FP Days is organised by Software Acumen, based in Cambridge, England. We specialise in practical events for the software community. Please email [spam-blocked email address] to contact us directly. We welcome your questions and comments. You may also call +44 (0)1223 900107 if you have questions or comments about the event. CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS We're very pleased to announce Michael Brunton-Spall (@bruntonspall) and Francesco Cesarini (@FrancescoC) as our keynote speakers for this year's conference. Michael Brunton-Spall Keynote: Functional pragmatism Michael Brunton-Spall is the Developer Advocate for the Guardian. He has worked at the Guardian for three years now, helping to build and scale the website. He has spent a lot of time helping to setup and run the platform team that manages internal, behind the scenes, performance and scalability issues. As a Developer Advocate, Michael speaks at conferences, organises conferences, supports users of the APIs and does training. Read more about Michael's keynote. Francesco Cesarini Keynote: What they do not teach you about running a business when taking your computer science degree Francesco Cesarini is the founder of Erlang Solutions Ltd. He has used Erlang on a daily basis since 1995, starting as an intern at Ericsson�s computer science laboratory, the birthplace of Erlang. He moved on to Ericsson�s Erlang training and consulting arm working on the first release of OTP, applying it to turnkey solutions and flagship telecom applications. In 1999, soon after Erlang was released as open source, he founded Erlang Solutions, who have become the world leaders in Erlang based consulting, contracting, training and systems development. Read more about Francesco's keynote. SPEAKER SLIDES Some of our speakers were kind enough to make their slides freely available after the event. VENUE FP Days 2012 took place at the Pitt Building conference centre in Central Cambridge.