speaking engagements & events

More and more I am being asked to attend events as a technology expert or guest speaker. In the last few months this has included a few held at the Sheffield Universities.

The following is a list of events and talks I will be attending and giving.

April 2012:

17th The Workstation 9am – 7pm.

Softly Wired Limited is running a one day workshop on “Titanium Best Practices and Application Architecture”. I will be presenting the course and running the hands on workshop sessions.

More information can be found here, and you can book your place here.

March 2012:

21st Smeg 6.30pm till 8pm.

I will be talking at the Sheffield Mobile Experience Group, which is meeting at the Gist Lab. The talk will be on “Appcelerator Titanium Best Practices”.

The presentation slides can be found here.

December:

13th Cantor (Furnival) Building Sheffield 10 – 12am.

I will be attending an event for final year Software Engineering  & Software Development students. At this event I will be giving a short talk on what it is like to go contractor in the Software Industry. This will cover a lot of the pros and cons involved in contracting against full time employment and how you have to promote yourself to get on.

January:

18th  SMUG

The newly organised Sheffield Mobile User Group will be having their first meeting at the Gist Lab, where I will be giving a talk on Mobile Development. The current working title is The Pitfalls of Mobile.

November:

29th & 30th Apps World London.
I have been asked by appcelerator to attend this event as a community Titan and assist them in providing information about the titanium framework.