Scotch on the Rocks Blog - Speakers

SOTR2011 Speakers Unleashed

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:48:00-0000

For the first time in the history of Scotch on the Rocks, we're a tad organised. OK< we're a day behind in this unleashing, but I think most will agree we seem to be on the ball.

Topics/schedule will come later (give us 6 weeks) but here's the speaker line up:

Faisal Abid (AndSpot, Inc.)
Peter Bell (Railo)
Rob Brooks-Bilson (Amkor Technology)
Ray Camden (FirstComp)
Sean Corfield (Railo)
Jason Dean (Dakota County Technical College)
Mark Drew (Railo)
Claude Englebert (Adobe)
Steven Erat
Gert Franz (Railo)
Matt Gifford (Fuzzy Orange)
Sagar H Ganatra (Adobe)
Vinu Kumar (Adobe)
Bruce Lawson (Opera)
Adam Lehman (Adobe)
Chris Mills (Opera)
Stephen Moretti (Enigma Interactive)
Ben Nadel (Epicenter Consulting)
Chris Pelsor
Steven Peeters (multimediacollege)
Robert Rawlins (WeBoffins)
Terry Ryan (Adobe)
Darren Walker
John Whish (Crisp eBusiness)

Speaker lineup is subject to change and should anyone have to withdraw form the conference, we promise to mock them profusely.

p.s. the new website is coming; clients are keeping us super busy.

Mass Speaker Unveiling

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:01:00-0000

We're delighted to announce as speakers for SotR2010:

Chris Mills
Mike Jones
Mike Brunt
Chris Mills
Luis Majano
Luca Mezzalira
Claude Englebert
Tom Woolway/James Whittaker
John Whish
Simon Slooten
Jochem van Dieten

James Bond and Indiana Jones unveiled

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:44:00-0000

We've decided to unveil another couple of speakers; this time it's James Bond and Indiana Jones. Head over to the Speakers Page to find out who they are.

Lord Vader, Marty McFly and The Terminator unveiled

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:51:00-0000

After being somewhat secretive about who our speakers are, we've started the unveiling process. Head over to the Speakers page to find out just who Lord Vader, Marty McFly and The Terminator are.

New session for Munich - CSI: Who killed ColdFusion?

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:30:00-0000

Intergral's Darrn Pywell will be presenting on "CSI: Who Killed ColdFusion?" at the Munich leg of Scotch on the Road.

Join the CSI:ColdFusion Server Investigation, as we unravel the mystery and hunt down the ColdFusion 'serial killer' who's terrorizing CF Servers across Europe. Current suspects include Code, Server, Web and Database. Learn how to troubleshoot servers from real world examples using Intergral's upcoming ColdFusion analytics tool, FusionAnalytics.

All Speakers now announced

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:04:00-0000

We may not have all the mug shots or bios, but we have confirmed the names of all the speakers at this years Scotch on the Road gigs.

Whilst some speakers may be presenting at only one location, some of them are going on tour with us and will be in attendance at the other gigs, so you'll still get your chance to buy them a beer.

A big thanks to all the speakers for signing up this year.

Announcement: New Speakers

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:25:00-0000

We've made a little update to the website, and that includes the addition of a bunch of new speakers.

Tom Chiverton, Peter Elst, David Collie, Mike Jones, Duncan Jack, Toby Tremayne, and our very own Kev McCabe have all been added.

We're not finished yet with our speaker announcements so stay tuned for more.

Adobe Consulting @ Scotch

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:44:00-0000

One of the great things about Scotch, is the ability to call on Adobe Consulting EMEA. The old iteration::two crowd were acquired by Macromedia and therefore Adobe and are based out of Edinburgh, and that gives us an incredible talent to call upon.

And with that, we have 6 sessions from Steven Webster's team.

Alex Uhlmann - Test Driven Develompent Applied to Flex
Alistair McLeod - Realtime Collaboration and Adobe Flex
Paul Williams - Patterns and Best-Practices for Rich Internet Applications: Exploring the Presentation
Peter Martin - Introduction to Data Management Services with Flex
Leon Tanner - Modularising your Flex Application
Borre Wessel - Automated Building and Testing of Rich Internet Applications

Steven won't be given a session this year, however he will be part of the Wednesday morning keynote session, that will also feature Ben Forta, Adam Lehman and Andrew Shorten.

We will be releasing a new version of the agenda soon to take into account these new sessions.

Intergral and Charlie Arehart at Scotch

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:54:00-0000

We're delighted to announce that Intergral, makers of FusionDebug and FusionReactor, will be sponsoring Scotch on the Rocks again this year.

Additionally, they will be sending everysone's favourite CFML expert, Charlie Arehart to present on the Fusion products.

Speaker Announcement: Sanjeev Kumar

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:21:00-0000

We're delighted to announce Sanjeev Kumar as a speaker at Scotch on the Rocks. Sanjeev is part of the ColdFusion Engineering team and has been with them for the last 3 years.

If the PDF Forms/Manipulation features of ColdFusion 8 are of interest, then Sanjeev's talk will be of most interest to you. Not just because he's speaking on that topic, but also because he built them.

Speaker Announcement: Jason Delmore

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:27:00-0000

Jason was supposed to speak last year but went off to do something more interesting instead. At least, that's what he thought. When the feedback from Scotch '07 filtered back to him he was really annoyed he didn't make it.

So, for 2008 the ColdFusion Product Manager is heading to Edinburgh to speak, mingle and get drunk - it's a conference after all!

Speaker Announcement: Amir Shoval

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:56:00-0000

Marking our 25th speaker for Scotch 2008, we're delighted to have Radview's Amir Shoval on board.

Amir is the VP of Product Management at Radview, who produce Performance and Load Testing software for web applications. Of particular interest is their Load Testing software for Flex

Speaker Announcement: Nick Watson

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:09:00-0000

Nick Watson is Adobe's Technical Account Manager for ColdFusion, Flex and LiveCycle Data Services ES here in Europe, and he's the latest speaker to be announced for Scotch.

Previously Senior Support Engineer, and Senior Consultant for ColdFusion, JRun and Spectra, Nick is bound to know a thing or two.

Speaker Announcement: Luca Mezzalira

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:25:00-0000

We're really going all out to make Scotch the best conference possible, and we believe we are putting together a fantastic speaker line up to cater for everyone.

Today we're delighted to announce Luca Mezzalira, an Italian Flash Platform Developer - we won't hold it against him just because Italy qualified for Euro 2008 instead of Scotland.

A certified developer and instructor, we can expect to see great things in regards mobile devices during his presentation.

Speaker Announcement: Neil Webb

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:25:00-0000

The latest speaker to join the ranks for Scotch is Neil Webb, a Flash platform developer / flower arranger / erotic dancer - hey that's what his blog says!

Aside from the local dancing emporium, you may have seen Neil's contributions on Adobe DevNet, ActionScript.org and of course his blog.

nwebb.co.uk