Past Speakers

Adam Cogan

Adam Cogan

Microsoft Regional Director and CEO at SSW

Adam Cogan is the Chief Architect at SSW, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner specializing in custom .NET MVC web applications. He is also a Microsoft Regional Director and has traveled the world speaking at major Microsoft events over the last 10 years. Adam has relationships members of the Microsoft teams that build .NET and he often calls of them for advice.

Ben Cull

Ben Cull

SSW Solution Architect

Ben is a full stack web developer with extensive experience developing enterprise software in ASP.NET MVC and SQL Server.

Adam Stephensen

Adam Stephensen

Solution Architect at SSW // FireBootCamp Drill Sergeant

Adam is passionate about building awesome teams and software projects. He loves people, patterns, processes and technology. Adam spent much time this year traveling to all major capital cities in Australia training developers in ASP.NET MVC. He was born to be a Boot Camp mentor.

Duncan Hunter

Duncan Hunter

Software Architect at SSW

Duncan Hunter loves working in passionate teams to make awesome software. Making sustainable software that solves real world issues is what makes Duncan tick. He is a full stack developer using Azure, AngularJS, TypeScript, ASP.NET and BreezeJS. He lives and works in Sydney making software for the Nutrition Industry and is the founder of foodzone.com.au and nutritionexperts.com.au.

Brendan Richards

Brendan Richards

Solution Architect at SSW

Throughout his career, Brendan has been a big user and proponent of Open Source software. This has been applied to a broad variety of web-based programming projects spanning the last 12 years. Brendan has worked with an eclectic mix of languages, platforms and technologies including .Net, Java, PHP, Ruby and Perl across both Unix/Linux and Microsoft Windows platforms. This gives Brendan some unique perspectives on how different teams & platforms have tackled similar problems.

Chris Briggs

Chris Briggs

Senior Software Developer at SSW

Chris is a Senior Software Developer, who heads up IoT at SSW . Based in Brisbane , he's passionate about IoT, Scrum, Security, Windows Universal Apps and Xamarin. All the Devs at SSW have been asking Chris, what he thinks the Internet of Things will mean for their day to day lives? It ranges from the impossible to the improbable, from automating their coffee breaks, to telling them exactly when the next bus will arrive!