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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Over The Air 2012 preview

The fifth annual Over The Air event - a combination of 36-hour mobile hack day and conference - takes place at Bletchley Park on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd June. This year’s event is also honouring the contributions of mathematician Alan Turing to the invention of the programmable computer, code-breaking at Bletchley Park during World War 2 and developments in other scientific fields.

As well as presenting a session entitled ‘Adaptive Mobile Web Design with a Server Side Flavour’ for 51Degrees.mobi, James Rosewell will be recording interviews with other participants for a special podcast feature we’ll be broadcasting in June.

The full OTA12 schedule is available at lanyrd.com


James Rosewell reports from Over The Air 2010, where he talks to Matthew Cashmore, Daniel Appelquist, Jo Rabin, Helen Keegan and Anthony Hicks.


Mark Bridge visits Over The Air 2011 and talks to Dr Sue Black, Daniel Appelquist and Paul Johnston.

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