When: April 23rd
Sign up at the Upcoming page: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2125748

One of the truths of starting a new business is that you only rarely achieve what you set out to and what you do achieve is sometimes not what you planned to do.

For this Geek Night we have speakers from some of the most exciting companies in London to have successfully got to the top of the startup tree and form a sustainable business. They will be sharing with us the technical challenges they have experienced during their growth and the solutions they've found to their problems.

Confirmed Speakers

Giles Thomas from Resolver Systems will be talking about founding Resolver. We will also confirm some technical talks around Resolver's Iron Python based Spreadsheet on the Web system.

Martin Dittus from Last.fm on "What to do when the data you have to analyse keeps growing but your budget doesn't?" a discussion of why Last.fm ended up using Hadoop and being one of the biggest users of commodity distributed systems.

Slides and Videos

Resolver

Giles talking about founding Resolver.
Jon talking about the Resolver technology base and how they develop their product, read his slides for the presentation.

Data Analysis at Last.fm

View Martin's slides and watch Martin talk around them.