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Adrian Mowat

Adrian is a Ruby developer and Agile fanatic who believes in putting the customer at the centre of everything. He currently works for Arnold Clark where he is enjoying building new features on their award winning website and working with a top-class team.

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Gillian Easson

Gillian Easson has a desire to join up the dots between people and projects, hence why she started up Creative Dundee. The website aims to amplify Dundee’s thriving creative scene to the world; and the events programme is there to encourage collaboration and networking across the often fragmented creative sectors. Although currently just fuelled by spare time and passion, since introducing Pecha Kucha Nights to Dundee in November 2011, over 900 people have attended just 5 events. Gillian hopes this means they are doing something right. In her real job, Gillian works on a Scotland-wide digital R&D project.

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Giovanni Intini

Giovanni is co-founder and CTO of MIKAMAI - Unconventional Everything, a digital agency based in Milan, Italy, and co-founder of Yemaia - the Gamers’ Games Company, a board games publisher. Tech enthusiast, gamer, foodie and geek at heart, he spends most of his time working, or having fun, or doing both at the same time.

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Hilary Singer Roberts

Hilary works for LAUNCH.ed, the University of Edinburgh’s award-winning service for student entrepreneurs. Since joining LAUNCH.ed in 2008, Hilary has mentored hundreds of students on business models, lean startup methodologies, and marketing. She holds a Masters of Physics from the University of Edinburgh, and has previous experience working in the U.S. finance, not-for-profit, and public sectors. In her spare time, Hilary has helped BBC Apprentice star Nick Holzherr launch the first version of his recipe website, written for Edinburgh entrepreneurship blog StartupCafe, and organised last year’s sell-out Edinburgh Start-ups Xmas Party. She is also the creator of TuringTown, a site that helped visiting startups find local hosts during the Turing Festival.

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Katrina Owen

Katrina ran away from the circus and found her true home in the land of computers and code. She enjoys optimizing and automating, taking busywork away from smart people and putting it into code where it belongs. She is the problem solver you want on your side. She is driven by an inexplicable urge to refactor, and has for the past 6 years volunteered as a nitpicker at the javaranch.com Cattle Drive, where she attempts to brainwash others to write clean code. She appreciates a good steak, and admits to enjoying a nice stick fight.

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Paul Campbell

My name is Paul. I live in Dublin, Ireland, and I’m passionate about building great software and great experiences. I built Ketchup and I’m currently working on Tito. Tito (other than powering tickets for Northern Lights) was built out of a need for elegant software to sell tickets for Funconf, which I co-organised. Funconf has ended, but I started a new conference for Apple designers and developers last year, called Úll.

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Phil Roberts

Phil is a co-founder and CTO of Float, a Rails-backed, Backbone-fronted, cash flow forecasting app for small businesses. He also spends a lot of time thinking and writing about life as an introvert, an entrepreneur and a creative.

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Rich Quick

Rich Quick* is a web designer and developer with over 14 years’ experience who has worked for the likes of Waitrose, John Lewis, MTV & the BBC. He wrote the best-selling book “Web Design in easy steps”, was a finalist at the SxSW Web Awards, and once showed Colin Firth’s wife how to use a microwave. He’s currently Head Web Developer at Arnold Clark where he’s lucky to work with a very talented team of Ruby and front-end developers.

*Yes, it’s his real name!

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Ryan Shuttleworth

Ryan Shuttleworth is a Technical Evangelist at Amazon Web Services. In his role Ryan educates customers on the technical and business aspects of cloud computing, mentors start-ups and coaches developers in enterprises on their move to the cloud. Having held senior roles in successful SaaS companies, Ryan has lived and breathed the transition to cloud infrastructure and uses this know-how to help customers get the most from cloud technologies.