Sadek Drobi’s Blog

March 10, 2008

My schedule for QCon London 2008

Filed under: Uncategorized — Sadache @ 10:51 pm

Here goes my schedule for Qcon London 2008 
See you there :)

Schedule – Wednesday

Wednesday   The Cloud as the New Middleware Platform    Agile in Practice    Banking: Complex high volume/low latency architectures    .NET: Client, Server, Cloud    Solution Track – Wednesday    Interviews  
08:00 - 09:00  

Registration and Breakfast

09:00 - 10:00   How Eclipse changed my views on Software Development

Erich Gamma
Location: Fleming Room

10:00 - 10:30  

Break

10:30 - 10:45   Introduction: The cloud…

Gregor HohpeLocation: Fleming Room

Introduction: Agile in practice

Linda RisingLocation: St James’s Suite

Introduction Finance/Banking…

John Davies & Alexis RichardsonLocation: Abbey Room

Introduction: .NET: Client…

Matt DeaconLocation: Westminster Suite

   
10:45 - 11:00  

Break

11:00 - 12:00   Amazon Services: Building blocks for true Internet applications

Jeff BarrLocation: Fleming Room

Managers in Scrum

Roman PichlerLocation: St James’s Suite

Haskell and DSLs for derivatives pricing

Lennart AugustssonLocation: Abbey Room

Building Smart Windows Applications

Daniel MothLocation: Westminster Suite

Architectural Implications of RESTful design

Peter RodgersLocation: Rutherford Room

Jazz, Eclipse, JUnit

Erich GammaLocation: Wordsworth Room

12:00 - 13:00  

Lunch

13:00 - 14:00   Application services on the web: SalesForce.com

Dave CarrollLocation: Fleming Room

Agile Mashups

Rachel DaviesLocation: St James’s Suite

Keeping 99.95% up time on 400+ key systems at Merrill

Iain MortimerLocation: Abbey Room

Building Rich Internet Applications

Mike TaultyLocation: Westminster Suite

The new WebLogic Server HTTP publish-subscribe server and Web 2.0 support

Anand RudrabhatlaLocation: Rutherford Room

Amazon Services

Jeff BarrLocation: Wordsworth Room

14:00 - 14:30  

Break

14:30 - 15:30   Google GData: reading and writing data on the web

Frank MantekLocation: Fleming Room

Born to Cycle? An Agile Approach to Working

Linda RisingLocation: St James’s Suite

Real-time Java for latency critical banking applications

Bertrand DelsartLocation: Abbey Room

Windows as a Web Platform

Eric NelsonLocation: Westminster Suite

Design, Develop, Test and Deploy your Java Persistent Application: All in 30 Minutes

Mike FullerLocation: Rutherford Room

SOA, Web Services and REST

Mark LittleLocation: Wordsworth Room

15:30 - 15:45  

Break

15:45 - 16:45   Yahoo Pipes: Middleware in the Cloud

Jonathan TrevorLocation: Fleming Room

Beyond Agile

Marc Evers & Willem van den EndeLocation: St James’s Suite

From Betting to Gaming to Tradefair

Matt YouillLocation: Abbey Room

Services & Workflows: SOAP, REST and all you need

Christian WeyerLocation: Westminster Suite

Introducing Spring Batch

Dave SyerLocation: Rutherford Room

InfoQ Architecture

Alexandru PopescuLocation: Wordsworth Room

16:45 - 17:00  

Break

17:00 - 18:00   Panel: Programming the Cloud

Jeff Barr & Dave Carroll & Frank Mantek & Nati Shalom & Jonathan TrevorLocation: Fleming Room

A Kanban System for Software Engineering

David AndersonLocation: St James’s Suite

LiquidityHub

Tony Harrop & Jeremy VickersLocation: Abbey Room

Building Biztalk Services

Simon ThurmanLocation: Westminster Suite

Panel: Open Source and Open Standards

Stephen Colebourne & Patrick Curran & Rod Johnson & Mark Little & Peter Pilgrim & Dalibor TopicLocation: Rutherford Room

DSLs

Lennart AugustssonLocation: Wordsworth Room

18:00 - 18:45  

Exhibitor Reception

18:45 - 19:30   Does my Bus look big in this?

Martin Fowler & Jim Webber, SOA Practice Lead
Location: Fleming Roo

Schedule – Thursday

Thursday   Domain Specific Languages in Practice    Effective Design  Evolving Java    SOA, REST and the Web    XpDay Sampler    Solution Track – Performance and Scalability    Interviews  
08:00 - 09:00  

Registration and Breakfast

09:00 - 10:00   Keynote:Trends in Agile Development

Kent Beck
Location: Fleming Room

10:00 - 10:30

Break

10:30 - 10:45   Introduction: DSL in Practice

Neal FordLocation: Abbey Room

Effective Design – What, Why, How and Who

Kevlin HenneyLocation: Fleming Room

Introduction: Evolving Java

Brian GoetzLocation: St James’s Suite

Introduction: SOA, REST and the Web

Stefan TilkovLocation: Westminster Suite

Introduction: XpDay Sampler

Steve FreemanLocation: Guild Room

   
10:45 - 11:00  

Break

11:00 - 12:00   External Textual DSLs made simple

Markus VölterLocation: Abbey Room

Intentions & Interfaces – Making Patterns Concrete

Udi DahanLocation: Fleming Room

Concurrency, past and present

Brian GoetzLocation: St James’s Suite

REST: A Pragmatic Introduction to the Web’s Architecture

Stefan TilkovLocation: Westminster Suite

Agile software. Aspiring to more.

Tim MackinnonLocation: Guild Room

Panel Discussions: Architecting for Performance and Scalability

Richard Allen Smith Jr & Guy Nirpaz & Brian Oliver & Jags Ramnarayan & Randy Shoup & Ari Zilka, FounderLocation: Rutherford Room

Erlang

Joe ArmstrongLocation: Wordsworth Room

12:00 - 13:00  

Lunch

13:00 - 14:00   Business Natural Languages

Jay FieldsLocation: Abbey Room

A Tale of Two Systems

Pete GoodliffeLocation: Fleming Room

Blending Java with dynamic languages

Venkat SubramaniamLocation: St James’s Suite

Using REST to aid WS-* – building a RESTful SOA Registry

Paul FremantleLocation: Westminster Suite

What does it do? Does it work?

Lasse KoskelaLocation: Guild Room

Clustered Architecture Patterns: Delivering Scalability and Availability

Ari Zilka, FounderLocation: Rutherford Room

Future programming languages

Ted NewardLocation: Wordsworth Room

14:00 - 14:30  

Break

14:30 - 15:30   Building DSLs in Groovy

Venkat SubramaniamLocation: Abbey Room

User Interfaces: Meeting the Challenge of Simplicity

Giles Colborne

Evolving the JVM

Ola BiniLocation: St James’s Suite

REST, Reuse, and Serendipity

Steve VinoskiLocation: Westminster Suite

Measure for Measure

Keith BraithwaiteLocation: Guild Room

Dramatic scalability for data intensive architectures

Jags RamnarayanLocation: Rutherford Room

Smalltalk, Dabble DB

Avi BryantLocation: Wordsworth Room

15:30 - 16:00  

Break

16:00 - 17:00   Domain-specific Smalltalk

Avi BryantLocation: Abbey Room

Effective Design: TBA (5)

Kent BeckLocation: Fleming Room

The Cathedral, the Bazaar and the Commissar: The Evolution of Innovation in Enterprise Java

Rod JohnsonLocation: St James’s Suite

Diary of a Fence Sitting SOA Geek

Mark LittleLocation: Westminster Suite

Realistic about Risk: Software development with Real Options

Olav Maassen & Chris MattsLocation: Guild Room

Characteristics of Next Generation Application Servers

Guy NirpazLocation: Rutherford Room

Wildcard

Speakers: TBA
Location: Wordsworth Room
17:00 - 17:15  

Break

17:15 - 18:15   Intentional Software – Domain Expert DSLs

Magnus Christerson & Henk KolkLocation: Abbey Room

Domain Driven Design – The way back to OO

Felipe RodriguesLocation: Fleming Room

Evolving the Java Language

Neal GafterLocation: St James’s Suite

A couple of ways to skin an Internet-scale cat

Jim Webber, SOA Practice LeadLocation: Westminster Suite

Transparency: great leap forward or exposed artery

Kent Beck & Keith Braithwaite & Steve Freeman & Chris Matts & John NolanLocation: Guild Room

Pimp My Data Grid: New things to do with a Data Grid to deliver better application performance, scalability and resilience

Brian OliverLocation: Rutherford Room

Spring

Rod JohnsonLocation: Wordsworth Room

Schedule – Friday

Friday  Architectures You’ve Always Wondered About  Browser & Emerging Rich Client Technologies  Programming Languages of Tomorrow  The Rise of Ruby  Solution Track – Friday  Interviews
08:30 - 09:00

Registration and Breakfast

09:00 - 09:15 Introduction: Architectures you’ve always wondered about

James GovernorLocation: Fleming Room

Introduction: Browser & Emerging Rich Client Technologies

Scott DelapLocation: St James’s Suite

Introduction: Programming Languages of tomorrow

Kresten Krab ThorupLocation: Westminster Suite

Introduction: The Rise of Ruby

James CoxLocation: Abbey Room

   
09:15 - 09:30

Break

09:30 - 10:30 eBay’s Architectural Principles

Randy ShoupLocation: Fleming Room

Interactive websites: Comet and DWR

Joe WalkerLocation: St James’s Suite

The Busy .NET Developer’s Guide to F#

Ted NewardLocation: Westminster Suite

Executable User Stories with RSpec and BDD

Aslak HellesøyLocation: Abbey Room

Innovations for Software Architects: Data Connectivity Design Considerations for SOA

John de LongaLocation: Rutherford Room

Flex/Air/RIAs

Christophe CoenraetsLocation: Wordsworth Room

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:00 Twitter

Jay EdwardsLocation: Fleming Room

Rich Internet Applications for the Browser and the Desktop with Flex and Air

Christophe CoenraetsLocation: St James’s Suite

Haskell: functional programming on steroids

Simon Peyton-JonesLocation: Westminster Suite

JRuby: Power on the JVM

Ola Bini
Testing by Example with Spring 2.5

Sam BrannenLocation: Rutherford Room

SOA

Gregor HohpeLocation: Wordsworth Room

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 14:00 Behind the Scenes at MySpace.com

Dan FarinoLocation: Fleming Room

GWT + Gears : the browser is the platform

Didier GirardLocation: St James’s Suite

Functions + Messages + Concurrency = Erlang

Joe ArmstrongLocation: Westminster Suite

Under the Hood

David ChelimskyLocation: Abbey Room

Future-Proofing Applications: How to Protect Core Business Logic from Technology Fads

Malcolm SparksLocation: Rutherford Room

Functional programming

Simon Peyton-JonesLocation: Wordsworth Room

14:00 - 14:30

Break

14:30 - 15:30 Market Risk System @ BNP Paribas

David HarperLocation: Fleming Room

The DOM scripting toolkit: jQuery

Remy SharpLocation: St James’s Suite

The Busy Java Developer’s Guide to Scala

Ted NewardLocation: Westminster Suite

Rails 2.0

Nic WilliamsLocation: Abbey Room

HTTP Multicast Routing, Scaling the Real-Time Web

Jonas JacobiLocation: Rutherford Room

Twitter – Interview

Jay EdwardsLocation: Wordsworth Room

15:30 - 16:00

Break

16:00 - 17:00 Building a large scale SaaS app

Dan HanleyLocation: Fleming Room

Tackling Code Debt

Peter MarksLocation: St James’s Suite

Programming Languages of tomorrow: TBA

Kresten Krab ThorupLocation: Westminster Suite

Panel: When is Rails an appropriate choice?

David Chelimsky & James Cox & Aslak Hellesøy & Nic WilliamsLocation: Abbey Room

Getting the most from the Visual Studio Team Suite Toolbox

Neil Kidd
MySpace arch

Dan FarinoLocation: Wordsworth Room

17:00 - 17:15

Break

17:15 - 18:15 Ending Panel

Martin Fowler & Gregor Hohpe & Rod Johnson & Rebecca Parsons
Location: Fleming Room

1 Comment »

  1. Sadek, it was great to meet you – don’t forget to watch Neil’s blog for Lennart….

    http://neilbartlett.name/blog/

    Cheers

    alexis

    Comment by alexis — March 14, 2008 @ 9:02 pm

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