Talks and Workshops

Below is the current list of confirmed speakers at CompCon 2016! More talks will be added to this list as they are confirmed.
Presenters
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Rob N ★
FastMail
Rob N ★
A Practical Guide to Coding with Databases
Betsy Alpert
Console
A practical introduction to web application security
James Venning

Nicholas Daniels
An approach for deciding what to learn in software development
Janis Lesinskis
Janis Lesinskis
An Introduction to Functional Programming
Bianca Gibson
REA Group
Bianca Gibson
An overview of the Games Industry
Mark Rowley
Halfbrick
Mark Rowley
Artificial Neural Networks For Noobs
Randall Fernando
Suncorp Innovation Lab
Beautiful and Useful - some rules of thumb for building software that looks and feels great without designers
Ash Guy
Biarri Rail / Cloudary
Building the Future as a full stack dev
Steven Cooper
Xero
Burn it all down child: code quality in 2016
William Brown
Red Hat
Careers Panel and Q&A – from university and beyond
Matthew Rossi
Queensland Shared Services

Eloise Ducky
RMIT / Takeflight

Joshua Holmes
Griffith University

Joel Addison
TechnologyOne

Joshua Wulf
Just Digital People

Harold Liu
Just Digital People

Jacinta Richardson
Franklin - The Semi-Autonomous RC Car powered by Machine Learning
Kendrick Tan
QUT

Jaimyn Mayer
QUT
How to Choose a Language & Principles of Go
Adrian Lanzafame
Console
Adrian Lanzafame
Imposter Syndrome
Bianca Gibson
REA Group
Bianca Gibson
Introduction to PCI: from hardware to your program
Russell Currey
IBM
Russell Currey
Introduction to Rust: having your cake and eating it too
Russell Currey
IBM
Russell Currey

Andrew Donnellan
IBM
Andrew Donnellan
IoT 101
Anna Gerber
LRParsing: An Introduction to Parsing with Python
Clinton Roy
Making a career in Open Source
Clinton Roy
Making the most of your time at university
Joshua Holmes
Griffith University
Joshua Holmes
Managing Change in Software Products
Alex Ghiculescu
Tanda
Alex Ghiculescu
Mental Health in Development (or Ouch! Stop hitting yourself)
Eloise Ducky
RMIT / Takeflight
Non-volatile memory: Theory, Practice and Rampant Speculation!
Oliver O'Halloran
IBM
Project Management (aka How to Avoid a Slow but Undreamably Costly and Destructive Train Wreck)
Kade Morton
SAP Ariba
Sensing the world around you
Matt D'Souza
The University of Queensland
Sky is NOT the Limit - when you are on the Cloud
Shubhra Gupta
Blackbaud Inc
Shubhra Gupta
Striking off on your own (or life skills for the real world)
Jacinta Richardson
Jacinta Richardson
The Digital Service Standard: building useful services, in government and elsewhere
Tessa Bradbury
Digital Transformation Office
The first 12 weeks: graduate life at TechnologyOne
Jesse Cunningham-Creech
TechnologyOne

Jacob Lelliott
TechnologyOne

Maggie O'Brien
TechnologyOne

Shea Granville
TechnologyOne

Felix Eves-Cowell
TechnologyOne
The joys and trials of remote work
Fraser Tweedale
Red Hat
Fraser Tweedale
To Space, AWS, Xero APIs and beyond
Steven Cooper
Xero
Touch on to reverse engineering!
Michael Farrell
Google
Unum: Time to Hack the Floats
Min Kweon
The University of Queensland
Why get up in the morning
Matt Deshon
TechnologyOne