config.yml

baseurl: "https://www.gophercon.org.il/"
title: "GopherCon Israel 2025"
canonifyurls: true
theme: "hugo-conference"
publishDir: "docs"
enableRobotsTXT: true

GoogleAnalytics: "UA-125301893-1"

params:
  # Conference info
  Name: "GopherCon Israel 2025"
  Description: "Best Go Conference in Israel"
  Date: "May"
  # Price: "100NIS" # If your event is free, just comment this line
  # Venue: "Expo - Bitan 10"
  # Address: "Expo - Bitan 10"
  placebounds: "!1m14!1m12!1m3!1d876.4370918050947!2d34.807993055863754!3d32.10458223177085!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sil!4v1724317817107!5m2!1sen!2sil"
  City: "Tel Aviv"
  State: "Israel"
  Images: ["/img/badge.jpg"]
  # GoogleMapsKey: "my-secret-maps-key"

  # Active sections on the website to deactivate comment out with '#'
  # you can also change order here and it will reflect on page
  Sections:
    - about
    - location
    # - speakers
    # - schedule
    # - sponsors
    - team
    - tweets
    # - partners
    # - contact

  # Titles which you can translate to other languages
  Titles:
    about: "About"
    location: "Location"
    speakers: "Speakers"
    schedule: "Schedule"
    sponsors: "Sponsors"
    partners: "Partners"
    contact: "Contact"
    team: "Team"
  
  # # The Call To Action button at the header,
  CallToAction:
    text: "Become a Sponsor"
    link: "/sponsor"

  # # The Call To Action button at the header,
  # CallToAction:
  #   text: "Our Offical App"
  #   link: "https://gophercon-israel-2024.sessionize.com/"

  # The Call To Action button at the header,
  VideoButton:
    text: "2024 Videos"
    link: "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRM-8sTy13XtQu_kYd-7e_HbKpXLTWuy1"

  # # The Call For Paper button at the header,
  # CallForPaper:
  #   text: "Apply to Speak"
  #   link: "https://sessionize.com/gophercon-israel-2024/"

  # The tickets button at the header,
  # Tickets:
  #   text: "Purchase Ticket"
  #   link: "https://www.eventer.co.il/gcil24"

  # List of Sponsors
  Sponsors:
    gold:
      - name: "AppsFlyer"
        logo: "/img/appsflyer-logo.png"
        url: "https://careers.appsflyer.com/"
        body:
          - text: "The world’s leading brands use AppsFlyer to make good choices for their business and customers, through privacy-preserving measurement, analytics and engagement technologies."
      - name: "Google"
        logo: "/img/google-logo.svg"
        url: "https://careers.google.com/"
        body:
          - text: ""
      - name: "Descope"
        logo: "/img/descope-logo.svg"
        url: "https://www.descope.com/"
        body:
          - text: "Descope helps every developer build secure, frictionless authentication and user journeys for any application. Our no-code workflow builder, SDKs, and APIs enable developers to easily create and customize authentication flows for every user interaction. Designed by security experts, Descope also protects against account takeover fraud, session theft, and bot attacks on login pages. Founded in 2022, Descope is headquartered in Los Altos, CA and is a member of the FIDO Alliance. To learn more, visit https://www.descope.com."
      - name: "Tenable"
        logo: "/img/tenable-logo.png"
        url: "https://www.tenable.com/careers/search?country=Israel"
        body:
          - text: "Tenable is the exposure management company, exposing and closing the cybersecurity gaps that erode business value, reputation and trust. The company’s AI-powered exposure management platform radically unifies security visibility, insight and action across the attack surface, equipping modern organizations to protect against attacks from IT infrastructure to cloud environments to critical infrastructure and everywhere in between. By protecting enterprises from security exposure, Tenable reduces business risk for more than 44,000 customers around the globe. Learn more at tenable.com."
    silver:
      - name: "RedHat"
        logo: "/img/redhat-logo.svg"
        url: "https://www.redhat.com/en/jobs"
        body:
          - text: "Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open-source solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. We help customers standardize across environments, develop cloud-native applications, and integrate, automate, secure, and manage complex environments with award-winning support, training, and consulting services."
      - name: "Island"
        logo: "/img/island-logo.svg"
        url: "https://www.island.io/careers"
        body:
          - text: 'Island, founded nearly four years ago by two visionary entrepreneurs: Dan Amiga, who already accomplished impressive exits and is considered one of the leading names in the local industry, and Mike, the former COO of Symantec. Island is supported by top investors like Sequoia, Insights, and Cyberstarts. Recently, Island raised investments at a valuation of nearly $3 billion, serving leading global companies, including those from the Fortune 100.Island goes beyond cybersecurity. Its innovative browser not only protects organizations but also enhances user experience while offering transparency and control. The browser allows employees to work quickly and securely, accessing all organizational services without unnecessary delays or blocks.Developing an enterprise browser is highly complex, requiring expertise in multiple areas, including advanced web solutions like SSE (Server-Sent Events), protection of sensitive data using technologies like DLP (Data Loss Prevention), and AI integration for improved user experience and productivity. Moreover, creating a browser that secures user activity without harming performance or slowing down work requires an advanced combination of security technologies with a smooth user experience. All that while keeping full transparency and control to the organization. Island`s browser secures users without compromising performance, setting it apart as a pioneer in the field.Island has created a new category called "Enterprise Browsers", with Gartner predicting that browsers will be the central platform in organizations by 2030.The company has around 100 developers in Israel, with the rest of the team based in the U.S.'

  # List of Partners
  Partners:

  Team:
    - name: Miki Tebeka
      photo: "img/miki-tebeka.jpg"
      linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikitebeka/"
      twitter: "https://twitter.com/tebeka"
    - name: Eliran Bivas
      photo: "img/eliran-bivas.jpg"
      linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/bivas/"
      twitter: "https://twitter.com/bivas"
    - name: "David Bordeynik"
      photo: "img/david-bord.jpg"
      linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-b-270b0415"
    - name: Yoni Davidson
      photo: "img/yoni-davidson.jpg"
      linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoni-davidson-35b53222"
      twitter: "https://twitter.com/yonidavidson"
    - name: "Yarden Laifenfeld"
      photo: "img/yarden-laifenfeld.jpg"
      linkedin: "hhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/yarden-laifenfeld-37b9661b3/"
      twitter: "https://twitter.com/YardenLaif"
    - name: "Aviv Laufer"
      photo: "img/aviv-laufer.jpg"
      linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/avivl"
    - name: Shlomi Noach
      photo: "img/shlomi-noach.jpg"
      linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/shlominoach"
    - name: "Nahshon Unna-Tsameret"
      photo: "img/nashon-unna-tsameret.jpg"
      linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nahsh"
    - name: "Orit Wasserman"
      photo: "img/orit-wasserman.jpg"
      linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/orit-wasserman-73547"
  Speakers:
    - name: "Derek Parker"
      photo: "img/derek-parker.jpeg"
      bio: "wrote a tool that every Go developer uses and thinks that Go is the language of dreamers."
    - name: "Adrian Cole"
      photo: "img/adrian-cole.jpeg"
      bio: "Adrian is an engineer working at Tetrate on Open Source projects. He’s been a routine contributor to open source for over ten years. Lately, he spends most of his time on wazero: the zero dependency WebAssembly runtime for Go developers, as well http-wasm.io which is a portability specification. His past notable project work includes Zipkin, OpenFeign, and Apache jclouds."
    - name: "Idan Katz"
      photo: "img/idan-katz.jpg"
      bio: "Senior Developer and Team Leader @Raftt"
    - name: "Liri Sokol"
      photo: "img/liri-sokol.jpeg"
      bio: "Tech Lead @Diversion"
    - name: "Amit Lichtenberg"
      photo: "img/amit-lichtenberg.jpeg"
      bio: "Lead Architect @Otterize"
    - name: "David Freilich"
      photo: "img/david-freilich.jpg"
      bio: "David Freilich is a Software Engineer in the Platform group at AppsFlyer, where he works on providing a smooth developer experience for the entire R&D Department. He is also a platform maintainer for the Cloud Native Buildpacks project. He is passionate about clean code, delightful user experiences, and beautiful products. He holds a BA from Yeshiva University and a MSc from Carnegie Mellon University."
    - name: "Doron Segal"
      photo: "img/doron-segal.jpg"
      bio: "Hey, I'm Doron! A seasoned, hands-on, technical leader with a track record of building teams and products. I focus on building organizations and enabling them to get things done. Passionate about people and technology and how to make it scale. Management of engineering teams ranging of all sizes (over 50 engineers).  My leadership mantra is Leadership is not wielding authority; it's empowering others. I lead by listening and example. I served in the Israeli Army as Platoon Commander for 4 years in a technology combat unit.  Co-founded CityOwls, a data aggregation startup.  I was CTO at NKStream a 4K - 16K streaming solution.   I led a platform team at Beats Music (later Apple);  Engineering manager at OpenTable and later  director of platform engineering at Saildrone. Currently I’m the CTO & co-founder of  TryPerDiem, a YC-backed startup. I'm also a dad of 3 adorable kids."
    - name: "Aviv Klasquin Komissar"
      photo: "img/aviv-komissar.png"
      bio: "Aviv is a Lead Architect @Cyolo and enjoys creating exciting, genuine tech. Aviv is programming in Go for the last 7 years."
    - name: "Natalie Pistunovich"
      photo: "img/natalie-pistunovich.png"
      bio: "As a professional question asker and passionate learner, Natalie found that the intersection of AI, code, and security sparks joy. She is an OpenAI Developer Ambassador, a Google Developer Expert for Go and consulting companies that want to incorporate AI. In addition to being a university lecturer teaching DevOps, she is also a public speaker and conference and community organizer in Berlin.Throughout her career, she has worked on four different continents as an engineering manager, software and hardware engineer, developer advocate, and co-founder of a mobile start-up. Still thinks that passing Calculus at the Technion was harder than getting a sailing license in Germany."
    - name: "Noam Soloveichik"
      photo: "img/noam-soloveichik.png"
      bio: "Software Engineer @Raftt"
    - name: "Jonathan Harel"
      photo: "img/jonathan-harel.jpg"
      bio: "Jonathan is a digital comedian - touching on everything that involves humor, technology and creativity. In the past few years he released multiple items, including `Dark{mode}`: a docu-comedy web series that covers developer experience topics, trends, and best practices; “UHMMM”: A software that plays elevator music when online meetings go silent; and “yyynet”, an extension that adds drama to news headlines. Today he is working on fine.dev - the developer experience company."
    - name: "Nahshon Unna-Tsameret"
      photo: "img/nashon-unna-tsameret.jpg"
      bio: "Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, developing cloud native applications with golang for the last three years. Naturally, my code is open. Have more than 20 years of experience in software development, from low level devices to backend applications. Married + two teenagers."
    - name: "Nir Barak"
      photo: "img/nir-barak.png"
      bio: "Big Data Tech Lead."
    - name: "Guy Brandwine"
      photo: "img/guy-brandwine.png"
      bio: "I'm a technology leader with almost 30 years of experience in managing and implementing innovative System architecture, scalable R&D, quality assurance and integration teams. As a serial startups and development teams kick starter, code, architecture and best practice enthusiastic. The founder and co-host of the Golang Israel community (https://www.meetup.com/Go-Israel/)."
    - name: "Hagai Dayan"
      photo: "img/hagai-dayan.jpeg"
      bio: "Working in the industry in the past couple of years as a Backend Engineer and as an Engineering Team Lead. I took a part in designing, implementing and improving real-time systems that process data at high scale, mostly in Go."
    - name: "Shay Nehmad"
      photo: "img/shay-nehmad.png"
      bio: "Founding Engineer @Reco"
  # The entire schedule
  Schedule:
    - time: "08:30 09:30"
      event:
        name: "Registration & Breakfast"
    - time: "09:30 09:45"
      event:
        name: "Opening Words"
    - time: "09:45 10:30"
      talk:
        - name: "Derek Parker"
          title: "Go: the language of dreamers - Keynote"
          description: "Keynote"
          language: "English"

    - time: "10:30 11:00"
      event:
        name: "Break"
    - time: "11:00 11:30"
      talk:
        - name: "Amit Lichtenberg "
          title: "Generics are a Gopher's Best Friend"
          language: "Hebrew"
        - name: "Nir Barak & Shay Nehmad"
          title: "Shifting Left with Protobuf - a multi-disciplinary approach to schema management"
          language: "Hebrew"
    - time: "11:30 11:45"
      event:
        name: "Break"
    - time: "11:45 12:15"
      talk:
        - name: "Hagai Dayan"
          title: "Bottlenecks in Golang memory management"
          language: "Hebrew"
        - name: "Natalie Pistunovich"
          title: "AI-Assisted Go: Up Your Game and Have More Fun"
          language: "Hebrew"
    - time: "12:15 13:15"
      event:
        name: "Lunch"
    - time: "13:15 13:45"
      talk:
        - name: "Guy Brandwine"
          title: "A journey from development chaos to total control"
          language: "English"
        - name: "Doron Segal"
          title: "How Golang can help fighting global warming"
          language: "Hebrew"
    - time: "13:45 14:00"
      event:
        name: "Break"
    - time: "14:00 14:30"
      talk:
        - name: "Liri Sokol"
          title: "Writing a virtual file system was never simpler"
          language: "Hebrew"
        - name: "Adrian Cole"
          title: "WebAssembly for the backend"
          language: "English"
    - time: "14:30 14:45"
      event:
        name: "Break"
    - time: "14:45 15:15"
      talk:
        - name: "David Freilich"
          title: "Creating a CLI Manager with Cobra"
          language: "English"
        - name: "Aviv Klasquin Komissar"
          title: "Hot path optimizations for latency-critical applications in GO"
          language: "Hebrew"
    - time: "15:15 15:45"
      event:
        name: "Break"
    - time: "15:45 16:30"
      event:
        name: "Lightning Talks"
    - time: ""
      talk:
        - name: "Nahshon Unna - Tsameret"
          title: "Writing a custom golang linter"
    - time: ""
      talk:
        - name: "Noam Soloveichik"
          title: "Single Method Interfaces and How to Use Them"
    - time: ""
      talk:
        - name: "Miki Tebeka"
          title: "In the Loop"
    - time: ""
      talk:
        - name: "Idan Katz"
          title: "Ain't nobody got time.Time fo' that"
    - time: ""
      talk:
        - name: "Ori Shoshan"
          title: "People-oriented programming: effectively using Go's built-in features to make life easier for your fellow devs"
    - time: ""
      talk:
        - name: "Jonathan Harel"
          title: "Code Smarter not Harder"
    - time: "16:30 16:45"
      event:
        name: "Closing words"
    - time: "16:45 17:30"
      event:
        name: "Social Event"