Conferences

JavaZone 2022

Friday, September 9, 2022 - 03:45 by Ivar Grimstad
It is always pleasant to come back to my home country, even if I get a complete language meltdown as soon as I cross the border. Good thing Java is the common language JavaZone draws a big crowd. 2500 developers at this year’s edition. Food is served in the exhibition...

JNation 2022

Thursday, June 16, 2022 - 02:07 by Ivar Grimstad
JNation is an awesome, community-focused conference located in beautiful Coimbra, Portugal! More than 800 attendees showed up for this one-day event. You can see a majority of them up on stage after the opening keynote in the image below. This time, I was accompanied by Tanja on stage. In our...

Java Day Istanbul 2022

Thursday, June 2, 2022 - 07:30 by Ivar Grimstad
As I promised in Hashtag Jakarta EE #126, here is a short recap of my weekend in Istanbul and Java Day Istanbul 2022. The eighth edition of this conference had an online part on Friday, whereas the main conference day was in-person on Saturday. Traffic in Istanbul can be a...

GeeCON 2022

Friday, May 13, 2022 - 04:19 by Ivar Grimstad
This was my first time speaking at GeeCON. It is a yearly three-day conference in Kraków, Poland, with around 700 participants. This was the 12th edition of the conference. There were three parallel tracks. My talk titled Jakarta EE 10 is Coming YOUR Way, was on the second day of...

Jfokus 2022

Friday, May 6, 2022 - 03:57 by Ivar Grimstad
That was Jfokus 2022. As usual, an excellent conference hosted by Mattias and his team! My talk titled Get Ready for Jakarta EE 10 went well. A couple of hours before the talk, I added a brand new demo of the Java SE Bootstrap feature of Jakarta RESTful Web Services...

Umedev 2022

Thursday, April 7, 2022 - 05:10 by Ivar Grimstad
Umedev is one-day a developer conference for and by the local developer community and IT industry in Umeå. It is completely free for attendees This year’s edition featured three parallel tracks, so there were lots of great content to choose from. Most speakers were local with a couple of exceptions...