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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.

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…

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…

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,...

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.

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…

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!