FutureRuby update: final speaker list, prices go up June 15th!
Pete Forde
We're pleased to announce that after two long months of careful conference curating — say that three times fast — Avi Bryant is the final feather in the cap of the FutureRuby speaker roster.
For those of you who have been living under a rock, Avi Bryant is an old-school Rubyist who was seduced by Smalltalk. He released Seaside, an awesome continuation-based web application server; this became the platform on which he built the incredible DabbleDB. After giving a talk on Smalltalk at RailsConf, he was contracted to lead a team at GemStone to create MagLev — a widely misunderstood Ruby implementation running on the Smalltalk VM that could be a game changer upon its release. Avi will come and pollute our minds with his applied web heresies; bring an open mind and leave your assumptions at the door.
We also have a special bonus offering in the realm of speakers — the charm of one Hampton 'The Pump' Catlin. This is tentative as we have a full schedule... but we have high hopes. Hampton is our secret weapon in the unlikely event that one of our speakers gets detained at the border for trying to smuggle in a gulag's-worth of weaponry.
Here's the final Future Ruby Leaders of Tomorrow, Today! speakers roster:
Adam Blum (Rhomobile/Rhodes)
Giles Bowkett (Archaeopteryx/ENTP)
Avi Bryant (DabbleDB/MagLev)
Hampton Catlin (HAML/Wikipedia/Unspace)
Austin Che (MIT/Synthetic Biology)
Paul Dowman (EC2 on Rails/Gigpark)
Rob Ellis, Brian LeRoux, Brock Whitten (Nitobi/Phonegap)
Jonathan Dahl (Tumblon/RailsSpikes)
Damen Evans, Ron Evans (TalentBoom)
Mischa Glouberman (Terrible Noises for Beautiful People)
Ilya Grigorik (AideRSS)
Jesse Hirsh (Openflows Networks Ltd)
Molly Holzschlag (HTML5, molly.com)
Matthew Knox (Scheme)
Anita Kuno
Collin Miller (What Tech)
Foy Savas (The Merb Way/Assembly)
Nathaniel Talbott (Terralien)
Francisco Tomalsky (20 North/Cappuccino)
Joseph Wilke (Cucumber)
Dr. Nic Williams (Morca)
So you want it? Get it. FutureRuby is all about "Leaders of Tomorrow, Today!"
Are you a leader or a follower? Three more days until rush pricing starts, and if you miss the cut-off... well, you can't say that we didn't warn you.
Pete Forde : Partner, Unspace Interactive