February 2012 Event

Tuesday 7 Feb 2012 from 5:30pm at NZi3, Creyke Road, Christchurch.

Free for members, $10 on the door for non-members.

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Speakers:

Aaron Green, CEO Streamtime

Business stream: Lessons from Australia – growing your digital business across the ditch

To state that Aaron is a fan of Apple would be the classic understatement. His loyalty to the brand and its direction has been evident in the alignment of Apple and Streamtime. Steve Jobs is one of Aaron's favourite mentors, with every word, innovation and insight being closely followed, remembered and often implemented.

Our market is a rather exclusive group. Creatives. They are similar in everything except often their native tongue. Aaron has spent the best part of 20 years understanding how they operate, how they access information and how they may need help. His work with Apple and PPS were pivotal in gaining first hand experience of creatives and production houses at work. His travels prior to Streamtime led him across the world to study their patterns. Like so many other success stories, Aaron went to find a product to suit his employer at the time, and finding none suitable, wrote his own, which in most parts is still in use today. That formed the basis of an idea that what would later become Streamtime. Aaron's vision and 24/7 dedication is the reason for Streamtime's attention to detail and current market success. He is a tireless CEO constantly searching for new ways to improve, new insights to listen to and new features to add.

On a personal note, Aaron enjoys work - oh, and travel.

Bryn Lewis

Technical stream: Real-world Windows Azure

Bryn Lewis is a Christchurch-based software developer and consultant specialising in mobile and Microsoft Windows Azure application development. Over the last 20+ years he has spent in the industry he has worked on projects ranging from power station control systems, mobile radio, location based systems, finance, retail travel, online gambling, and vouchers.

Bryn has been working with Windows Azure since mid 2010 building custom applications for clients. He has also worked with other clients to port their existing applications to the platform. During the projects he has learned first-hand the strengths but also some of the gotchas of development for Microsoft Windows Azure.

Bryn will be talking about ever-increasing capabilities of the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud platform and pointing out tips and tricks - the session will be kept as interactive as possible so come along with your questions!