Conference Schedule:
Friday 14 May, 2010

• Registration: 08.00 - 09.00

  Come collect your pass and get set up for the day!

• 01:
  09.00 - 09.40

  

  How to use Geolocation in Your Web App

  Raffi Krikorian -Twitter

  Building geolocation into your web app is becoming a necessity for almost everyone these days. It's a complex problem though, so in this session you'll learn from how Twitter is doing this and pick up important lessons for your web app.

• 02:
  09.40 - 10.15

  

  Situation Normal, Everything Must Change

  Simon Wardley - Canonical

  In today's computing world, it can often feel like we are drowning in wave after wave of new trends such as mashups, service oriented architecture and cloud computing. This sea of concepts are simply the manifestation of an underlying change in IT. In this session we will explore what is happening and what cloud computing means for the future of IT.

• 03:
  10.15 - 10.35

  

  The Future of Mobile Apps

  Renier Lemmens - CEO PayPal Europe

  Everyone is talking mobile as the new frontier, but what are the facts behind making money as a mobile developer and startup.

• Morning Break: 10.35 - 11.20

  A chance to meet up with your friends and have a cup of coffee on the house!

• 04:
  11.20 - 11.40

  

  Content Providers must lead the way to IPv6

  Owen DeLong - Hurricane Electric

• 05:
  11.40 - 12.15

  

  Five Lessons We've Learned

  Eoghan McCabe & Des Traynor - Contrast

  Eoghan and Des run Contrast, a web app company in Dublin. They've built several successful web apps and in this session, they'll be sharing the five most important lessons they've learned.

• 06:
  12.15 - 12.50

  

  Accessibility in Web Design

  Robin Christopherson - AbilityNet

  A member of the Guild of Accessible Websites, Robin joins us to lend his first hand appreciation of the importance of good web design practice, with regards to access and usability.

• 07:
  12.50 - 13.00

  

  Get Connected

  Need a job? Looking to hire? Got a brilliant idea? Join us, make new friends and get connected!

• Lunch: 13.00 - 14.30

  Break for lunch on the house and a chance to catch up with each other!

• 08:
  14.30 - 15.05

  

  NoSQL

  Chris Lea - (mt)

  "NoSQL" is an umbrella term that is used to describe a variety of different software projects with often disparate features. That said, it's been gaining traction in recent months both in the media and in production websites of various sizes, because for many use cases it can materially lessen common hurdles associated with performance in traditional RDBMS systems. Chris will explain what kinds of problems NoSQL software aims to solve and how they may be relevant to your development projects, with particular attention paid to MongoDB.

• 09:
  15.05 - 15.40

  

  Content Bootcamp

  Relly Annett-Baker - Poppy Copy

  Sit up, shut up, eyes forward! Today begins your conscription as a content foot soldier. I know, I know. You signed up as a developer, designer, sys admin. Whatever. Save the tears for your mama.
  You write holding copy? You're a content writer. You write text links? You're a content writer. You write error messages? You're a content writer.
  Welcome to a brave new world, soldier. Homepages, instructions, calls to action? Thirty minutes basic training and you'll be killing 'em dead. Grab a dictionary and level up.

• 10:
  15.40 - 16.00

  

  The Cloud IDE: Developing applications using the browser

  Rik Arends - Ajax.org

  We all build web applications. Some of us even laugh at people that still use a native mail client. But we all still use a native development environment. We believe that in the future all applications will run in the browser, from business apps, to 3D games. Ajax.org is creating an online IDE to help us make web and mobile apps. In this presentation we hope to dazzle you with the fastest online code editor, visual UI editing, debugging javascript from within the browser and all other reasons you will need an online IDE soon.

• Afternoon Break: 16.00 - 16.45

  Some time out for you to grab another coffee and a well earned rest.

• 11:
  16.45 - 17:20

  

  Powerful Tools that You Need (and Probably Don't Know About)

  Christian Heilmann - Yahoo

  In this session Christian Heilmann will show how you can build a scalable, working and pretty web app from a simple dataset in a matter of minutes by using free services and tools. If you ever wanted to turn around products in a very quick manner without having to re-visit them a few weeks later and feeling ashamed of what you delivered, here is the recipe. We have amazing and free sets of information on the web, services that do the job for us and frameworks that tame the mess that browsers make. The web is your content management system and your distribution channel, you just need to find the building blocks and connect them together in the right way.

• 12:
  17.20 - 17:55

  

  Marketing your Web App - The Future of Brands Online

  Alex Hunter

  Alex Hunter takes you through the DOs and DO NOTs of developing a powerful and positive brand both on the Web and in the office. He'll also look at the state of the VC market and how you can turn your idea into something that actually exists and makes money.

• 14:
  17:55 - 18:15

  

  Startup Pitch Panel

  Would you like to pitch your web app or startup idea to our panel of industry experts? If so, then why not enter our FOWA Dublin startup pitch competition, it's a great opportunity to receive invaluable feedback. To enter, please send details of your app and its URL to Greg (you must have bought a conference ticket to enter). The five winners will be contacted the week before the event. You may also be interested in purchasing our special 3 for 2 startup attendee passes.