Re: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Keynote suggestions

[Bernd Kolb <b.kolb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know, I asked him last year as well. His assistent asked me if we
would be fine with somebody else from amazon as well and I told her
that we'd like to have Werner...


Grady Booch might be interesting as well. Have you been in contact
with him / Do you know him in person?

Bernd

2011/5/17 Ian Skerrett <ian.skerrett@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I think Martin Odersky talking about Scala would be interesting and
> technical.    You might also consider someone like Grady Booch, who I hear
> is a very good speaker.
>
> fwiw, we once asked Werner Vogels to talk at EclipseCon Santa Clara.   He
> delegated to someone on his team and the presentation turned out to be a
> not-so-great product pitch for AWS.
>
>
>
> On 5/17/2011 7:47 AM, Bernd Kolb wrote:
>
> Martin sounds definitely interesting. Can you please add him to the wiki?
>
>
> The problem with keynotes is typically that it is hard to find good
> ones which do not cost (much) money. Thus we need to think early about
> them.
>
> Another one which just came to my mind ist Werner Vogels, CTO of
> Amazon. He could probably say some interesting things about cloud
> computing. (Although we had that as a topic last year).
>
> For me a keynote can be out of our typical boxes. So if it has nothing
> to do with Eclipse (or even IT) it still might be a good keynote. It
> should be something people remember (in a positive way ;-)) and can
> think about for a few hours.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bernd
>
> 2011/5/17 Alexander Neumann <ane@xxxxx>:
>
> Hi Bernd,
>
> Very difficult to find someone. The last keynotes held by "famous" people I
> have seen were too disappointed (Martin Fowler, Robert C. Martin at OOP for
> example). The good keynotes I've seen the last years were at Eclipse Summit
> ;-)
>
> I normally would prefer listening to David Anderson, the Kanban founder. But
> he's too focused on his topic, an Kanban isn't a Eclipse thing.
>
> Maybe Martin Odersky could be interesting  for a technical talk. He has made
> some experiences in improving the Scala Eclipse IDE.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alexander
>
> Am 17.05.2011 12:50, schrieb Bernd Kolb:
>
> Hi,
> here are my keynote suggestions:
> 1) Simon Sinek
>    http://www.startwithwhy.com/
>
>  http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html
>
> 2) Steven Sasseville -->  I talked to him already. In general he would
> be interested
>     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl_V-UpcSPQ
>     http://www.cosalux.de/
>
>
> Both are rather none-technical.
>
> I am looking forward to your proposals
>
> Best regards,
> Bernd
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