Speakers

Dr. Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Amazon.com. In charge of driving technology innovation within the company, Vogels has broad internal and external responsibilities.

Werner will be presenting on Big Data

Twitter: @werner (Say hello!)

Tim is a snarky hipster who was into NOSQL before it was cool. He’s currently working for a Data Hosting & Analytics company called Cloudant. In his spare time, he organizes a worldwide network of user groups called the NOSQL Summer and maintains an archive of conversations about database technologies & use-cases, called the NOSQL Tapes.

Tim will be presenting on understanding, choosing and instrumenting NOSQL

Twitter: @timanglade (Say hello!)

After doing web development for several years Bert suddenly found himself porting node.js to Windows and working for Cloudkick/Rackspace. As such he has been one of the first to become member of the node.js core development team. In the meantime he's trying to graduate and finally get his degree in public policy.

Bert will talk about node.js, and demonstrate why it is such a powerful tool in the real-time web era.

Twitter: @piscisaureus (Say hello!)

After 6+ years experience (software developer, system administrator, security chief), Michele co-founded his first startup Mashape, based in San Francisco. He is in charge of the software architecture and backend of Mashape.

Michele will be talking about the world of API's, with current standards, best practice and different ways to monetize them

Twitter: @shatsar (Say hello!)

Jeroen van Dijk is one of the founders and CTO of Enrise, formerly known as 4worx. He has been doing development with PHP for more then 10 years, specializing in high-performance and high-volume websites. When not expanding his knowledge about internet techniques Jeroen can be found at a squash court taking out his opponents!

Jeroen will talk about Varnish, the high-performance HTTP accelerator. Is it really a high performance valhalla?

Twitter: @neorey (Say hello!)

Chris Heilmann has been around the web since it made little bleeping noises followed by things sounding like a car crash and has built web products for a variety of awful browsers from the end 90ies onwards. He worked for Yahoo, various agencies and survived the first .com crash as a "HTML programmer". He has written several books on JavaScript and web standards and is now principal evangelist for Mozilla focusing on HTML5 and the open web. He speaks a lot at conferences and blogs at wait-till-i.com

Chris is an expert on HTML5 and will talk about how your backend code can benefit greatly from the new features modern browsers offer us

Twitter: @codepo8 (Say hello!)

Thomas is CTO at Mint Digital where he has worked since almost the very beginning after acing the interview almost purely on the back of a sharp suit. Having been involved in all of Mint's major projects he has great real world experience in developing mass participation web sites quickly and effectively along with some hard lessons learnt on how to make them stay up. He mainly hacks in ruby although has a growing love for erlang.

Thomas will be giving a workshop on how to introduce Redis into your application

Twitter: @bob_p (Say hello!)

Stephen Nelson-Smith is the principal consultant at Atalanta Systems Ltd, experts in end-to-end automated infrastructure, and Opscode's premium training and professional services partner in Europe. Stephen is the author of the O'Reilly book "Test-driven Infrastructure with Chef and Cucumber" and is busily working on the follow-up "Chef: The Definitive Guide", and is one of the foundational members of European Devops movement.

Stephen will answer this question in his keynote: What the hell is Chef and Why the hell do I care? Followed by a workshop where the question is: How the hell do I work with Chef?

Twitter: @LordCope (Say hello!)

Timan Rebel is a serial entrepreneur in between startups. He is the former CTO of Mobypicture and founder of Sugababes.nl. Timan loves Open Data, optimizing code for high performance websites and snowboarding.

Timan will give you an introduction into Scrum and why it will make you a happier coder.

Twitter: @timanrebel (Say hello!)

In the 80's Steven co-designed and implemented the programming language ABC, the language that Python is based on. At the end of the 80's with a group of colleagues he built a browser with extensible markup, a DOM, stylesheets, vector graphics, client-side scripting, and more. Subsequently he organised two workshops at the first WWW conference in 1994 on client-side computation and electronic publishing. He chaired the first W3C workshop on style sheets, the first W3C internationalisation workshop, and was a long-time member of the CSS working group and chair of the HTML and Forms working groups. He is co-author of (amongst other things) HTML 4, CSS, XHTML, XForms and RDFa.

Steven will give talk about declarative applications and will show how a different approach to coding can give you an order-of-magnitude saving in the amount of programming.

Twitter: @stevenpemberton (Say hello!)

Iain Hecker is a software engineer with a passion for Ruby and open source. During the day he makes web applications, at night he contributes to open source. He writes his own libraries or contributes to Rails and other Ruby projects. He is the organizer and presenter at the local Ruby user group and blogs at iain.nl.

Iain will give an introduction into Git, show you how to set up a project and how to leverage Git when working alone or in a team

Twitter: @iain_nl (Say hello!)

Robert Gaal is the Host for Kings of Code 2011. Robert is co-founder of Wakoopa. He is deeply involved in the tech scene and loves to hack. Robert will make sure you'll have a great day and he'll fire some though questions at the speakers. Robert is hosting Kings of Code for the second time (and we love him for that)

Twitter: @robertgaal (Say hello!)