Practera is an Australian-born education technology company that helps universities, employers and governments run real-world learning programs at scale. Its SaaS platform lets educators design, deliver and assess experiential programs - internships, industry projects, mentoring and micro-credentials - while AI-powered analytics flag struggling learners and measure outcomes. The flagship product of Intersective, Practera connects students with authentic industry work to build the skills employers actually want.
Michael Feathers is a software consultant, author, and Chief Architect at Globant whose 2004 book 'Working Effectively with Legacy Code' redefined how developers think about untested code - coining the now-universal definition that legacy code is simply code without tests. With over 25 years consulting hundreds of organizations, he pioneered dependency-breaking techniques that gave teams a way into codebases they feared. Today he explores how AI reshapes programming, writes the 'mechanisms' newsletter on Substack, and continues speaking at conferences worldwide.