NIKT 2020

Invited speakers

NIK keynote: Viktoria Stray

Title: "Coordination in large-scale agile"

De fleste programvareintensive bedrifter jobber nå etter smidige prinsipper. Smidig metodikk var opprinnelig ment for små programvareprosjekter med få team, men sprer seg, og blir stadig mer utbredt innen nye domener og i storskala prosjekter.

Koordinering er en av de største utfordringene innen storskala smidig systemutviklingsprosjekter. Slike prosjekter er ofte delvis distribuert, har mange aktører og team, kompleks teknologi og krav om kontinuerlig utvikling og leveranser. Dette medfører mange avhengigheter mellom ressurser, oppgaver, team, roller, komponenter og systemer. Disse avhengighetene må håndteres på en effektiv måte, noe som krever nye praksiser rundt koordinering av arbeid.

Presentasjonen vil fokusere på hvordan team i storskala smidig prosjekter koordinerer, og hva som bidrar til effektiv håndtering av avhengigheter. Jeg vil presentere funn fra forskning på koordineringspraksiser og verktøy (for eksempel møter og Slack). Keynoten vil også gi noen tips for hvordan man kan forbedre sin egen møtehverdag.

NOKOBIT keynote: Ivar Jacobson:

Title: "Tear down the Method Prisons! Set Free the Practices!"

The world has developed software for more than 50 years. Software has changed virtually every aspect of our lives so we cannot live without it. Thus, the software industry has been very successful. We could choose to be happy and continue doing what we are doing.

However, under the surface everything is not as beautiful: too many failed endeavors, quality in all areas is generally too low, costs are too high, speed is too low, etc. Obviously, we need to have better ways of working or, which is the same, we need better methods.

This is not a new observation. Over all these 50+ years we have been searching for a better method. In some ways our methods of developing software have dramatically changed over time, in other ways they have stayed much the same.

NISK keynote: Bart Preneel:

Prof. Dr. ir. Bart Preneel, ESAT/COSIC, KU Leuven and imec

Title: "Deploying Privacy-Friendly Proximity Tracking Apps: Lessons Learned"

The corona pandemic is the first major pandemic in times of big data, AI and smart devices. Some nations have demonstrated that these technologies can be deployed successfully at a large scale to support a trace/quarantine/test/isolate strategy in order to contain a pandemic.

However, serious concerns have been raised on the privacy implications of some solutions, which makes them incompatible with privacy and human rights that are protected by EU law. This talk surveys these attempts and the related privacy concerns. It will also present the contact tracing solution developed by the DP-3T (Distributed Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing) consortium that has been rolled out in more than 20 countries and states, with support of Google and Apple. The talk will discuss the lessons learned from this large-scale deployment in which the principles of privacy-by-design and data minimization have played a central role.

Norwegian conference for ICT-research and education

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