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Melbourne, 17-18 September 2015
YOW! Connected 2015 Conference Keynotes
Liza Kindred
WFT Wearables?
Liza Kindred is the founder of fashion tech think tank Third Wave
Fashion and the editor-in-chief of Third Wave Magazine. In her talk
she will talk about the challenges of building wearables that take into
consideration fashion, utility, fun and sustainability.
Josh Clark
Magical UX & the IoT
Josh Clark is the founder of Big Medium, a design agency specializing
in connected devices, mobile experiences and responsive web design.
His talk will focus on the challenge of taking everyday objects and giving
them extraordinary abilities requiring designers to call on their
imaginative skills to make it happen.
Laura Savino
Lectures in Readability
Laura Savino is an iOS Developer working to transform learning by
building iOS apps at Khan Academy. Her talk will look at why some
codebases are easy to use and why others are complicated and
unwieldy.
Adir Shiffman
Dr Adir Shiffman is a registered medical practitioner, founder and
investor specialising in technology and healthcare companies.
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YOW! Connected 2015 conference Speakers
TOPIC – INTERNET OF THINGS
Chris Briggs
Windows Internet of Things - Learn the Universal Windows
Platform
Chris Briggs is a Senior Software Developer at SSW, a consulting
service that specialises in Microsoft solutions. In this talk he will
cover the Windows 10 IoT plaform, in particular, how to develop IoT
applications that target Windows 10 IoT core.
Nigel Dalton
Lessons of Making Virtual Reality Work for Business
Nigel Dalton is well known as the Godfather of Agile in Australia as
well as being the CIO of REA Group. In his talk he will be
discussing how to make virtual reality work for business.
Sally Shepard
Implementing Inclusive Interfaces, The Internet of Things for
Cats
Sally Shepard is an iOS devleoper, accessibility consultant and
hardware hacker. This talk will look at what wearables for cats could
look like, how it could work and what this means for other uses for
the Internet of Things.
Dave Thomas
Productive Device Programming - IoT Device Programming
Models and Runtimes
Dave Thomas is known for his work on languages and most recently
he's been working on an interactive analytic environment for copious
data engineers. In this talk he will describe the essential features
and constraints of programming models for different device classes.
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Patrick Catanzariti
Talk #1 Entering the World of Virtual Reality and Augmented
Reality with JavaScript.
As a Dev Diner Founder, SitePoint contributing editor and O'Reilly
instructor, Patrick Catanzariti is focused on new technology like the
Internet of Things, virtual/augmented reality and wearables. This talk
will show how virtual and augmented reality experiences can be developed for the mobile
browser and run inexpensively on VR headsets like Google Cardboard.
Talk #2 Delving into Connected Hardware with Particle and JavaScript
In this case study Patrick will cover how developers can get started with Particle to build
an internet enabled prototype
Voon Siong Wong
DIY IoT Backend Platform
Voon Siong Wong is a Software Engineer at DiUS Computing with
broad stack experience. This talk discusses some dos and don'ts
if you want to DIY an IoT backend platform.
Jon Manning & Paris Buttfield-Addison
Watch This Face: Designing the Same App on Multiple
Wearable Platforms
Jon Manning, world-renowned iOS development trainer, writer,
game designer and mobile software engineering wizard is joined by
Paris Buttfield-Addison, co-founder of Secret Lab and author of
numerous iOS related books. In this design focused talk, they will
explore what it means to be a watch App and discuss how is it
different than a mobile App.
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Mitch Denny
Building the Internet of Things on Microsoft Azure
Mitch Denny is CTO at Readify and focusses on emerging
technology trends and coming up with practical tech solutions to
customer problems. His case study will look at the common
patterns involved in IoT solutions and how to build an end-to-end
solution.
Nicholas Nicoloudis
Wearables, Nearables and the Internet of Things
Nicholas Nicoloudis is a Mobility and Mobility Infrastructure
Specialist working for SAP. His case study will focus on how SAP
is using design-thinking methodolgy to better understand and
engage with customers.
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TOPIC – WEB
Ben Teese & Mike Ebinum
The Web Goes Native
Ben Teese, Senior Consultant at Shine Technologies, and Mike
Ebinum, Director/CTO at Seed, will discuss the fundamentals of
Facebook's React framework, how it can be used to build complex yet
performant single-page applications and how it translates into the
native app development world across multiple platforms.
Amanda Ducrou & Jason Corbett
Perceived Instant Mobile Web Experience
As Engineering Managers at Expedia in Brisbane, Amanda Ducrou
& Jason Corbett are focused on providing the best user experience
for Expedia, Travelocity, Wotif, Lastminute.com.au and
Travel.com.au customers. They will discuss the work done at
Expedia to achieve a Google Page Speed score of 92 on mobile
devices and the impact this had on traffic.
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TOPIC – DESIGN & PROCESS
Charles Korn & Greg Skinner
Developing Design - Devs and Designers Working Together as
an Approach
Charles Korn is a developer at Thoughtworks who enjoys creating
cool experiences for users like iPad-controlled robot arms. Greg
Skinner is a designer at Thoughtworks and spent time as an
Architect before switching to Digital. In this talk they will use a live
pairing demo to show how valuable design and developer pairing
can be.
Jon Manning & Paris Buttfield-Addison
How do I game design?
Jon Manning, world-renowned iOS development trainer, writer,
game designer and mobile software engineering wizard is joined by
Paris Buttfield-Addison, co-founder of Secret Lab and author of
numerous iOS related books.
Topics covered in this session include why games work, how to
build for fun and then apply that information to examples in the
realms of UX and UI design as well as those from the game
development industry.
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Zoran Angelovski & Joo Aun Saw
How to Build Hardware 'Lean'
Joo Aun Saw, embedded Software Engineer and Zoran Angelovski,
Senior Consultant both at Dius, are passionate about using
technology to solve problems and improve people's day-to-day
lives. They will talk about how easy it is experiment with hardware
and will cover some examples that Dius has been involved in.
Chris van Raay
Bridging the Designer/Developer Divide
As an experienced interaction designer and software developer
with Deloitte Digital, Chris van Raay leads projects on some of
Australian's most industry recognised apps including ING Direct
and Australia Post. In this talk he will show how developers and
designers can restructure design deliverables and UI code to make
work flow better and achieve good user outcomes.
Duana Stanley
Microservices is our BFF: why SoundCloud stopped using its
own public API for its mobile clients
Duana Stanley is a Software Engineer at SoundCloud. In her talk,
she will discuss how SoundCloud's public API development
became a bottleneck for feature development which led to the
development of their own custom framework to make writing robust,
scalable APIs easy.
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Pete Collins
Interaction Design & Mobile Apps
As head of UX and Visual Design, Pete Collins is focused on creating
intuitive and engaging experiences to solve real-world problems.
His talk will explore why interaction design is so important in mobile
apps, how to prioritise UI dynamics and when during the product
lifecycle to invest time in it.
Tom Brodhurst-Hill
Design Driven Mobile Development
As lead consultant at BareFeetWare, Tom Brodhurst-Hill has
worked with Commonwealth Bank and Optus. His talk will focus
on what can happen where a designer and developer work in
parallel and how this has worked well, allowing iterative changes
that function across both iOS and Android.
Mark Pedersen
Building Mobile App Test Automation
As National Innovation Manager with K.J. Ross & Associates, Dr
Mark Pedersen works closely with technical and business
stakeholders to shape approaches to testing that are effective and
sustainable. His presentation will provide a grass-roots view of
how the mobile app development team build automated testing into
their pipeline.
Maksim Lin
The Secret Life of Services
Maksim Lin is a freelancer developer and Android specialist. This
case study will focus on Android Services, some interesting facets
about using them and lots of real world code examples form apps
to help you make the most of using Services in your Android apps.
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TOPIC – MOBILE DEVELOPMENT
Chris Berry
Android at Scale: 500 Samsung Galaxy Tabs for Hyundai
Dealer Network
As the lead mobile app developer and architect at webqem Chris
Berry was involved in delivering hundreds of individually
customised tablets across the 160 Hyundai dealerships. This talk
will look at how to create software that can manage parallel device
setup and management.
Maksym Grebenets
Continuous Integration and Delivery for Mobile
Maksym Grebenets is a senior iOS Developer at Fairfax Media. In
his talk, he'll provide a brief overview of Continuous Integration and
Delivery for Mobile Development as well as some handy tips and
best practices.
Sam Ritchie
Untangling Callback-spaghetti with ReactiveCocoa
Sam Ritchie is Chief Codesplicer at Codesplice and has focussed
on cloud and mobile solutions with the last 5 years. His
presentation will show how to use the new ReactiveCocoa 3 to build
better Swift Apps.
Giovanni Lodi
Swift Optionals, Functional Programming and You
Giovanni Lodi, iOS testing and automation consultant, was
involved in the London start up scene before moving to Australia.
His talk will explore techniques from the functional world that make
working with Switft Optional easy.
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Adam Sharp, Jeames Bone, & Mark Corbyn
ReactiveCocoa in Practice
Jeames Bone, Mark Corbyn and Adam Sharp, Software Engineers
at Outware, will discuss how adopting ReactiveCocoa can make for
more modular, self-documenting code while still integrating easily
with other APIs and your existing code.
Jean-Étienne Parrot
Clean Architecture on iOS: Real Life VIPER
Jean-Etienne Parrot is a Software Engineer and iOS Tech Lead with
Outware Mobile. He will discuss what they have learned after using
VIPER for 8 months, how it helped achieve their goals and what didn't
work as well as planned.
Kamal Kamal Mohamed & Ryan Hodgman
A Separation of Concerns: Clean Architecture on Android
Kamal and Ryan are Software Engineers at Outware focused on
Android. In this demo, 2 Android developers will present their take
on what a cleanly architected app looks like and why it makes life
easier.
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Luke Sleeman & Tony Holzner
Freelance Android developers, Luke Sleeman has a passion for
Android and design while Tony Holzner is a creative technologist with
an impressive track record in the Museum space.
This case study will look at how a solution was created to showcase
the Australian War Memorial in Canberra through indoor positioning
technology and a Nexus 5 device.
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YOW! CONNECTED WORKSHOPS
Andy Gelme, Angus Gratton, & Mark Wolfe
Internet of Things
Melbourne, 16 September
Andy Gelme co-founded LIFX in 2012, a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign that has
now grown into a manufacturer of internet connected LED lightbulbs and Angus Gratton
is an embedded systems developer that has been involved in a variety of projects over the
last 10 years. This hands-on workshop will focus on what it takes to get an IoT project up
and running.
Liza Kindred
Designing for Wearable Tech with Liza Kindred
Melbourne, 16 September
This hands-on session explores what’s hype and what’s real and,
crucially, how we can build products that users will actually want to
wear. We’ll examine the merits of the different approaches of the
technology industry and the design and fashion houses; explore the tiny, low power
computers that are making it possible, and go through dozens of examples of what’s out
there, categorized for easy understanding.
Prototyping Magic for the Internet of Things with Josh Clark
Josh Clark
Melbourne, 15 September | Sydney, 21 September
This workshop gets you imagining and building next-generation
interfaces by focusing on how to adapt both thinking and techniques for
this new kind of interface design. Through hands-on exercises, expert guidelines, and a
rich collection of case studies and examples, you’ll find out why and how you, your
company, and your product fit into the internet of things.
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