Presenters
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Matt Harris
Twitter
Matt, originally from England, now calls San Francisco home and is one of the Developer Advocates at Twitter. He can be found at BarCamps, Meetups and HackCamps between the two hemispheres helping developers and users build upon the Twitter API. A self confessed gadget guy who loves his Aibo (robot dog) and makes a delicious Beef Wellington.
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Matt Kelly
Facebook
Matt works on the Facebook Developer Network team as an engineer, helping developers make the web more social. He has over three years of Facebook Platform experience and has worked closely with more than a hundred partners including Spotify, Yelp, Pandora, BBC, and ESPN.
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Abraham Williams
abrah.am
Abraham is an awesome developer who has recently become a resident of Seattle. He spends the majority of his time creating projects that leverage web APIs, is an active member in various developer communities, and is a strong supporter of the open web. Abraham strives to attend a multitude of conferences, meetups, and hackathons, and in his spare time still manages to thwart his cat's assassination attempts.
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Jeff Lawson
Twilio
Jeff is the CEO and Cofounder of Twilio. He brings over 10 years of entrepreneurial product leadership experience, previously serving as Product Manager for Amazon Web Services; and has held founding executive roles for NineStar, Stubhub.com, and Versity.com.
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Oren Teich
Heroku
Oren has worked to make developers lives better for 12 years. From the first server appliance company, Cobalt Networks, through embedded company MontaVista, dearly departed Sun and now Heroku, Oren has been working in product, engineering and marketing to make sure developers don't hate. Oren is responsible for product at Heroku, where he tries daily to live up to the standards of simplicity and elegance that the founders scream about every day.
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Sam Ramji
Apigee
Sam's spent over 15 years working across enterprise software, product development and open source strategy. Currently VP of strategy at Apigee & board member at the CodePlex Foundation, Sam works deeply within the developer, open source and social app communities to create a healthier, more productive ecosystem. Prior to Apigee, Sam led open source strategy across Microsoft and was a founding member of the AquaLogic product team at BEA. In his spare time, Sam enjoys the great outdoors, spending time with the kids, and bacon.
Agenda
- 8:30a
- Breakfast & Setup Help
- 9:30a
- Welcome - Dave Nielsen
- 9:45a
- Sam Ramji, Apigee - Intro to Social Apps
- 10:00a
- Matt Kelly - Facebook Graph API
- 10:30a
- Coffee Break
- 10:45a
- Jeff Lawson - Twilio
- 11:00a
- Matt Harris - Twitter API
- 11:30a
- Oren Teich - Intro to Social App Dev
- 11:45a
- Coding Starts
- 12:30a
- Lunch
- 5:30p
- Project Review
- 6:30p
- Drinks




