About Simon Woodhead

A regular speaker at other industry events, Simon founded Simwood 20 years ago and the company has a reputation and passion for innovation and solving challenges from an unconventional perspective. He’s unusual amongst CEOs in being very hands-on with engineering across the breadth of the business and so can present on both the high level industry trends, down to the micro-detail of configuration. He’s quite outspoken in pursuit of a fair, transparent BS-free marketplace, and his irreverent swagger usually comes out in presentations.

Simon Woodhead's Session

Thankfully the Wright Brothers didn’t wait for radio before inventing flight - they got in and flew the thing rather than adding the complexity of remote control. Why do we burden our applications with this? Because it is better than flying them ourselves perhaps? At Simwood we prefer to let them fly themselves and I’ll explain how.

Thankfully the Wright Brothers didn’t wait for radio before inventing flight - they got in and flew the thing rather than adding the complexity of remote control. Why do we burden our applications with this? Because it is better than flying them ourselves perhaps? At Simwood we prefer to let them fly themselves and I’ll explain how.