Feature Presenters
Michael Shaw – Liquid Performance
Savage Interactive
Performance is an essential quality and founding principle of Procreate, affording the artist a natural and fluid connection with their creation. We’ll explore our principles, techniques, and sacrifices on the road to minimal latency and 120 frames a second.
Richard Moss – Tales from the Golden Age of Mac Gaming
Macs were at various points in the 1980s and 90s a great bastion of innovation and creativity in game design, a place where genres were born and thinking differently was a doctrine — not a tagline. Journalist and historian Richard Moss will share the biggest lessons, insights, and tales of developer wizardry from the era that he found while writing his book The Secret History of Mac Gaming.
Paul Fenwick
Perl Training Australia
Paul Fenwick is an internationally acclaimed public speaker, developer, and science educator. Paul is well known for presenting on a diverse range of topics including privacy, neuroscience and neuroethics, Klingon programming, open source, depression and mental health, advancements in science, diversity, autonomous agents, and minesweeper automation. His dynamic presentation style and quirky humour has delighted audiences worldwide.
Paul was awarded the 2013 O’Reilly Open Source award, and the 2010 White Camel award, both for outstanding contributions to the open source community.
Image credit: Joshua Button