Join us on September 7 with David McCarter Billy Hollis, David Neal, Dustin Campbell, Jared Parsons, and Shawn Wildermuth for the next episode of Rockin' The Code World with dotNetDave - live show to learn & live Q&A focused on .NET and other programming technologies.
AGENDA
- Welcome (David)
- Introduce the special panel show and outline its goals (see Statement from David).
- Introductions (Panel)
- Each guest will provide a brief introduction, including:
- Their length of experience in the tech industry.
- Any key insights or lessons learned about navigating the later stages of a tech career?
- Discussion (Panel)
- Engage in a discussion where the panel shares various tips and insights. Topics that could be discussed:
- Adapting to change.
- Continuous learning.
- Networking and mentorship.
- Work-life balance.
- Career development
- Soft skills (communication, teamwork, leadership).
- Handling challenges and setbacks.
- Evolving industry trends.
- Personal branding and visibility.
- Career goals and planning.
- Diversity and inclusion.
- Do companies not utilize experienced developers in the right way?
- Share Your #1 Tip
- Each panelist will reveal their #1 top tip for engineers, ensuring that tips are shared sequentially to avoid overlap.
- David: "My #1 tip is financial planning!"
- Closing Statement (David)
- Wrap up the panel discussion and summarize key takeaways.
GUEST SPEAKERS
Billy Hollis is an internationally known UX design generalist, software architect, and team leader. He's a long-time speaker at major tech conferences, with over 400 sessions on software development, IT practices, and UX design. He leads a team of world-class multi-platform developers at Next Version Systems, where the team creates and implements trailblazing UX design. Billy did some of the first books on .NET and has also done video courses for Pluralsight and LinkedIn Learning.
David is a family man, musician, illustrator, software developer, and Microsoft MVP living in North Georgia. His mission in life is to help people be more awesome. David runs on a high-octane mixture of caffeine and JavaScript, and is made entirely of bacon.
Dustin Campbell is a principal software engineer on the .NET Developer Experience team, where he currently works on the Razor, C#, and Visual Basic language experiences for Visual Studio. Passionate about coding productivity, Dustin's primary focus is on making .NET tooling great and helping design the next version of C# as part of the language design team. Prior to his current role, he spent several years working as a program manager on Project Roslyn, designing the next-generation of the C# and VB IDE experiences. Dustin is a programming nut. His favorite color is blue.
Jared Parsons is the C# compiler lead. He's been working at Microsoft for 20 years now, pretty much all of that either on the .NET team or working on .NET Tooling. Besides compilers, he's got a strong passion for infrastructure and legacy code bases.
Shawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a Vic-20 back in the early ‘80s. As a Microsoft MVP since 2003, he's also involved with Microsoft as an ASP.NET Insider and ClientDev Insider. He's the author of over twenty Pluralsight courses, written eight books, an international conference speaker, and one of the Wilder Minds. You can reach him at his blog at http://wildermuth.com. He's released his first film, a feature-length, documentary about software developers today called “Hello World: The Film”.