Chris Boos on Build 06

With Build 07 soon underway in Berlin, Chris Boos’s field report on the highlights of Build 06 is a nice read. In his post Chris lists his favourite presentations (with videos) and why they in particular stood out. Read his post here or catch the highlights below.

Let’s start with my favourite four presenters and their presentations here. I will list them in alphabetical order so don’t read any preference into this.

First I would like to recommend Mike Butcher – not that he needs any more recommending… but…. This was the most entertaining and well-presented talk I ever heard about PR and dealing with the press.

Second I would like to recommend Stephanie Kaiser. She is product lead at Wooga and responsible for three of their games – two of them being under construction and one of the being “Monster World“, their biggest hit. And in my books it is no wonder that her projects work out. She is KPI driven, yet passionate about every detail (let me just mention orange monsters for those who were at the event). Stephanie made me think that we should start looking at enterprise applications as games and she made me look at the topic of user tests and user relations in a completely new way.

Third I would like to recommend Josep M. Pujol, who is now working at 3scale.com. Very few people want to talk to me about algorithms but with Josep I was in the details within 5 minutes. In some areas he has a very strong opinion coming out of commercial research, which I prefere much to the pure intellectual discussion of theory. I would love to regularly talk to Josep, just to check up on my thoughts on parallel programming, AI and distributive development. 

Last but not least I would like to recommend Charles Wiles. His distinguished career as a product manager at Google in Europe should tell us a great deal about his abilities. The talk he gave at the event – 7 good tips for startups – was not just applicable to startups. I felt like telegraphing most of the points home to my guys at arago right away.

The crowd at Build 06 - a bigger one is getting ready for Build 07 already…