JavaZone 2011 - Information Alchemy: Presentation Patterns & Anti-Patterns
Creating and delivering technical presentations is not just the realm of conference speakers anymore. Let’s face it: if you have to give a technical presentation and it’s boring, you’re not going to make much of an impact. However, if you can make it entertaining and informative, you sell your ideas much better. This session takes a different approach to how to build presentations, by providing patterns and anti-patterns you can use to make sure you’re getting the most leverage from your presentations. Don’t take a knife to a gunfight! The ability to create compelling presentations that explain your point is one of the things that keeps your job from disappearing.
Neal Ford
Neal Ford is Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, courseware, video/DVD presentations, and author and/or editor of 6 books spanning a variety of technologies, including the most recent The Productive Programmer. He focuses on designing and building of large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, speaking at over 100 developer conferences worldwide, delivering more than 600 talks. Check out his web site at http://www.nealford.com. He welcomes feedback and can be reached at nford@thoughtworks.com.
Nathaniel Schutta
Nathaniel T. Schutta is a senior software engineer focussed on making usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written two books on Ajax and speaks regularly at various No Fluff Just Stuff symposia, universities, and Java user groups. In addition to his day job, Nate is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota where he teaches students to embrace dynamic languages.
Matthew J. McCullough
Open Source Application Architect at Ambient Ideas
Matthew McCullough is an energetic 12 year veteran of enterprise software development, open source education, and co-founder of Ambient Ideas, LLC, a Denver consultancy. He is an outspoken advocate for the use of open source libraries in enterprise applications. Matthew currently is a member of the JCP, reviewer for technology publishers including O'Reilly, President of the Denver Open Source Users Group, and speaker on the No Fluff Just Stuff 2009 tour.
His experience includes successful J2EE, SOA, and Web Service implementations for real estate, financial management, and telecommunications firms, and development of several open source libraries. Matthew jumps at opportunities to evangelize, present, and educate teams on the benefits of open source. His current focuses are Maven, iPhone and Android applications, and OSS debugging tools.
Matthew currently resides in beautiful Denver, Colorado, USA with his wife and baby daughter, who all are active in nearly every outdoor activity Colorado offers.