<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>I am pleased to announce to you that, on the occasion of BelHac, the first Belgian Haskell Hackathon from 5-7 Nov 2010, the Ghent Functional Programming Group is organizing a symposium on "Functional Programming in Industry", to which you are all cordially invited. These talks will be held on Friday, November 5th at 17:00 in the Jozef Plateauzaal in the Plateau building of Ghent University (Jozef Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Gent). The program is as follows:</div><div><br></div><div>- Duncan Coutts* (Well-Typed, <a href="http://www.well-typed.com/">http://www.well-typed.com/</a>, BelHac sponsor) who will be talking on how Well-Typed are providing consultancy services for Haskell, a pure functional programming language.</div><div>- Romain Slootmaekers (Incubaid, <a href="http://www.incubaid.com/">http://www.incubaid.com</a>, BelHac sponsor) who will be talking on the use of functional programming in Incubaid, a company based in the Ghent area.</div><div>- Don Stewart (Galois, <a href="http://www.galois.com/">http://www.galois.com</a>) who will be talking on how Galois is using Haskell in many of their projects, including government contracts.</div><div><br></div><div>The talks will be followed by a reception to which all attendees are cordially invited.</div><div><br></div><div>* Actual speaker has yet to be confirmed, but the talk will take place.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind Regards,</div><div>The GhentFPG Organizing Committee.</div></body></html>