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Conference

Lessons learned implementing ChatOps (DevOps + messaging) at large Enterprises - Corey Hulen

Email overload, distributed teams and excessive meetings have caused many organizations to move their DevOps teams to messaging platforms and thus adopt ChatOps workflows. With thousands of open source installs and hundreds of customer implementations, we have a few lessons to share on interesting DevOps workflows, how incidents can be effectively communicated across distributed teams and what messaging in secure and regulated environments should look like.

Greg Price - Clearer Code at Scale: Static Types at Zulip and Dropbox - PyCon 2018

Python now offers static types! Companies like Dropbox and Facebook, and open-source projects like Zulip, use static types (with PEP 484 and mypy) to make Python more productive and fun to work with — in existing codebases from 40k lines to 4 million, in Python 2 and 3, and while preserving the conciseness and flexibility that make Python a great language in the first place. I’ll describe how.

What do Modern Retail Customers Expect from Customer Service?

Zendesk's COO, Tom Keiser, explored the recent trends that modern retail customers expect from customer service today at the 2018 NRF Retail Show & EXPO. In this talk, he looks at the power of personalization and context, brand trust and authenticity, and highlights how VP of Global Customer Care from Fossil, approached creating a global omnichannel customer service platform with Zendesk.