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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.