The Inaugural and Awesome AngularJS Toronto Meetup

AngularJS is taking the web application development world by storm and for good reason. Come to our inaugural meet up to hear six great sessions and learn why. I'm also excited to announce that after 3 weeks we are already the 10th largest AngularJS meetup on Earth (http://angularjs.meetup.com).

The Inaugural and Awesome Agenda

We have a great line up of speakers, including talks from http://rangle.io (next-gen web architecture and development), http://MoPals.com (a social media loyalty platform), http://uken.com (cross-platform mobile gaming), and http://TrialFire.com (a startup changing how cloud software vendors drive new business).

Also attending will be Matias Niemelä from Google's AngularJS team (http://angularjs.org/) and of http://www.yearofmoo.com blogging fame. Matias will be showing some of the new features regarding ngAnimate and full-scale animations in AngularJS and will be happy to answer questions from attendees regarding AngularJS.

The event will be at Polar Mobile (http://polarmobile.com/), a company defining the future of mobile media with a cloud-based media publishing and application development platform for mobile devices.

Doors open at 7:00pm.

7:00 - Arrivals and Introductions
Arrive, say hi, get comfortable. From 7:10pm or so there will be a few 2 minute intro talks from attendees who aren't presenting but have interesting AngularJS projects to share.

7:20 - The 5D's of AngularJS - Nick Van Weerdenburg, http://rangle.io
Nick will give a high-level overview of why AngularJS is so impressive, why it is so different, and why you should care.

Nick is an experienced consultant and developer who has been building, selling marketing, and deploying web applications since 1996. He thinks AngularJS is insanely great.

7:40 - AngularJS for Social Media Startups - Andrew Leschinsky and Arsen Tumanyan, http://MoPals.com
http://MoPals.com is a miles-driven loyalty platform that rewards you for your social media engagement. They have been using AngularJS for 5 months and will share their experiences and excitement regarding AngularJS.

Andrew Leshinksy is the CTO of MoPals.com and Arsen Tumanyan is the Project manager.

8:00 - BREAK

8:10 - AngularJS In Your Pocket, http://uken.com
Uken is using angular to build their newest games and are super excited about it. Topics will include AngularJS for mobile, non-http protocol for server communication, and using advanced CSS3 animations.

Uken is one of the only true cross platform gaming companies around. We build fun social and mobile games that make people stare, smile, jump, and feel awesome inside.

8:30 - AngularJS and the Scala Play Framework - Max Kremer, TrialFire (http://trialfire.com)
Max will give an introduction to application development with AngularJS and the Scala Play Framework for Java, applying the knowledge, paradigms and patterns learned from a decade of application development on the J2EE stack.

Max is an entrepreneur and software developer. He was the co-founder of Datastay (acquired by Autodesk (http://Autodesk.com) in 2011) and is a co-founder of Trialfire (http://Trialfire.com) (seeded May 2013), a startup dedicated to changing how cloud software companies drive new business.

8:50 - ngAnimate and Full-scale Animations in AngularJS - Matias Niemelä, http://www.yearofmoo.com
Matias will give an overview of the new ng-animate and full-scale animation features in AngularJS

Matias Niemelä lives in Toronto but works for Google with the core AngularJS team. He runs a popular blog at http://www.yearofmoo.com and can be found on twitter at @yearofmoo (https://twitter.com/yearofmoo).

9:10 - Closing Comments - Nick Van Weerdenburg, http://rangle.io