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Amanda is giving a talk at KotlinConf...tomorrow at 14:00 CEST - that's the time in Amsterdam. Here's the abstract https://kotlinconf.com/schedule/#date=5-october&session=37796 and you can watch it live at https://kotlinconf.com/
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It will all be available on Youtube as well! Great talks this year on metaprogramming, processing, coroutines, type inferences, data science and more!
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