As mentioned before, I will be hosting an
Ignite at Google
I/O on Wednesday, May 27 from 4:15-5:15pm at Moscone West in San Francisco. I'm
happy to announce the following nine speakers who will be joining me onstage. In no particular
order, here they are - as well as a preview of what they'll be presenting during their five
minutes in the hot seat:
Leo Dirac - Transhumanism
Morality Why only geeks and hippies can save the world.
Michael
Driscoll - Hacking Big Data with the Force of Open
Source The world is streaming billions of data points per minute. This is
Big Data ? capital B, capital D. But capturing data isn't enough. We need tools to make sense
of it, to help us better understand -- and predict -- what we click and consume. We want to
make hypotheses about the world. And to test hypotheses, we need statistics. We need
R.
Pamela
Fox - My Dad, the Computer Scientist: Growing up
Geek
Tim Ferriss - The
Case for Just Enough: Minimalism Metrics Looking at how removing options
and elements gets better conversions, etc., looking at screenshots of start-ups I'm working
with and real numbers. Some humor (I hope) and fun, both philosophical and
tactical.
Nitin
Borwankar - Law of Gravity for Scaling Why did
Twitter have scaling problems? I spent 6 months thinking deeply about this and derived a
simple formula that a high school student would understand. It demonstrates where the center
of gravity is moving in the "Next Web" and why this aggregation of CPU's is even bigger than
Google's. And oh yes, it explains how to build a service that scales to 100 million
CPU's.
Kevin
Marks - Why are we bigoted about Social
networks?
Andrew Hatton - Coding against
Cholera I'll examine what IT life is like on the front line with Oxfam, a
humanitarian agency, and how good code can make a real difference to people's lives in all
sorts of ways..some of them surprising..
Robin Sloan - How to Predict the
Future OK, back in 2004 I made a video called "EPIC 2014," predicting the future of media (and
Google). It turned out to be 100% CORRECT. No, just kidding. But it made a lot of people
think, which is really the point of talking about the future. Turns out there's a whole
professional discipline of future forecasting. And there are certain ways you can think about
the future that will give you better odds of being right than others.
