Big Software Names Coming to Sydney and Brisbane

Senior Architects from Yahoo, Microsoft, IBM and Google will be travelling from all over the world to present at this year’s JAOO conference held in Sydney and Brisbane in early May.
The strong partnership between the Queensland University of Technology, Dave Thomas of Bedarra Research Labs and JAOO Conferences has made the conference return to Australia in 2009, giving Australian software professionals the opportunity to learn from some of the world’s best IT gurus.

JAOO invites international product and application architects, thought leaders and authors with unique industry expertise to give in depth tutorials on current and emerging technologies and practices.

Attendees to JAOO can get ahead of their competitors by learning about the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to methods, practices and experiences in design and architecture.

This year's program will focus on Web 2.0, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Platforms, Architect and Design and Agile Development Practices.

Australian software professionals will get the chance to interact with Clemens Szyperski, Software Architect Microsoft Olso modeling platform, Joshua J Bloch, Chief Java Architect at Google, Douglas Crockford, JavaScript Architect at Yahoo, Dan North inventor of Behaviour Driven Development and Principal Consultant from ThoughtWorks and Michael T Nygard, author of “Release It!”.

JAOO Australia gives attendees the chance to network with the best software developers from Australia and all over the world without the cost of overseas travel.

"The attendees will have the chance to really pick the brains of the presenters coming to the conference as they stay for the duration of the four day event", which is a unique aspect to JAOO according to Dave Thomas, Chairman Bedarra Research Labs Pty and co-organiser of JAOO Australia.

"A conference of this calibre rarely reaches Australia's shores, it's a once a year opportunity for the best of the best to meet up", said Mr Thomas.

Since 1996, Trifork has organized JAOO and by creating events "for developers, by developers" JAOO is highly regarded by both participants and speakers.

JAOO originally stood for "Java and Object-Oriented" but today JAOO has evolved into a more in-depth conference with a wider set of content than just Java-based technologies.

JAOO will be in Sydney May 5-8 and in Brisbane May 11-14.