Speakers

The following is a list of people attending Creative Camp who will be speaking on the day, along with details of their talks (where available).

If you would like to give a talk, workshop or presentation on the day then don’t hesitate to register as a speaker. When filling out the form, please indicate whether you would like a morning or an afternoon slot. If you’re flexible, all the better again.

Talks & Details

• Outsourcing your development workload to free your creative time
  A talk by Damien Beresford (Tax123.ie) on outsourcing your personal workload, rather than big company to company outsourcing.

• Branding an Arts organisation from the inside
  A talk by Mary Carty (Arts Officer for County Meath) providing some insights into the ongoing process, reasoning and importance of branding an arts office within a county council.

• GPS For Developers
  A talk by Brian White on making use of GPS in your applications. From interfacing with your device, parsing position and time data through to calculating distance.

• Writing and promoting your book with social media
  A talk by Krishna De on how to bring that book inside you to life. Loads of practical advice on how to publish and promote a book using the internet.

• How To Blog Like A Boy
  An afternoon talk by Sabrina Dent; Women come to blogging from a different socialisation, communication and linguistic background than male bloggers, and enter a slightly different ecosystem with distinct advantages and disadvantages. “How to Blog Like a Boy” looks at how women can free their voices, raise their blog profiles, and position themselves as a bloggers of authority in Ireland.

• The Art Of Software Development
  A talk by Joe Drumgoole on software development as a creative rather than an engineering process. “Much time has been spent trying to knock the creativity out of software development and produce a “manufacturing process” that can stamp out widgets. However the invariably produces fiascoes like the HSE system debacle. However a more artistic approach seems to result in genuinely successful software, to wit, linux, wordpress, emacs etc. etc.”

• Work in Progress: Creating a vibrant, connected Arts Community in the South East
  A morning talk by Cathy Fitzgerald on the challenges and opportunities behind creating a vibrant on and off-line community.

• How Friends Communicate
  With “friending” people taking on new connotations as electronic social networking degrades the term, Walter Higgins and Bernie Goldbach chat about the way true friends really behave when online. Their conversation ranges into spam they’ve received, invitations they never sent, and their opinion on vanquishing toxic gatekeepers on the internet.

• GPS Drawing
  A talk from Gary Delaney on GPS drawing, using GPS to create geographic pictures on the Earth’s Surface as undertaken by transition year students in Carrigaline Community School for 4 years now. See here for more details.

• Building and working in a distributed startup.
  A talk from John O’Shea on building and working in a distributed startup. One of the challenges with establishing a small company is that the skills you want to hire may not be where you are. You can work around this by taking on telecommuters and/or outsourcing to remote partners. Distributed teams can be incredibly productive but only if a little leg work is done in advance and on an ongoing basis. This is a talk on how to build and work in small, happy, distributed teams of creative folks while keeping track of who is doing what with minimal management overhead. The goal of the talk is to share some very simple practices that will hopefully help your teams works like they would if they were sitting next to each other.

• Creative Ways To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
  In building that bad boy of the IT carbon footprints, the data centre, Cork Internet eXchange (www.cix.ie) came up with very creative ways to reduce the data centre’s carbon footprint and thus reduce operating costs! In this talk CIX director Tom Raftery outlines some of those strategies.

• Personalisation and the Social Web
  Is the future of the web all about you? Are we heading towards a personalization of the Web? From recommendations to transparency in Music to travel destinations and locations, what direction is the new social Web heading? Ina O’Murchu presents.

• Geolocation Problems In Ireland
  A morning talk headed up by Conor O’Nolan on problems with geolocation within Ireland. Locating a user via their Ip number is very hit and miss in Ireland. The difficulty stems from how the ISPs use their IP allocations. This has implications for local ecommerce, personalisation etc.

• Managing Projects with Scrum
  Scrum is one of the agile software development processes. However, you could use it for managing any kind of project. Scrum is a low-tech, low-overhead alternative to Gannt charts and other complex project management “stuff”. Gerard Hartnett presents this one.

• Use Your Voice to Increase Your Creative Potential
  In addition to being one of your major communication tools, did you know your voice can also be used to:
  - Improve your problem solving and decision making abilities
  - Promote relaxation
  - Help you focus and concentrate more sharply and stimulate your creativity. Michelle Bailly is travelling from Galway to give this session.

• Mobile and Online TV - Challenges and Opportunities
  Eamonn Carey (eamonncarey.typepad.com) of Random Thoughts Media looks at the opportunities for companies, brands and individuals to get involved in everything from mo-blogging to series creation….

• The Semantic Web - what is it and how can it be used by an online service?
  Jan Blanchard (http://blog.touristr.com/) of Touristr explains what the phrase semantic web actually means. And more importantly how and when it can be used by emerging web based services.

• Pooling Resources To Support & Inspire Creativity
  Rachel Rath (The Attic Studio) will talk about the positives of pooling resources and contacts in you area to support and inspire creativity.

• Panel Discussion: Women & Technology - grabbing the blogosphere by the balls
  An afternoon panel discussion facilitated by Krishna De on women & technology (as titled above).The panel includes Elly Parker, Sabrina Dent, Martha Rotter & Alexia Golez Ina O’Murchu.