1. Building the LabVIEW Community
Seattle Area LabVIEW Developer Conference 2019

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

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

4. Autonomous Vehicles Project
LabVIEW is Cool
Autonomous Vehicles Project
Blue Origin

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. The Dunning-Kruger Effect

9. 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

11. 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