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<div class="container">
<div class="content">
<h2>Hack'n'Tech</h2>
<p>
The main Hack'n'Tech part of Interactive Cologne is Tuesday and Wednesday in Trinitatiskirche.
There we will have a <a href="#hackathon">hackathon</a> with a lot of
different hack tracks, like <a href="#opendata">Open Data</a>,
<a href="#music">Music Hack Days</a> and many more.
On Monday, Wednesday and Friday we'll organize a few more
<a href="#meetups">Meetups</a> which are free!
</p>
</div>
<div class="content">
<h2><a href="#hackathon" name="hackathon">Hackathon</a></h2>
<strong>What:</strong> Hacking, Tech talks, Lightning talks<br/>
<strong>Date:</strong> June 18th - June 19th<br/>
<strong>Time:</strong> 8 AM - 11 PM<br/>
<strong>Where:</strong> Trinitatis church, Cologne // Trinitatiskirche, Filzengraben 6, 50676 Köln<br/>
<strong>Entrance:</strong> 25 EUR
<p>
Talented web & app developers, hackers and designers gather at INTERACTIVE COLOGNE
to kick-off their own or others’ projects, refine or complete code collaboratively
or just experiment - preferably open source.
</p>
<p>The following program items are offered:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#mobile">Mobile Hack Track</a></li>
<li><a href="#nodecopter">Nodecopter Hack Track</a></li>
<li><a href="#railsgirls">Rails Girls Cologne</a></li>
<li><a href="#kids">Kids Track</a></li>
<li><a href="#music">Music Hack Days</a></li>
<li><a href="#3dprinting">3D Printing Hack</a></li>
<li><a href="#seriousgames">City Serious Games SpotOn Hack</a></li>
<li><a href="#opendata">Open Data Hack</a></li>
<li><a href="#hardware">Hardware Hack Tracks</a></li>
<li><a href="#noSQL">noSQL</a></li>
<li><a href="#talks">Tech talks & Lightning talks</a></li>
</ul>
<p>If you have ideas or talk proposals for the hacking event or want to see what other hackers are planning, go check out the <a href="https://github.com/InteractiveCologne/warmup/wiki">Warmup Wiki</a> on GitHub.</p>
<h2><a href="#talks" name="talks">Tech talks & Lightning talks</a></h2>
<p>Beside our great hacks, we will have great speakers talking on Tuesday and Wednesday and a Lightning talk session on Wednesday afternoon. Please add your Lightning talk to the <a href="https://github.com/InteractiveCologne/warmup/wiki">Warmup Wiki</a> on GitHub.</p>
<h3><a href="#speaker" name="speaker">Speaker</a></h3>
<p class="speaker">
<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/tim-becker.jpg" alt="Tim Becker"/><a href="#tim-becker" name="tim-becker"><strong>Tim Becker</strong></a><br/>Payment Technology Consultant and Hardware Hacker.... only in it for the money.
</p>
<p class="speaker">
<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/dirk-blauhut.jpg" alt="Dirk Blauhut"/><a href="#dirk-blauhut" name="dirk-blauhut"><strong>Dirk Blauhut</strong></a><br/>Dirk Blauhut was born in February 1969 in Cologne, Germany. He attended primary school in Huerth (near Cologne). After graduating from secondary school in September 1988, in Huerth he studied public administration at the university of applied science in Cologne where he received his degree as an Economist – Public Administration, in September 2001. Currently he works as the E-Government CiO for the municipal administration of Cologne with its 17,000 employees. The essential main focuses of this activity comprise the subject areas E-Government worldwide, E-Participation, knowledge management, trial modelling and E-Learning. Based on his professional and political experience, Dirk Blauhut publishes and lectures on public management reform and E-Government. He lives in Huerth with his wife and his new born baby-boy and in his spare time he likes to play rugby and read historical novels.
</p>
<p class="speaker">
<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/tim-buchwaldt.jpg" alt="Tim Buchwaldt"/><a href="#tim-buchwaldt" name="tim-buchwaldt"><strong>Tim Buchwaldt</strong></a><br/>Tims is a passionate Operatiosn Engineer at Adcloud, Germany. He works mainly on automating infrastructure and keeping services up. Previously he worked as a software generalist for a small company building all sorts of stuff, from small websites to big hospitality network solutions.
</p>
<p class="speaker">
<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/fur.jpg" alt="//////////fur////"/><a href="#fur" name="fur"><strong>//////////fur////</strong></a><br/> Das unter dem Namen <a href="http://www.fursr.com">//////////fur////</a> Since 2001 The artist duo //////////fur//// (Voker Morawe/TilmanReiff) creates multi-sensory artefacts related to the construction and social aspects of computer game culture. Their interactive installations combine game-logic, media criticism, apparatus parody and childhood memories into engaging man-machine experiences, oftentimes altering the view on the relationship between man and technology. Beside the main artistic question of alternative user interface humor, group experience and hormones are the key points of their work.
</p>
<p class="speaker">
<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/maik-ernst.jpg" alt="Maik Ernst"/><a href="#maik-ernst" name="maik-ernst"><strong>Maik Ernst</strong></a><br/>Since 2007 Maik is CTO at <a href="http://auxmoney.de">auxmoney GmbH</a>. After his studies at SEA Institute in Cologne he worked as a webdesigner at Q-Seven Systems before he found the Medienraum OHG in 2002.
</p>
<p class="speaker">
<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/julia_kloiber.jpg" alt="Julia Kloiber"/><a href="#julia-kloiber" name="julia-kloiber"><strong>Julia Kloiber</strong></a><br/>Project Lead, Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland. Since February 2011, Julia is working as a project lead for the <a href="http://okfn.de/">Open Knowledge Foundation Germany</a>, covering civic apps and open data. During the last year, she successfully organised and implemented the civic incubator <a href="http://stadtlandcode.de/">Stadt Land <Code></a> as well as the <a href="http://berlin.appsandthecity.net/">Apps and the City hackday</a> in Berlin. In addition to her profession, Julia also works voluntarily for the <a href="https://digitalegesellschaft.de/">Digitale Gesellschaft e.V</a>
</p>
<p class="speaker">
<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/jan_brennenstuhl.jpg" alt="Jan Brennenstuhl"/><a href="#jan-brennenstuhl" name="jan-brennenstuhl"><strong>Jan Brennenstuhl</strong></a><br/>Developer & Project Lead, Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland. Jan is software engineer, web developer, blogger and open data activist. He studied media informatics in Berlin as well as computer science in Potsdam. Since the beginning of 2013, he works on <a href="https://www.datensparsam.de/">Datensparsam.de</a> and further civic apps and open data projects as a voluntary project lead for the <a href="http://okfn.de/">Open Knowledge Foundation Germany</a>.
</p>
<p class="speaker">
<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/jakob-jensen.jpg" alt="Jakob Jensen"/><a href="#jakob-jensen" name="jakob-jensen"><strong>Jakob Jensen</strong></a><br/>One of the idea makers behind the Intelligent Headset project (www.intelligentheadset.com). Jakob has more than a decade of experience from the mobile industry with strong emphasis on SW development and innovation. Currently, Jakob is using all of his energy and passion, leading the technical development of the Intelligent Headset project.
</p>
<p class="speaker">
<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/matthias-krauss.jpg" alt="Matthias Krauß"/><a href="#matthias-krauss" name="matthias-krauss"><strong>Matthias Krauß</strong></a><br/>Officially, a computer scientist. Unofficially obsessed with building things: Software, electronics, wood, steel or anything else will do.
</p>
<p class="speaker">
<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/david-linsin.jpg" alt="David Linsin"/><a href="#david-linsin" name="david-linsin"><strong>David Linsin</strong></a><br/>David is a versatile developer with an eye for perfection. He started his career as a Java developer and is now pursuing his current passion iOS development. Together with his wife he co-founded furryfishApps, a small independent iOS App shop. They create addictive games and stunning apps. Their latest app Transit was featured in various news papers in Cologne. His day job is spearheading the iOS and Android app development team at grandcentrix.
</p>
<p class="speaker">
<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/e-mcdonough.jpg" alt="Eugene McDonough"/><a href="#eugene-mcdonough" name="eugene-mcdonough"><strong>Eugene McDonough</strong></a><br/>An industrial design graduate, Eugene has worked for several years in the web development & IT Sector. In August 2011 while working on a tech start-up idea. Eugene heard about a new club that had started in Cork a few weeks before hand and decide to help others get it started in Limerick. This club has gone on to become the Global Movement that is now <a href="http://coderdojo.com/">CoderDojo</a> spread across 200 clubs in 20 countries and expanding. Eugene now works for the Hello World Foundation supporting the CoderDojo movement worldwide.
</p>
<p class="speaker">
<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/axel_quack.jpg" alt="Axel Quack"/><a href="#axel-quack" name="axel-quack"><strong>Axel Quack</strong></a><br/>With a broad background on engineering, an arts degree and being a total believer in design strategy I help corporations to stay or be innovative. I integrate innovation and renovate companies and most importantly accelerate change management. I work as Director/VP of Innovation and Head of Innovation Lab and am co-founder of Colognes' first Coworking space, a FabLab and an international conference on Smart Cities.</a>
</p>
<p class="speaker">
<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/ralf-rottmann.jpg" alt="Ralf Rottmann"/><a href="#ralf-rottmann" name="ralf-rottmann"><strong>Ralf Rottmann</strong></a><br/>Ralf is a serial entrepreneur who sold his last company to Alcatel-Lucent and now serves as the CTO at <a href="http://grandcentrix.net">grandcentrix</a>, Germany's leading mobile studio he co-founded in 2008. In 2010, Germany’s renowned WirtschaftsWoche put Ralf on its List of "Best Known Serial Entrepreneurs" and he has been added to the "World’s Top 100 iOS Programmers". Ralf is a developer at heart, a former The Next Web Editor and advises businesses, individuals and organizations on how to develop and execute a mobile strategy, use social media and social networks to build relationships.
</p>
<p class="speaker">
<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/jan-steemann.jpg" alt="Jan Steemann"/><a href="#jan-steemann" name="jan-steemann"><strong>Jan Steemann</strong></a><br/>Jan is a senior developer at triAGENS, Germany. There he is mainly working on ArangoDB, an open source document database, and on other databases and NoSQL-related topics. <em>Jan will talk about: <a href="http://2013.nosql-matters.org/cgn/abstracts/#abstract_jan_steemann">Query Languages for Document Stores</a></em>
</p>
<p class="speaker">
<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/nadia-zaboura.jpg" alt="Nadia Zaboura"/><a href="#nadia-zaboura" name="nadia-zaboura"><strong>Nadia Zaboura</strong></a><br/>Nadia Zaboura is communication scientist, author ("The Empathic Brain") and moderator. She advises business and politics on the topics of digital strategy, innovation and regional development at the intersection of media, creativity and technology. Since July 2012, she works as "Consultant for digital innovation, internationalization & entrepreneurship" for cluster management CREATIVE.NRW, a project of BOROS GmbH. In this role, she facilitates and fosters the creative industries in Germany´s largest state. Previously, Nadia Zaboura consulted the media industry, politics and public administration at MEDIEN.NRW, newly established development agency. Selection of projects: "ADVANCE - International Web & Startup Conference" and study "Future of Advertising". Prior to that, she worked as project manager at innovation agency, MFG, for three years, spearheading an award-winning podcast on future ICT and networking Europe´s most innovative regions as manager of EU project, "CReATE". Apart from her business activities, Nadia Zaboura is deeply embedded within the digital avant-garde, e.g. as chairwoman of the jury at Germany´s "Grimme Online Award 2013", as founder of performance art project ZEE, (Zaboura Eichstaedt Experience), photography project "enscape" and presenter of TV format "Hyperland".
</p>
<p class="speaker">
<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/stefan-wehrmeyer.jpg" alt="Stefan Wehrmeyer"/><a href="#stefan-wehrmeyer" name="stefan-wehrmeyer"><strong>Stefan Wehrmeyer</strong></a><br/>Stefan Wehrmeyer ist Open Data Aktivist und leitet bei der Open Knowledge Foundation das Projekt FragDenStaat.de. Er beschäftigt sich außerdem mit Open Data im Nahverkehr und der Gesetzgebung.
</p>
<div style="clear:both"></div>
<h3><a name="mobile" href="#mobile">Mobile Hack Track</a></h3>
<p>
We bring developers and devices together.
Come down from your island to the heart of Europe and join us to hack your mobile device!
Independent if you use Android, iOS or Windows by now.
Hack on your hobby project with us and our talented teammates or
join one of the
<a href="https://github.com/InteractiveCologne/warmup/wiki">ideas in our Wiki</a>.
</p>
<p>
To build bridges between technologies we support you to control some
<a href="#nodecopter">#Nodecopters</a> with your device.
Or build some awesome apps with the <a href="#opendata">#OpenData</a> API
or our <a href="#hardware">#hardware</a> experts.
</p>
<h3><a name="nodecopter" href="#nodecopter">Nodecopter Hack Track</a></h3>
<p><a href="http://summerofdrones.com">The Summer of Drones</a> is an epic series of up to 34 <a href="http://nodecopter.com/">Nodecopter</a> community events to take place in North America and Europe from June to September 2013.</p>
<p>Our goal is to highlight the non-military potential of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle">UAVs</a>, bring together people from different programming communities, and learn some interesting new stuff while having fun with flying robots.</p>
<p>Have a look at some videos from the first Nodecopter event that was held in Berlin on Oct 5th, 2012 to get an idea for what to expect:</p>
<iframe width="450" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gucpgJEJ5b4" frameborder="0"></iframe>
<iframe width="450" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/t13jGeBAWrA" frameborder="0"></iframe>
<p>A lot more Nodecopter videos can be found with this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nodecopter">YouTube Search</a>.</p>
<h3><a name="railsgirls" href="#railsgirls">Rails Girls Cologne</a></h3>
<p>The aim of RailsGirls is to give tools and a community for women to understand technology and to build their ideas. This is done by providing a great experience on building things and by making technology more approachable.</p>
<p>Learn sketching, prototyping, basic programming and get introduced to the world of technology. Rails Girls was born in Finland, but is nowadays a global, non-profit volunteer community.</p>
<h3><a name="kids" href="#kids">Kids Track</a></h3>
<p>SWOYP was founded in NYC under the principle that we (a group of diverse professional women) can collectively create a measurable impact in each of the cities that we live in.</p>
<p>A few months ago we started a chapter in Cologne to simply bring the potential of kick-ass ladies in Cologne together to create and work on awesome projects.</p>
<p>For the Interactive Cologne Kids Track we'll offer two days of activities for kids, teenagers and adults that are interested in learning the basics of animation, coding and hacking culture in a magical, enticing atmosphere. We'll have artists and programmers on board who'll help the participants set up their own animated stories and other great hacking projects we'll be working on during the two days. Every age group is welcome, as long as they are interested in the topic. Children from the age of 6 years and up are most likely to benefit the most. (Children need to be accompanied by an adult.)</p>
<div class="schedule">
<table style="border-spacing: 2px;">
<tr>
<th>Time</th>
<th>Tuesday, June, 18th</th>
<th>Tuesday, June, 18th</th>
<th>Wednesday, June, 19th</th>
<th>Wednesday, June, 19th</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th> </th>
<th>Track1</th>
<th>Track2</th>
<th>Track1</th>
<th>Track2</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1-2pm</td>
<td class="hacktalks">Building fruit batteries (Elli/Kerstin/Sahrah)</td>
<td class="hacktalks">Tetris Crafting (Denise/Eva)</td>
<td class="hacktalks">Building fruit batteries (Elli/Kerstin/Steffi)</td>
<td class="hacktalks">Tetris Crafting (Denise/Eva/Ulrike/Daniela)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2-3pm</td>
<td class="hacktalks">Building a "Hot Wire Game" (Elli/Kerstin/Sahrah)</td>
<td class="hacktalks">Origami (Denise/Eva)</td>
<td class="hacktalks">Building a "Hot Wire Game" (Elli/Kerstin/Steffi)</td>
<td class="hacktalks">Origami (Denise/Eva/Daniela)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3-4pm</td>
<td class="hacktalks">Building your own radio (Kerstin/Elli)</td>
<td class="hacktalks">Animating your own story with JavaScript (Eva/Denise)</td>
<td class="hacktalks">Building your own radio (Kerstin/Elli/Steffi)</td>
<td class="hacktalks">Animating your own story with JavaScript (Eva/Daniela)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4-5pm</td>
<td class="hacktalks">Building your own radio (Kerstin/Elli)</td>
<td class="hacktalks">Animating your own story with JavaScript (Eva/Sahrah)</td>
<td class="hacktalks">Building your own radio (Kerstin/Elli/Steffi)</td>
<td class="hacktalks">Animating your own story with JavaScript (Eva/Daniela)</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<img src="/assets/images/kids.jpg" alt="SWOYP" width="906" style="margin-top:40px;"/>
<h3><a name="music" href="#music">Music Hack Days</a></h3>
<p>Everybody loves music. We also love hacks. That's why Interactive Cologne wants to connect the music community with developers and creative minds to develop new digital music hacks and applications. Over the last decades the music industry has struggled to create a sufficient and contemporary way to provide/distribute music in the digital space. These days streaming services and digital data make the access to music easier than ever before. <em>Now it's our time to think one step further.... Join us and let's start to build the future of music.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/spry/462792654/" title="Vynil is so sexy von (e)Spry bei Flickr"><img src="http://farm1.staticflickr.com/242/462792654_76aacbdfd2_b.jpg" width="906" alt="Vynil is so sexy"></a>
</p>
<h3><a name="3dprinting" href="#3dprinting">3D Printing Hack</a></h3>
<p>3D printers have been around since the 80s but till a few years ago they were exclusively reserved for the industry (due to the high acquisition costs). Along with cheaper open hardware printers like the RepRap printer, the Ultimaker MakerBots or the slightly younger Ultimaker, 3D printers spreaded in the hacker and maker scene and were continually developed. From these open hardware projects commercial supplier of 3D printer kits emerged and even the more expensive industrial equipment manufacturers now offer affordable models. In short: with 400 € and some time you can have your own 3D printer.</p>
<p>For a long time now we (Garagelab in Düsseldorf and the Dingfabrik in Cologne) deal with open hardware printers and we have come up against a problem: The software for the printers is much less user-friendly than it could be. We would like to change that together with you on the Interactive Cologne event!</p>
<p>We aim to create a multi-platform user interface, based on the new and yet not very advanced open source project RepetierHost and the slicing software skeinforge. This should help 3D printing newcomers get going, provides regular users with a good workflow and allows professionals a comfortable access to all important parameters.</p>
<p>Content:
<ul>
<li>Introduction of FDM printers using the example of Orca 0.42</li>
<li>Explanation of the steps from model to printing, based on RepetierHost and skeinforge and the current state of software</li>
<li>Development of a user interfaces with more user comfort and better user experience</li>
<li>Implementation and upload in Git</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>Target Group:
<ul>
<li>3D printing newbies who want to learn the technique</li>
<li>3D printing advancer and IT professionals who want to improve the user-friendliness of the software</li>
<li>UserInterface- and UserExperience-Designer</li>
<li>Coder and hardware hacker</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kakissel/6165114664/" title="3D Printer at the Fab Lab von kakissel bei Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6165/6165114664_5fab6e38ff_b.jpg" width="906" alt="3D Printer at the Fab Lab"></a></p>
<h3><a name="seriousgames" href="#seriousgames">City Serious Games SpotOn Hack</a></h3>
<p>We want to use digital technology, to "modify places". Simple modifications including sensors, displays, sounds and whatever devices we want to use to put fun into places and things. The idea is, to shape thoughts or give meaning to places, by "gamify" the places. The City Serious Games are hacks, that utilize technology and "game items" to shape and design the interaction between people and places. One goal is to heighten awareness, for example to avoid waste, make places safer or shape new interactions between people.</p>
<p>The hack-track will give answers to some of the following questions:
<ol>
<li>How can we add "fun" into digital technology stuff?</li>
<li>What is a meaningful interaction between people and objects?</li>
<li>How can a system be designed, that makes sense as a minimal game system?</li>
<li>How can tangible technology enable new kinds of interaction?</li>
</ol>
</p>
<p>This hack-track will bridge disciplines like game design, game development, technology hacking, street art, art games and human-machine interaction. It is mostly about adding a "game design / fun perspective" into technology hacks.</p>
<h3><a name="opendata" href="#opendata">Open Data Hack</a></h3>
<h5>Apps and the City Cologne</h5>
<p>What can you do with public transport data when it is open and accessible for everyone? What tools, visualizations and apps could be created using local transport data? How could open transport data help improve and simplify not just customer services of public transport companies but also citizens´ everyday live?</p>
<p>To explore these and similar questions in an local context and to create answers using code, the Open Knowledge Foundation in Germany, together with other open transport activists, invites to the Apps and the City Hack Track at Interactive Cologne.</p>
<p>Within the scope of this event public transport datasets and problems will be adapted and prototypically implemented by interested hackers and software developers. With the help of those prototypes and forward-looking concepts the potential of open data shall be demonstrated and further development initiated.</p>
<p>All required information and open data will be available online in the near future via <a href="http://cologne.appsandthecity.net/" title="Apps and the City Cologne">cologne.appsandthecity.net</a></p>
<h3><a name="hardware" href="#hardware">Hardware Hack Tracks</a></h3>
<h4>Anykey0x</h4>
<p>Matthias and Tim, makers of Anykey0x.de, will be around to facilitate interaction with the physical world using their tiny ARM Cortex M3 development board, made in Cologne. They’ll premiere their latest, even smaller, Anykey0x revision at Interactive Cologne.</p>
<p>They’ve got some of their own projects planned, but will be bringing Anykeys, various soldering and hacking tools, a CNC router, expertise and boxes of electronic junk to help the other projects blink, move, make noise and do all sorts of magic. You can bring your own stuff, work on your projects and discuss them. You can participate with their projects (which will focus on the blinkingmovingnoisymagic aspect). Or you can just hang around with them to drink beer (and try to convince them to do something completely different, if it sounds like fun).</p>
<p><em>Anykey0x is a tiny, cheap, simple but very powerful microcontroller board, allowing to build various sensing and controlling applications standalone, connected by wire or wirelessly to other machines. "It's just like Arduino ... only better."</em>
<img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/67588_548609385182025_1735731939_n.jpg" alt="Anykey0x" width="906" />
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<h3><a name="noSQL" href="#noSQL">noSQL</a></h3>
<p>People interessted into NoSQL and Big Data knowledge are highly welcome to hack in our NoSQL Hack Track to build stuff and extend their knolwledge in these topics.</p>
<p>You are interested into innovative database concepts beyond relational databases? You have secretly dreamed of poking in the internals of a database, implementing your own fancy feature?<br/>Then this track is for you.<br/><p>But wait, if you are more into the "new hot shit of Javascript development", this track is also for you.</p><p>In this track we invite you to jump on the "nosql" movement of open source non-relational databases. Learn how to use them, how to extend them and do some happy hacking with us in C, C++ or Javascript.</p>
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<h3><a href="#webmonday" name="webmonday">Monday June 17th : Webmonday & WarmUp Party @ Die Wohngemeinschaft</a></h3>
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<strong>What:</strong> Meetup, Concerts, Party<br/>
<strong>Date:</strong> June 17th<br/>
<strong>Time:</strong> 7 PM<br/>
<strong>Entrance:</strong> free
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<h4>About Webmonday</h4>
<p>Webmonday is an informal and completely community- driven event that aims to connect people who are shaping the future of the internet. Inspired by the culture of Silicon Valley, it started out in Cologne, Germany in late 2005 in an effort to help spread those sunny California vibes.
Web Monday is followed by an after-party with local bands and DJs!</p>
<p>After the talks we will have a live performance of <a href="/parties#malte">Malte Griesgram</a></p>
<h4>Talks</h4>
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<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/maik-ernst.jpg" alt="Maik Ernst"/><a href="#maik-ernst" name="maik-ernst"><strong>Maik Ernst</strong></a><br/>Since 2007 Maik is CTO at <a href="http://auxmoney.de">auxmoney GmbH</a>. After his studies at SEA Institute in Cologne he worked as a webdesigner at Q-Seven Systems before he found the Medienraum OHG in 2002.
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<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/florian-hofmann.jpg" alt="florian-hofmann"/><a href="#florian-hofmann" name="florian-hofmann"><strong>Florian Hofmann</strong></a><br/>Florian Hofmann, born in 1980, is co-founder and Managing Director of Business Development for pixoona, a brand developed by the redpeppix. GmbH & Co. KG in Wiesbaden, Germany. The general progress of the company, which is also promoting the brands paij and DrapIt, can be credited to him at large. After his studies of Social Work and several semesters of Business Administration at the Fachhochschule Wiesbaden he worked as Manager of Business Development for the redpeppix. GmbH & Co. KG for more than two years prior to his engagement with pixoona.The native Hochheimer has been Managing Director of Business Development since November 2011. Before joining the redpeppix. GmbH & Co. KG in June 2009 Florian Hofmann was manager of Internal Retail Sales at Berlitz GmbH Deutschland, Frankfurt. <em>His talk: Augmented Reality am Scheideweg: Digitale Reklameflut oder user-generated Öffentlichkeit?</em>
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<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/eva-mohr.jpg" alt="Eva Mohr"/><a href="#eva-mohr" name="eva-mohr"><strong>Eva Mohr</strong></a><br/>Co-Founder <a href="http://allthatiwant.com">Allthatiwant</a>, an online platform for street style, fashion and urban cycling culture. I wrote a book and moved to NYC to eventually start a company with my best friend and to create the lifestyle we always dreamed of having: a headquarter in Honolulu and an office in our hometown cologne. And what exactly do we do? We started a company around the two things we're most passionate about: bicycles and fashion. You think we're crazy? Then you're a guy and haven't cycled in a dress before. <em>Eva is talking about the story of a global start up</em>
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<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/tim_schneider.jpg" alt="Tim Schneider"/><a href="#tim-schneider" name="tim-schneider"><strong>Tim Schneider</strong></a><br/>Tim is one of the founders of <a href="http://railslove.com">Railslove</a>, interaction designer and web developer. Earlier this year he joined <a href="http://twitter.com/fhkoeln">@fhkoeln's</a> Web Science Master Program as a lecturer and is now working with students on all kinds of Privacy-related topics. He's talking about <em>privacy injection – the pragmatic approach to web privacy</em>.
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<p>If you think you have something to say just <a href="http://twitter.com/interactive_cgn">ping us on twitter</a> or <a href="mailto:[email protected]">write an email</a>.</p>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver/119188035/" title="WebMontag Köln by othylmann, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm1.staticflickr.com/41/119188035_03a85480f3_o.jpg" width="906" alt="WebMontag Köln"></a>
<h3><a href="#ruby-usergroup">Ruby Usergroup</a></h3>
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<strong>What:</strong> Meetup, Tech talks<br/>
<strong>Date:</strong> June 19th<br/>
<strong>Time:</strong> 7 PM<br/>
<strong>Entrance:</strong> free
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<p>Cologne.rb, aka Kölsch.rb, is the local Ruby user group comprised of a bunch of people who love programming with Ruby, to share their experiences with each other, to hang out together and drink some Kölsch. Come hang out with us and learn a little bit about the magical world of Ruby. The entrance is <strong>free</strong> and for more information visit: <a href="http://www.colognerb.de/events/cologne-rb-interactive-cologne/">colognerb.de/</a></p>
<p>After great talks, join the <a href="/parties.html">parties</a></p>
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<h3><a href="#hackers-for-non-hackers" name="hackers-for-non-hackers">Hackers for Non-Hackers</a></h3>
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<strong>What:</strong> Meetup, Workshop, Tech talks<br/>
<strong>Date:</strong> June 21st<br/>
<strong>Time:</strong> 3 PM<br/>
<strong>Where:</strong> STARTPLATZ<br/>
<strong>Entrance:</strong> free
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<p><em>Hackers for Non-Hackers</em> is a completely new format developed together with STARTPLATZ. The goal is to show Non-Hackers interested in technology and web this world. The workshop structure is similar to <a href="http://railsgirls.com">Railsgirls</a>. Hackers for Non-Hackers - nothing more to say.</p>
<h3><a href="#devhousefriday" name="devhousefriday">DevHouseFriday Chillout</a></h3>
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<strong>What:</strong> Meetup, Tech talks<br/>
<strong>Date:</strong> June 21st<br/>
<strong>Time:</strong> 7 PM<br/>
<strong>Where:</strong> STARTPLATZ<br/>
<strong>Entrance:</strong> free
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<p>DevHouseFriday is an event intended for creative and curious people interested in technology inspired by SuperHappyDevHouse. Once a month (on Fridays) we talk about technology and share our knowledge while meeting new people and learning stuff we are all interested in.</p>
<p>Our meetups are organized every two months visiting different companies (like: Kalaydo, wer kennt wen, Adcloud, DuMont Venture, meeting different people, speaking different languages.</p>
<p>This event's place will be announced ASAP. The entrance is <strong>free</strong> and for more information visit: <a href="http://devhousefriday.org/networks/events/show_event.78620">devhousefriday.org/networks/events/show_event.78620</a></p>
<h4>Talks</h4>
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<img class="speaker" src="assets/images/speaker/jan_kus.jpg" alt="Jan Kus"/><a href="#jan-kus" name="jan-kus"><strong>Jan Kus</strong></a><br/>Co-Founder of <a href="http://railslove.com">railslove.com</a> and <a href="http://coworkingcologne.de">coworkingcologne.de</a>. I love building web applications! Nuff said". He's talking about <em>how to transform a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro">MacBook Pro</a> into a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KITT">KITT</a>. A live hacking session using <a href="http://www.anykey0x.de/">anykey0x</a></em>.
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<p>if you think you have something to say just <a href="http://twitter.com/interactive_cgn">ping us on twitter</a> or <a href="mailto:[email protected]">write an email</a>.</p>
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