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Keynote Sponsors

solutions for Semantically Enabled SOA and Emergent Analytics generate value for your business by leveraging semantic technology to enable enterprises to better utilize all the information at their disposal.

Contegix is a technology firm known for delivering exceptional customer service and internet infrastructure intelligence. Our dedicated staff of engineers provide solid solutions to complex business challenges in the areas of hosting, cloud computing, co-location and infrastructure management services.

Founded in 2004, Contegix was listed as the Linux Journal’s Reader’s Choice Award for Favorite Linux-Friendly Web-Hosting Company, and has built a solid industry reputation entirely based on delivering peace of mind to our valued clients. We serve clients in range of industries - from innovative technology start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, and earn hundreds of strong client referrals each year from happy customers - a testimony to our commitment to building long-term relationships and business partnerships.

Party Sponsors

MarkLogic Corporation is a leading provider of information infrastructure software, serving industries including media, government, financial services, and others. The company's flagship product, MarkLogic Server, is used by customers to enable a wide variety of information applications including custom publishing, search-based applications, content analytics, unified information access, metadata catalogs, and threat intelligence systems. MarkLogic Server is based on patented innovations and provides state-of-the-art features including location awareness, real-time search, and a shared-nothing cluster architecture that supports high performance against petabyte-scale databases.

MarkLogic is headquartered in San Carlos, California with field offices in New York, Washington, London, Boston, Austin, and Frankfurt. The company is privately held with investors Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital. For more information, to download a trial version, or to read the award-winning Kellblog, written by MarkLogic CEO Dave Kellogg, go to www.marklogic.com.

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Food/beverage sponsors

ARG is an agile, results-oriented model for staffing and recruiting that enables veteran independent recruiters to do what they do best: find and deliver essential talent to their client companies. This model creates inherent flexibility and market awareness. Recruiters are responsive to the needs of both candidates and companies. Clients get talent, candidates get respect, everybody wins.

Lisa works with companies who recognize the importance of hiring the right person. She focuses on companies engaged in technology-related product development - She specializes in high-impact individual producers and exceptional managers/executives, in areas as varied as software and hardware development, human resources, and sales/marketing. Lisa provides direct-hire employees, project-based consultants, or whatever blend her clients require (see agile and responsive above).

Though Lisa works nationally she is passionate about the St. Louis area, and about helping to foster a thriving technology/business community. She is committed to local technology and entrepreneurial efforts, and sees conferences like Strange Loop as essential to creating and attracting new businesses and the people that will help them thrive.

Asynchrony Solutions, a division of Schafer, specializes in custom application development, systems integration and secure collaboration. In short, we connect people, information and systems. Our focus is on mission-critical projects for public safety, the defense industry and Fortune 1000 enterprises. We create solutions that deliver real-world results that meet or exceed our clients’ expectations.

Lanyard Sponsor

is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. The Yahoo! Developer Network offers Web Services and APIs that make it easy for developers to build applications and mashups that integrate data sources in new ways, making the web a more useful and fun place for everyone. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Session Sponsors

GitHub is a web-based hosting service for projects that use the Git version control system. Git is a fast, efficient, distributed version control system ideal for the collaborative development of software and GitHub is the best way to participate in that collaboration: fork projects, send pull requests, create issues, and monitor development with all of your public and private code. GitHub was written for public, open source projects as well as private, proprietary code. Launched a little over two years ago, GitHub now has over 241,000 coders with more than 785,000 repositories. According to the 2009 Git User's Survey GitHub is the most popular Git hosting site.

develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a range of software products for computing devices. The Company's software products include operating systems for servers, personal computers and intelligent devices, server applications for distributed computing environments, information worker productivity applications, business solution applications, high-performance computing applications and software development tools and video games.

Supporting Sponsors

Oasis Digital is a custom software development firm in St. Louis, MO. We create high quality software and solve hard problems, to help our customers thrive.

Objistics

is a expert software development firm in St. Louis, MO. We specialize in building custom solutions to help our customers streamline their business.

MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, open source, document-oriented database. MongoDB bridges the gap between key-value stores (which are fast and highly scalable) and traditional RDBMS systems (which provide rich queries and deep functionality). 10gen began the MongoDB project and provides commercial support and training for Mongo.

InfiniteGraph enables large-scale graph processing, data analytics and discovery. Our technology is best suited for organizations looking to develop systems and services around social networking, business intelligence, scientific research, national security or similar areas. InfiniteGraph's uniquely distributed graph database solution enables commercial, enterprise, government and other organizations to discover complex relationships in their vast and highly distributed data, with significant time-to-market advantages and technical cost savings.

Joyent is the premier Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider offering cloud computing solutions worldwide since 2004. Delivering billions of page views per month, Joyent's Smart Technologies improve performance, scalability, manageability and security for thousands of web and mobile applications. Serving a network of service providers and thousands of customers, Joyent is the only company that runs a major public cloud infrastructure, builds the technologies that power that infrastructure, and uses those technologies to enable multiple third-party public, private, and hybrid clouds.

Opscode helps companies of all sizes develop fully automated server infrastructures: ones that scale easily and predictably, that can be quickly rebuilt in any environment, and that save developers and systems engineers both time and money. We offer two products that, when working in tandem, make it easier than ever to build a fully automated infrastructure:

  • Chef is a server configuration management tool that lets you express the design of your infrastructure in code, giving you the benefits of repeatability, agility, and version-control.
  • The Opscode Platform is a centrally managed data store for information about your servers. It allows Chef to take dynamic, “infrastructure aware” actions across any portion of your environment.

Lab49 is a strategy and technology consulting firm that builds advanced business solutions for the financial services industry. We are a trusted advisor and technology partner to the world’s top financial institutions. Our clients include many of the world's largest investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds and exchanges. We have deep experience building trading systems across all asset classes, from equities to fixed income, derivatives, commodities, foreign exchange, hybrid instruments, and many types of complex structured products.

NetEffects was recognized by INC Magazine in 2010 as a fast 500/5000 growing company in the US. There is a reason for that growth! Come see for yourself why our employees and clients like us and trust us.

We have lots of IT opportunities within our expansive client base and internally within our company.  NetEffects is not a consulting firm that depends on 1 or 2 corporations for the majority of their business. We have over 50 local clients ranging from fortune 100 to small boutique companies. The majority of our jobs are in St. Louis and the Metro area. However, we do have some opportunities outside of the Midwest and even some in Europe. We offer IT staffing, Contract to hire, Direct Hire, and Project Delivery services to our clients and have hundreds of positions to discuss with you today.

Whether your specialty is developing applications, project management, technology/systems support, or testing software, we have opportunities galore for you that will match your interests and career goals.  We have positions to fill today! No Fees, No Strings…. Just Jobs!

ZeroTurnaround is an Estonian start-up and the creators of JRebel, a Java EE development productivity tool. JRebel maps your project workspace directly to your running application in real-time, thus removing the need for the lengthy restart/redeploy phase of J2E development. For more information, please visit www.zeroturnaround.com and search "ZeroTurnaround" or "JRebel" on Facebook and Twitter.

Video Partner

InfoQ.com is an independent online community focused on change and innovation in enterprise software development, targeted primarily at the technical architect, technical team lead (senior developer), and project manager. InfoQ serves the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile communities with daily news written by domain experts, articles, video interviews, video conference presentations, and mini-books.

Whiteboard Partner

Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) is the leading software engineering firm specializing in vendor-neutral solutions to enterprise-wide integration for mission critical applications. By leveraging our extensive real-life experiences in software and systems engineering we provide clients with more pragmatic choices and greater control. OCI promotes non-proprietary, standards-based solutions. Knowledge transfer is a fundamental aspect of our services and we tailor engagements to meet customer needs. To address additional IT staffing needs, OCI partners with to deliver temporary staffing, contract-to-permanent hiring, and permanent hiring solutions.