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CreateWorld Keynote Speakers Announced

We’re delighted to announce that Natalie Rusk and Adam Jefford will be taking part in this year’s CreateWorld event.

Natalie is a Research Scientist in the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, where she develops creative learning initiatives. She is one of the creators of Scratch, a graphical coding language that enables young people to create their own interactive stories, animations, and games, and share them with others around the world in a creative online community.

Adam is the Head of Creative Industries at Pimpama State Secondary College and a past Queensland-Smithsonian (Cooper-Hewitt) Design Museum Fellow, In 2016, Adam was awarded a Good Design Award (one of Australia’s most prestigious and diverse design assessment programs) for Jump Start – a design thinking and social entrepreneurship program empowering school students to make a positive change in the world through design-led creativity and entrepreneurial endeavours.

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CreateWorld Call for Participation

CreateWorld is our 2 day performance, presentation, and professional development event, specifically for academics, teachers and technical and staff who work in the digital arts disciplines.

CreateWorld 2016 will take place at Griffith University, South Bank, Brisbane on December 8-9th.

The conference features a wide range of academic and technical presenters from the tertiary education and industry sectors, and includes several keynotes, panel sessions, hypotheticals, hands-on technical workshops, and regular presentation sessions.

The organising committee has issued a call for participation and are seeking posters, papers, performances, exhibitions, workshops and presentation sessions.

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Avoiding Icebergs

Berry Mak & Rob Distefano (JAMF Support Engineers)Part of XW16

Just as most of an icebergs mass is hidden underwater, a lot of Casper’s functionality is hidden away under cover. Learn how to fix problems when things go wrong, by using advanced troubleshooting and diagnostic techniques such as debug logs and database massages.

Planning Project Migrations to Swift

Stephen Tramer, AOLPart of DW16

As Swift becomes a more powerful and refined language, and Objective-C code begins to show its age, developers should be planning to perform code base migrations over to the new language. This talk covers the practical aspects of creating and then implementing just such a plan, and topics will include such aspects as designing cross-language compatible APIs, writing glue code, where to begin the rewrite in a source base, and type compatibility issues.

Stephen Tramer has been programming computers for a long time now, but he used to be a maths teacher. Right now he works as a platform lead on iOS SDKs. Everything he knows about Australia he learned from watching LONG WEEKEND and RAZORBACK.

Accessibility in the Land of Mac [The Good, The Bad, The Voice Over]

Aimee MareePart of DW16

This talk covers the nuances of developing accessible websites and mobile applications that run on IOS and OSX devices.

Every iPhone, iPad and Mac come with a set of assistive technologies and tools installed to help people with disabilities use their devices. As a developer you have access to these technologies when building your application or website. By tapping into the accessibility tool set in OSX and IOS as a developer you can better assure that people with disabilities can have a positive user experience and in some case it can be as vital as accessing the application at all.

This talk will look at the accessibility features on both OSX and iOS and show some code examples of how you can access these tools as a developer. We will also take some time to access a website on OSX with Safari through Apple’s Voice Over Screen Reader tool. The aim of this talk is to educate developers and help them understand that accessibility engineering is not a scary world of compliance and degraded design, but an exciting engineering process that challenges your thoughts on just what usability means in inclusive design.

Aimee Maree is not a self confessed Mac Addict, but she is a self confessed accessibilty advocate and engineer. Spending the past 15 years working across various areas of technology, her passions are mentoring new developers, teaching kids to code, architecting web and mobile applications and gardening.

Her recent experience has been recently working large projects as an accessibilty engineer and writing code to comply with Safari and Voice Over. She has been a user of assistive technologies for many years and has recently became a mac user/developer.

Add Some (Augmented) Reality to Your App

Matt Gray, The Australian National UniversityPart of DW16

This talk will look at adding augmented reality (AR) to your iOS and Android apps. We will look at existing frameworks that you can use, as well as the basics for making your own AR code from scratch. VR and AR are hyped to be the ‘next big thing’ – make your app buzzword enabled today!

Matt has been a programmer at The Australian National University forever. Recently he decided to switch to part time work, so he now spends much more time relaxing in a hammock.

Creating Neural Networks with the Accelerate Framework

Axton PittPart of DW16

Machine learning is the a bubbling topic in the industry, but how do we take advantage of this technology to create better apps? In this session we will start from the basics of Markov models, hidden Markov models and neural networks, then move to the process for making a neural network for a specific task in image processing, and finally how the new BNNS API in the Accelerate framework helps us to implement and run neural networks on Apple platforms.

Axton is a mobile developer at Roam Creative Ltd. in Auckland, New Zealand. He has been working on watch apps since the Apple Watch was released and is passionate about it. He is a recent graduate and attended WWDC 2016 on a an Apple student developer scholarship, with travel support from the AUC. The topic of machine learning and neural networks is a new focus for him.