What is Angular and why should we be interested in AngularJS 2.0

The talk will cover the background and history of where Angular came from, what Version1 delivered, and what is being delivered in Version2. It will also touch on the Google Developers Network, and discuss a little about the ‘founding team’ members from Google (and the open source community/contributors) including Brad Green - the current engineering director at Google responsible for the product

Agenda:

6.00 - 6.30 Networking, Beer and Pizza

6.30 - 6.40 What is a "Google Developers Group"

6.40 - 6.50 The GDG Hants & Surrey Organising Team

6.50 - 7.50 What is Angular and why should we be interested in AngularJS 2.0

Speaker: Bruce Pentreath

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Bruce has over 40 years in the IT profession, specialising in application development, management and optimisation. With a deep practical background and experience in Agile and Waterfall methods; Bruce consults to Fortune 500 and Startups on future and current technology stacks; application frameworks and toolkits for application development platforms; for applications that run on a wide variety of OS and hardware platforms

7.50 - 8.30 More Networking, Beer and Pizza