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YOW! 2014 Conference | 42+ Speakers | 24 Workshops | Melbourne-Sydney-Brisbane.

Keynotes

Edward Kmett Edward Kmett is a Haskell and Functional Programming expert obsessed with finding better solutions to problems so that "I won’t be stuck solving the same problems with the same tools I was stuck using seven years ago."

Gabrielle Benefield Gabrielle Benefield, former Head of Agile Methods & Practices with Yahoo!, is a specialist in transformation and author of ‘Scrum Primer’. In her talk she will talk about the pitfalls of traditional metrics, the benefits of using the Mobius framework and discuss a case study that saved a client £12 million annually after 2 days work.

Martin Thompson & Todd L Montgomery In a joint Keynote address, Martin Thompson & Todd L Montgomery will talk about their experiences in code in “How did we end up here?” Martin Thompson is a high-performance computing specialist with Real Logic. Martin worked for Betfair and LMAX where he led the world's highest performance financial exchange using a radical new architecture. Todd L Montgomery is a networking hacker who has researched, designed and built numerous protocols, has done work for NASA and co-founded two start ups. He currently works for Kaazing, a company focused on re-architecting the web for the Internet of Things.

Agile & Lean

The Scaling Dilemma – Mary Poppendieck Mary Poppendieck is a 30 year veteran of the IT industry as well as a popular writer ('Lean Software Development' is one of her well known books) and speaker. She will talk about the challenges of transforming a small team mindset into a big organisation and making it work.

Pippi’s Book of the Dead Trading Cards - Elizabethe Kramer This talk by Elizabethe Kramer is ideal for advanced Agile/Scrum team members as she will be talking about Seestring, new visual tools for solving problems and creating innovative solutions.

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Make Impacts, Not Software – Gojko Adzic In 2011, Gojko Adzic was voted by peers as the most influential Agile testing professional. In this talk he presents a better strategy for planning and implementing projects so that there is a greater likelihood of success.

Collaborating Better with Story Maps – Jeff Patton Jeff Patton is highly regarded in the Agile community for his work around experience and product design and in this talk will show you how Agile stories and story mapping help teams to work together to better understand the problem space and design and validate products more effectively.

Microservices

Avoiding Speedbumps on the Road to Microservices – Scott Shaw Scott Shaw is the Head Technologist at Thoughtworks and has been designing and building distributed software systems for 20 years. In this talk, Scott will discuss the spike in popularity of Microservices in recent months and the 3 key challenges that Microservices teams typically encounter.

The Odyssey – From Monoliths to Microservices at realestate.com.au – Evan Bottcher & Jon Eaves & Beth Skurrie Evan Bottcher has more than 18 years experience building and integrating systems.

Jon Eaves is the Lead Architect at REA Group.

Beth Skurrie is a consultant at DiUS and specialises in Ruby development. In this talk Evan, Jon & Beth will focus on the challenges faced in creating a Microservice world at realestate.com.au.

Implementation of Microservice Architecture – Fred George Fred George has been writing code for 46 years in over 70 languages. An early adapter of OO and Agile, he will discuss in this talk the challenges and pitfalls of implementing Microservices at two different companies.

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To Microservices and Beyond – Matt Stine and Simon Elisha Matt Stine is a Cloud Foundry Engineer at Pivotal and is a 15 year veteran of the enterprise IT industry.

Simon Elisha is CTO and Senior Manager of Field Engineering for Pivotal and brings real-world experience and broad industry perspective to his presentations.

This joint talk will cut through the hype about Microservices and focus on how it can be used to provide continuous delivery.

Architecture & Design

How to Undo Almost Anything with Git – Peter Bell Peter Bell is the founder of Pragmatic Learning and the CTO School as well as being a contract member of the GitHub training team. His talk will focus on Git as an undo tool that can make you look like the perfect programmer.

Agility and the Essence of Software Architecture – Simon Brown Simon Brown is an independent consultant who helps teams to build better software. In this talk, he will explore the importance of software architecture and what happens when it isn’t taken into consideration as well as some techniques to bring the essence of software architecture back into an agile environment.

Programming in the Large: Architecture and Experimentation – Mark Hibberd Mark Hibberd, Chief Technical Architect at Ambiata, spends his time on large-scale data and machine learning problems. This talk will focus on the properties of robust architecture and how they lend themselves to experimentation and change.

Functional Programming

Functionally Oblivious & Succinct – Edward Kmett As well as delivering a keynote address, Edward Kmett will also give a whirlwind tour of some new types of functional data structures, their applications and advantages.

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Type vs Tests: An Epic Battle? Amanda Laucher Amanda Laucher is a language geek who is often found ranting about languages. In this talk she will take a rational look at Test and Type driven design, looking at the limitations and and benefits of these approaches as well as the languages that serve each best.

Big Data & Analytics

Explorations in Interactive Visual Analytics: Supporting Analysis & Data Visualisation at Scale – Doug Talbott Doug Talbott, product design consultant with Bedarra Research Labs, has over 25 years of experience in various aspects of design. In this talk, Doug will talk about the work he has been doing to more effectively deal with large volumes of data.

Rise of the Machines – A Primer to Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics using Azure ML – Beat Schwegler Beat Schwegler first began focussing on cloud computing in 2008 and in his work at Microsoft is involved in designing and coding leading edge apps and services to showcase the Microsoft platform. In his talk he will focus on how machine learning and statistical modelling can be used to focus on customer behaviour.

Following Google: Don’t Follow the Followers, Follow the Leaders – Mark Madsen Mark Madsen, researcher, consultant and former CTO, has built a career focussing on data. His talk will look at what can be obtained from following Google as a design principle in terms of scale, speed, persistence and context.

Reactive, Message-driven and Scalable – Todd L Montgomery Todd L Montgomery is a networking hacker and Chief Architect at Kaazing. His talk will explore new protocols for connecting messages together and provide examples of what a message-driven reactive approach might look like.

Introducing Reactive Streams – Christopher Hunt Christopher Hunt is a Senior Engineer at Typesafe and member of Play framework team. His talk will focus on the difficulties in handling streams of data in an asynchronous environment and the pressure this puts on resource consumption. He will show how, using the new akka-streams project and Scala, back pressure can be managed.

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Solving Real and Big (Data) Problems Using Hadoop – Eva Andreasson Eva Andreasson is Director of Product Management at Cloudera and is passionate about using software development to solve problems. Her talk will focus on how Hadoop can be used to address the management of big data and will feature real world examples.

Web & UX

Web Components – Estelle Weyl Estelle Weyl is an author, popular blogger and web evangelist. In her talk she will discuss how web components can be used to extend the DOM with reusable components and revolutionize the way the web is developed.

Event Driven User Interfaces – Lee Campbell & Matt Barrett Lee Campbell is a software consultant, author of a book on Rx and developer with extensive experience in developing composite applications for the financial services sector.

Matt Barrett is a co-founder of Adaptive and builder of real time systems in television and financial services.

In this talk Lee & Matt will discuss how the trading applications they have been involved in building made use of reactive extensions to deliver real-time reporting.

How We Went From 1 Million to 1 Billion Events Without Throwing Everything Away – Julian Giuca Julian Giuca is the Principal Engineer at New Relic, a software analytics company, and specialises in business and billing logic, and building internal tools to support the company. His talk will tour New Relic’s history and share insights on how to survive the past while innovating for the future.

It’s All Multimedia Now! – Stephen Travis Pope Stephen Travis Pope is a pioneer of object-oriented programming, artificial intelligence, computer graphics and real-time multimedia signal processing and will look back at 30 years of user interfaces and multimedia and consider what we can learn from that into the future.

DevOps

5 Years of Metrics and Monitoring – Lindsay Holmwood Lindsay Holmwood is the R&D Manager at Bulletproof. He is the creator of Visage, Flapjack, Cucumber-Nagios and is the organiser of Sydney DevOps Meetup. In his talk he will discuss the biggest challenges of monitoring, alert fatigue and the outlook for the future.

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Docker, Slayer of Chefs & Puppets – Erwin van der Koogh Erwin van der Koogh is a technologist focused on changing the way we do business. In his talk he will start with the basics of Docker and then demonstrate how it can take the complexity out of automating Continuous Delivery and help with cultural aspects of DevOps.

The Lean Enterprise – Jez Humble Jez Humble is Vice President at Chef and author of ‘Continuous Delivery’ and ‘Lean Enterprise’. This talk will focus on rapid software-driven innovation at scale and will use case studies from several domains to illustrate how this can work.

Performance & Security

Aeron: The Next Generation in Open-Source High-Performance Messaging – Martin Thompson Martin Thompson is a high-performance computing specialist with Real Logic. In this talk, he discusses how Aeron takes message management back-to-basics with a focus primarily on performance and reliability.

How NOT to Measure Latency – Gil Tene Gil Tene was named as one of the top 50 Agenda Setters in the technology industry by Silicon.com and is an official JavaOne Rock Star. His talk will demonstrate the common pitfalls in measuring, describing and reporting latency and response time behaviour.

Hack Yourself First: go on the cyber-offence before online attackers do – Troy Hunt Troy Hunt is a web security guy and Microsoft MVP. His talk will stress the importance of building up your cyber-offence by trying to hack your own website before hackers do and how hackers exploit common risks in vulnerable web applications.

Mobile

Maximum Viable Products – Allen Pike Allen Pike is a former Software Engineer at Apple and now runs Steamclock Software. His focus is building beautiful, powerful software. In his talk he will discuss how to build great software that is sustainable.

Swift: New Paradigms for iOS Development – Marc Prud’hommeaux Marc Prud’hommeaux has been writing software for over 30 years and was the author of the first ebook reader in the Apple App store: Stanza. He has been developing for Cocoa in Objective-C since 2006. His talk will focus on the changes needed as Swift moves to become the dominant language in Cocoa development.

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Mobile at Warp Speed – Cameron Barrie Cameron Barrie is Principal Consultant for Bilue, a company specialising in mobile development. In this talk he will focus on how to keep it lean, move fast and leverage your mobile channel.

Languages

Cool Things About D – Why & How We Use it at Facebook – Andrei Alexandrescu Andrei Alexandrescu is a researcher, software engineer and author in C++ and D at Facebook. With Walter Bright he co-designed many important features of D and authored a large part of D’s standard library. In this talk he will discuss how D is used at Facebook.

How Julia Goes Fast – Leah Hanson Leah Hanson is a software engineer at Google and spent the Spring of 2013 at Hacker School learning Julia. Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing. In this talk, Leah will highlight what is so good about Julia that she would like to program in it full-time.

Groovy: The Awesome Parts – Paul King Paul King is a Technologist and Innovator at Assert and co-author of ‘Groovy in Action’. This talk celebrates the awesome parts of the Groovy language and the Groovy ecosystem.

The Structure & Beauty of the Mathematica Language – David Leibs David Leibs, an Architect at Oracle Labs, has a passion for graphical programming languages and high performing Array languages. In this talk he will discuss how the Mathematica Language offers developers unique features that are worth investigating.

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