This year, we had the opportunity to go to the Droidcon in London, a great conference about mobility and Android. The two-day event was organized like in 2010: a barcamp the first day, and conferences with great speakers the second one. Main topics were user experience and interface, Android development, mobile apps business and distribution.
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Since 2010, gamification has been a hot topic. Worshiped or hated, everybody talks about it. The subject has been discussed previously on our blog, from both a technical and a marketing point of view (read the articles: I’ll write code that writes code for food and Gamification: let’s play). Friendly reminder for those who have missed it: gamification is the use of game play mechanics for non-game applications. Its implementation results in increased loyalty and engagement from the users. In France we start talking about it but initiatives are scarce. The first one to cross my mind is MobExplore, which is generally described as “The French SCVNGR”. They both are mobile applications enabling to create scavengers or other types of games and challenges at specific places.

To understand what is really happening in the gamification’s world, we have to take a look on the American side and focus on the speakers, the providers and the skeptics.

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This year, all the sessions of the main conference room (and thus all the keynotes) will be broadcasted in live on the website now !

You’ll have the choice to watch the sessions translated or not.

Please find below all the USI sessions that you can watch in live or not today and tomorrow:

June 28th:

• Simon Sinek’s Keynote
• The birth of a word, Deb Roy
• Military operations of the 21st century. Battle field digitisation, Henri Bentegeat
• Is our history written in advance? Feedback on the impact of demography on our society? Pierre Sabatier
• Ray Kurzweil’s Keynote
• Alexandre Dayon’s Keynote
• The end of relational data bases? Olivier Mallassi
• Juridic aspects of the Cloud Computing : learning to browse in safety, Benjamin May
• What kind of mobile strategy for companies? Jean-François Grang et Olivier Martin
• LinkedIn, Yassine Hinnach
• Wolfgang Von Rüden’s Keynote

June 29th:

• Michel Serres’s Keynote
• Beyond the “generation Y”, cutural diversity and its opportunities for companies, Benjamin Chaminade
• Is the scientific labour organization of the industrial era, applicable to the digital era? Vincent Lextrait
• André Compte-Sponville’s Keynote
• Stephen David’s Keynote
• Brain-computer interfaces, Dr Geoffrey Mackellar
• Connecting all the objects? Why? rafi Haladjan
• Pattie Maes’s Keynote

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Octo will be attending the ScalaDays this year !

The ScalaDays is the main conference of the Scala language. Scala is a multi-paradigm programming language that runs on the JVM (wikipedia).

On this occasion, Rémy-Christophe Schermesser will present a lecture on the comparison between the Ruby and Scala. A summary of the conference is available here.

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In three years, USI has become the reference conference for « geeks » and « bosses » wishing to create Information Technologies that transform our society and our organizations.

During the first editions, we had the great honor to welcome important persons such as Neil Armstrong, Eliyahu Goldratt, Juan Enriquez, Neal Ford, Chris Anderson, Martin Fowler… and many actors of our professions coming from Google, Microsoft, SAP, Mozilla,…

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We were in London last week for the Droidcon 2010, a conference around Android and mobile development. It was a two-day event with a barcamp the first day and a more traditional conference the second day. Main topics were User Experience, Android development in general and a little about marketing. There were many topics during these two days but we decided to cover the ones that appeared more relevant to us.
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OCTO has been designing state-of-the-art IT architecture for more than 12 years. Recently we realized that user interfaces needed to be improved in order to bring more value to users. That’s why we now work on usability of IT systems. Add to that an interest for innovation processes and the will to partner with our clients  “from concept to cash”, and you will have a pretty good picture of the OCTO DNA.

Those traits explain why we were particularly interested by this presentation of KiSoft VISION from KNAPP for order picking assisted by augmented reality.

We’ve decided to invite KNAPP at OCTO to present their product and the process that led to it during one of our “Supply Chain Management School” session. We’ve also invited some of our clients to join us and discover what we view as part of a larger trend in the apparition of new types of user interfaces.

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A couple of years after we started out this blog entitled “OCTO Talks!”, we are pleased to confirm the English version is now available. All the articles are not translated yet and as for the other published contents, the translation is dependent on the willingness of its authors, their wish to write them or not in English.

We look forward to reading your comments soon!