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Dev:SPARK 2025
Wednesday, October 8 • BYU Conference Center

BYU Developer Conference

Join Us for the 2nd Annual BYU Developer Conference! We'll feature presentations from university leaders as well as fellow developers from around campus.

Developer Challenge

Find this year's developer challenge at http://byudev.ctfd.io

Schedule

All activities will be held at the Harman Continuing Education Building (HCEB), and Conference Center (CONF).

Time

Sessions

8:00am

Breakfast and Registration

Harman Building Atrium

9:00am

Keynote: Brian Radford, BYU Information Technology VP & CIO

Harman Building Atrium

10:00amWeb apps for the Millenium
Jonah Thurston, Alden Transfiguracion
Room 2258
Creating an Effective Team on a Budget
Roman Vish, Jack Wooley
Room 2265
Simple > Clever
Scott Hutchings
Room 2267
Getting Started with Microsoft Power Platform
Karl Parkinson
Room 2260
10:30am

Break

10:40amHow web development revolutionized BYU's largest student research conference
Duncan Morais, Jake Nef
Room 2258
Working Effectively with Stakeholders
Bill Cope
Room 2265
Mendix App Maintenance
Abigail Egan
Room 2267
Why k8s, Why now?
Rhett Bulkley
Room 2260
11:10am

Break

11:30amBYU Identity Modernization Roadmap
Matthew Hailstone
Room 2258
Integration Testing
Logan Brewer
Room 2265
Standardization
Tyler Johnson
Room 2267
Error 404: Logging Module Not Found... So We Built One
Michael Pettersson
Room 2260
12:00pm

Break

12:10pmThe End Is Near! (for CAS)
Travis Marks, Sam McKnight
Room 2258
User-Focused Test-Driven Design (aka "Testing For People Who Hate Testing")
Glen Sawyer
Room 2265
Monorepos
Connor Robb
Room 2267
Handlebars: Light-weight HTML Templating
Tyler Blackham
Room 2260
12:50pm

Lunch

Harman Building Atrium

2:30pmDSA Manager
Markus Carter
Room 2258
BYU FOSS: Leveraging Open-Source Principles Can Optimize the BYU Developer Community
Roman Vish, Lara Allen
Room 2265
Mobile
Brock May
Room 2267
Sustainable, Student-Friendly Web Development
Tom Pittman, Parker Shumard
Room 2260
3:00pm

Break

3:10pm

Keynote: Nick Turley, Managing Director, IT Architecture

Harman Building Atrium

3:45pm

Closing Remarks and Activities

Harman Building Atrium