BarCamp Philly 14 - 2023

Loving who you are exactly as you are!

Is running for office for you? Why get involved? Come talk about making change!

How we can save democracy and our sanity by fixing the loneliness epidemic.

Entrepreneurial Improv Theatre

Highly interactive improv and discussion about creative emergence.

My vlog experience and what I have learned.

A way to think about teams & how to manage them

Por que no?
How learning a language is nothing like learning a programming language.

Mental fitness techniques that take ~3 minutes a day to stop the negative chatter. (Need a tiered classroom)

Breaking down how AI works, what the dangers are, how to use & integrate it

Design your days to support creative plow.

Or Why I Quit Corporate America

A zero dependency introduction to observable / singleton stores in React & other framrworks

I brought yarn, you have hands, let's learn to crochet! (Come help me teach if you already know how!)

We all use it, some of us contribute, but how do we plan for the future?

What worked, what hasn't in 20 years of doing remote and hybrid.

How alter egos give you intentional courage

I'll show you how to improve your method of photography. Live demo! Also - AMA

- Visual tools for comms
- Adaptive strategic model

Aspiring managers to learn from experienced managers.

Discussing speech, lexicon, reference, linguistics, perspective.

How to Survive a Ransomware Attack

Learn why and how to make your marketing accessible to people with disabilities.

Legal issues with ChatGPT.

How public transport works, from a dispatcher (i.e. why your bus is late).

Motivation & Emotion
How I learned to stop worrying and embrace no/everything

The lame history of PHL's flag! Principles of good flag design! Why flags matter! Seriously they do!

How and why to keep pet rats.

The time is now for generalists: trends and strategies.

Using music data to tailor my music discovery and finding community.

A deep dive into the game mechanics & implementation of loop thesis?

Treating users like customers.

Plan the next WCPhilly w/ Win

Software engineering in practice at Fastmail

How can we use AI for the most good?

Reviving basic etiquette in the workplace and life.

I'll provide a clear description of ISO, f/stop, shutter speed, and how you can use them to take better photos!

Saving democracy through tech!

BarCamp Philly is entirely run by volunteers and needs your help if we want it to happen again in 2024. Tim & Joe have been helping run BarCamp Philly is some way since 2009, and we're going to retire.

Come and learn what it takes to make this thing happen, and see if getting involved as an organizer in the future is for you!

GPT roundtable. How to create a GPT powered search!

An explanation of a theoretical world we could have had

Self-awareness, social-awareness, and mindfulness

20+ veteran developer with advice & answering questions on building your career.

(not about crypto)

Let's talk about people and hearts, and making a living.

How to build a more human web.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905.

Congratulations, technologists! We have reached a new record for the height of the peak of inflated expectations with the hype surrounding “A.I.” If you believe the recent press, “A.I.” is going to be capable of everything, with some even talking of immortality.

It is a wonderful thing to be excited about new technology available to us, but this is at a level I have never seen in my career. There have been numerable lessons from the past that illustrate why we should avoid these levels of hype.

Is “A.I.” going to change everything? I don’t buy it, and in this talk, I’ll explain the reasons why.

Why has the working class left the Democratic Party?

Loving yourself exactly as you are!

Let's reinvent a religion!

Loving who you are, exactly as you are