Back to [[conference:committee:2015-speakers]]\\ \\ **Bio**: \\ Ex-theoretical physicist, ex-UNIX system programmer, ex-academic. Now an independent consultant, analyst, author, expert witness and trainer. Also doing startups. Interested in all things parallel and concurrent. And build.\\ \\ Actively involved with Groovy, GPars, GroovyFX, SCons, and Gant. Also Gradle, Ceylon, Kotlin, D and bit of Rust. And lots of Python especially Python-CSP.\\ \\ Homepage: \\ Location: UK\\ \\ **Email**: russel@winder.org.uk\\ \\ [[2015:Can C++ remain relevant?]]\\ [[2015:Dataflow — the architecture of the future]]\\ [[2015:Groovy Building with Gradle]]\\ [[2015:SCons]]\\ [[2015:Spocktacular Testing]]\\