Ashley Aitken
Entrepreneur, developer, academic, and trainer!
Perth, Australia
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Ashley is an entrepreneur, software developer, academic and professional trainer. He has a PhD in Computer Science and Software Engineering from UNSW and has 25 years experience in IT. He has delivered training courses around Australia, across SE Asia and in the US and UK. He has won awards and recognition from the ICT industry, academia, the federal government, and the student community for the quality and excellence of his teaching and professional training.
He is the CEO and co-founder of Acavista (HEDventures Pty Ltd), an edtech startup, and co-founder and Principal at Innovately.com.au, which provides services to assist with the application of Lean Startup and Customer Development principles and practices to the commercialisation of innovation in organisations from any sector, of any size, and at any level of maturity (including startups). He graduated from the Founder Institute and Curtin Accelerate startup accelerators.
He is currently building the software for his edtech startup Acavista using CQRS, ES, microservices, Akka, and React in Scala and JavaScript and has deployed on Google Cloud and Digital Ocean. He also provides consulting and training services in Lean Startup with Customer Development for companies and startups through Innovately.com.au. To give back to the community he runs the Lean Startup Perth meetup, presents at various meetups and conferences, and helps out with DDD Perth.
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Quantum Computing 101
What is all this talk about Quantum Computing? Will I have to learn a new language? What does it mean for my enterprise apps? My games?
Quantum Computing is a fascinating topic that will change the world of computing and, perhaps, even our world.
This talk will give an introduction to quantum computing, the current state of play, and what we can expect in the future, e.g. how it will affect IT jobs.
It’s all from a developer’s perspective and for developers but it will be understandable by anyone interested.
The presenter has a background in Theoretical Physics and IT.
Understand Functional Programming in 40 Minutes (or your Money Back*)
Functional programming is becoming increasingly important as we build more complex systems and use more parallel and concurrent programming. It’s also now present and being used more in mainstream languages like Java, C#, Swift and Javascript so it can no-longer be ignored by developers.
Have you tried to understand functional programming but been completely bamboozled? Or do you know what a function is and understand the basics of functional programming but wonder what’s with all the other stuff? It’s most likely the big picture hasn’t been explained, or at least not clearly enough.
This talk will give you a clear conceptual overview of functional programming with simple examples so that you will really get what it’s all about. There are consequences of only using functions and this is what makes functional programming very different from other programming paradigms.
This talk won’t use terms like functor, applicative, or monad but by the end of the talk you will definitely understand them. It also won’t make you a functional programmer overnight but it will give you a conceptual framework to know what you need to do and why when doing functional programming.
The presenter has more than twenty years experience explaining complex technical concepts in clear and simple terms.
(* not really but you’ll certainly get your money’s worth and more)
Ashley Aitken
Entrepreneur, developer, academic, and trainer!
Perth, Australia
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