VA Smalltalk Product Update and Roadmap First Name: John Last Name: O'Keefe Type: Talk Abstract: VA Smalltalk continues to evolve, I'm going to share the current state of this evolution. During this last year,we have all been hard at work refreshing the product with new features as well as upgrading some of the old ones. I will have some exciting new capabilities to show together with the “Roadmap to the Future” for VA Smalltalk. Bio: I have been developing software for over 45 years. I joined the original IBM Smalltalk prototype team in 1990 and was a founding member of the IBM VisualAge Smalltalk development team. I was Team Lead and Chief Architect of IBM VisualAge Smalltalk from 1997 to 2007. In February 2007, I joined Instantiations to lead the VA Smalltalk development team. I am currently the CTO and Principal Smalltalk Architect focusing on future product architecture and development. I live in Durham, NC and work in Raleigh, NC. Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/esug/va-smalltalk-product-update-and-roadmap Video1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSyEA78xhFM Video2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbTI5A8-bT4