18:00 – 18:15 : Networking & cold beverages

18:20 – 18:25 : Opening talk (gr)

18:25 – 18:45 : JS Knowledge Quiz (gr)

• Test your JavaScript skills for fame and glory. All you need is your smartphone – just make sure to be at the venue on time!

18:45 – 19:30 : Data-binding patterns with JavaScript (gr) – Elektra Bilali Simou, Front-End Developer at Orfium

• This talk will present data-binding patterns from the early JS days until today. We will discuss why they are important and how you may use these patterns in your own applications.

Speaker bio : Elektra is a software engineer with 5 years of experience in back-end and front-end technologies. She is currently working at Orfium and tries to secretly sneak her dog into the office. She codes for hobby and always looking for new projects and technologies to play with.

19:50 – 20:00 : A word from our sponsor: Echofin (gr)

• Echofin is Slack for financial traders; to allow them to communicate, get educated and collaborate in a better way: an all-in-one collaboration platform which provides secure, fast & multifunctional messaging for trading teams.
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20:00 – 20:45 : Elm, introduction to a delightful language for reliable web apps (gr) – Nikos Kalogridis, Software Engineer

• Leaving the comfort zone of javascript in favour of a strongly typed functional language on the front end and also having a strongly opinionated way of modelling side effects. A recipe for success, or a total disaster?

Speaker Bio :Nikos is a senior engineer with more than 15 years in the industry. He is known for his love of functional programming and modern programming paradigms.