Lloyds Banking Group is a financial services group with millions of customers and a presence in nearly every UK community, both online and on the local high street. With more than one million businesses serviced through their brands, the hopes for creating the bank of the future is firmly locked in the sights of this digitally transforming organization.

In order to hit their ambitious goal, Lloyds Banking Group is changing from a traditionally introverted bank, hardened to risk through years of manual process, into an open and collaborative organization where innovation and experimentation are driven by engineering and automation.

During this talk you’ll learn how Lloyds Banking Group journeyed into innersource with the formation of engineering guilds and how this lead to the adoption of GitHub Enterprise from proof of concept to widespread use. We’ll also explore how engineering guilds formed the GitHub Enterprise Working Group to share successes and educate on best practices, while safeguarding the operation of their engineering community.

Finally, we’ll tell the story of how Lloyds Banking Group is moving fast toward open source, powered by the determination and ambition of engineers—and how GitHub Solutions Engineers are mentoring this enthusiasm to give back to the community.

10:50am

From security considerations to culture transformations, starting and maintaining successful open source initiatives at a large company isn’t easy—but the results speak for themselves. With some workflow and policy adjustments, you can bring open source to your organization to see increases in collaboration and product quality.

In this panel, you’ll hear real-life examples from Comcast, Oracle, and Zalando about how their teams have navigated red tape, encouraged innovation, and taken products to the next level on their journey to open source adoption.

11:40am

The social sector is often left behind in the race for technology. Open source can offer a way for social change actors like foundations, governments, nonprofits and educational institutions to create useful, open source tools that can unlock innovation and achieve their goals. Come learn how the Case Foundation and an XPRIZE Finalist are developing code and software to address social issues in the world around. They will share their challenges, opportunities and benefits that open source offers for social change actors.

1:20pm

“Engineers are people, too: They like the be entertained” been an ongoing mantra in Sentry.io's monthly meetup. As a former musical theater actress, Chloe Condon found that many meetups, conferences, and events lack the “entertainment” she was used to consuming “on stage”. Yes, the talks are highly technical, and no, the speakers aren't singing or dancing—but isn’t there a way to make these entertaining?

Armed with a theatre degree, a certificate from Hackbright, and all of the lines and lyrics of Legally Blonde the musical memorized, Chloe set out to make a community event that was not only informational, but entertaining, too. In this talk, you'll find out how Sentry turned

2:30pm

How is the global tech community preparing the software engineers who will lead the global tech revolution in ten years? With Africa projected to account for half the world's population growth by 2050 and 7 of 10 of the world’s fastest growing internet populations, U.S. venture firms are increasingly investing in African startups and paying serious attention to tech on the continent.

This session will delve into how African startups are building tech ecosystems across the continent to solve big problems, from food scarcity to clean water access. The panel will also explore how today’s young African leaders are leveraging e-learning and community building to create more software engineers and catalyze a generation of diverse tech pioneers who will go on build the solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

3:20pm

Want to build a profitable side project? In this session I will share the story of how my GitHub App that began as a side project became a successful business used by over 500 companies like Pivotal, WeWork, and Trivago. You'll learn about how the GitHub Marketplace is empowering independent developers to become entrepreneurs and tips for how you can build your own GitHub Apps for fun or profit.

10:50am

Airlines have on-time arrival. Retail has sales per square foot. Marketing teams have cost per acquisition. Manufacturing has yield and safety scores. But how do we measure the performance of engineering teams, and why is understanding team performance important?

This session looks at anonymized team data to share insights, behaviors, and metrics that help teams build better software, faster. We'll examine the anonymized, aggregate data from millions of builds for best practices on commits, pull requests, disaster recovery, frequency of deploy, and more.

11:40am

Airbnb has grown exponentially over the last few years—and so has their codebase. Most of Airbnb's code lives in a monolithic Rails application called Monorail. Despite having hundreds of contributors, the team is still able to ship fast and frequently. Hear some of the unique challenges Airbnb faces as their engineering team grows and see how they plan to transition toward a service-oriented architecture—a multi-year effort involving hundreds of engineers across the company.

1:20pm

Gerrit is a Git hosting service and code review tool that functions like GitHub with several key feature differences. ServiceNow recently migrated their entire development team and several other teams from Gerrit to GitHub Enterprise for internal code hosting and code review. Learn how the team solved—and continues to solve—their most pressing social and technical challenges.

2:30pm

The pillars of observability have long been accepted as key components of any microservice-in-production. But what about those new products—those new features—that have yet to be released? Properly instrumenting and leveraging metrics at this stage is perhaps even more crucial. When a product is yet to be released, identifying and addressing early bugs is critical.

See how the team at Digital Ocean leveraged Prometheus to properly instrument and test features within their software-defined networking pillar. This session will highlight instrumentation, key visualizations, and takeaways from their experience. You’ll also hear about areas for improvement and find out how to use these learnings for your own releases.

3:20pm