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Semantic Web and scalable systems expert Brian Sletten will take you beyond the basics of REST on into security, Hypermedia-driven Representation design, and versioning of RESTful services.

Talis' Kasabi and BrightLemon's Building the Social Web are joining forces to organise a Hackday based around open government. The aim is to bring together 20 invited expert developers to build datasets and APIs within Kasabi, demonstrating the possibilities available when structuring data and visually publishing it to the web.

SemTech represents a full spectrum of business, government, and consumer activity taking place within the field of semantic technology and brings together the most practical and advanced solutions in the industry.

Jurgen Appelo -- agile expert and author of the new book, Change Management 3.0 -- is coming to Skills Matter this October. Jurgen will be talking to Agile people who feel responsible for organizational change (scrum masters, team leaders, etc.) on how to change the world.

"Groovy in Action" author, and general Groovy Grails guru, Dierk Koenig returns to Skills Matter this September and asks are you tired of writing the same code over and over again, like getters, setters, equals, hashCode, toString, loggers, and else?

Professor David Frohlich, Director of Digital World Research Centre at the University of Surrey, will be demonstrating that the sharing of digital media within on-line social networks is a relatively recent practice with its roots in much older activities such as domestic photography.

This month, the Hadoop User Group will have a discussion-based session: join the discussion, sign up here -- http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/july-hadoop-discussions/js-1629

Building upon the themes and assumptions laid bare by Tony Wadsworth’s report Remake, Remodel: The Evolution of the Record Label, MusicTank’s conference will address the future of the recordings business. Tony's authoritative take into the future of the record label raised questions about the recordings business that cannot be ignored.

One of the challenges we face in the field of User Experience is how do we prove the value of the work we are proposing to our clients or internal stakeholders and how can we increase their appreciation of our unique skills and expertise?

Miles Sabin, makes a return to Skills Matter this September, bringing intensive training for developers who have mastered the essentials of core Scala.

Iulian Dragoș, Scala expert and right-hand to Martin Odersky, will be personally delivering Odersky's Scala workshop over two days this June.

"The Software SImplist" Udi Dahan makes a highly anticpated return to Skills Matter this September. The internationally renowned software architecture expertwent down a storm at the 2011 DDD eXchange and he will be giving attendees at Skills Matter 5 days of his time to help take the pain out of designing large-scale distributed systems.

CQRS expert Greg Young will be making a triumphant return to Skills Matter this autumn, following a highly acclaimed appearance at the 2011 DDD exchange