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Register for hack.summit() 2016

55 points by ionicabizau 11y ago

shadowcodex 11y ago
Oh yeah! So ready for this! Hey @prtk doesn't HN get free access to this thing?
misbah143 11y ago
Amazing initiative. Looking forward to it.
linux-modder 11y ago
Looks to be a lovely 'virtual' conference aka you can be anywhere, no plane or bus fare needed, Just need yourself, interest in a topic (or a few) and a data connection be it mobile, ethernet or wifi...
- shadowcodex 11y ago
  We should meet up virtually at the conference!
stephenitis 11y ago
It'd be great if they showed us an example of the medium that the talks/communication would happen at a virtual summit like this.
foklepoint 11y ago
Great!
prtkgpt 11y ago
HN members can bypass the registration and attend for FREE using code HACKERNEWS. Speaker list: •David Heinemeier Hansson (creator of Ruby on Rails) •Joel Spolsky (co-founder and CEO of StackOverflow, founder of Trello) •Thomas Kurian (EVP at Oracle. Oversees all 3000+ of Oracle software products) •Rebecca Parsons (CTO of Thoughtworks) •Kent Beck (Created Extreme Programming, created TDD, co-created Agile, authored 9 books) •Bob Martin (created the Software Craftsmanship Movement) •Tom Chi (co-created Google Glass) •Yehuda Katz (Ember.js, JQuery, Rails Core committer. Created HandleBars) •Jocelyn Goldfein (recent Engineer Director, Facebook) •Qi Lu (Executive Vice President at Microsoft. Oversees R&D for Office, SharePoint, Exchange, Yammer, Lync, Skype, Bing, Bing Apps, MSN, and more) •Ed Roman (founder of TheServerSide.com, Java book author) •Aaron Skonnard (CEO of Pluralsight) •Brian Fox (created the GNU Bash Shell, Emacs maintainer) •Chris Richardson (Java Champion, created the original Cloud Foundry) •Orion Henry (founder of Heroku) •Hampton Catlin (Created SaSS, HAML, m.wikipedia.org, and book author) •Jon Skeet (#1 answerer on StackOverflow) •Dries Buyataert (created the Drupal programming language) •Janet Weiner (Engineering at Facebook, big data expert) •Floyd Marinescu (CEO, InfoQ) •Nathan Marz (creator of Apache Storm) •Rod Vagg (Node.js Technical Chair and Core Committer) •Sarah Allen (Co-creator of After Effects, Flash video, recent Presidential Innovation Fellow)
- ch4ch4 11y ago
  Is there going to be an area onsite for the hackathon?
p8gupta 11y ago
Great list of speakers!
taywall2 11y ago
Looks awesome. Looking forward to it!
reeseman 11y ago
Nice!
jaalkab 11y ago
Great!!! I will attend this!

55 points by ionicabizau 11y ago

shadowcodex 11y ago

Oh yeah! So ready for this! Hey @prtk doesn't HN get free access to this thing?

misbah143 11y ago

Amazing initiative. Looking forward to it.

linux-modder 11y ago

Looks to be a lovely 'virtual' conference aka you can be anywhere, no plane or bus fare needed, Just need yourself, interest in a topic (or a few) and a data connection be it mobile, ethernet or wifi...

shadowcodex 11y ago
We should meet up virtually at the conference!

stephenitis 11y ago

It'd be great if they showed us an example of the medium that the talks/communication would happen at a virtual summit like this.

foklepoint 11y ago

Great!

prtkgpt 11y ago

HN members can bypass the registration and attend for FREE using code HACKERNEWS. Speaker list: •David Heinemeier Hansson (creator of Ruby on Rails) •Joel Spolsky (co-founder and CEO of StackOverflow, founder of Trello) •Thomas Kurian (EVP at Oracle. Oversees all 3000+ of Oracle software products) •Rebecca Parsons (CTO of Thoughtworks) •Kent Beck (Created Extreme Programming, created TDD, co-created Agile, authored 9 books) •Bob Martin (created the Software Craftsmanship Movement) •Tom Chi (co-created Google Glass) •Yehuda Katz (Ember.js, JQuery, Rails Core committer. Created HandleBars) •Jocelyn Goldfein (recent Engineer Director, Facebook) •Qi Lu (Executive Vice President at Microsoft. Oversees R&D for Office, SharePoint, Exchange, Yammer, Lync, Skype, Bing, Bing Apps, MSN, and more) •Ed Roman (founder of TheServerSide.com, Java book author) •Aaron Skonnard (CEO of Pluralsight) •Brian Fox (created the GNU Bash Shell, Emacs maintainer) •Chris Richardson (Java Champion, created the original Cloud Foundry) •Orion Henry (founder of Heroku) •Hampton Catlin (Created SaSS, HAML, m.wikipedia.org, and book author) •Jon Skeet (#1 answerer on StackOverflow) •Dries Buyataert (created the Drupal programming language) •Janet Weiner (Engineering at Facebook, big data expert) •Floyd Marinescu (CEO, InfoQ) •Nathan Marz (creator of Apache Storm) •Rod Vagg (Node.js Technical Chair and Core Committer) •Sarah Allen (Co-creator of After Effects, Flash video, recent Presidential Innovation Fellow)

ch4ch4 11y ago
Is there going to be an area onsite for the hackathon?

p8gupta 11y ago

Great list of speakers!

taywall2 11y ago

Looks awesome. Looking forward to it!

reeseman 11y ago

Nice!

jaalkab 11y ago

Great!!! I will attend this!