5:30 pm - Networking. Pizza and soft drinks provided by TekSystems. Beer and bottled water provided by PeerSource.

6:00 pm - JavaScript Programming Idioms - Creating Elegant Code presented by Dr. Venkat Subramaniam 

JavaScript code really does not have to suck. We can write some of the most elegant, concise, and expressive code in JavaScript. We can use functional style and also create code that's easier to understand and maintain. 

Come to this presentation to pick up some idiomatic styles and better/interesting ways to write JavaScript.

About the speaker: 
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and an instructional professor at the University of Houston. 

He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects. 

Venkat is a (co)author of multiple books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. His latest book is Functional Programming in Java: Harnessing the Power of Java 8 Lambda Expressions. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.

8:00 pm - After meeting get-together at Fox and Hound, 9239 Park Meadows Dr, Lone Tree, CO 8012. Tab picked up by StatusPage.