Blitz Talks

Blitz Talks are modeled after O’Reilly’s successful Ignite presentation format: five minutes with 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. The short duration focuses content on most important points, while the auto-advancing slides prevent PowerPoint Hell.

Presenters

We have six amazing Blitz Talks lined up for you.

Anne Halsall: In Defense of UIWebView

Anne Halsall (@annekate) is a product designer at Quora, a social network for question answering and sharing information of all kinds. She works on the Quora iPhone app and writes UI and front-end code for both the iPhone and web applications. Previously she has worked at Inkling, Google, and the McHenry Public Library.

Ray Hightower: 4 Steps, 5 Minutes

Ray Hightower (@rayhightower) is president of WisdomGroup, a software company that creates apps for the web and mobile devices: iPhone, iPad, and Android. The company also organizes conferences for software developers: WindyCityRails (Ruby on Rails), WindyCityDB (NoSQL databases), and WindyCityGo (mobile).

Brad Larson: Mac for Robotic Control Systems

Brad Larson (@bradlarson) designs Cocoa-based control software for SonoPlot, Inc.’s robotic systems and develops Mac, iPhone, and iPad software through his company, Sunset Lake Software. Brad has two applications in the App Store: Molecules, a free, open source molecular modeler, and Pi Cubed, a visual calculator that typesets and evaluates equations.

Saul Mora: Magical Core Data

Saul Mora (@casademora) is the Founding Panda at Magical Panda Software, developing iOS apps for clients. Saul is also a Senior Engineer at Double Encore in Denver, and the Lead Producer of NSBrief, a podcast for Cocoa Developers. He designed a nifty library for making Core Data easier called Magical Record.

Aaron Vegh: Build Your Own Idea Factory!

Aaron Vegh (@aaronvegh) is a web and iOS developer from Whitby, Canada. His iOS app, Code, is a source code viewer for iPhone and iPad. When not working on client projects on the web and Cocoa platforms, Aaron is secretly hatching his next scheme for iOS, using the techniques described in his presentation to bring an idea from germ to flower.

Michael Zornek: The Philly Coworking Story

Michael Zornek (@zorn): When not coding Mac, iOS and Rails apps, Mike likes his Pokémon shiny, his milk chocolate and his inbox zero. Mike also helps run the local Philly CocoaHeads. Check out @indyhall for more about the Philadelphia coworking community.