Philly Emerging Tech Early Bird Ends 2/22: Clojure Creator Rich Hickey, Twitter's Alex Payne, many others....

[AOK <aok@chariotsolutions.com>]

A couple of weeks ago, I posted that registration was open for the
Philly Emerging Tech Conference, set for April 8 and 9 at the Society
Hill Sheraton: www.phillyemergingtech.com

Since then, the deadline for the early bird rate has been extended to
February 22. The early bird rate is $275 per person for this 5-track,
2-day event.

The cost comes to $206 per person if you can combine the early bird
discount with the group rate discount (4 colleagues or friends, not
necessarily from the same company, registering at the same time).

Also, many more of the abstracts have been posted on the conference
website since my last email about the event. There will be more than 4
dozen speakers.

Here's a sampling from the roster:

* Kyle Burton & Trotter Cashion(Algorithmics)
-- Living on the Bleeding Edge: A Case Study in Using Clojure, AMQP,
Chef, Cucumber and JRuby in the Financial Industry

* Ted Coyle(Portico Systems) & Brian Mackay(MEDecision)
-- The Semantic Web: What It Is and Why You Should Care

* Toby DiPasquale(AMPP Holdings LLC)
-- Cassandra: Your New Best Girl

* Mike Dirolf(10gen)
-- Intro to MongoDB

* Joe Gregorio(Google)
-- What's New in Google App Engine
-- Google Wave

* Rich Hickey(creator of Clojure)
-- Clojure's Approach to State and Identity

* Yehuda Katz(Rails core team member)
-- Rails 3.0 and the Web 3.0: Rails and the Future of the Web

* Geir Magnusson Jr. (Gilt Groupe)
-- Project Voldemort

* Alex Payne(Twitter)
-- Building Distributed Systems With Scala

* Linda Rising(author of Fearless Change: Patterns for introducing new
ideas)
-- Deception and Estimation: How We Fool Ourselves

* Venkat Subramaniam(co-author of Practices of an Agile Developer)
-- Creating Multithreaded Code using TDD

* Ezra Zygmuntowicz(co-founder of Engine Yard; creator of Merb)
-- Clouds have Changed the Game for Data Storage

The details for these and the other sessions can be viewed here:
http://www.phillyemergingtech.com/sessions

For more information or to register: www.phillyemergingtech.com

On Jan 20, 10:24 pm, Chris Baglieri <chris.bagli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Already registered but based on the link Steve shared it looks like I
> could have saved a few dollars going with a group rate.  On a related
> note, if there is interest in grabbing a drink following Day 1, I'd be
> interested in meeting up.
>
> On Jan 20, 1:56 pm, Steve Eichert <steve.eich...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > FYI, the phillyrb group created a page where people can express their
> > interest in attending.  The idea being that at some point groups of people
> > would register together to take advantage of the group discount.
>
> >http://groups.google.com/group/phillyrb/web/ete-2010
>
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Nik Kolev <nko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I am planning on going. If people wanna group up for the group discount I
> > > am interested.
> > > -nik
>
> > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Andrea O. K. Wright <
> > > a...@chariotsolutions.com> wrote:
>
> > >> Registration is open for the 5th Annual Philly Emerging Tech Conference
> > >> (a.k.a. Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise), which is set for April 8
> > >> - April 9 at the Society Hill Sheraton:www.phillyemergingtech.com
>
> > >> The roster includes Clojure creator Rich Hickey; Twitter platform lead
> > >> Alex Payne (author of Programming Scala); Ezra Zygmuntowicz (creator of the
> > >> Merb framework and co-founder of Engine Yard); Yehuda Katz (Rails
> > >> Core/Engine Yard); Mike Dirolf (MongoDB driver developer); Joe Gregorio
> > >> (Google Developer Advocate for App Engine and Google Wave); and local
> > >> development community members Kyle Burton, Trotter Cashion, Chris Cera, Ted
> > >> Coyle, Toby DiPasquale and Brian Mackay.
>
> > >> In all, close to 50 speakers will speak on topics ranging from Project
> > >> Voldemort (an open-source implementation of the Amazon Dynamo distributed
> > >> key-value store) to mobile development to Flex. The list of confirmed
> > >> speakers can be viewed here:http://www.phillyemergingtech.com/speakers
>
> > >> More speakers and session abstracts will be added in the coming weeks.
>
> > >> The keynote speakers will be "Uncle Bob" Martin, who served as the first
> > >> chairman of the Agile Alliance, and industry analyst Michael Cote.
>
> > >> The Early Bird rate, available through February 15, is $275 per person.
> > >> The rate goes down to $206 per person if you can take advantage of the group
> > >> discount (4 colleagues or friends, not necessarily from the same company,
> > >> registering at the same time).
>
> > >> To register, or for more information:www.phillyemergingtech.com