The social developer: Peter Van de Voorde at TEDxUHowest
Channel: TEDx Talks
Date: 2013-06-18

Who Is Peter Van De Voorde?

Peter Van de Voorde is a proud husband and father with a love of boardgames, skiing, reading, helping and motivating people.
 
After obtaining his Master in Computer Science at Ghent University he started working as a Java software engineer. In the span of 5 years he has grown from being a junior software engineer to technical project leader in the RealDolmen Java Community, responsible for coaching and leading a team of software engineers and responsible for all technical aspects in a software development project.
 
From 1999 till 2010 he was a monitor and camp lead on youth camps organized by Jeugd & Gezondheid. In this period his interest in coaching teams and people started to expand.
 
In 2010 he began to focus on improving the way in which software development works. He became a Certified Scrum Master and an Agile believer and is now part of the ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) Division at RealDolmen.  
 
From 2008 till 2012 he was part of the BeJUG (Belgian Java User Group) steering committee, helping out with reinvigorating the Java Community in Belgium.
In 2012 Peter was a speaker in San Fransisco at JavaOne 2012 with his talk "The Social Developer".

What Will He Be Talking About?

The Social Developer

A social developer is somebody who invests in himself and the people around him. It's somebody who want to actively develop a better, more open and more social world. It's somebody who believes in true teams and not just groups of people.

Did you ever wonder what happened to the little child you once were? Where did the joy, the passion and the fury go?
Did you every wonder why nothing ever seems to run right as soon as people need to start to work together in a group?

Peter will try to provide you with an answer to these questions. He will focus on how you can build a true team and how you can become a social developer, how you can inspire others and  how you can become a true member of the teams that govern your life.

The Social Developer centers on people, teams and how to combine both into a creative, fun and efficient combination of excellence.

About TED and TEDx

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