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Will Marple
Will Marple

Black Airplane, Lead Full Stack Web Developer

I've been in the tech industry for 20 years. During that time I've done everything from build and manage server environments, to architect and install networks, to development just to name a few. For the last 6 years, I've had my full focus on full stack web development. I specialize in modern PHP & Laravel in the backend, and have experience with Angular, React and Vue in the front end with a love for and specialization in Vue. I work as a development lead at an agency specializing in web and mobile app development called Black Airplane. As a lead engineer, I get the opportunity to support the full development lifecycle starting with discovery, planning & estimation, all the way through tech selection, architecture, build and deployment. When I'm not working, I enjoy spending time with my wife and 5 kids, playing guitar or tinkering with tech I'm interested in that I don't get to use in my day job.

Full Day Workshop

JS + AI: (BYOM) Build Your Own Model with TensorFlow.js!

Let's grab the AI revolution by the horns! In this day and age, most of us have heard of TensorFlow. But did you know that with TensorFlow.js, you can run and train models directly in the browser or on the server with Node.js? You'll walk away from this workshop with an understanding and workflow that will enable you to train your own ML models. We'll explore what it looks like to train a model from scratch, as well as leverage transfer learning to refine an existing model's capabilities.

CONNECT.TECHNovember 18-20, 2024
Cobb Galleria Centre 2 Galleria Pkwy SE Atlanta, GA

The largest multi-framework front-end conference in the USA.
A three day event diving deep with experts from across the tech ecosystem.

6 Tracks • 60+ sessions • 6 workshops

CONNECT.TECH is the largest multi-framework front-end conference in the USA.

A premium Web/HTML/CSS, Mobile, and Design conference at a community conference price!

Looking to attend an React conference, Angular conference, Vue.js conference, JavaScript conference, Node conference, Mobile conference or UX/Design conference this year? Why not go to one that combines all of these?

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Ticket fee includes breakfast, lunch, snacks, drinks, conference reception, tshirts, and entry into our mega raffle prizes and more!

Individual Conference Pass

Two Day Conference, November 19-20

Individual Workshop/Training and Conference Combo Pass

Three Day Workshop and Conference, November 18-20

Group (5+) Conference Pass

Two Day Conference, November 19-20

Group (5+) Workshop/Training and Conference Combo Pass

Three Day Workshop and Conference, November 18-20

2024 Workshops

Full day Training

Hands-on training from experts

Cory House
Cory House

Author / Consultant

Full Day Workshop

Advanced React: Lessons from 10 Years

In this session we'll explore 8 ways to handle state in React apps, common state management mistakes, performance optimizations, useEffect alternatives, key third-party... Read More

Micah Wood
Micah Wood

WordPress Contributor and Developer at Bluehost

Full Day Workshop

Automated Testing Made Easy

Testing websites and applications can be time-consuming and labor intensive. Yet, most people manually test their work in the browser... assuming they do any testing at all.... Read More

Will Marple
Will Marple

Black Airplane, Lead Full Stack Web Developer

Full Day Workshop

JS + AI: (BYOM) Build Your Own Model with TensorFlow.js!

Let's grab the AI revolution by the horns! In this day and age, most of us have heard of TensorFlow. But did you know that with TensorFlow.js, you can run and train models... Read More

Sia Karamalegos
Sia Karamalegos

Web Performance Engineer at Clio + Calliope

Practices/Tools/Techniques

Web performance workshop: hands-on tools and practices

Have you tried to make your website fast and only been rewarded with frustration? Do the tools of the trade intimidate you? In this workshop, you'll learn tried and true... Read More

Choose your ticket

Ticket fee includes breakfast, lunch, snacks, drinks, conference reception, tshirts, and entry into our mega raffle prizes and more!

Individual Conference Pass

Two Day Conference, November 19-20

Individual Workshop/Training and Conference Combo Pass

Three Day Workshop and Conference, November 18-20

Group (5+) Conference Pass

Two Day Conference, November 19-20

Group (5+) Workshop/Training and Conference Combo Pass

Three Day Workshop and Conference, November 18-20

2024 All Sessions

CONNECT.TECH 2024 Sessions

Abbey Perini
Abbey Perini

Web Developer | Technical Blogger

Web Development === Accessibility

Abdelrahman Awad
Abdelrahman Awad

Senior engineer @Rasayel.io | GDE

Lessons learned from building a thriving Vue.js SaaS application

Adriana Jara
Adriana Jara

Senior DevRel Engineer - Google

Baseline ✅ - New web features ready to use across browsers today.

Alex Riviere
Alex Riviere

Co-Organizer for Atlanta Vue.js Meetup and Co-Organizer for PyATL meetup

20 Ways to Define Props in Vue 3

Alex Riviere
Alex Riviere

Co-Organizer for Atlanta Vue.js Meetup and Co-Organizer for PyATL meetup

Live coding intro to Vue.js!

Alex Riviere
Alex Riviere

Co-Organizer for Atlanta Vue.js Meetup and Co-Organizer for PyATL meetup

Shining a Light on Debugging: Lessons from a Lightbulb

Amy Dutton
Amy Dutton

Lead Maintainer on the RedwoodJS Core Team

JavaScript Framework Cage Match

Angie Jones
Angie Jones

Head of Developer Relations

How I Bought Booze with a JSON Web Token

Bekah Rice
Bekah Rice

Senior UX Designer/Developer & Accessibility Expert at truematter

Coding For Accessibility: Best Practices from the Front Lines

Ben Dechrai
Ben Dechrai

Head of Developer Relations

Ten Key Steps for Enhanced Web App Security

Ben Ilegbodu
Ben Ilegbodu

Senior Software Engineer

50 shades of React rendering with Next.js

Bermon Painter
Bermon Painter

Global Innovation & Designer Leader

Behavior-Driven Design: Elevating UX with Behavioral Economics

Burk Hufnagel
Burk Hufnagel

Solution Architect - Daugherty Business Solutions

The Three Laws of Test-Driven Development are Useful and Incomplete

Cameron Childress
Cameron Childress

AWS Architect, Sumo Consulting

Node Project Configuration Management at Scale

Cameron Presley
Cameron Presley

Knowledge Sharer and Problem Solver

Removing Repetition By Building Your Own Automation Framework

Camille Kaniecki
Camille Kaniecki

Frontend Engineer at ACV Auctions

Vue-Router, Hoisting Mocks, and Unit Test Spaghetti

Chris DeMars
Chris DeMars

Senior Developer Advocate II @ DigitalOcean

Accessibility in the Enterprise: The Relationship of A11y and ROI

Chris Griffing
Chris Griffing

Developer Advocate

Cross-Framework Components using Custom Elements or Mitosis

Chris Perko
Chris Perko

Angular GDE, Senior Engineer at HeroDevs, Angular Community Meetup Director

Signals Unleashed: Intro to NgRx Signal Store

Cory House
Cory House

Author / Consultant

Advanced React: Lessons from 10 Years

Cory House
Cory House

Author / Consultant

React in 2024: Exploring The New Stuff

Daniel González Lopes
Daniel González Lopes

TPM at Grafana Labs

Full-stack performance testing with Grafana k6

Danielle Maxwell
Danielle Maxwell

Rotational Labs, Jr. Distributed Systems Engineer

Unlocking Machine Learning Potential in JavaScript: A Journey Through Cutting-Edge Tools

De Wet Blomerus
De Wet Blomerus

Senior Software Engineer at Salesloft

When is LiveView a good fit?

Douglas Starnes
Douglas Starnes

Technology entrepreneur, content creator and Microsoft MVP

AI for Everyone with Azure AI Services

Douglas Starnes
Douglas Starnes

Technology entrepreneur, content creator and Microsoft MVP

Data Visualization on the Web

Douglas Starnes
Douglas Starnes

Technology entrepreneur, content creator and Microsoft MVP

Develop LLM Applications using LangChain

Dustin Goodman
Dustin Goodman

Engineering Manager and Leader

Demystifying React Server Components

Ebony Louis
Ebony Louis

Developer Advocate

How I Bought Booze with a JSON Web Token

Floor Drees
Floor Drees

Staff Community Program Manager at Aiven

The Armchair-Scientist’s Principles to a Successful Open Source Project

Gant Laborde
Gant Laborde

CIO and Advocate of Education with Infinite Red

Hacking AI - How to Survive the AI Uprising

Gant Laborde
Gant Laborde

CIO and Advocate of Education with Infinite Red

Influence - Witchcraft and Wizardry

Gant Laborde
Gant Laborde

CIO and Advocate of Education with Infinite Red

JS + AI: (BYOM) Build Your Own Model with TensorFlow.js!

Guy Royse
Guy Royse

Developer Advocate at Redis

Beyond the Cache with Redis + Node.js

Guy Royse
Guy Royse

Developer Advocate at Redis

Tracking Aircraft with Streams + Software-Defined Radio

J.D. Hillen
J.D. Hillen

Software Engineer II @ Garmin

Building Desktop Apps with JavaScript

Jeremy Meiss
Jeremy Meiss

Developer Experience & Community Leader

Demystifying "Developer Experience", and why it matters

Jeremy Meiss
Jeremy Meiss

Developer Experience & Community Leader

PowerPoint Karaoke

Jeremy Meiss
Jeremy Meiss

Developer Experience & Community Leader

The Armchair-Scientist’s Principles to a Successful Open Source Project

Jonathan Creamer
Jonathan Creamer

Senior Engineer at Lonely Planet

Bundler Bonanza

Joshua Marinacci
Joshua Marinacci

DevRel at Trunk.io

Optimizing your dev pipeline one bite at a time

Justin Reock
Justin Reock

Technologist, speaker, community leader

Session: DevOps, 12-Factor, and Platform Engineering

Kelly Morrison
Kelly Morrison

Solutions Architect at Daugherty Business Solutions / PhD in Computer Engineering

Step On It! Using Visual Studio Code Features To Speed Up Your Code Development

Lizzie Siegle
Lizzie Siegle

Twilio Developer Evangelist

Durable Objects: Don't Tempt Fate, Maintain State

Lucas Ward
Lucas Ward

DevOps Engineer for Ippon Technologies USA

Revolutionize Your Deployment Pipeline: Unveiling the Power of GitOps for Seamless CI/CD Integration

Micah Wood
Micah Wood

WordPress Contributor and Developer at Bluehost

Automated Testing Made Easy

Micah Wood
Micah Wood

WordPress Contributor and Developer at Bluehost

Using Chrome Developer Tools

Mike Clement
Mike Clement

Software Engineering Leader, Software Crafter, Open Space Advocate and Facilitator

Strategic Thinking in Software Architecture using Wardley Mapping

Nerando Johnson
Nerando Johnson

Software Developer | Technology Consultant | Technology Community Organizer

How to Conference : A User Guide

Ram Bansal
Ram Bansal

Sr. Developer Advocate

Building an AI-Powered Email Inbox

Ramona Schwering
Ramona Schwering

Developer Advocate, Auth0 by Okta

Vue fortified: Best Practices for Web App Security

Ray Gesualdo
Ray Gesualdo

Staff Software Architect @ Salesloft

Sailing Uncharted Waters: Exploring the New Navigation API

Raymond Camden
Raymond Camden

Senior Developer Evangelist

Intl is Your Superhero

Roy Derks
Roy Derks

Speaker and author on GraphQL, React and TypeScript

GraphQL in the Era of Server Components

Roy Derks
Roy Derks

Speaker and author on GraphQL, React and TypeScript

LLMs for Web Developers

Ryan Edge
Ryan Edge

UpTech Studio, Sr. Software Engineer

How to be a Productive Product Engineer in 2024

Scott Stroz
Scott Stroz

MySQL Developer Advocate

MySQL, Node, & Testcontainers - Testing Done Right

Sean McQuaid
Sean McQuaid

Lead Software Engineer at Chick-fil-A

Build Fully Type-Safe Projects with TypeScript and Zod

Sean McQuaid
Sean McQuaid

Lead Software Engineer at Chick-fil-A

Remix Your React Router Applications!

Sia Karamalegos
Sia Karamalegos

Web Performance Engineer at Clio + Calliope

It's time to ditch Lighthouse 100

Sia Karamalegos
Sia Karamalegos

Web Performance Engineer at Clio + Calliope

Web performance workshop: hands-on tools and practices

Tyler Jennings
Tyler Jennings

Staff Software Engineer

Advanced TypeScript

Will Marple
Will Marple

Black Airplane, Lead Full Stack Web Developer

JS + AI: (BYOM) Build Your Own Model with TensorFlow.js!

Will Marple
Will Marple

Black Airplane, Lead Full Stack Web Developer

Vue Data Fetching & Management Patterns that Work

Timeline

  • May 1

    2024 Kickoff

    Call for Papers, Early Bird tickets sales (first 100 only, then prices +$100), sponsor sales, scholarship program all open

  • June 1

    CFP Close

    CFP Closes

  • July 1

    Speakers Announced!

    Speakers announced, regular ticket sales

  • September 11

    Late ticket sales

    Late ticket sales, order now to get a swanky badge and tshirt

  • November 18

    Workshop day!

    Connect.Tech 2024 starts with workshop day

  • November 19

    The big show!

    Connect.Tech 2024 begins!

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