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The Way Forward community is a platform for software and design professionals: developers, designers, programmers, engineers, tech nuts and entrepreneurs. We’re about exploring last trends in technology and ways to implement those in real (or virtual) life.

We’re based in Poland and since we first kicked off in 2014, we’ve been organizing annual conferences, workshops and meet-ups focused on software design, development and emerging technologies. Over the past years, we’ve hosted a number of speaker and lectures from around the world.

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Check our online meetups:

year2024

Personal brand of a programmer

Krzysztof Kempiński

Krzysztof Kempiński

If you're wondering how to build your personal brand as a programmer, this meetup is for you! Krzysztof will share his experience and tips on how to stand out in the crowd and make your professional profile more attractive to potential employers. Tune in!

year2024

Trawell - my first startup journey

Piotr Komar

Piotr Komar

Listen to Piotr talk about Trawell app - a smart buddy in a traveller's pocket. He will discuss the technology behind it, challanges team faced during the development and their plans for the future. It's a great opportunity to gain insights into Krakow startup environment!

year2024

How to create a great CV?

Dawid Prokopowicz

Dawid Prokopowicz

Join Dawid to find out how to create a professional resume, which will help you in finding new job opprotunities. Dawid will share how this looks like from a recruiter perspective and he'll tell us what makes a CV stand out among multiple others.

year2024

Ring, ring! Did your grandpa's phone have a bluetooth?

Paweł Grudzień

Paweł Grudzień

An engaging introduction to the remarkable capabilities of modern microcontrollers, taking us beyond the basics. Paweł will demonstrate how to transform an old telephone into a BT-enabled device using the Hands-Free Profile!

year2024

Performance tests and other lies

Jarosław Pałka

Jarosław Pałka

Jarosław will teach us about anti-patterns in performance testing and he'll give us some battle-tested practical advice on how not to be fooled by test results. Sounds interesting? Tune in!

year2024

Beyond the Screen: Navigating Accessibility Tools for Developers

Vitor Antonio

Vitor Antonio

In this meetup Antonio goes over some of the most useful tools that help us, developers, do a better job when it comes to creating accessible solutions. Tune in to learn more!

year2024

Lessons learned from migrating to .NET MAUI

Damian Antonowicz

Damian Antonowicz

Join us to find out Damian's experiences and lessens learned from migrating a mobile application from Xamarin.Forms to .NET MAUI by multiple teams working in SAFe methodology.

year2023

Practical Introduction to Event Sourcing

Oskar Dudycz

Oskar Dudycz

Oskar will demonstrate how to build applications close to business. Take a look at how easy Event Sourcing pattern is and how to get started with it.

year2023

Learning AI through play and experimentation

Lee Englestone

Lee Englestone

Lee shares how he learned to implement different types of AI through various personal side projects - static and real-time image analysis, neural networks that learn how to navigate a 2D race track and many others. You don't want to miss this one out!

year2023

Why a nerd like me bets on Web3?

Konrad Kokosa

Konrad Kokosa

Konrad would like to show his story from Web3/blockchain sceptic to a... sceptical fan of it. Jump in to listen to his reasoning and learn what he found intriguing about this interesting idea.

year2023

Everything you don't need to know about Git

Garance Vallat

Garance Vallat

In this talk Garance focuses on the less know parts of Git. The forgotten bits of trivia, the little-known, not-for-everyday commands. You won’t leave with much to apply directly in your terminal, but with plenty to talk about on your company’s messaging platform!

year2023

Azure Synapse Analytics in a business scenario (EDA)

Damian Widera

Damian Widera

Damian would like to introduce you to the Azure Synapse Analytics and its fantastic possibilities for performing EDA (exploratory data analysis). He will show you real data and a demo of EDA using Spark.

year2022

How to save IT resources (No-Code / Low-Code DPs)

Michał Guzowski

Michał Guzowski

You will learn all you need to know about No-Code / Low-Code Development Platforms and how you can utilize them to improve your everyday work. You don't want to miss this one!

year2022

Zero Framework Overhead with Solid.js

Andreas Roth

Andreas Roth

You will be introduced to Solid.js, a new JavaScript Framework that boasts best in class performance metrics. If you want to know if we really need another framework and what Solid.js is best at, watch our meetup!

year2022

An introduction to quantum computing

Paweł Gora

Paweł Gora

Would you like to learn the necessary concepts related to quantum computing (including: qubit, superposition, quantum gates, quantum entanglement, quantum annealing) and to know how you can create programs for quantum computers and their simulators?

year2022

An introduction to code testing

Piotr Zieliński

Piotr Zieliński

During this meetup, Piotr Zieliński will share how to write code to be testable, what are black box and white box tests, what is the difference between mocking (MOQ) and faking dependencies and what is arrange-act-assert.

year2022

Driving a robot with a neural network - use case study

Paweł Grudzień

Paweł Grudzień

This session will guide you through the idea of how to drive the robot using computer vision to make it understand visual input. Here you will learn about neural networks, segmentation tasks, transfer learning, and neural network optimizations.

year2021

nanoFramework: Run your C# code in ESP32

Bartłomiej Leja

Bartłomiej Leja

Have you ever heard about nanoFramework? If not, this presenation is for you! You will learn what nanoFramework is, how to create IoT “hello world” and how to make a connection with Azure IoT Hub - everything will come down to running your C# code in ESP32.

year2021

RxJS in Angular: from beginner to advanced beginner

Evgenii Vilkov

Evgenii Vilkov

After watching this session you will be able to explain what RxJS is, how to use Observables and Subjects and which operators are especially useful in daily work.

year2020

TWF Yet another JS Framework... or not? Svelte!

Vitor Antonio

Vitor Antonio

This is mainly an introduction to Svelte showcasing some of its main features as well as other different web tools that it tries to push forward. We are also going to check how it differs from other JS frameworks like React/Angular/Vue.

year2020

TWF Becoming a digital nomad

Wojtek Zając

Wojtek Zając

You will learn some of the biggest challenges related to remote work (and how to overcome them), most popular destinations for digital nomads, tricks for staying productive, and best online communities for like-minded people.

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Check our past conferences:

TWF Source Conference 2015

The theme of this conference is enterprise innovation based on experience. That is, to what extent can current trends in the enterprise be explained by past developments and discoveries? Speakers: Greg Brill, Michał Taszycki, Trevor Longino, Alberto Gemin, and more!

TWF Conference 2016

This conference contains speeches about what the near future brings and what we could do for a better tomorrow. Speakers: Gert Franke, Mateusz Dyląg, Mateusz Góra, Jeremy Bibby, John Rabasa, and more!

TWF Conference 2017

Once again, a techie crowd of creative thinkers, developers, designers, engineers, entrepreneurs and real geeks filled the auditorium at the Manggha Museum. Speakers: Szymon Pobiega, Paweł Kowaluk, Sara Ramos, Daniel Hirschmann, Paweł Pinio, and more!

TheWayForward Hackathon

Anna Dymna's Foundation 'Against the Odds' created a home for people with learning disabilities in Radwanowice, near Krakow. The centre is equipped with customly modified computers, which unfortunately lack appropriate software. This is where our hackaton app comes in - created for the greater good.

TWF is looking for YOU!

Do you love sharing your knowledge with others? Are you familiar with AI, Cognitive Services, Web Components, Progressive Web Apps, Azure Cloud, .Net Core, Mobile, Performance Optimalization, Docker, Web Assembly, IoT, or any other interesting IT topics? Even if you have not had the opportunity to be a speaker so far, it is never too late!