Wednesday 

Room 5 

10:20 - 11:20 

(UTC+02

Talk (60 min)

Build With Intent

We inherit habits. From courses, from examples, from colleagues, from "best practices" no one remembers the origin of. We build layer upon layer of abstractions because that's how it's always been done, not because the problem demands it. The same happens in the kitchen, at the gym, and many other places in our life: we do things because we've always done them that way. We forget to ask "why?" We talk a lot about building software fast, but do we remember to ask why we're building this particular thing? In an age where AI can generate code faster than we can think, the ability to ask "but should this code exist?" becomes more important than ever. In this talk, we'll explore how to stop, ask the right questions, and make intentional choices, with a simple framework you can use right away. In your code, your architecture, the way you work and in your life.

Glenn F. Henriksen

Glenn F. Henriksen is a mentor and developer from Norway. As the co-founder and CTO of Justify, he gets to build new legal tools for everyone to use, helping to create better communication and less conflict in relationships. He's continuously exploring new tools, processes and technologies, and improving how he and his fellow developers work with code, tasks and projects. He has been a Microsoft Development MVP, a part of the Microsoft Regional Director program and is an ASP.NET Insider and an Azure Advisor. In the past 25+ years he has co-owned two companies, worked as a consultant, manager, support tech, network admin, developer, architect, technical lead and more, but his favourite things are still swapping code for food and building stuff that makes a difference in people’s lives.