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Hello Everyone, we have some great content lined up look forward to seeing you all!
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Brian Leroux is the cofounder of http://begin.com , formerly of the Adobe PhoneGap team, and still hacking on Apache Cordova on the side.
Presentation: Building a serverless Slackbot using AWS Lambda and JS
Teams are increasingly moving to chat interfaces. Meanwhile devs are increasingly moving to serverless architectures. Lets combine these new shiny objects into a weird and wonderful thing. In this talk Brian will share lessons learned building as-of-yet-unreleased begin.com (http://begin.com/) bots. Building a serverless architecture comes with new challenges and opportunities for fun. We'll look at the Slack API, getting setup with AWS, deploying Lambda functions and the different ways to invoke them.
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Gabrielle Crevecoeur is a technical evangelist at Microsoft specializing in open source development. Her current focus is Node.js. Gabrielle is a recent graduate of Florida State University, where she majored in computer science. She plans to pursue a master’s in electrical engineering in the near future. When Gabrielle is not programming, you can find her playing video games or watching Netflix.
Abstract: Gabrielle will be presenting the Frozen NodeBot: a voice activated Elsa singing doll! She will introduce you to the basics of running Node on an Arduino and how to add manipulate different functionalities of the Arduino with Node and then how you can put this together to create a voice activated toy for your child!
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Alfred Tom is co-founder and CEO of Wivity ( http://wivity.com ). His most recent success was in the connected car space where he revamped GM's infotainment strategy and built the MirrorLink ( http://www.mirrorlink.com ) standard from the ground up with Wivity's other co-founder Jörg Brakensiek.
Presentation: If you own a Telsa Model S, chances are it has a slower wireless connection than a $20,000 Chevrolet Cruze. Why? Because when Telsa designed the Model S LTE didn’t exist. Telsa now charges customers $500+ to upgrade to LTE. Alfred will present a better solution- Wivity's wireless modems powered by the cloud that can be swapped just like an AA battery. With Wivity, Tesla could give its customers a DIY 4G replacement modem for <$100. In fact, Wivity's modems allow any type of device, not just cars, to have the best available connectivity in any location at any point in the product lifecycle.
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Can't wait to see you there.
Reza & Lindsay
Connected Devices SF