Bio
I’ve been in the IT and Development game since the 1980’s. My first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum with 48K ram. I’ve developed code in more than 16 different languages and scripts. I have a passion for software development, designing and delivering the right software in time with as little defects as possible. Always sought to look at the most cutting edge of technology. From the very beginning, modifying an IBM Brother XT PC into the fastest PC around. I’ve seen tech come and go and I’ve forgotten somethings others have not yet event learnt. I am a manager and Senior Developer at IQ Business.
My Talks
Bots, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive learning
Building bots that think and sell like humans. Bots that can understand sentiment, find thought patterns, and predict what you want before you event want it. Understand customer behavior. Ask virtu...
Building a CI/CD pipeline is a lot easier than you think.
Do you spend hours, days, perhaps sleepless weekends to deploy code to production. Does your team have to take anti-depressants and "calmet" tablets before a deployment event.
I will show you how ...
Executable requirements, user acceptance testing with Fitnesse
Do your projects fail because they have not met requirements? When delivery pressure mounts, is testing the first thing to be dropped? Do users complain that the app does not do what they expect.
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Smart Contracts, Ethereum, crypto-currencies and maybe a bit of Bitcoin.
Is it possible to have a contract, insurance policy, medical record stored digitally and be impervious to fraud. Can we trust documents like drivers licences, ID, certificates implicitly knowing th...
Top tech trends for 2020
Has the HAL 2000 from the 2001: A Space Odyssey finally arrived, or are we seeing the start of Skynet from the Terminator. Looking at the top tech trends in 2020 will convince you that what was onc...
Using AI for facial recognition to understand emotion, gender and age.
Our face is a unique, intimate reflection of who we are. It represents our identity, character, emotions, age. Facial recognition has always been the domain of Sci-Fi. We can now write software tha...