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Creating a Connected Home by Kevin and Andy Nilson

352 views · Published 19 April 2017 · 46:56 · Indexed 23 October 2026

Channel: Devoxx · 2017 · Science & Technology

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Wouldn't you love to be able to walk into a room and use your phone or voice to turn on your lights. When you are relaxing on the couch listening to music wouldn't it be nice to just talk to your speaker to turn up the volume or change the song. Can you imagine being able to turn on the fan by just saying you are hot. In this talk Java Champion and JavaOne Rockstar Kevin Nilson and his 12 year old son Andy will do a live coding demo of creating a connected home.

Kevin works at Google as the lead of the Chromecast Technical Solutions Engineer team. Prior to joining Google Kevin was the VP of Engineering at just.me, a mobile social startup funded by Google Ventures. Kevin is a Java Champion and three time JavaOne Rock Star. Kevin has spoken at conferences such as JavaOne, Devoxx, O'Reilly Fluent, NFJS SpringOne, AnDevCon, JAX, Open Web Camp, Silicon Valley Code Camp, HTML5DevConf, AppsWorld, swampUP, On Android & AjaxWorld. Kevin is the co-author of Web 2.0 Fundamentals. In the past he was an adjunct professor at the College of San Mateo. Kevin holds a MS & BS in Computer Science from Southern Illinois University. Kevin is the leader of the Silicon Valley JUG, GDG, JavaScript Meetup & Devoxx4Kids.

Andy Nilson is a 12 year boy who grew up with coding. He has presented at JavaOne Kids Day and OSCON Kids day and been in the JavaOne Keynote.

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