On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 20:20:22 UTC, Meta wrote:
> John Carmack would be an amazing speaker; I love listening to his Quakecon/Oculus Connect talks. Problem is he can go for hours on end and routinely goes way over time. Also he's busy building the foundation for an entire new paradigm in entertainment.

+1 - John Carmack has my vote too.

On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 18:47:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I'm thinking of inviting a notable industry luminary to deliver a conference keynote. Please reply to this with ideas! -- Andrei

Eric Niebler, I thought he did a good job with his C++ Ranges translation of Teoh's calendar example.  Perhaps he has other thoughts on D.

Joe Duffy, he recently wrote a blog post on how the Midori research project at Microsoft explored some similar terrain as D:

http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/a-tale-of-three-safeties/

Maybe one of the key Rust architects, as the outside keynote speakers so far have been C++ people, but the real competition for D right now appears to be Rust, at least in popular perception.

On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 18:47:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I'm thinking of inviting a notable industry luminary to deliver a conference keynote. Please reply to this with ideas! -- Andrei

Chris Lattner
Howard Hinnant

Bill Joy
Ray Kurzweil

On 2015-11-17 23:19, bitwise wrote:

> Chandler Carruth

+1. My favorite speaker.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 18:47:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I'm thinking of inviting a notable industry luminary to deliver a conference keynote. Please reply to this with ideas! -- Andrei

Niklaus Wirth... :-)

On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 10:40:47 UTC, Frank Fuente wrote:
> On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 18:47:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I'm thinking of inviting a notable industry luminary to deliver a conference keynote. Please reply to this with ideas! -- Andrei
>
> Niklaus Wirth... :-)

+1 Given his work has been on how to do systems programming with memory safe languages.

On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 10:40:47 UTC, Frank Fuente wrote:
> On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 18:47:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I'm thinking of inviting a notable industry luminary to deliver a conference keynote. Please reply to this with ideas! -- Andrei
>
> Niklaus Wirth... :-)

That would be beyond awesome

On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 04:24:59 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 18/11/15 5:07 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 03:11:34 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>>> Alternatively Michael Garbage - livecoding.tv CEO.
>>> Give me a shout out, if you want me to enquire!
>>
>> I don't know about that. Recently that company has gotten some very bad
>> (and deserved) press in the programming world
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486476
>
> I'm well aware.
> I've talked to Michael and I side with him.
>
> It was a combination of misinformation and miscommunication. Actions are being taken to prevent such occurrences in the future. Which is the correct course of action.

Reading the linked thread, with showdead on, makes it very, very difficult to believe that.

Regardless of the truth or what anyone thinks is the truth, it would be a very bad idea for D to associate with a person which the programming community currently believes to be toxic.

On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 11:49:33 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 10:40:47 UTC, Frank Fuente wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 18:47:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> I'm thinking of inviting a notable industry luminary to deliver a conference keynote. Please reply to this with ideas! -- Andrei
>>
>> Niklaus Wirth... :-)
>
> +1 Given his work has been on how to do systems programming with memory safe languages.

+1 to Prof Wirth.

On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 18:47:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I'm thinking of inviting a notable industry luminary to deliver a conference keynote. Please reply to this with ideas! -- Andrei

Russel Winder