Back to [[conference:committee:2014-speakers]]\\ \\ **Bio**: \\ Kevlin is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His development interests are in patterns, programming, practice and process. He has been a columnist for various magazines and web sites and is co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series. He is also editor of the 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know book and site. He lives in Bristol and online.\\ \\ \\ **Email**: kevlin@curbralan.com\\ \\ [[2014:Immutabilty FTW!]]\\ Location: Bristol, England JJ: Kevlin can do Friday and Saturday only. Maybe Thursday evening.