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 | |||
| 10:00am | Web 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 | |||
| 10:40am | How 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 | |||
| 11:30am | BYU 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 | |||
| 12:10pm | The 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 | |||
| 2:30pm | DSA 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 | |||