January Meet: Educating aspiring audio devs and a agentic audio plugin framework

Save the date: on 13th January we will host the next iteration of our monthly Audio Developer Meetup where Jan Wilczek from WolfSound and Oli Larkin from iPlug/Ableton will be giving talks. See below!

As always, there will be a chance to network over drinks and pizza. Anyone interested in Audio development is welcome!

Doors open at 18:00, talks start at 18:15.

Please note: Attendance is strictly limited to people who have RSVP'd.
You will receive further instructions on how to attend once RSVP'd.

Talk details:

From Zero to Hero in Audio Programming: Building an Education Business in the Audio Space - Jan Wilczek
“How do I get a programming job at an audio plugin company?”—that’s the question that I get most often (maybe apart from “Are you German?”).
To beginners, the audio industry appears to be an inclusive, invite-only community of privileged people who can do what they love every day: write code that processes sound. Regardless of whether that’s true, there’s a lot we can do to make audio development more accessible, benefiting both insiders and outsiders.
This talk will show you how you can:

• leverage your existing experience to raise your competitive advantage on the audio development job market
• improve your learning process to sharpen your coding skills
• position yourself as an expert in the field and helping others at the same time
• enter the audio industry if you’re just starting out
• accelerate your audio development career

Since the talk won’t be very technical, it is suitable for beginners and industry veterans alike.

Jan is an audio programming consultant and educator, the creator of TheWolfSound blog and YouTube channel dedicated to audio programming. He is the author of "DSP Pro," an online course on digital audio signal processing, and a co-author of the official JUCE audio plugin development course. He also offers coaching and software development services related to audio plugins and audio software. Jan works from home in Katowice, Poland.

iPlug3 - A modern cross platform audio plug-in framework for the agentic era - Oli Larkin
In this short talk Oli Larkin will give a sneak peak of his latest audio plug-in framework, a green field project designed for the latest AI coding tools.

Oli Larkin is a software engineer at Ableton where he works on a team bringing machine learning features to Live, including sound similarity and most recently stem separation. He's also a prolific contributor to open-source audio projects over the last 20 years, and is passionate about spatial audio and XR. He has worked with many artists in this domain. He has developed his own successful audio plug-in products (VirtualCZ, Endless Series), as well as working with brands such as Arturia, Focusrite and Roli on well known products. Oli maintains iPlug2 (and before that WDL-OL) which many other developers use to realize their projects. He is the co-author of the original WebAudioModules v1 (2015), and with the work he presents today, hopes to continue this tradition of innovation in the audio plug-in space.