Aral Balkan

March is about to become a mad month for me, starting tomorrow (or perhaps it started on Friday, with Geek Ninja Battle Night). Today, I'm off to London, staying overnight at Heathrow (and hopefully attending this evening's NSCoder night in London) before flying to Lithuania tomorrow where, on Thursday, I will be presenting the opening keynote at the LOGIN conference, in front of an expected audience of over 2,000 (no pressure!)

At LOGIN, I'm honored to be appearing alongside some stellar folks including Ben Hammersley, editor-at-large of Wired UK, my good friend and lead developer evangelist at Mozilla, Christian Heilmann, Marc Sands from Tate Modern, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi of Flattr.com (and co-founder of The Pirate Bay), Shehzaad Shams from Amnesty International, and Adam Somlai Fischer, the lead designer of Prezi.com. Needless to say, there are quite a few sessions that I am greatly looking forward to attending.

The Big M

When I return from LOGIN, it's straight to Bath for The Big M conference where I'm looking forward to catching up with, among others, the ever-delightful Dan Appelquist from Vodafone and my good friend and conference buddy Bruce Lawson from Opera. I'll be presenting there on the 21st and doing a half-day workshop on mobile design principles for iOS on the 22nd.

NSConference

After my workshop at The Big M, it's a train to Reading where, on the 23rd, I will be presenting an opening keynote at NSConference. I wish I could attend the whole of NSConference and hang out with some of the other awesome speakers – like my friend and fellow UX-obsessive Mike Lee, the-one-and-only Mr. Matt Legend Gemmell, Drew McCormack, and the scarily clever Marcus Zarra.

Tweakers.net Developer Summit

I get a night's rest in Reading after which I'm off to Amsterdam to present the opening keynote at the tweakers.net Developer Summit on the 24th.

iOS SDK workshop

I fly back to the UK on the 25th and round off the month with my iOS SDK Dojo, a 3-Day workshop in Brighton wherein I teach Objective-C and Cocoa Touch – sprinkled with lots of real-world and user-experience-design-related tips for iPhone and iPad.

Whew!

What a crazy month.

Here's looking forward to seeing some of you on my travels and to making it to April in one piece. :)

Photo credit: NSConference: Stefaan Lesage (from his NSConference 2010 - Day 1 review from CocoaHeads Belgium).

Comments

• Really interesting presentation at the Big M, hopefully the rest of the month is as good. Totally opened my eyes to the UX world.

  by Alfie on 2011-03-23 11:06:52

• Was great presentation! Was nice to hear such a nice person.

  by Tomas on 2011-03-18 06:58:00

• Thanks, Alfie, I'm happy to hear it :) The other talks went really well too :)

  by Aral on 2011-03-27 21:21:38

• Although more than one month has passed after Internet conference Login2011 (in Vilnius, Lithuania), I still remember Aral Balkan. Not just because his presentation there was THE BEST during both days. The reason is Aral's words of truth: if you feel angry because of something, it means you care; it means it's important to you! Well, like I said him then, after all these years this insight has opened my mind about why in some situation, in some places, with some stuff, or even some people, I sometimes become angry. Now it's clear - I really care to find all them and see as the best! So thanks for the way 17 of March has started for me. Respectfully, Julius

  by Julius on 2011-04-22 10:13:14

• Was great meeting you at the Big M. You're presentation was amazing, thought provoking and gets you to think about UX. You're iOS workshop the next day was brilliant too! Makes me want to create an iPhone app now...!

  by Shona on 2011-05-17 10:53:25