Smalltalk in Cologne

The Cincom Star team will be traveling to Cologne, Germany this weekend for the Tuesday (June 2nd) one day Conference - you can join us there by registering (free), or just walking in - we'll be at the Marriott:

Marriott Cologne
Johannisstrasse 76-80
50668 Cologne
Germany

Phone: 49 221 942220

Here's the Agenda for the event:

9:00 --10:00 Continental Breakfast & Registration

10:00 --10:15 Welcome
Speaker: Suzanne Fortman, Smalltalk Program Director, Cincom Systems, Inc. A friendly greeting by the Smalltalk Program Director for Cincom, Suzanne Fortman.

10:15 --10:55 Smalltalk --Yes We Can
Speaker: Georg Heeg, Smalltalk Industry Council Executive Director
For more than 30 years, Smalltalk has been alive and powerful, agile and stable, modern and solid, flexible and fast, and adaptable to any new requirement. When someone walks up to a Smalltalker with a 130-year-long unsolved problem, the Smalltalker's answer is "yes, we can." In this exciting session, learn the amazing history and current successes of Cincom Smalltalk from Georg Heeg, the Executive Director of the Smalltalk Industry Council.

10:55 --11:35 Making Hard Problems Simple
Speaker: James Robertson, Smalltalk Product Evangelist, Cincom Systems, Inc.
In a down economy, the rules for business are changing. In this introduction to Cincom Smalltalk, James Robertson, the Smalltalk Product Evangelist, will discuss how Smalltalk is ideally suited for users who need to build custom applications that support complex, rapidly changing business requirements.

11:35 --11:50 Break

11:50 --12:40 Increasing Productivity with Limited Resources
Speaker: Dirk Verleysen, Senior Software Engineer, Cincom Systems, Inc.
The faster an application can get to market, the less time and money is wasted in development, resulting in a quicker return on your investment. Dirk Verleysen, a Senior Software Engineer for Cincom Smalltalk, explains how to accomplish this by simplifying the development process.

12:40 --1:30 Better, Faster, Cheaper --Attainable Goals in Software Development
Speaker: Arden Thomas, Smalltalk Product Manager, Cincom Systems, Inc.
With efficiency becoming the battle cry for most companies these days, everyone is being squeezed for faster work on a tighter budget. In this informative talk, Arden Thomas, the Smalltalk Product Manager, will demonstrate how Cincom's VisualWorks can help you attain these seemingly impossible goals.

1:30 --2:30 Lunch

2:30 --3:10 Agile Web Programming
Speaker: Arden Thomas, Smalltalk Product Manager, Cincom Systems, Inc.
In this compelling preview, Arden Thomas, the Smalltalk Product Manager, will introduce the blazing fast web development speed of Cincom's latest Smalltalk product release --Web Velocity

3:15 --3:30 Next Steps
Speaker: Smalltalk STAR Team
Open discussions, Q & A, Surveys.

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