Keynote Speaker : Nathan Torkington

Nathan Torkington, is described as one of this year’s events “shining stars.”
A giant of the New Zealand online industry, Nathan brings extensive expertise in a wide range of areas says Programmes Committee member Stef Clark.
“He’s been a founder, advisor, editor, web designer and co-writer of the PERL Cookbooks. His considerable list of achievements begins in New Zealand, goes off to the United States and returns to New Zealand where he currently advises corporates and spends time with his own and other start-ups. As host, he identifies new opportunities for an intriguing range of folk at the Kiwi Foo Camps http://baacamp.org/ and he even finds time to play the banjo.” 

Nat Torkington
I ran the first web server in New Zealand; moved to the US in 1995; cowrote The Perl Cookbook, edited technical books for O’Reilly Media; ran conferences on bioinformatics, Internet-enabled geospatial technologies, new voice technology, and open source software (including OSCON for ten years); moved back to New Zealand in 2005; run Kiwi Foo Camp; consult and teach. My homepage is at nathan.torkington.com. I live and work in Leigh, New Zealand.

Advisory Roles

I enjoy helping startups with technology, product, and business decisions. I was an advisor to Zimbra (bought by Yahoo! for USD350M), and presently am an advisor to Silverstripe.