# Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference, March 26-27: Registration is Open

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Registration is open for the Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise  
Conference, which is set for March 26th and 27th in Philadelphia:

> **[Home](https://2023.phillyemergingtech.com/)**
>
> Philly Emerging Tech brings world-renowned speakers — plus some local favorites — to speak about leading-edge technologies being used today, and emerging technologies that will be crucial knowledge for our attendees in the near future.

While a wide variety of technologies and techniques will be represented,  
there will a substantial amount of Ruby content at this event.

Below is a partial list of speakers and topics:

- Peter A., author of Flexible Rails: Flex 3 on Rails 2 (Topic -  
Rails on AIR: Best Practices for using Flex 3 and Adobe AIR  
with Ruby on Rails 2)

- Giles B. (Topic - Code Generation: The Safety Scissors of  
Metaprogramming)

- David C., RSpec Lead Developer (Topic - Integration Testing  
with  
RSpec’s Story Runner)

- Brian DeLacey, XiuTech (Topic - Web 2.0 and GIS: from Ptolemy to Tufte  
and  
Beyond)

- Toby DiPasquale, Commerce360 (Topic - Enter the Elephant: Massively  
Parallel Computing With Hadoop)

- Obie F., author of The Rails Way (Topic - TBD)

- Yehuda K., author of jQuery in Action (Topic - Using jQuery to  
Rapidly  
Build Rich Internet Applications)

- Jon Kern, co-author of The Agile Manifesto (Topic - TBD)

- Ramnivas Laddad, author of AspectJ in Action: Practical  
Aspect-Oriented  
Programming (Topic - AOP in the Enterprise)

- Jeremy McAnally, co-author of Ruby in Practice, author of Mr.  
Neighborly’s  
Humble Little Ruby Book (Topic - Glueby? The Why and How of Integration  
with  
Ruby)

- Cliff Moon, Powerset (Topic - ActiveMessaging)

- Joe O’Brien, EdgeCase (Topic - Be Careful, Your Java is Showing)

- Chris W., Err Free (Topic - The Launch: Bringing a Rails Site  
to  
Life)