annunziata has been featured on Bloomberg, CNBC, and in The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Annunziata arrived at GE in 2011 with a long track record in the financial sector, previously working at Unicredit, Deutsche Bank and the International Monetary Fund, where he researched emerging markets and the Eurozone. Annunziata confesses that he is "childishly proud" of his first book, The Economics of the Financial Crisis (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011). The book traces the global fiscal crisis back to a failure of common sense, in which so many of us played a part, and offers guidance for learning the right lessons from the outcomes.

About GitHub Universe:
Great software is more than code. GitHub Universe serves as a showcase for how people work together to solve the hard problems of developing software.

For more information on GitHub Universe, check the website:
http://githubuniverse.com

Kellan Elliott-McCrea, former CTO of Etsy, describes lessons learned in his 5 year tenure leading an engineering organization. In this talk, he discusses how to enable a team to produce software of quality, given the constraints and difficulties inherent in the art.

About GitHub Universe:
Great software is more than code. GitHub Universe serves as a showcase for how people work together to solve the hard problems of developing software.

For more information on GitHub Universe, check the website:
http://githubuniverse.com

From high school robotics classes to NASA scientists, everyone is building software. In the opening keynote of GitHub Universe 2015, GitHub Co-founder and CEO Chris Wanstrath looks back at how GitHub grew into a community of more than 10 million developers and shares some of the most unexpected and inspiring things people are building today.

Chris also makes a few announcements, including the Integrations Directory (https://github.com/integrations) that catalogs the apps and services that integrate with GitHub, Git Large File Storage 1.0 (https://github.com/blog/2069-git-large-file-storage-v1-0), and a partnership with Yubico (https://github.com/blog/2071-github-supports-universal-2nd-factor-authentication)—a provider of FIDO U2F keys—to outfit your GitHub account with cutting-edge security.

About GitHub Universe:
Great software is more than code. GitHub Universe serves as a showcase for how people work together to solve the hard problems of developing software.

For more information on GitHub Universe, check the website:
http://githubuniverse.com

Anil Dash is cofounder and CEO of ThinkUp, the creators of Makerbase, a directory of apps and websites and the people who create them, and ThinkUp, which offers fun personal insights into social media activity. Dash is also cofounder of Activate, the consultancy which defines strategy for the most important companies in technology and media. Described as a "blogging pioneer" by the New Yorker, he has published his blog at anildash.com continuously since 1999, earning recognition as a Webby honoree. In 2013, Time named @anildash one of the best accounts on Twitter, and some of its half million followers agree.

Dash serves on the board of Stack Exchange, as well as non-profits like the Data & Society Research Institute, the Lower East Side Girls Club and the NY Tech Meetup, the largest technology trade group in the United States. Dash has been a contributing editor and monthly columnist for Wired and he advises startups and non-profits including Medium and DonorsChoose. Dash's digital works have been exhibited in the New Museum of Contemporary Art and he co-created monegraph, the first system to use bitcoin technology to verify original digital creations.

About GitHub Universe:
Great software is more than code. GitHub Universe serves as a showcase for how people work together to solve the hard problems of developing software.

For more information on GitHub Universe, check the website:
http://githubuniverse.com

GitHub Universe's second day keynote explores how technology can be used to make things better for the world. It features Nicole Sanchez, VP of Social Impact, leading the conversation on solving hard problems anchored in the fundamentals of human needs. See technology in action with a case study from the Detroit Water Project from its founder, Tiffani Ashley Bell. And see how access to the internet is providing opportunities to low-income families at EveryoneOn with Chike Aguh, CEO.

About GitHub Universe:
Great software is more than code. GitHub Universe serves as a showcase for how people work together to solve the hard problems of developing software.

For more information on GitHub Universe, check the website:
http://githubuniverse.com