Keynote - What’s New What’s Next

Featuring Martin Odersky

Martin Odersky -- creator of Scala -- will share what is new in Scala, the development tools and commercial support, talk about the future directions of Scala the language and significant development investments.

The New Scala Eclipse Plug-in

Featuring Martin Odersky

Martin Odersky will describe the architecture and design concepts used to create the new Scala Eclipse Plug-in. This talk will include a demonstration of the IDE new features.

Representing polymorphic function values in Scala using type classes

Featuring Miles Sabin

Miles Sabin -- best known in the Scala world for his outstanding contribution to the Scala IDE for Eclipse -- will describe a new type class based approach to encoding polymorphic function values in Scala.

Functional Programming with Scalaz

Featuring Jason Zaugg

Scalaz is a library to support functional programming in Scala. In this talk, you'll learn: what do we mean by Functional Programming?; how does Scala help (or hinder) the Functional Programmer?; what is "Ad-hoc polymorphism" (and how you could have invented it yourself); whirlwind...

Apache ESME: Using Lift for writing social messaging apps

Featuring Vassil Dichev

In this talk, Vassil Dichev will demonstrate the strengths of using the Lift web framework for assembling a social messaging web application: real-time updates, creating and testing a RESTful API, as well as libraries for authenticating with LDAP and OpenID, parsing Textile markup, and connecting...

Stairway to Heaven or “Java with Closures”

Featuring Chris Marshall

In this talk, Chris Marshall will discuss the challenges of moving from Java to Scala “in the enterprise”. He will cover pitfalls, pratfalls, explaining his team's journey: from wishing for “Java with Closures” to navigating a forest of new concepts: monoids, monads, applicative functors and...

Lightning Talk: How to foster Scala adoption in your organisation

Featuring Glen Ford

Glen Ford will talk about how to foster Scala adoption in your Enterprise, discuss the areas that you need to think about and what things you can do to help make it a success.

Lightning Talk: The Unfiltered Web Framework

Featuring Dustin Whitney

Unfiltered, which is a minimalist web framework that embraces HTTP, rather than abstracting it away, and combines it with Scala idioms to make adding "web" to your application easy to do.

Lightning Talk: How To Build A High Performance Scalable Infrastructure

Featuring Dave Savage

How To Build A High Performance Scalable Infrastructure

Keynote -- Introducing Scalate, the Scala Template Engine

Featuring James Strachan

In this talk, James Strachan introduces the Scala Template Engine: Scalate. James will walk you through the different template languages available in Scalate, discussing the pros and cons of each to help you pick the right template language.

The Promising Future of Akka

Featuring Viktor Klang

In this talk, Viktor Klang introduces the Futures in the Akka toolkit and show how one can utilize Futures to enable non-blocking composition of parallel sources of data or computations, to defer blocking not only until the end of the universe, but to get rid of it completely.

Connecting Akka to the rest of the world with Apache Camel

Featuring Martin Krasser

Martin Krasser introduces the Apache Camel integration framework and demonstrates how it is used by Akka actors to exchange messages with other systems over a large number of protocols and APIs.

ParkBench Panel Discussion at #scalax

Featuring Various Speakers

Experts and community come together for the Sacala eXchange ParkBench Panel Discussion

Parallel Collections

Featuring Alex Prokopec

Alex Prokopec will describe how the Parallel Collections were created, how the architecture works, an under-the-bonnet look at their use. Parallel collections provide a simple and intuitive way to utilize the power of multi-core systems for a broad range of problem types.

Reactors

Featuring Ingo Maier

Ingo Maier will describe a library-based reactive data-flow extension to Scala which allows a seamless transition from observer-based code to reactive data-flow programs.

Scala as an Agile Enabler

Featuring Kevin Wright

The topics Kevin will cover include:

-> agile, TDD/BDD, refactoring, continuous integration, iterations, stakeholder communication, developer communication, responsiveness to change, Scala (and how it relates to all of the above)

Lightning Talk: Scala STM

Featuring Dustin Whitney

I've been using Scala STM for about a year -- I'll show why it's useful, how to use it, when to use it, and what pitfalls to avoid when you are using it, and perhaps show it's usage compared to when you'd use actors

Lightning Talk: Lift scaffolding from existing database

Featuring Thomas Alexandre

Thomas Alexandre introduces Scalafarm, a tool that helps Enterprise Scala users to boost productivity when they start with the Lift framework by reverse-engineering an existing database into a default CRUD Lift application.

Lightning Talk: Our experience from Java to Scala

Featuring Paul Dale

Elemica has been using Scala for over a year. I will share our development approach, tooling experiences, and do a deep dive into an EDIFACT to xpath parser to demonstrate the power and flexibility of the parser library.

ScalaX2gether Community Day 2018

One day in London

We're excited to announce ScalaX2gether, to be held on Saturday 15th December at Skills Matter's home, CodeNode. #ScalaX2gether is organised by Skills Matter and the Community. Together, we will host a day-long event with a few workshops and challenges.

Scala eXchange London 2018

Two days in London

Join us at Scala eXchange London 2018, Europe's largest gathering of Scala engineers, to discover where Scala is headed in 2019 and to meet, learn and share skills with 1,000+ other passionate Scala developers.

ScalaX2gether Community Day

One day in London

We're excited to announce the return of the Scala eXchange Community Day - ScalaX2gether, to be held on Saturday 16th December at Skills Matter's home, CodeNode. The #ScalaX2gether is organized by Skills Matter with the aim of hosting a community day with a few unconference sessions.

Scala eXchange 2017

Two days in London

Want to understand where Scala is going, what’s Lightbend’s vision for collaboration, competition and interoperability in Scala? How the Dotty project will help develop new technology for Scala tooling and concepts for future Scala language versions? Are you involved in a large Microservices or...

ScalaXHack 2016

One day in London

We're excited to announce the return of the Scala Exchange Hack Day, to be held on Saturday 10th December at Skills Matter's home, CodeNode. The #ScalaXHack is organized by Skills Matter, with Underscore, Typelevel, and the Scala Centre. Together, we will host a daytime hackathon with a...

Scala eXchange 2016

Two days in London

Want to understand where Scala is going, what’s Lightbend’s vision for collaboration, competition and interoperability in Scala? How the Dotty project will help develop new technology for Scala tooling and concepts for future Scala language versions? Are you involved in a large Microservices or...

ScalaXHack

One day in London

We're excited to announce the first ever Scala Exchange Hack Day, to be held on Saturday 12th December at CodeNode in partnership with Underscore and the London Scala User Group.

0.5 days in London

Scala eXchange 2015 continues at Skills Matter's new home CodeNode for the Scala eXchange Party! Starting at 6.30pm on 10th December 2015!

Scala eXchange 2015

Two days in London

Want to hear the latest happenings in the world in Scala? Interested in hearing how your peers are approaching similar software challenges? Then join us at Scala eXchange 2015, Europe's largest community conference on Scala.

Scala eXchange 2014

Two days in London

Join us at Europe's largest and most comprehensive annual Scala conference in London. The Scala eXchange brings together the world's top Scala experts with Europe's passionate community of Scala developers.

Scala eXchange 2013

Two days in London

The Scala eXchange returns to Skills Matter for it's third year - share, learn and innovate with 350+ attendees, 60+ presentations, and the world's greatest Scala Rock Stars!

Scala eXchange 2012

Two days in London

The Scala eXchange returns to Skills Matter for it's second year. The Scala eXchange comes in the wake of Scala Days in April - 350+ attendees, 60+ presentations, and the lovebus! -

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