Lezingen Damian Conway

Booking.com, NLUUG en SPPN nodigen de Open Source gemeenschap uit voor

Twee lezingen door Damian Conway
dinsdag 10 maart 2015, 18.00 tot 20.00 uur
theater Pathé Tuschinski, Reguliersbreestraat 26-28, Amsterdam
toegang gratis, geen registratie

Eén keer per jaar reist Damian door Europa. Bij zijn bezoek aan Amsterdam vorig jaar, trok zijn optreden ruim 200 geeks! Dit jaar twee andere presentaties:

• In Instantly Better Presentations zal Damian zeven eenvoudige manieren laten zien (en uitleggen) om interessante en effectievere presentaties te geven. Ofwel: het is een technische presentatie over het geven van betere technische presentaties, door iemand die beroepsmatig technische presentaties geeft. Haal je voordeel!
• Na 15 jaar ontwikkeling verschijnt de eerste volledige release van de programmeertaal Perl6 later dit jaar. Zoals diens voorganger Perl5, is er naar hartelust en openlijk geleend van ideeën uit andere talen. In Everyday Perl6 laat hij zien hoe grondig de syntax is aangepakt.

Afsluitend is er een borrel in Café Amstelhoeck, aangeboden door Booking.com.

Gesponsord door Booking.com, NLUUG en SPPN

English version

Booking.com, NLUUG, and SPPN invite the Open Source community to a lecture by Damian Conway. Damian is an extraordinary speaker from Australia: his knowledge is renowned and, whatever the subject, he tells an enthusiastic story like no other can.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 6pm to 8pm
Theater Pathé Tuschinski, Reguliersbreestraat 26-28 Amsterdam
Free entrance, no registration

Once a year, Damian travels through Europe. During his visit to Amsterdam last year, he had an audience of over 200 excited geeks. This year he will present two talks:

• In Instantly Better Presentations Damian will demonstrate and explain seven simple ways to give more interesting and more effective technical presentations. In other words, it's a tech talk about giving better tech talks by a guy who gives tech talks for a living.
• After 15 years of development, the Perl 6 programming language will be officially released later this year. Like its predecessor Perl 5, it has incorporated many original ideas and openly borrowed great concepts from other languages. In Everyday Perl 6, Damian will show how Perl 6 builds upon, and considerably improves, the features and syntax of Perl 5.

Afterwards, we'll have an informal reception in Café Amstelhoeck, sponsored by Booking.com.

Sponsored by Booking.com, NLUUG, and SPPN

About the presenter

Damian Conway holds a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science.

A widely sought-after speaker and trainer, he is also the author of numerous well-known Open Source software libraries and developer tools, as well as several books and series of articles on programming. Between 2001 and 2010 was Adjunct Associate Professor with the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia.

Other technical areas in which he has worked and published include: developer education, presentation skills, programming language design, language paradigms, software engineering, testing and debugging, documentation systems, natural language generation, synthetic language generation, emergent systems, image morphing, human-computer interaction, geometric modelling, the psychophysics of perception, nanoscale simulation, and parsing techniques.

His informal biography.