James Strachan introduces the Scala Template Engine: Scalate. James will walk you through the different template languages available in Scalate, discussing the pros and cons of each to help you pick the right template language.

Viktor Klang introduces the Futures in the Akka toolkit and show how one can utilize Futures to enable non-blocking composition of parallel sources of data or computations, to defer blocking not only until the end of the universe, but to get rid of it comp...

Martin Krasser introduces the Apache Camel integration framework and demonstrates how it is used by Akka actors to exchange messages with other systems over a large number of protocols and APIs.

Jon Pretty explores the problems of developing scalable software on the Cloud, from building and version management through to deployment, scaling and monitoring.

Alex Prokopec will describe how the Parallel Collections were created, how the architecture works, an under-the-bonnet look at their use. Parallel collections provide a simple and intuitive way to utilize the power of multi-core systems for a broad range o...

Ingo Maier will describe a library-based reactive data-flow extension to Scala which allows a seamless transition from observer-based code to reactive data-flow programs.

The topics Kevin will cover include: -> agile, TDD/BDD, refactoring, continuous integration, iterations, stakeholder communication, developer communication, responsiveness to change, Scala (and how it relates to all of the above)

I've been using Scala STM for about a year -- I'll show why it's useful, how to use it, when to use it, and what pitfalls to avoid when you are using it, and perhaps show it's usage compared to when you'd use actors

Thomas Alexandre introduces Scalafarm, a tool that helps Enterprise Scala users to boost productivity when they start with the Lift framework by reverse-engineering an existing database into a default CRUD Lift application.

Elemica has been using Scala for over a year. I will share our development approach, tooling experiences, and do a deep dive into an EDIFACT to xpath parser to demonstrate the power and flexibility of the parser library.

Martin Odersky -- creator of Scala -- will share what is new in Scala, the development tools and commercial support, talk about the future directions of Scala the language and significant development investments.

Martin Odersky will describe the architecture and design concepts used to create the new Scala Eclipse Plug-in. This talk will include a demonstration of the IDE new features.

Miles Sabin -- best known in the Scala world for his outstanding contribution to the Scala IDE for Eclipse -- will describe a new type class based approach to encoding polymorphic function values in Scala.

Scalaz is a library to support functional programming in Scala. In this talk, you'll learn: what do we mean by Functional Programming?; how does Scala help (or hinder) the Functional Programmer?; what is "Ad-hoc polymorphism" (and how you could have invent...

Vassil Dichev will demonstrate the strengths of using the Lift web framework for assembling a social messaging web application: real-time updates, creating and testing a RESTful API, as well as libraries for authenticating with LDAP and OpenID, parsing Tex...

Chris Marshall will discuss the challenges of moving from Java to Scala “in the enterprise”. He will cover pitfalls, pratfalls, explaining his team's journey: from wishing for “Java with Closures” to navigating a forest of new concepts: monoids, monads, ap...

Glen Ford will talk about how to foster Scala adoption in your Enterprise, discuss the areas that you need to think about and what things you can do to help make it a success.

Unfiltered, which is a minimalist web framework that embraces HTTP, rather than abstracting it away, and combines it with Scala idioms to make adding "web" to your application easy to do.

How To Build A High Performance Scalable Infrastructure.