Introduction to the Slack Platform and Bots

Welcome to the inaugural Melbourne Slack Platform Meetup!

Join us at Slack HQ for an evening of networking, learning, and yes, bots. Come for the delightful lineup of speakers to inspire your bot-building fancy, stay for the networking possibilities. We will also be offering a variety of both solid and liquid sustenance 🍖.

Seats are limited, so RSVP now!

To help you through our on-site registration process using Envoy and how to find us on the night, please include an email address when you RSVP.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

• 6:30 Doors open and Networking: Come meet fellow Slack developers and make some new connections

• 7:00 Presentations

• "Slack ⨉ Xero", Steven Cooper, Developer Relations, Xero

• "What is this Slack Platform Thing, And What Can I Do About It?" Don Goodman-Wilson, Developer Relations, Slack (San Francisco)

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Steven Cooper: Xero Senior Dev Evangelist. KiniSwimwear CTO. KingdomHackAU co-founder. International Speaker/MC/Hackathon Mentor/Judge. Geek tech-head able to code tall buildings in a single bound. Prev PayPal Braintree.

Don Goodman-Wilson is a Senior Developer Advocate on the Developer Relations team at Slack. He loves living in the interfaces between layers, whether it’s bridging languages, systems, or developers. Prior to hacking on Slack’s Platform, Don has worked with streaming media, embedded hardware, the model railroading industry, and academic philosophy. He enjoys statically typed languages and sailing, and lives with his wife and daughter in California.

(Seating is strictly limited to 60—please consider others who might want to attend when considering whether to RSVP.)