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Software Practice Advancement Conference
29 June-2 July 2014

"The conference sessions were universally interesting and of a high standard. However, of even greater value to me was the attitude of a free sharing of thoughts and experiences shown by all" -
David Draper, Objektum.

Programme

The programme has now been finalised, and it's looking ace as usual :)

Sunday 29th June
13:00 - 14:15	Do your tests enable change? (no, really, do your tests enable change?) Leon Hewitt 7digital Daniel Swain Wonga	The Power of Events Ashic Mahtab Heartysoft Solutions Limited	Asteroids: The machine war Daan van Berkel Luminis RobinVan Kaathoven
	Coffee Break
14:30 - 15:45	Do your tests enable change? (no, really, do your tests enable change?) Leon Hewitt 7digital Daniel Swain Wonga	The Power of Events Ashic Mahtab Heartysoft Solutions Limited	Asteroids: The machine war Daan van Berkel Luminis RobinVan Kaathoven
	Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:15	Do your tests enable change? (no, really, do your tests enable change?) Leon Hewitt 7digital Daniel Swain Wonga	The Power of Events Ashic Mahtab Heartysoft Solutions Limited	Asteroids: The machine war Daan van Berkel Luminis RobinVan Kaathoven
	Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:45	Do your tests enable change? (no, really, do your tests enable change?) Leon Hewitt 7digital Daniel Swain Wonga	The Power of Events Ashic Mahtab Heartysoft Solutions Limited	Asteroids: The machine war Daan van Berkel Luminis RobinVan Kaathoven

Monday 30th June
08:30 - 09:15	Registration
09:15 - 09:45	Opening Plenary
09:45 - 11:00	The limits of tell don't ask James Byatt LMAX	Communicating in the Face of Conflict -Communication Dojo Marina Haase independent	Multi-System Testing and What to Do About It Eoin Woods UBS Andy Longshaw Advanced Legal Chris Cooper-Bland Endava (UK) Ltd
	Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:30	The limits of tell don't ask James Byatt LMAX	Communicating in the Face of Conflict -Communication Dojo Marina Haase independent	Multi-System Testing and What to Do About It Eoin Woods UBS Andy Longshaw Advanced Legal Chris Cooper-Bland Endava (UK) Ltd
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:15	Keynote: Software Apprenticeships : This Time It's Personal! Jason Gorman Codemanship Will Price University of Bristol
	Coffee Break
14:30 - 15:45	We can mirror it for you wholesale Steve Marshall Independent	Dreaming - how business intent fuels your Agile initiatives Andrea Provaglio Andrea Provaglio	Software as an Engineering Material? Keith Braithwaite Zuhlke Ltd
	Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:15	Getting Started with Data Science Ashic Mahtab Heartysoft Solutions Limited	When will we ever learn? Andy Longshaw Advanced Legal Chris Cooper-Bland Endava (UK) Ltd Nick Rozanski Barclays Investment Bank	TDD And Assembly Language Emmanuel Gaillot /ut7
17:15 - 18:00	Birds of a Feather Sessions
18:00 - late	Dinner and Diversions

Tuesday 1st July
08:30 - 09:15	Registration
09:15 - 10:30	Keeping Passwords Private with OAuth Nick Rozanski Barclays Investment Bank Eoin Woods UBS Chris Cooper-Bland Endava (UK) Ltd	20 percent time - if it's so good why doesn't everybody do it? Mark Dalgarno Software Acumen	Armageddon: How to Survive the Changes Coming to Web Platform Development Adam Iley Caplin Brian Di Palma Caplin Systems
	Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:00	Keeping Passwords Private with OAuth Nick Rozanski Barclays Investment Bank Eoin Woods UBS Chris Cooper-Bland Endava (UK) Ltd	Bounce Portia Tung UBS Lauren A. L'ecaros Independent	Armageddon: How to Survive the Changes Coming to Web Platform Development Adam Iley Caplin Brian Di Palma Caplin Systems
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 13:30	Invited Rant: Meri Williams
	Coffee Break
13:45 - 15:00	Building on SOLID Foundations Steve Freeman HIgher Order Logic Nat Pryce Technemetis Ltd.	What Do Developers Really Need? Rachel Davies Unruly Media Dadi Ingolfsson Sprettur	Testing Katas – Try Before you Buy Emma Armstrong Red Gate
	Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:30	Coaching Exchange Marina Haase independent	Running an in-house kata programme: mistakes and successes Geoff Bones Red Gate Luke Drury	Less mocking, less brittle tests Immo Hüneke Zuhlke Engineering Ltd
	Coffee Break
16:45 - 17:30	Lightning Talks
18:00 - late	Dinner and Diversions

Wednesday 2nd July
08:30 - 09:15	Registration
09:15 - 10:30	Replacing Conditionals with Polymorphism Sandi Metz Independent Matt Wynne Cucumber Limited	Why Aren't You Blogging? (You Selfish Jerk) Terence Eden The Lab	Advanced Testing Techniques for Node.js Nicole Rauch msgGillardon AG Andreas Leidig msgGillardon AG
	Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:00	Replacing Conditionals with Polymorphism Sandi Metz Independent Matt Wynne Cucumber Limited	Implications of Conway's Law Rachel Davies Unruly Media Dadi Ingolfsson Sprettur	Advanced Testing Techniques for Node.js Nicole Rauch msgGillardon AG Andreas Leidig msgGillardon AG
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 13:45	Birds of a Feather Sessions
	Coffee Break
14:00 - 15:15	When to NoSQL and when to Know SQL. Simon Elliston Ball Redgate	Agile 1's game Seb Rose Claysnow Limited	Accepting the Unexpectable Nat Pryce Technemetis Ltd. Duncan McGregor Independent
	Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00	Closing Plenary