Determine what type of speaker you wish to become: entertaining, motivational, informational, trainer, presentations, technical, or keynote address are just some of many options.
This was the explicit message from Ubuntu Technical Architect Allison Randal's keynote speech at LinuxCon, but the sentiment had been articulated in a number of ways all week long from everyone here.
The technical sessions began with a keynote presentation by Jan Leach from Colorado State University who summarized the research progress in bacterial blight (BB) during the last 25 years.
Adobe's Pacific technical director Mark Blair gave the keynote, and I can sumarize it as such: online apps offline, platform independent, everywhere.
After absorbing the keynote and attending a few technical sessions, I believe Google really wants us to stop developing desktop applications and figure out how to do everything on the server or in the cloud.
"We use deep computer science to solve hard technical problems at scale," Pichai said at the keynote, with relish.
The conference will take place at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco on October 22, with a keynote from CEO Dick Costolo, followed by technical sessions aimed at helping mobile devs to build on Twitter's platform.
It's been a busy day that included a three-hour keynote, six hours of booth duty, several technical sessions, and mad gifts to each attendee.
Even though I/O is mostly a developer event, with many in-depth technical discussions scheduled for the next three days, the keynotes tend to offer a mix of developer- and consumer-focused product announcements and launches.
In the same keynote, Microsoft's Australia's Group Manager of Technical Communities Frank Arrigo said.
