Conferences

JConf Dominicana 2024

Saturday, July 20, 2024 - 12:09 by Ivar Grimstad
A Java conference in the Dominican Republic sounds too good to be true. Well, I can tell you that it is a thing, and it is awesome! JConf Dominicana, The Caribbean Java Technologies Conference is organized by Java Dominicano, the Dominican Java User Group. It is a one-day conference with...

Developer Week ’24

Tuesday, July 2, 2024 - 13:17 by Ivar Grimstad
Developer Week is a four-day conference that takes place in Nuremberg, Germany. As the name implies, it is a developer conference where Java is a track among the other track topics. I spoke at the conference for the first time in 2017, and it feels like the Java track has...

DevBCN 2024

Saturday, June 15, 2024 - 02:29 by Ivar Grimstad
My second trip to Barcelona in less than two weeks was to DevBCN. This community-driven conference is always a pleasure to speak at. And it doesn’t hurt that it is located in Barcelona… This time we had an Eclipse Foundation booth staffed by Carmen, Arjan, and yours truly. We even...

Spring I/O 2024

Friday, May 31, 2024 - 11:29 by Ivar Grimstad
This was my first time attending and speaking at Spring I/O. The conference is located in Barcelona and attracts around 1200 attendees from all over the World. The two-day conference has four parallel tracks as well as two workshop tracks. Spring I/O is an extremely well-organized conference. Everything flows smoothly...

JPrime 2024

Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - 11:13 by Ivar Grimstad
JPrime in Sofia is one of my favorite conferences. The event has two tracks, which means that you always have a good crowd even if there is a superstar speaker in the other room at the same time. The venue has a big outdoor patio and is surrounded by a...

GeeCON 2024

Saturday, May 18, 2024 - 03:01 by Ivar Grimstad
My visit to beautiful Kraków for GeeCON 2024 was a pretty short one since it was the second conference I spoke at in two days. And I wasn’t the only speaker taking the route between Köln and Kraków, or the other way around. That’s how it is during conference season...

JCON Europe 2024

Thursday, May 16, 2024 - 06:39 by Ivar Grimstad
JCON Europe is a four-day Java conference attracting speakers from all over the World and Java developers from all over Germany. The venue is a cinema complex located centrally in Cologne (Köln), Germany. This year, Eclipse Foundation had a booth at a very prominent location where the Java-related working groups...

GIDS 2024

Friday, April 26, 2024 - 07:34 by Ivar Grimstad
My fifth time speaking at GIDS was just as good as the previous ones. The conference has an amazing lineup of high-profile speakers, so it is a great honor to be among them. This year, the conference had 5400 attendees spread over four days with five parallel tracks. I had...