Building the LabVIEW Community Seattle Area LabVIEW Developer Conference 2019

Welcome! Attendees Organizers / Sponsors (Fresh / S5 Solutions / NI) Presenters - Takes a lot of effort. CLDs & CLAs

Why We Are Here Today LabVIEW is Still Cool General LabVIEW Landscape Build the LabVIEW Community Raise Level of LabVIEW Expertise

Autonomous Vehicles Project LabVIEW is Cool Autonomous Vehicles Project Blue Origin

General LabVIEW Landscape Engineering unemployment rate at less than 1% Job market for LabVIEW developers Hard to find talent, for our customers and hard to find top developers. Competitors coming together S5 and Fresh Consulting sponsored this event, kept it free. LabVIEW’s competition from other languages (Python, C#, C++, Java, etc.) The long wait for NXG to be ready for the real world

Build the LabVIEW Community Mentor younger engineers, help them learn LabVIEW Earn points for recertification Help get LabVIEW into Universities Be willing to teach it Be involved in SLUGs community, share your talents and knowledge Attend NI Week Help with this event Get certified CLD, CLA prep sessions, Discount for attending today May 14th, August 13th, November 12th See SeattleLabVIEW.weebly.com/get-involved for more details Share code with the community

Raise Level of LabVIEW Expertise Original intent of NI Dev Days was to help engineers level up. That is one of the main goals of this event. Promote and train good development practices UI / UX Revision Control Promote and train Object-Oriented Programming Getting Started Best Practices (Pretty good practices) Design Patterns & Architectures Design / architecture help example

The Dunning-Kruger Effect

Session Overviews Two rooms of technical sessions to choose from Presenters Very experienced LabVIEW developers (CLDs, many CLAs) They have volunteered and taken time to put together presentations Each period is 1 hour 50 minute Presentation / Q & A 10 minute changeover / break

Call to Action Mentor younger engineers, help them learn LabVIEW Help get LabVIEW into Universities Be involved in SLUGs community, share your talents and knowledge Attend NI Week Help with this event -- shall we do it again next year? Get certified -- CLD, CLA Share code with the community