Speaker 1 - Grant Smith (formerly AOL, Playfish / Electronic Arts, British Gas Hive Home)



Grant will talk about leading operations teams at various companies through periods of rapid growth. The most recent being the successful launch of the British Gas Hive Home project in a staggeringly small window of time. He'll draw parallels between his experiences and hopefully give us some insight into what it's like to work in some of these high pressured environments.



Speaker 2 - Jozef Ve (MPC)



Jozef will talk about building a new generation of distributed services framework called Amanda at MPC. MPC is a leading visual FX company that works with extremely high volumes of data and a vast array of computing power. This talk gives a behind the scenes (sorry) look at how art assets get processed at scale. And like all good talks it includes plenty of metrics!



Speaker 3 - Dave Allison (hotels.com)



Dave will discuss how the hotels.com architecture has evolved over the years to meet the demands of the business. Taking us on a technical journey from the beginning until the present day. He'll also talk about how the teams have needed to adapt and grow over the years. And what he's seen as the common pain points and ways they have found to combat them.



Once the talks have finished their will be free pizza/beer/ale and a chance to mingle.