Speakers
- Venkat Subramaniam
- Brian Sletten
- Ken Sipe
- Matthew McCullough
- Neal Ford
- Laurie Williams
- Nathaniel Talbott
- Kevin Smith
- Brian Sam-Bodden
- Johanna Rothman
- Christopher Redinger
- Bob Payne
- Russ Olsen
- Andrea O. K. Wright
- Joe O'Brien
- Carl Lerche
- Rich Kilmer
- Yehuda Katz
- David Hussman
- Chad Fowler
- Esther Derby
- Rick DeNatale
- David Bock
- Clifford Berg
Brian Sletten
Forward Leaning Software Engineer
Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on using and evangelizing forward-leaning technologies. He has a background as a system architect, a developer, a security consultant, a mentor, a team lead, an author and a trainer and operates in all of those roles as needed. His experience has spanned the online game, defense, finance, academic, hospitality, retail and commercial domains. He has worked with a wide variety of technologies such as network matrix switch controls, 3D simulation/visualization, Grid Computing, P2P and Semantic Web-based systems. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary. He is President of Bosatsu Consulting, Inc. and lives in Los Angeles, CA.
He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries.