Re: Philly Emerging Tech Conference Early Bird

[rob smith <smith.rob.s@gmail.com>]

I'm game for a group. Anyone else interested?

Rob

On Jan 11, 11:32 am, Aaron Feng <aaron.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.