I am back in Melbourne (Australia, sorry Florida) for the first time in 3 years and I am lost and confused. I lived in Melbourne for eight years and was heavily involved in the tech community. Yet I don’t recognize anyone or any of the projects people are talking about. Much the same as many places I have visited in the past years, the tech and startup scenes in Australia are buzzing. Local ventures burgeoning, and offices of international companies opening in the new skyscrapers dotting the city.
Yow! has run conferences around Australia since 2008 and I remember attending their evening events when I first lived here, squeezed into an auditorium at one of Australia’s largest banks. Its origins may be familiar to DZone readers, as it’s creator Dave Thomas has a long history in the programming space. He intended it as an Australian alternative to the Danish JAOO (Java and Object Orientation) conference as also has close ties to the more Northern hemisphere focused GoTo conferences, which I have also attended. https://goo.gl/GpQWpE #DataIntegration #ML
