2025 speaker

Diana Pham

Developer Educator

Denver, CO

With a high spirit and a low sense of mortality, Diana completed her master’s in CS regardless of never having coded prior to grad school. Through her passion for learning and teaching tech, she found her calling in advocacy, where she exercises her creativity through conference talks and content creation. Her hobbies include snowboarding, competing in beauty pageants, making lifestyle content on IG (@cachefeelings_), gardening, and eating oysters.

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2025 · intermediate

Beyond Badges: The Biology & Psychology Behind Effective Gamification in Mobile Apps

Let’s level up our knowledge about mobile application development from a scientific perspective–more specifically, gamification! In this talk, you will gain insight into motivation theories, understand the impact of gamification on brain activity, and acquire actionable techniques to enhance your mobile apps through effective gamification. By examining case studies related to this topic, we will discover real-world examples of successful implementations and a gaming company use case of Network APIs.