EGXTECH2018: EG XTECH CONFERENCE 2018
PROGRAM

Days: Monday, November 12th Tuesday, November 13th Wednesday, November 14th

Monday, November 12th

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10:00-11:30 Session 1A: Day 1: Rome

Day 1: Rome

Location: Rome
10:00
Redux in native mobile app (abstract)
10:30
Breaking the UI Monolithwith Web Components (abstract)
11:00
APDEX: how to monitor users' satisfaction about Hotels.com services (abstract)
10:00-11:00 Session 1B: Day 1: Montreal

Day 1: Montreal

Location: Montreal
10:00
Cross-device testing for more resilient front-end development (abstract)
10:30
Getting on the Spot (abstract)
10:00-12:00 Session 1C: Day 1: Chicago

Day 1: Chicago

Location: Chicago
10:00
Michael Wight Talk (abstract)
10:30
Automate ALL THE THINGS - Fall edition (abstract)
11:00
Egencia Trips System Quality and Resiliency (abstract)
11:30
Chaos Testing and Resiliency: How we began (abstract)
10:00-11:00 Session 1D: Day 1: San Francisco

Day 1: San Francisco

Location: San Francisco
10:00
SFO CTO Talk (abstract)
10:30
Network Spoofer (abstract)
11:00-13:30 Session 2: Day 1: Gurgaon

Day 1: Gurgaon

Location: Gurgaon
11:00
Single Sign On for Egencia Mobile App (abstract)
11:30
Evolving Production Codebases: An iOS App Developers account (abstract)
11:45
Leveraging Serverless Technologies To Develop A Scalable And Cost-Effective Incentive Reconciliation Service (abstract)
12:00
Layout Test Library for Android (abstract)
12:30
Applying Data Science to Recommend Listing Image as a Destination Image (abstract)
13:00
DevOps Maturity Model and AppScoreCard (abstract)
11:30-13:00 Session 3: Day 1: Paris

Day 1: Paris

Location: Paris
11:30
Paris CTO talk (abstract)
12:00
Personal testing feedbacks with best practices (abstract)
12:30
iOS MicroFeatures / Framework oriented architecture (abstract)
12:00-15:00 Session 4: Day 1: London

Day 1: London

Location: London
12:00
Thierry Bedos Talk (abstract)
12:30
Quit leaning on Media Queries: Build self-aware components (abstract)
13:00
Effective UICollectionView layouts (abstract)
13:15
Automated SQL server builds using Powershell (abstract)
13:30
Cloverleaf a tool for repartition/reformatting data using AWS (abstract)
14:00
Regression as a Service for teams to successfully release changes via CI/CD (abstract)
12:30-15:30 Session 5: Day 1: Brisbane

Day 1: Brisbane

Location: Brisbane
12:30
Using HomeAway Catalyst framework to inner-source components (abstract)
13:00
Introduction to CSS (abstract)
13:30
Modernising Trover for Android (abstract)
14:30
New directions for affinity prime - where can we go with thematic inference analysis for travel? (abstract)
15:00
The Triple Bottom Line of Travel (abstract)
13:00-16:00 Session 6: Day 1: Austin

Day 1: Austin

Location: Austin
13:00
JJ OSTLUND Talk (abstract)
13:30
Reusable Mobile UI Modules Across EG Brands (abstract)
14:00
Cross brand collaboration & co-development panel (abstract)
14:30
Implementing Haystack and Distributed Tracing at HomeAway! (abstract)
15:00
Length Of Stay Pricing At Scale (abstract)
15:30
Applying open source development patterns to GraphQL API development (abstract)
13:30-14:30 Session 7: Day 1: Bangalore

Day 1: Bangalore

Location: Bangalore
13:30
LX PassBook : A Scan and Go experience for Activities (abstract)
14:00
Defining principles to share a service, experience from SilverRail & Sabre pad (abstract)
14:00-18:00 Session 8: Day 1: Bellevue

Day 1: Bellevue

Location: Bellevue
14:00
Aman Bhutani (abstract)
15:00
Accessibility: What is it and why should you care? (abstract)
15:30
MARK OKERSTROM Talk & Q&A (abstract)
16:30
The eCP Secrets Management Solution (abstract)
17:00
Vulnerability Management Meets Compliance (abstract)
17:30
Expedia’s Journey into a Voice Assistant World (abstract)
Tuesday, November 13th

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10:00-11:30 Session 9A: Day 2: Rome

Day 2: Rome

Location: Rome
10:00
Shared Services Marketplace: Hotels.com vision of an API Developers Portal and Documentation Hub (abstract)
10:30
Smarter testing with Spock (abstract)
11:00
Integration Test Platform For Hcom Mobile Pillar (abstract)
10:00-11:00 Session 9B: Day 2: Montreal

Day 2: Montreal

Location: Montreal
10:00
Smart cache API Gateway to shield a service from poor performance from downstream dependencies (abstract)
10:30
Cheap, simple and fast: serverless cache on S3 (abstract)
10:00-12:00 Session 9C: Day 2: Chicago

Day 2: Chicago

Location: Chicago
10:00
Stockyard Lessons Learned, and How We're Applying Them To EKS (abstract)
10:30
@FlexTrace - a better way to do Haystack Trace (abstract)
11:00
LShop OSI - Together Is Better! (abstract)
11:30
UI Platform: Bernie and You (abstract)
10:00-11:00 Session 9D: Day 2: San Francisco

Day 2: San Francisco

Location: San Francisco
10:00
AWS Cost Optimization – Saving at Scale and Realizing it Quickly (abstract)
10:30
Leveraging Airflow for managing workflows (abstract)
11:00-13:30 Session 10: Day 2: Gurgaon

Day 2: Gurgaon

Location: Gurgaon
11:00
New Decaf Domain Build Automation in AWS (abstract)
11:30
Economics of Serverless (abstract)
11:45
Tomcat Thread based Autoscaling for Apps deployed on Amazon ECS (abstract)
12:00
Intelligent Filters for Easy Shopping on Mobile App (abstract)
12:30
Pay with Points 'SmartConnect Adaptors': A case study in building Integration platforms (abstract)
13:00
Egencia Auth Service - Migrate TIER1 service to Cloud with Multi Region Active-Active Architecture (abstract)
11:30-13:00 Session 11: Day 2: Paris

Day 2: Paris

Location: Paris
11:30
Helping travel agents with Data Science (abstract)
12:00
Domain Specific Language expression using Kotlin (abstract)
12:30
Measuring availability in Gaia (abstract)
12:00-15:30 Session 12A: Day 2: Brisbane

Day 2: Brisbane

Location: Brisbane
12:00
From the Depths of the Mine (abstract)
12:30
Cost savings: ElasticSearch hot/warm architecture with EBS and chef (abstract)
13:00
Principles of OOP and OO design (Code Smells, Design Patterns and Refactoring) (abstract)
14:00
Contraction hierarchies based journey planning algorithms (abstract)
14:30
From the past to the future of SilverRail journey planning algorithms (abstract)
15:00
Multi modal tourist site-seeing itinerary planning (abstract)
15:15
Scenic Journey Planning for Rail: A case study in the UK (abstract)
12:00-15:00 Session 12B: Day 2: London

Day 2: London

Location: London
12:00
Mariano Albera Talk (abstract)
12:30
Next Generation CD Pipelines (abstract)
13:00
Continuous Deployment pipeline with AWS Step Functions and an in-house CLI tool (abstract)
13:30
A cloud-native egress solution for Hotels.com (abstract)
14:00
Tools and approaches for migrating big datasets to the cloud (abstract)
14:30
Apiary Combining data lakes to enable data sharing (abstract)
13:00-16:00 Session 13: Day 2: Austin

Day 2: Austin

Location: Austin
13:00
Building a Serverless Architecture in AWS (abstract)
13:30
JK Talk (abstract)
14:30
Expedia Group Inner Source Panel (abstract)
15:00
Event Sourcing To The Cloud (abstract)
15:30
Fully-Managed E-Invoicing B2B with AWS Lambda (abstract)
13:30-14:30 Session 14: Day 2: Bangalore

Day 2: Bangalore

Location: Bangalore
13:30
Best Practices to migrate a service to cross brand AWS infrastructure (abstract)
14:00
AWS Resource estimation for Spark Jobs (abstract)
14:00-18:00 Session 15: Day 2: Bellevue

Day 2: Bellevue

Location: Bellevue
14:00
MICHAEL NIXON CTO TALK (abstract)
14:30
Realtime monitoring of Cloud Security Controls (abstract)
15:00
Tokenization of Sensitive Informaton (abstract)
15:15
xTech Rising Program (abstract)
15:30
Dr. Shadow (abstract)
16:00
Getting started with bex-api (abstract)
16:30
Apiary: Federating Data Lakes via Open Source Cross Brand Collaboration (abstract)
17:00
Data Modelstorming: Collaborative Requirements Gathering and Data Modeling (abstract)
17:30
BHALA DALVI CTO TALK (abstract)
Wednesday, November 14th

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10:00-11:30 Session 16A: Day 3: Rome

Day 3: Rome

Location: Rome
10:00
How to Earn a Black Belt in GraphQL testing (abstract)
10:30
Hcom API Vision (abstract)
11:00
HCOM approach to Multivariate Testing (abstract)
10:00-11:00 Session 16B: Day 3: Montreal

Day 3: Montreal

Location: Montreal
10:00
Methods for Efficient and Predictable Releasing (abstract)
10:30
Presentation of Rancher 2.0 - How to simplify Kubernetes deployment (abstract)
10:00-12:00 Session 16C: Day 3: Chicago

Day 3: Chicago

Location: Chicago
10:00
Sharing Experiences on Spark Structured Streaming (abstract)
10:30
Why We Rewrote an AWS Lambda from Python to Go (abstract)
10:45
From DevOps to DevProd (abstract)
11:00
CSS Grid - You Don't Need Much to Start. Now. (abstract)
11:30
EG Data Strategy (abstract)
10:00-11:00 Session 16D: Day 3: San Francisco

Day 3: San Francisco

Location: San Francisco
10:00
Gamification of the App (abstract)
10:30
An overview of how we brought our outdated post-booking experience on the Android app into the modern age. (abstract)
11:00-13:30 Session 17: Day 3: Gurgaon

Day 3: Gurgaon

Location: Gurgaon
11:00
Data streaming with Apache Kafka (abstract)
11:30
Managing travel booking orders through smart contracts and blockchain (abstract)
12:00
Adaptive Alerting (abstract)
12:30
Global market manager and hotel partners access billions of competitive intelligence signals using spark, redis, aurora, s3 and redshift (abstract)
13:00
Istio meets Haystack (abstract)
11:30-13:00 Session 18: Day 3: Paris

Day 3: Paris

Location: Paris
11:30
Evaluating Amazon Lex for use as a Voice-based chat bot (abstract)
12:00
Ranking flights for business travel agency users (abstract)
12:30
Machine Learning Based Bot Detection (abstract)
12:00-15:30 Session 19A: Day 3: Brisbane

Day 3: Brisbane

Location: Brisbane
12:00
Shortening the distance between engineering and customers using sentiment analysis and NLP. (abstract)
12:30
An engineering team's meandering journey into data science (abstract)
13:00
Getting Some REST (abstract)
13:30
Functional Programming with Kotlin (abstract)
14:00
Affinity Prime Leopard - migrating a successful service onto a machine learning platform (abstract)
14:30
Anomaly Detection with Adaptive Alerting (abstract)
15:00
How a DevOps team went on a journey of object oriented discovery (abstract)
12:00-15:00 Session 19B: Day 3: London

Day 3: London

Location: London
12:00
OneTeaming Experimentation Platforms across Expedia (abstract)
12:30
Accelerating machine learning with MLeap (abstract)
13:00
Chaos in a Box (abstract)
13:30
Improving your team's source code searching capabilities (abstract)
14:00
Data Highway – Easy stream-first data management (abstract)
14:30
Mutant Tests Too: The SQL (abstract)
13:00-16:00 Session 20: Day 3: Austin

Day 3: Austin

Location: Austin
13:00
On Autonomy: An Investigation into the Effects of Decoupled Native Application Development with Observations on Development Efficiencies More Generally (abstract)
13:30
Financial Event Pipeline: The Resilient Heartbeat of the Enterprise (abstract)
14:00
Homeaway Virtual Reality Tour (abstract)
14:30
10 Advanced Topics in Alexa Skills Development (abstract)
15:00
Multi Region Traffic Director (abstract)
15:30
Bot Stew: Traffic Classification using a blend of signal classifiers at HomeAway (abstract)
13:30-14:30 Session 21: Day 3: Bangalore

Day 3: Bangalore

Location: Bangalore
13:30
UI Automation using Nightwatch (abstract)
14:00
ML model serving landscape (abstract)
14:00-18:00 Session 22: Day 3: Bellevue
14:00
GARRETT VARGAS CTO TALK (abstract)
14:30
Next generation Tech Operations: Autoremediation with OMF (abstract)
15:00
Demystifying the Marketing Attribution Myth (abstract)
15:30
Separating Logging Concerns from Your Business Logic (abstract)
16:00
Still on Java 8? Then you gotta move to 11! (abstract)
16:30
How HomeAway Revamped The Way We Monitor Site Performance to Focus on User Experience (abstract)
17:00
AWS Cost Optimization Basics (abstract)
17:30
TUCKER MOODY TALK (abstract)