Adil Wali naps a lot. He gets bored easily and likes to have fun, so he starts companies. He's never had a 'real job.' He's been a founder or investor in a bunch of stuff that's failed. The stuff that hasn't: ClearGears, ModCloth, Crowd Interactive, Kemists.
Location: Guinness Storehouse
Located in the heart of the St James's Gate Brewery, GUINNESS STOREHOUSE® is Ireland's No. 1 tourist attraction. This historical building is central to Dublin's and Ireland's heritage, and has been continually updated to create a blend of fascinating industrial tradition with a contemporary edge. Its staff will be pleased to welcome you and bring alive a real segment of Irish history.
Day 1:
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Training Sessions: -
A full day of training that will include sessions aimed at improving both your Rails and Spree skills. Sessions will cover: Spree, Backbone.js, Coffeescript and testing.
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Tour of the Guinness Storehouse: -
A private group tour of the place where they make the world famous Guinness beer. Like any good tour, this one ends with a free sample!
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Lightning Talks: -
A series of ten minute lightning talks in the conference hotel bar, this is an opportunity to publicly share interesting things you are working on in Spree as well as suggest your ideas on how to improve things.
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Happy Hour: -
Enjoy a relaxing happy hour with your fellow conference attendees at the hotel bar. The first few rounds are on the house courtesy of Github!
Day 2:
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Talks & Keynote: -
The main event featuring talks from our speakers on a wide range of Spree, ecommerce and Rails related topics. Finished off with our Keynote presentation to be announced shortly.
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The Afterparty: -
Join us after the conference for a few hours of drinking and lively debate! The Spree team will be in attendance along with most of our speakers.
Speakers
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Adil Wali: Kemists
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Yehuda Katz: Tilde Inc.
Yehuda Katz is a member of the Ember.js, Ruby on Rails and jQuery Core Teams; he spends his daytime hours at the startup he founded, Tilde Inc.. Yehuda is the co-author of the best-selling jQuery in Action, Rails 3 in Action, and is a contributor to Ruby in Practice.
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Gregg Pollack: Envy Labs
Gregg Pollack believes that everyone deserves more cake and ice cream. Also, he gets most of his happiness from his family, taking lots of trips to DisneyWorld, watching theatre, and working at Envy Labs in Orlando, Florida.
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Nick Gauthier
Nick Gauthier is the author of "Recipes with Backbone", an e-book covering intermediate to advanced design patterns for Backbone.js. He is a Baltimore-based freelance web developer, consultant, and trainer. He also specializes in Ruby on Rails, and has been writing Rails apps since Rails 1.3.
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Paul Campbell: Hypertiny
Paul Campbell is a passionate web developer from Dublin. He runs Hypertiny, a small, agile Rails shop. He's the curator of Funconf and Úll.
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Daniel Honig: DirectNorth.biz
Daniel Honig is a software architect and developer with over 15 years of experience, he's been involved with Spree for the past 3 years with multiple deployments in hand, most notably for Chipotle Mexican Grill.
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Sean Schofield: Spree Commerce
Creator of the Spree project, which is the most popular e-commerce solution for Ruby/Rails. Experienced programmer and entrepreneur. Over a decade working with open source in both Ruby and Java. Member of the Apache Software Foundation as well as a committer on several popular Apache projects including Struts.
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Erik Michaels Ober
Erik Michaels-Ober is an entrepreneur and software developer who lives in San Francisco. He is the author of MerbAdmin, RailsAdmin, MultiXML, and the MLB gem and contributes to many open source projects including RubyGems.org, Travis-CI.org, Thor, Bundler, and many others.
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Ryan Bigg: Spree Commerce
Known for his exceptional grasp of the English and Ruby languages (both of which he can speak fluently, sometimes while sleeping), Ryan has combined the two into a book called Rails 3 in Action he is co-authoring with Rails core team member Yehuda Katz.
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Brian Quinn: Spree Commerce
Brian is the cofounder and CTO of Spree Commerce. He has been using Ruby for fun and profit for several years now (before Rails 1.0.) He is long contributor to Spree and the author of the innovative Deface project.
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Chris Mar: Spree Commerce
Chris has been engineering software for 15 years. He has a masters in computer science and has been working with Rails since 2006. He is a member of the Spree Core team and believes building online stores should be easy and fun.
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Scott Ford: Rails Dog
M. Scott Ford is a Senior Developer with Rails Dog. There he builds Spree stores and extensions for customers. Scott learned advanced testing techniques while working on the X-31, an experimental jet fighter, in 2001-2003.
Hotel: Fitzwilliam Dublin Hotel
Join the Spree team and all of our speakers at the Fitzwilliam Dublin Hotel, in the heart of Dublin city. There are a limited number of rooms available at a discounted rate of €165 per night, whichs includes a full Irish breakfast every morning (and all taxes).
Transportation: Klarna Bus
There is complementary bus service between the hotel and the conference thanks to Klarna, one of Europe’s leading providers of payment solutions for e-commerce. The service will operate between the Fitzwilliam Hotel and the Guinness Storehouse on both days of the conference.
The service will start at 8:30 AM on Wednesday, and 7:30 AM on Thursday.
