Unlock the power of effective goal setting with a hands-on framework designed to help you plan, act, and succeed. In this talk, we’ll explore practical strategies to set clear and sustainable objectives for the new year, using a proven approach that integrates retrospection, structured planning, and regular progress reviews.

Whether you're a freelancer, entrepreneur, or student, you’ll gain actionable insights to transform your ambitions into tangible achievements.

What are we going to talk about?

♦ Understanding the challenges of goal setting and how to overcome them.

♦ Conducting retrospectives and self-assessments to identify growth areas.

♦ Creating specific and directional goals aligned with quarterly milestones.

♦ Breaking down big objectives into manageable micro-goals.

♦ Utilizing effective tools to track progress and adapt plans.

Leave this session equipped with the tools to boost productivity and make consistent progress toward your aspirations. Perfect for anyone looking to turn vision into reality!

Time: 20 to 60 min

Resources:

• Slides 📌

• YouTube Playlist of interesting videos

This talk has been selected in the following events:

• Codemotion Madrid 2025

• Techorama Belgium 2025

Become immune to overwhelm and develop powerful focus. Discover how to rise above distractions, own your time, and regain your peak focus and performance, no matter what’s going on inside you or around you.

You’ll emerge from this talk with a clear roadmap for regaining your focus and productivity and eliminating unwanted distractions. The impact this makes on every dimension of your personal and professional life will be immense.

What you’ll learn:

• How distracted are you really? Ask yourself these five simple questions, and get instant clarity on your distraction patterns and how a lack of focus may be derailing you from your most important goals and growth.

• The four keys to becoming Indistractable: Use this simple step-by-step process to break free from your distractions and unwanted habits, and create a quantum leap in your productivity, happiness, and performance.

• Where 90% of your distractions come from: 1 source of distractions isn’t your smartphone, chatty co-workers, or even your kids. Instead, it’s something much, much closer to home.

• The 10-minute distraction breaker technique: Use this ingenious technique the next time you feel your attention wandering towards a distraction, and watch as your brain rapidly regains its focus, so you can do more of what really matters.

• Tear up your to-do list: Discover why this common productivity technique may be destroying your focus and effectiveness, and replace it with a far superior ‘Time Box Calendar’ system that dramatically improves your personal life, your work, and your relationships.

• Struggling with your willpower? Here’s the secret tool used by many of the world’s top performers to consistently do more and be more - without a single willpower battle.

• The three traits of an indistractable workplace: apply these in your business or workplace for an instant and astronomical upgrade in company-wide productivity, happiness, and performance.

• How to defuse your smartphone distractions in 30 seconds: use this quick and easy tech hack to eliminate 99% of distractions from your smartphone without having to switch it off (and no, it’s not silent mode).

Become immune to overwhelm and develop powerful focus. Discover how to rise above distractions, own your time, and regain your peak focus and performance, no matter what’s going on inside you or around you.

Time: 20 to 45 min

Resources:

• Slides 📌

• Video recording 📽️

• Podcast 🎙️

• Train Your Focus in 12 Minutes

• Gyshido technique

• It takes 23 mins to recover after an interruption

• YouTube Playlist

• Indistractable - Nir Eyal

This talk has been selected in the following events:

• NDC Oslo 2024

• BONANNI A TUTTI 2025

• Devoxx Greece 2025

Networking, sharing and growth. These are the key words that will guide this talk in which we will better outline every aspect of life in a community.

Based on the State Of European Tech Communities that we created as Codemotion in which 250 communities from 33 European countries were involved we will go to:

• understand the impact that active participation has on the path of developers,

• why it is important to take part in community life,

• share success stories of people who have made a career in this world by contributing as active members.

Let yourself be inspired, I'm waiting for you to discover all the positive and surprising impacts that the community world can have on your life.

Time: 20 to 45 min

Resources:

• Slides 📌

• Video recording 📽️

This talk has been selected in the following events:

• DevFest Bari 2023

• DevFest Pisa 2023

• NDC Copenhagen 2024

In the presentation of the State Of European Tech Communities we have:

• commented together all the results;

• given some practical solutions based on the biggest struggles faced by organizers to manage a community;

• had an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session with some of the community managers who took part in the project.

You have to attend if...

You are a tech community manager that:

• would like to learn from the experience of others;

• would like to receive some practical solutions to face the biggest struggles to manage a community;

• would like to ask questions to other community managers;

• would like to attract new members.

You are a developer that:

• would like to create a new local community;

• has never lived the community life;

• doesn't know the impact that a community can have on your professional growth;

• doesn't understand why you should spend your free time being active in a local tech community.

Resources:

• read the full report: stateoftechcommunities.codemotion.it

• take part in the next year project and give your feedback: https://codemo.tech/StateOf/feedback

This talk has been performed in the following events:

• Codemotion State Of Eruopean Tech Communities 2023 - Video 📽️

Do you need to enhance productivity? Create flows? Increase your ability to capture, remember and benefit from the unprecedented amount of information all around you?

For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has never been a better time to learn, to contribute, and to improve ourselves. Yet, rather than feeling empowered, we are often left feeling overwhelmed by this constant influx of information. The very knowledge that was supposed to set us free has instead led to the paralyzing stress of believing we’ll never know or remember enough.

Let's understand together how you can easily develop your own personal system for knowledge management, otherwise known as a Second Brain. As a trusted and organized digital repository of your most valued ideas, notes, and creative work synced across all your devices and platforms, a Second Brain gives you the confidence to tackle your most important projects and ambitious goals.

Discover the full potential of your ideas and translate what you know into more powerful, more meaningful improvements in your work and life by developing a Second Brain.

Time: 15 to 45 min

Resources:

• Slides 📌

• Build a Second Brain - Tiago Forte

• How to take smart notes 

• Come costruire il tuo second brain - Alessio Fattorini (Italian)

• Nick Milo

• Articles (italian):

  • https://www.alessiofattorini.it/come-sto-costruendo-il-mio-second-brain/

  • https://www.alessiofattorini.it/cosa-sono-le-evergreen-notes/

  • https://alessiofattorini.substack.com/p/come-sto-costruendo-il-mio-second 

This talk has been selected in the following events:

• Come To Code 2023 | Video 📽️

• DevOps Days Oslo 2023

• DevFest Pescara 2023

• International Women Day Glasgow 2024

• Codemotion Madrid 2024

• Code Europe Kracow 2024

• Developer Week Nurnberg 2024 | Video 📽️

• NDC London 2025

Biases? But what are we talking about? What are they and how do they affect our reality?

During this talk we will get hands-on and try to understand what they are, how to recognize them, and what their effects are on our reality.

Learning to recognize and manage unconscious biases can help us build more accessible, diverse, inclusive and competitive teams, products and services.

Time: 15 to 45 min

Resources:

• Slides 📌

• Video recording 📽️

• Google workshop;

• Facebook workshop;

• Mick Odelli - Italian;

• Luca Mazucchelli - Italian.

This talk has been selected in the following events:

• DevFest Trento 2019

• Xmas DevFest Torino 2021

• Come To Code 2022

• Ada Lovalace Day Torino 2022

• PUG Rovigo 2022

• DevFest Pescara 2022

• DevFest Napoli 2022

• DevFest Bari 2022 + schedule

• DevFest Pisa 2023

• DevOps Days Oslo 2023

• Droidcon Torino 2023

• Tech Jobs Fair 2024 Online

How many times have you felt that you did not measure up? Of not being enough? Of holding a position at work or approaching a new project and thinking, "and now if I am not able and they discover it, what will happen?"

Well, these are just some of the questions that a person "affected" by imposter syndrome asks herself. In this workshop we will try to understand in depth what it is and we will do practical exercises to understand how to overcome it. 

Time: 1.30 to 2 hours

Materials: Tables, chairs, post-it notes, paper, ballpoint pen and a wall where you can stick the post-it notes

Participants: 20 to 50

Resources:

• Slides 📌

• Denise Paolucci: “Overcoming Impostor Syndrome” (linux.conf.au 2013)

• Julie Pagano: “It's Dangerous to Go Alone” (PyCon 2014)

• Mood Gym: https://moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome

• Slides, handout, guide for this workshop:  http://adainitiative.org/continue-our-work/impostor-syndrome-training/

• Scarica le dispense complete al seguente link: http://bit.ly/OvercomingImpostorSyndrome 

This talk has been selected in the following events:

• DevFest Levante 2018

• Campus Party 2019

• DevFest Bari 2024

• Blast & Blash - Women in Tech 2025