Speakers & Presentations
The voices that took the stage at this CUSEC.
David Heinemeier Hansson
Creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner/CTO of Basecamp
Kathy Sierra
Programming educator and co-creator of the Head First book series
Chad Fowler
Connie Heitmeyer
Karine Roy
Patrick Ng
Aditya Thakur
Gang(George) Zhu
Robert Sabourin
Chris Laffra
Louenas Hamdi
Alex Hyder
Nancy Acemian
Dr. Peter Forbrig
Dr. Cem Kaner
Dr. Ahmed Seffah
Laurent Seiter
Orlando Marquez
Presentations
Creating Passionate Users
Kathy Sierra — Author and Publisher of O'Reilly's Head First series of books
Fight The Traffic
Chad Fowler — Author of "My Job Went To India" and "Rails Recipes"
Modular Concurrency
Peter Grogono — Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University
Rails is Boring and Ruby is a Toy
Chad Fowler — Author of "My Job Went To India" and "Rails Recipes"
Software Testing as a Social Science
Cem Kaner — Professor of Software Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology
Agile - Helping You Deliver More Useful Software
Francois Beauregard — VP Research and Development, Pyxis Technologies
Software Start Up
Laurent Seiter
The Challenge of Testing In A Creative Environment
Karine Roy — SQA Manager, Autodesk Media and Entertainment
Eclipse Performance
Chris Laffra — Rational Performance Engineering Team, IBM
Considering AJAX
Chris Laffra — Rational Performance Engineering Team, IBM
Organizing Team
The students who brought this conference to life.
John Kopanas
Chair
Mark Pavlidis
Director of Finance
Ahmed Kamel
Director of Keynote, Corporate and Tutorial Presentations
Ashraf Gaffar
Director of Academic and Paper Presentations
Neeraj Mathrani
Director of Corporate Sponsorship
Nadia Chaouch
Director of Logistics and Website
Michel Parisien
Director of Promotions
Sponsors
The partners who made this CUSEC possible.
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Proceedings, photos, and more from this CUSEC.