Language of the Cloud

A free event discussing the pros and cons of using various programming languages in both web application development and distributed computing.

The format of the evening will be a number of speakers, each presenting the pros and cons of using their given language for cloud computing, followed by a panelled debate, with audience participation.
The event should be a lot of fun, with drinks, pizza and areas away from the main talks for general chat and discussion. The preliminary timetable is as follows:

Agenda

1830-1900- Food and Drinks Reception

1900-2015 - Speaker Slots

2030-2115 - Battle of the languages

The languages that will be debated are:

Scala
Hive and Shell scripting
Groovy and Grails
JRuby
C#

We are pleased to announce the identities of our guest speakers:

7.00: Channing Walton: Scala
7.15: Ludwik Grodzki: Shell scripting and Hive
7.30: Tom Fuller: Groovy and Grails
7.45: Ben Summers: JRuby
8.00: Paul Mardling: Java