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Keynote Speakers

You never know where a spark will come from to light an idea. FP Days 2014 is about sharing, not about sitting passively through talk after talk. Our keynotes are the touchpaper that sets off your day.

Don Syme

Don Syme is an Australian computer scientist and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, U.K.

He is the designer and architect of the F# programming language, described by a reporter as being regarded as “the most original new face in computer languages since Bjarne Stroustrup developed C++ in the early 1980s.”

He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge,[1] and is a member of the WG2.8 working group on functional programming. He is a co-author of the book Expert F# 3.0.

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Christophe Grand

Christophe Grand is a French independent software engineer who got spoilt by early exposure to Caml.

He is an early member of the Clojure community, having used it for more than 6 years and has authored a number of libraries.

He is a co-author of “Clojure Programming” (O’Reilly).

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Location

FP Days 2014 will be held at 15Hatfields, London

The UK’s capital city, London offers a huge variety of destinations including museums, parks and open spaces, royal buildings, markets, river based activities on the Thames, as well as restaurants, bars, night clubs, cinemas, theatres and so much more