Sebastian Baltes: Challenges and opportunities for software engineering in Papua New Guinea.
Channel: Strange Loop Conference
Date: 2022-05-20

Sebastian Baltes is a Principal Expert for Empirical Software Engineering at SAP in Germany and an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Adelaide in Australia. This talk looks at the software engineering landscape in Papua New Guinea, and has lessons for developers everywhere on how to take regional differences into account in their work.

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