| Aaron Feng on 11 Jan 2012 08:33:44 -0800 |
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| Philly Emerging Tech Conference Early Bird |
Hi All, ETE is back again. The speaker line up is awesome as usual. Feel free to form a group with other members to get the early bird special. Aaron Below is the summary provided by Tracey Welson-Rossman. Registration is open for the 7th Annual Philly Emerging Tech Conference (a.k.a. Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise), which is set for April 10 - April 11 at the Society Hill Sheraton in Philadelphia. Topics range from Java EE in the cloud to the Play Framework to cross-platform mobile development to NoSQL to HTML5 to demystifying monads. To register for this 2-day, 5-track event: http://phillyemergingtech.com/2012/register The Early Bird rate, available through February 15, is $375 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), the Early Bird price goes down to $281.25 per person. The conference has sold out the few years. Speakers include: Cliff Click Chief JVM Architect, Azul Systems Jeff Brown Grails core developer Martin Thompson contributor, Disruptor Concurrent Framework Bill Pugh inventor, Skip Lists; lead, FindBugs Joonas Lehtinen Vaadin core developer Alex Feinberg Senior Software Engineer, LinkedIn Project Voldemort core developer Nathan Marz Lead Engineer, Twitter's Publisher Analytics Creator, Storm framework for realtime computation Ken Rimple author, Roo in Action Dr. Benjamin Pierce author, Types and Programming Languages Debasish Ghosh author, DSLs in Action Chris Richardson author, POJOs in Action Tony Morris creator, Scalaz extension to core Scala Daniel Spiewak Scala Expert Josh Long SpringSource Engineer and Developer Advocate Talks about a wide array of technologies complement the Java and JVM-based content. The event features Yukihiro Matsumoto (creator of the Ruby Programming Language); Douglas Crockford (Senior JavaScript Architect, Yahoo); Yehuda Katz (Ember.js and jQuery core developer); Elika Etemad (W3C CSS Working Group); James Shore (author of The Art of Agile Development); and many others. The keynote speakers are Chad Fowler (VP Engineering, LivingSocial) and Alex Payne (CTO, Simple Finance). The list of confirmed speakers to date is here: http://phillyemergingtech.com/2012/speakers More speakers and session abstracts will be added over the next few weeks.