13:30 - 15:00

• Keynote session
• Discussion and wrap-up

Keynote: Low-Code: How Low Can You Go? by Steven Kelly

Abstract: We will start with a quick look at the Low-Code market of today. To give us a handle on how we got here and where things might go in the future, we will look at the evolution of computers, programmers, and their tools. This will take us from very lowest level of John von Neumann’s day, right up to the very highest level of the tools of today – and tomorrow. As with even the best-planned journeys, this will be less linear than we might think. History progresses along more than one dimension, and any single perspective is deceptive. Together though we might find that we know more than we thought – and have more room to grow than we assumed.

Bio: Steven Kelly is the CTO of MetaCase and co-founder of the DSM Forum. As architect and lead developer of MetaEdit+, he has over thirty years of experience of building tools for Domain-Specific Modeling, consulting on language design, and helping customers move from writing code to generating it. He is author of a book on DSM and over 100 articles, most recently in journals such as IEEE Software, Computer Languages and OBJEKTspektrum. Ever present on the program committee of the OOPSLA/SPLASH workshops on Domain-Specific Modeling, he co-organized the first workshop in 2001. He has an Master’s degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, and a Ph.D. from the University of Jyväskylä. His computer education began with BASIC, machine code, and Assembler, and came to rest in Smalltalk. Outside of work he is a soccer player in increasingly high-numbered divisions of the Finnish football league.