Archive for 'Speakers'

Thomas Ptacek, security researcher

Thomas Ptacek is a veteran security researcher, product developer and troublemaker. When he’s not publishing papers on intrusion detection systems and giving presentations on virtualized rootkits, he helps run Matasano Security, a research and development firm he co-founded.
However, if you don’t spend your days performing penetration tests, reverse engineering protocols or just generally abusing the [...]

Matthew Knox, Evil Overlord

Matt is currently a professional Ruby developer, instructor and overall bad ass programmer, but in a previous life he dangerously skirted the Dark Side.
Broke and professionally inexperienced, he got a job working at an adware company analysing spam. He gradually wrote more and more adware code, protecting his employers and attacking their competitors, and before [...]

Reg Braithwaite, thinker extraordinaire

If you want to feel truly intimidated, you should read about the years and years of experience that Reg Braithwaite has developing software.
Reg also has some of the most challenging writing on the topic. We recommend that you go through the blog posts highlighted in his sidebar.
Alas, last summer he announced that he was going [...]

Douglas Crockford, Javascript authority and expert software engineer

Javascript — everyone knows it’s important but most people never learn it properly. Douglas Crockford is here to fix that.
Considered the JavaScript expert by many people in the development community, author Douglas Crockford identifies the abundance of good ideas that make JavaScript an outstanding object-oriented programming language
That’s the Amazon description of his latest book: JavaScript: [...]

Introducing Greg Wilson!

Greg Wilson is an Assistant-Professor at UofT’s Department of Computer Science. But don’t let the title fool you — this keynote won’t be your average lecture.
Some of you may already be familiar with him through his blog about software his Canada-wide open source project, or the book he co-edited, Beautiful Code.
You may have also heard [...]

Speakers? What speakers?

You may have noticed that our speakers page is mysteriously empty. Don’t panic: we have five keynote speakers confirmed already (out of six speaking slots). Coincidentally, there are five weekdays in the week.
(See where we’re going with this?)
So, starting Monday, we’ll be announcing a speaker each day. Stay tuned!
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