Engineering the Future of Software
Feb 25–26, 2018: Training
Feb 26–28, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY
Neal Ford

Neal Ford
Meme Wrangler, ThoughtWorks

Website | @neal4d

Neal Ford is a director, software architect, and meme wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy that thinks disruptively to deliver technology to address the toughest challenges, all while seeking to revolutionize the IT industry and create positive social change. Neal focuses on designing and building large-scale enterprise applications. He’s an internationally recognized expert on software development and delivery, especially in the intersection of Agile engineering techniques and software architecture. Neal has authored magazine articles, seven books (and counting), and dozens of video presentations and has spoken at hundreds of developers conferences worldwide on the topics of software architecture, continuous delivery, functional programming, and cutting-edge software innovations. Check out his website at Nealford.com. He welcomes feedback and can be reached at nford@thoughtworks.com.

Sessions

9:00am - 5:00pm Sunday, February 25 & Monday, February 26
Building evolutionary architecture
Location: Concourse B
Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks), Rebecca Parsons (ThoughtWorks)
Average rating: ****.
(4.33, 6 ratings)
Neal Ford and Rebecca Parsons offer a new perspective on evolving architecture, making “evolvability” a first-class “-ility” in software projects. Read more.
9:00am–5:00pm Monday, February 26, 2018
9:00am–9:05am Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Tuesday opening remarks
Location: Grand Ballroom
Brian Foster (O'Reilly Media), Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks)
Average rating: ***..
(3.67, 6 ratings)
Program chairs Brian Foster and Neal Ford open the first day of keynotes. Read more.
9:05am–9:25am Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Defining software architecture
Location: Grand Ballroom
Martin Fowler (ThoughtWorks), Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks), Brian Foster (O'Reilly Media)
Average rating: ****.
(4.64, 22 ratings)
In this fireside conversation, conference cochairs Neal Ford and Brian Foster sit down with Martin Fowler, one of the great definers of the software world, to discuss the historical struggles around defining software architecture and how that definition has evolved during its usage. Read more.
10:10am–10:15am Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Closing remarks
Location: Grand Ballroom
Brian Foster (O'Reilly Media), Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 4 ratings)
Program chairs Brian Foster and Neal Ford close the first day of keynotes. Read more.
9:00am–9:05am Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Wednesday opening remarks
Location: Grand Ballroom
Brian Foster (O'Reilly Media), Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks)
Average rating: ***..
(3.00, 1 rating)
Program chairs Brian Foster and Neal Ford open the second day of keynotes. Read more.
10:10am–10:15am Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Closing remarks
Location: Grand Ballroom
Brian Foster (O'Reilly Media), Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks)
Average rating: ***..
(3.00, 1 rating)
Program chairs Brian Foster and Neal Ford close out the last day of keynotes. Read more.
10:45am–12:15pm Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Building Evolutionary Architectures
Location: Sutton North
Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks)
Average rating: ****.
(4.83, 6 ratings)
This talk illustrates how to achieve evolutionary architectures and how to retrofit existing systems to support better evolution. Read more.