Equal Experts and CodeKen team up to rescue popular developer conference
17 November 2011

Equal Experts and CodeKen team up to rescue popular developer conference

Many software developers were disappointed in September this year when StackOverflow made the decision to cancel the DevDays conferences scheduled to take place in London, Sydney, Washington and San-Francisco. Seeing the great line-up of talks that were scheduled for the London event, CodeKen and Equal Experts decided to mount a rescue mission and went on securing the support of the majority of the speakers.

"We owe a large part of our success to our ability to leverage outstanding developers from our highly selective network of associates,” said Thomas Granier, Managing Director of Equal Experts. “So, we jumped at the opportunity to support the developer community at large.”

"Equal Experts were the perfect partner for the conference,” Jon Dickinson from CodeKen adds. “Having a sponsor with such a highly skilled development capability meshed perfectly with the experienced speaker line up and the insightful audience."

The event took place in Canary Wharf on the 14th and 15th November with about 100 delegates attending.

There were thought provoking talks including Jon Skeet talking about the benefits of coding in Evil, with help from Tony the Pony and his Evil hench-kitty. Michael Barker from LMAX, and Martin Thompson, shattered many folklore assumptions about building high performance systems. Julian Brown from Equal Experts gave insights on how to introduce NoSQL in the Enterprise. Tom Wright used two developer guinea pigs to perform a live demonstration of sensory substitution software that helps visually impaired people to see.

The conference was so well received that CodeKen and Equal Experts are planning on running a similar event towards the end of 2012.

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About Equal Experts

Since its inception in 2005, Equal Experts has been providing bespoke application development services to blue chip clients, including major investment banks and leading Telecom companies. Equal Experts has defined a unique approach to Agile software development that is both pragmatic and Enterprise-friendly. By harnessing the potential of modern application development techniques, our goal is to radically improve our customer's efficiency. Equal Experts only use leading practitioners of Agile and Lean software development and achieve this in part by leveraging a highly selective Associate Network.
For more information, visit www.equalexperts.com.

About CodeKen http://codeken.com/

Code Ken is a software developer learning resource. We produce professional quality screen casts for software developers to hone their skills and learn about new technologies.

•	Our mission is to help developers improve their practical skills so they can focus on delighting their customers.
•	We focus on tools and techniques that provide immediate and tangible benefits.
•	Our screen casts are created by practicing professional developers with years of experience behind them.

Panel Discussion. From left to right: Julian Browne (Equal Experts) and Jon Skeet (Google).

Delegates at the conference

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Equal Experts
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