First up is Christoph Saxe, Senior Software Engineer and the front end team lead at Connective DX, presenting “Culture of Collaboration: the Craft of Team Practice,” exploring how regular team practice meetings keep teams growing their craft and their process running smoothly.

Then the team from Portland startup Civil will be discussing their recently launched drop-in JavaScript comments platform and its goal of fixing internet comments by bringing civility and respectful debate to online comment threads.

Food and drinks will be available at 6:30 with the first speaker starting up around 7:00.