YOW! 2012

Fred George is a consultant with over 44 years experience in the industry including over twenty years doing object programming and over a dozen years doing Agile/XP. He counts at least 70 languages with which he has written code. A veteran of the IBM-Microsoft wars, Fred did early work in computer…

Aino Corry is YOW!'s technical conference editor and retrospectives facilitator. She holds a masters degree and a phD in computer science (she also happens to teach computer scientists how to teach computer science). She has 12 years of experience with Patterns in Software Development, and…

Tony Morris is a software product developer who has deployed functional  programming techniques in industry for over 10 years. Tony teaches  informally and at the tertiary level and aspires to observing the direct benefits of advanced programming techniques to produce a viable …

Dave Thomas discusses the Loadstone Foundation with fellow foundation founders Martin Thompson and Todd Montgomery. The principles of this newly-formed foundation - which is specifically focused on the financial industry and banking sector - are: Contribution of quality code should be…

John Cook, an Independent Consultant working at the confluence of applied mathematics and software development. After receiving a Ph.D. in from the University of Texas, he taught mathematics at Vanderbilt University. He then left academia to work as a software developer and consultant. Here, we…

John-Henry Harris is a British creative designer who has been living and working in Denmark for the past four years. His thought-provoking environmental and social design philosophies, displayed at the 2008 New Designers exhibition in London, won him a dream job innovating toys at LEGO, where his…

Kurt Schrader,  CTO, Intent Media, and Co-Founder of CTO School, was a team lead at Thoughtworks and helped build engineering teams at several start-ups, including Collaborative Drug Discovery, Triggit, and Ten Ton Labs, where he was a co-founder. He has more than 15 years of experience…

Peter Moskovits is a Developer Advocate for Kaazing, a software company enhancing the way business and customers communicate across the Web using the new HTML5 WebSocket standard. Peter works closely with the developer community to architect and deploy the best possible web communication…

Dr. Marko A. Rodriguez is the Founder and CEO of the graph technology firm Aurelius and creator of the graph traversal language Gremlin. He has focused his academic and commercial career on graph theory, network science, and graph-system architecture and development.Here, we learn about graph…

Channel 9 was invited back to YOW! this year and we had several excellent conversations with speakers (almost all of them!), just like last year. It was great to get back to Australia and meet so many excellent developers and have the chance to geek out with so many industry luminaries. Huge thanks…