Event: Announcing the Emerging Business Tech meetup

We are pleased to announce the start of a new, Cantina-sponsored meetup, Emerging Business Technology. The first free event has been scheduled: Native and HTML5-based mobile: strategies for mobile app development.

As the meetup description states:

This meetup provides engineers, practitioners and managers the context needed to evaluate and adopt rapidly evolving business technologies. Leave with an understanding of what the technology is, why it’s used, when to use it, and next steps to take. We’ll review use cases, processes, tools, and practices in a mini-conference format through short presentations, hands-on tutorials, Q&A and code walkthroughs. Topics may include Mobile app development, HTML5, responsive design, high-concurrency applications, interaction design, modern languages and frameworks, NoSQL databases, and mobile / tablet application design.

The meetup has seen really strong interest and momentum from the community thus far. We are looking forward to a night of great presentations and discussion:

Mobile apps: native or not?

George White, Principal Consultant / Cantina Consulting (@Stonehippo)

Introduction to native vs non-native mobile app development. The advantages and limitations of each.

Building content apps with Brightcove App Cloud

Adam Mark, Developer Advocate / Brightcove (@adammark75)

Learn about Brightcove App Cloud, an end-to-end solution for creating content-driven apps with web technologies.

Creating Native Apps on the Verivo Development Platform

Mike Oliver, Engineering Manager, Mobile App Development / Verivo (@moliver816)

Tools of the Mobile Web

Matthew Crist, Principal Consultant / Cantina Consulting (@matthewcrist)

An overview of the frameworks that exists, what to think about before rolling your own and why rolling your own may be the better approach to building mobile web apps.