Major events in 2018: development
As promised , we present the second part of a selection of large and useful for IT-specialists events of 2018 - or at least the first half of it. In this issue we will focus on development in its various manifestations: mobile applications, web, blockchain, big data, clouds, high-load systems, and so on. We plan to continue to cover smaller events of local significance in regular digests; As for foreign conferences, links to their extended list can be found at the end of the article.
InoThings ++
When: January 29-30
Where: Moscow, 1st Zachatievsky lane., 4, Infospace
Conditions of participation: 17 000 rubles.
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An application conference where IoT practitioners can share experiences and best practices with a savvy audience. The reports will concern both the hardware component (chips, microcontrollers, processors, sensors) and the software component (IoT platform, ecosystems - their internal structure and alignment). In addition to classic topics such as security, testing and data transfer, the program also includes space for two “peripheral” sections - an educational track, where you can get acquainted with the principles of prototyping, and a business track, which will discuss new business models and lead to successful cases. . The achievements of the participants will be available in the exhibition area.
DevGAMM 2018
When: February 1-2
Where: Ukraine, Kiev, st. Vadim Getman, 6, SEC Cosmopolitan
Participation conditions: $ 59 (3327 rub.)
A well-known event in the community for game developers, where you can do everything: listen to others, tell yourself, make contacts with industry titans, and even work between times. As always, the rich program combines classical formats such as speeches and workshops with trade organizers — for example, short, flashing, and ruthless reviews of participants ’games from experts.
PGConf.Russia 2018
When: February 5-7
Where: Moscow, Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics
Conditions of participation: are specified
Those who have lived up to PostgreSQL in any capacity — database administrators, PostgreSQL kernel and extension developers, application developers, information system architects — can deepen their understanding of system capabilities and polish skills at a specialized technical conference. The main themes of the year are: “PostgreSQL at the forefront: big data, Internet of things, blockchain”, “New in PostgreSQL and around: the development of PostgreSQL and its ecosystems”, “PostgreSQL in real systems: architecture, migration, operation”, “ The use of PostgreSQL in the 1C platform and PostgreSQL in geographic information systems (GIS) ”, but the program is not exhausted by them. A variety of formats allows participants to get out of the role of passive listeners - they will have the opportunity to participate in master classes, make a blitz report or visit the living room of developers.
OpenTalks AI
When: February 7-9
Where: Leningradsky Avenue 39, p. 79, Metro Airport
Participation conditions: 24 000 rub.
OpenTalks.AI is an opportunity for everyone involved in artificial intelligence technologies to express themselves, communicate and exchange contacts with like-minded people. The conference is held in English and gathers participants from various scientific fields and countries of the world, including the most authoritative specialists. The first day will be devoted to the discussion of scientific developments relating to computer vision, language processing, data analysis and predicative analytics, the second is reserved for cases from the developers of existing AI solutions and the presentation of projects; on the last day, the conversation will be about the ethical and legal aspects of the creation and implementation of AI-technologies, their global significance and potential. As a fiery final, Science-battle will be held on the platform on the sacramental theme of artificial intelligence in its relation to consciousness.
Blockchain conference
When: February 13
Where: St. Petersburg, pl. Victory, 1, Park Inn Radisson Pulkovskaya
Conditions of participation: 12 000 rubles.
An international conference on blockchain systems will be useful, first of all, for those who are preparing their own project for entering the market. In addition to reports on the state of the market today, forecasts, what to expect from tomorrow and the ever-present topic of legislative regulation, there will be many specific recommendations from experts on how to conduct an ICO, both from a technical and marketing point of view. A tech who is belligerent and self-confident can take part in the ICO Battle, a start-up competition whose winners will receive not only valuable advice, but also promotion assistance.
Clouds 2018: Towards Public Services
When: February 20
Where: Moscow (the address will be specified)
Conditions of participation: 18 000 rubles.
CNews offers experts a rich topic for discussion and debate: the clouds, their perspectives and their role in the global digital transformation process. The discussion, for the most part, will revolve around the specifics of the Russian cloud market, which is now experiencing a phase of rapid chaotic growth. The speakers are invited to highlight such topics as the pace of its development, level of services, place in the global economy, relations with legislation, the ratio of private and public clouds and, of course, prospects for the near future.
TokenConf 2018
When: February 26-27
Where: Moscow, 1st Zachatievsky lane., 4, Infospace
Conditions of participation: 17 000 rubles.
All in the title: the organizers invite IT professionals to come together to jointly answer the simple question - do you need a blockchain in your project? The conversation will not turn on how to make money on cryptocurrency or conduct an ICO correctly - all the attention of the speakers and participants will be focused precisely on the technical capabilities of the blockchain and their impact on business processes. The speeches will focus on the specifics of creating blockchain platforms (architecture, protocols, security, speed), legal challenges (legislation, communication with Fiat, volatility), the scope of decentralized systems, the specifics of implementation from real companies. For beginners there is a short introductory course of lectures that will help to understand the basics.
JBreak 2018
When: March 4
Where: Novosibirsk, st. Station, 104
Conditions of participation: 10 000 rubles.
Siberians, who have been in the subject for a long time and have worked a lot with Java, are waiting for a lot of interesting things at the event, which the organizers without false modesty call the only Java-conference in the region. Topics selected are the most debatable: performance, concurrency, testing, distributed systems and high loads in the Java world and the future of the platform. Already, the program has several reports on various topics - from testing to machine learning - from representatives of large companies and invited foreign experts.
GopherCon
When: March 17
Where: Moscow, Volgogradsky Avenue, 425
Participation conditions: 6000 rub.
A fresh initiative for Go followers, which is carried out in partnership with Gett, JetBrains, Google and other interesting people. At the moment, 11 reports from various specialists are announced - you can read about them in the official announcement of the event.
CLOUD & DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION-2018
When: March 21
Where: Moscow, Ogorodny passage, 5, p. 3
Participation conditions: 21 414 rubles.
Digital transformation and all that it is made up of - that is, hot topics like IoT, big data analysis, MachineLearning, DevOps, Blockchain and cloud technologies. The organizers ambitiously set themselves the goal of examining the entire spectrum of modern models and solutions related to digitalization, the trends they show, the challenges they face, and real-life cases that illustrate all these processes.
Open Mobile Conference 2018
When: March 24
Where: St. Petersburg, nab. Karpovka River, 5, letter A, room 1-H
Conditions of participation: 2000 rubles.
IT-monsters about global trends of the last decade: digitalization, gamification, mobilization and others. Fascinating feed and unexpected examples. Reports will be of interest to both IT specialists, analysts and experts, and representatives of telecom operators and telecommunications companies.
Codefest
When: March 31 - April 1
Where: Novosibirsk, Station, 104, Expocentre
Participation conditions: 8 800 rub.
Multi-threaded conference in the capital of Siberia, which combines the development, testing, design and project management. The emerging program still shows a healthy balance of Russian and foreign speakers; among those dominated by the backend and management. If you want to somehow correct the balance - the organizers are actively accepting applications from potential speakers.
JPoint 2018
When: April 6-7
Where: Moscow, Krasnopresnenskaya emb., 12, Congress Center WTC, 4th entrance
Conditions of participation: 26 000 rubles.
Java developers in the capital will also have something to do in the spring: the already-traditional JPoint 2018 will be held this year for the sixth time. A little bit of everything is on the agenda: architecture, tools, frameworks, high-load and distributed systems, performance, DevOps, Data Science ... Also this time, besides a thousand or more representatives of the domestic community, experts from Pivotal, JetBrains, Azul Systems, Lightbend and some other foreign teams.
DUMP 2018
When: April 13
Where: Expo Center, transfer from metro. Geological
Conditions of participation: are specified
The annual initiative that the company IT-People.ru has been conducting for the Ural developer community since 2011. As part of this general conference, reports will be presented in eight sections: fronttalks (frontend development), Serverside (popular technologies, science and technology news), Mobile (reactive programming, mobile application testing, cross-platform development, security and new programming languages), Design (designer tools, UX), DevOps, Management (new approaches to project management and product management), Testing (classical problems) and Science.
Big data 2018
When: April 19
Where: Moscow (address specified)
Conditions of participation: 18 000 rubles.
And another forum from CNews - this time big data will be the topic of the day, their potential for systematizing information and solving global problems. If you have interesting materials about major Russian or foreign projects in this field, the experience of overcoming difficulties or a close acquaintance with the structure of the market - waiting for you as a speaker. If you are just wondering what is happening now with these technologies and how it will all end - you can get answers to your questions in the auditorium.
Chatbot conference
When: April 19
Where: Moscow (the exact address will be announced later)
Conditions of participation: information is being specified
One-of-a-kind event for those who have got a chatbot in the business or who are thinking about introducing it. The discussion is planned to be comprehensive, combining information about the technical implementation (case studies, application specifics, user experience) and marketing, however, for ease of filtering, these two areas will be divided into two consecutive streams. At the end of the lecture section, a round table will be organized on the site, where you can talk with speakers and experts and just sector enthusiasts, present joint projects of the participants, as well as communicate with representatives of customer companies to expand business contacts.
C ++ Russia
When: April 19-21
Where: St. Petersburg, st. Korablestroiteley, 14, Hotel Baltic
Participation conditions: 9500 rub.
Conference for C ++ developers with a high level of reports, a wide range of topics and vivid national colors. The presentations will be held in three streams in two languages and will concern only and exclusively the technical aspects of the development. Now in the program: crash reports, actors, algorithms and iterators, shared libraries - and this is just the beginning: the selection of speakers continues.
Mobius 2018 Piter
When: April 20-21
Where: St. Petersburg, Victory Square, 1, hotel "Park Inn by Radisson Pulkovskaya"
Conditions of participation: 20 000 rubles.
All imaginable and unthinkable aspects of mobile development on iOS and Android. Mobius organizers define their audience as follows: Middle and Senior level developers, team leaders, project managers and system architects, please do not disturb marketers. Accordingly, engineering reports are selected in the program: these are technologies (Java, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C, JS Native), tools (mobile DevOps, containers, GPU calculations), frameworks (Data binding, RxJava, Firebase, Realm) and architecture (MVP, MVVM, VIPER). In short, the maximum hardcore for your money. Read the detailed announcement here, on Habré .
DotNext
When: April 22-23
Where: St. Petersburg, Victory Square, 1, hotel "Park Inn by Radisson Pulkovskaya"
Conditions of participation: 20 000 rubles.
International .NET Developer Gathering. During the conference, speakers will look at the platform from the inside (CLR, GC, JIT), share best practices and profiling cases and optimize performance, talk about available tools and innovations, will also touch multi-threaded programming. The participants will be able to discuss narrow problems in more detail in special discussion zones.
Data Fest⁵
When: April 28
Where: Moscow, st. Bolshaya Novodmitrovskaya, 36 FLACON
Conditions of participation: information is being specified
Data Science: Theory, Practice, Case Exchange. The conference will be attended by a diverse audience from the sector - researchers, engineers, developers, speakers with big names from the academy and industry. The program combines reports, hands-on activities and interactivity with opportunities for networking and community input.
Positive Hack Days 8: Digital Bet
When: May 15-16
Where: Moscow, Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment, 12, World Trade Center
Participation conditions: 7 337 rub.
The conference, which will talk about the digital economy without embellishment and rainbow enthusiasm. PHDays offers us a look at the underside of the emerging digital society, a realistic and productive look at the problems that global digitalization will cause, and is already causing. In particular, the discussion will focus on the role of the state and regulators in these processes, on the specifics of the digital economy, on the safety of critical information infrastructure and measures to be taken to reduce risks and protect data. In addition to presentations by professionals in the field of information security, round tables, laboratory workshops and master classes are planned.
Heisenbug 2018 Piter
When: May 17-18
Where: St. Petersburg, Victory Square, 1, hotel "Park Inn by Radisson Pulkovskaya"
Conditions of participation: 17 000 rubles.
Quoting official sources: “practical and hardcore testing on real projects” - that is, reports only from testing specialists and only on business. It is noted, however, that the level of reports will not be so transcendental that only experts will be able to comprehend them - no, programmers who periodically write tests to their projects, and even those familiar with the process will be able to extract something useful for themselves in outline. The range of topics discussed, according to tradition, is wide: automation and manual testing, load testing, integration testing of modular or distributed systems, benchmarking, concurrency testing, comparative review of tools, testing games, metrics and even UX and A / B.
Voxxed Days Minsk
When: May 26
Where: Belarus, Minsk, 20 Pobediteley Ave., Mariott Hotel
Conditions of participation: 186 rubles.
A large international Java movement from Devoxx this year for the first time will settle in Minsk. The organizers will bring with them a whole bunch of world-class specialists who are ready to share their expertise with the audience - among them Venkat Subrahmanyam, the founder of Agile Developer, Inc., whose report will open the conference, Baruch Sadogursky from Jfrog and others.
Apps Conf
When: May 28-29
Where: Skolkovo
Conditions of participation: 16 000 rubles.
Creation and testing of mobile applications in detailed coverage. We invite developers on both iOS and Android. For the first, reports are being prepared on Objective-C, Swift, OpenGL, Metal, the second will be able to learn more about Java, Kotlin, NDK and application architecture; and in the tracks related to the architecture of the mobile platform, client servers, mobile identification, hardware and development processes, there is something valuable for those and others.
Backend conf
When: May 28-29
Where: Skolkovo, st. New, 100
Conditions of participation: 16 000 rubles.
The conference is held under the slogan "theory and practice of programming" - that is, that universal kit that does not hurt all developers, regardless of their language and platform beliefs. In deciphering, these are coding standards, refactoring, architectural patterns, testing, organization of program code, programming apradigms, support and solution of standard working situations; in general, everything is basic, eternal and necessary.
Rootconf
When: May 28-29
Where: Skolkovo, st. New, 100
Conditions of participation: 18 000 rubles.
The creation and launch of an IT project is only the first stages of its life cycle, and perhaps all subsequent ones are not sufficiently discussed. RootConf organizers intend to correct this omission - the conference will be entirely devoted to the problems of supporting and operating products. Guests will learn how to log and monitor what virtualization and containerization technologies exist, what is meant by configuration management, what problems may arise with continuous deployment and deployment, how to achieve fault tolerance and disaster recovery, and what are the specifics of project management over long distances.
HighLoad Junior
When: May 28-29
Where: Skolkovo, st. New, 100
Conditions of participation: 16 000 rubles.
Highly loaded systems with limited resources and experience - this is not fiction. Twenty developers with extensive expertise in this area will highlight all sorts of nuances of creating high-loaded solutions by a small team. The presentations will cover such aspects as: architectural patterns, horizontal and vertical scaling, use of queues, performance optimization, load testing, balancing, protection against DDoS, resiliency principles, search for bottlenecks and work on errors. Between presentations, participants will be able to talk with experts at meetings, study stands and participate in contests.
Mobile Fest 2018
When: June 2
Where: Ukraine, Kiev, st. Vadim Getman, 6, Mercure Congress Center
Participation conditions: $ 160 (9022 rub.)
And again, mobile development in all its diversity: iOS and Android, Swift and Kotlin, architecture and cross-plasm, testing and mobile design. The organizers place special emphasis on hard and ruthless selection of materials for the sake of creating a rich program with current topics and fresh views. The entertaining part is thought out no less carefully: here it will be possible to play and socialize and relax after the performance.
HighLoad ++
When and where:
Novosibirsk (Expocentre) - June 25-26
Moscow - November 7-8
Participation conditions: from 15 000 rub.
Conference for those who program in a large way: large-scale projects, high-load systems and how to manage them. In case someone oscillates between HighLoad ++ and Codefest, the organizers emphasize that their event is more focused and covers only a small part of the Codefest program, but it’s a good deal to understand. The program addresses a wide range of specific development, testing and management problems in large projects: scaling, performance, storage systems, architecture, hardware, machine learning and video work.
White nights conference
When and where:
Prague - February 13-14
Cyprus - April 26-27
St. Petersburg - June 28-29
Moscow - October 16-17
Participation conditions: from 150 € (10 383 rub.)
The next conference series from Nevosoft for those who make games. The reports consider various aspects of developing and promoting games on any platforms (PC, consoles, web, mobile platforms); Representatives of famous studios are invited to participate with impressive expertise. For indie developers, White Nights is a good opportunity not only to improve your level, but also to get connections or get support for your project - for this you can take part in an exhibition of projects or the Indie Game Cup championship.
Developer Week
When: February 3-7
Where: USA, Auckland, 10th Street, 550
Participation conditions: from 55 $ (3099 rub.)
A long and crowded conference exhibition with a “technologically neutral bias” - in other words, a bit of everything. The reports are neatly grouped by day and flow so as to ensure thematic harmony of each session. Reports on AI, VR / AR microservices, Javascript, blockchain, IT career, as well as practical exercises will be presented on dev-directions in various blocks. At the beginning of the conference there will also be a two-day hackathon with a prize fund of $ 100,000.
INDEX
When: February 20-22
Where: USA, San Francisco, Howard Street 747
Participation conditions: $ 350 (19,725 rubles)
Conference with an impressive scale: the program announced more than a hundred reports in 8 different sections. Participants have the opportunity to choose from a variety of areas: programming languages (Java-languages, JavaScript, Scala, Spring, Go, Rust, R, Python, Swift, functional languages, tools and libraries); Internet of things and a new generation of applications; clouds, containers and microservices, methodologies ... The sections are led by such organizations as Amazon, Spotify, IBM, GoDaddy. The organizers urge the speakers to focus on the most up-to-date topics and technologies and illustrate their theses with code that will later be available on GitHub.
QCon London
When: March 5-9
Where: United Kingdom, London, Westminster, Broad Sanctuary, The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Center London
Conditions of participation: 1 669 £ (129 360 rub.)
Another event in a big way: three days are divided into 18 thematic development tracks, including: microservices, AI, architecture, backend, frontend, performance, distributed systems, security, development process monitoring, ethics in programming ... Reason on these topics more than 150 invited speakers, including experts from Uber, Google, Facebook, Spotify, Twitter and many other teams.
Bulgaria Web Summit 2018
When: April 14
Where: Bulgaria, Sofia, st. Tsarigradsko shose, 147
Conditions of participation: prices will be indicated later; pre-registration is open
The Bulgarian summit combines a very diverse set of specialists with a common commitment to the web: the program includes a frond, a backend, a UX design, security, a crypto sector, VR, IoT ... All this diversity is divided into four streams, and the schedule is arranged so that participants have the opportunity balance their areas of interest, be it web development, design or product promotion. An interesting bonus is the opportunity to take children with you: not only accommodation will be organized for them, but also a special mini-programmer mini-course.
Codemotion
When: May 8-9
Where: Netherlands, Amsterdam, 1018 VN, Weesperstraat 61
Participation conditions: from 270 € (20 927 rub.)
Organizers without false modesty call their brainchild “the largest conference for developers” and, judging by last year’s experience, there are some reasons for this - a six-stream program with various topics on languages, documentation, deployment, security, support and testing makes an impression. Among the invited gurus are representatives of GitHub, Badoo, LinledIn and other well-known companies.
PyCon
When: May 9-17
Where: USA, Cleveland, 300 Lakeside Ave E, Huntington Convention Center
Participation conditions: $ 400 (22 543 rub.)
The Python conference is distinguished by a variety of formats and initiatives. The program is very elegantly built: the first two days at the site are held seminars where you can quickly get acquainted with the participants and bring up the weak points, the next two are given to the standard conference set - expert speeches, poster and blitz reports by the participants and the exhibition;Finally, in the last three, all the accumulated storehouse of new skills and information can be used to collaborate on projects. To further unite the community, PyCon also holds a job fair between occasions where you can seal emerging professional connections with a contract.
php [tek] 2018
When: May 29 - June 1
Where: USA, Atlanta, Courtland Street 165
Conditions of participation: information is being specified
The thirteenth php conference for the global community. In their open letter to the speakers, the organizers emphasize that they prefer reports on PHP7, security and testing, as well as modern web development - HTML5, JavaScript, mobile development and the latest technologies. The program will feature performances, workshops and long trainings.
Develop: Brighton
When: July 10-12
Where: United Kingdom, London, Shoreditch High Street 56
Conditions for participation: information is being specified
Democratic platform where all game developers are welcome - from monster companies to tiny indie studios - and encourage them to share their market entry experience and listen to useful information about new tools and technologies. Last year, more than two thousand experts from gamedev gathered for the conference, and in this the organizers are counting on an even more numerous and active audience.
Information on other international conferences can be found in this list or alternative selection . Good luck on your travels and cultural exchange!
Russia and CIS countries
InoThings ++
When: January 29-30
Where: Moscow, 1st Zachatievsky lane., 4, Infospace
Conditions of participation: 17 000 rubles.
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An application conference where IoT practitioners can share experiences and best practices with a savvy audience. The reports will concern both the hardware component (chips, microcontrollers, processors, sensors) and the software component (IoT platform, ecosystems - their internal structure and alignment). In addition to classic topics such as security, testing and data transfer, the program also includes space for two “peripheral” sections - an educational track, where you can get acquainted with the principles of prototyping, and a business track, which will discuss new business models and lead to successful cases. . The achievements of the participants will be available in the exhibition area.
DevGAMM 2018
When: February 1-2
Where: Ukraine, Kiev, st. Vadim Getman, 6, SEC Cosmopolitan
Participation conditions: $ 59 (3327 rub.)
A well-known event in the community for game developers, where you can do everything: listen to others, tell yourself, make contacts with industry titans, and even work between times. As always, the rich program combines classical formats such as speeches and workshops with trade organizers — for example, short, flashing, and ruthless reviews of participants ’games from experts.
PGConf.Russia 2018
When: February 5-7
Where: Moscow, Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics
Conditions of participation: are specified
Those who have lived up to PostgreSQL in any capacity — database administrators, PostgreSQL kernel and extension developers, application developers, information system architects — can deepen their understanding of system capabilities and polish skills at a specialized technical conference. The main themes of the year are: “PostgreSQL at the forefront: big data, Internet of things, blockchain”, “New in PostgreSQL and around: the development of PostgreSQL and its ecosystems”, “PostgreSQL in real systems: architecture, migration, operation”, “ The use of PostgreSQL in the 1C platform and PostgreSQL in geographic information systems (GIS) ”, but the program is not exhausted by them. A variety of formats allows participants to get out of the role of passive listeners - they will have the opportunity to participate in master classes, make a blitz report or visit the living room of developers.
OpenTalks AI
When: February 7-9
Where: Leningradsky Avenue 39, p. 79, Metro Airport
Participation conditions: 24 000 rub.
OpenTalks.AI is an opportunity for everyone involved in artificial intelligence technologies to express themselves, communicate and exchange contacts with like-minded people. The conference is held in English and gathers participants from various scientific fields and countries of the world, including the most authoritative specialists. The first day will be devoted to the discussion of scientific developments relating to computer vision, language processing, data analysis and predicative analytics, the second is reserved for cases from the developers of existing AI solutions and the presentation of projects; on the last day, the conversation will be about the ethical and legal aspects of the creation and implementation of AI-technologies, their global significance and potential. As a fiery final, Science-battle will be held on the platform on the sacramental theme of artificial intelligence in its relation to consciousness.
Blockchain conference
When: February 13
Where: St. Petersburg, pl. Victory, 1, Park Inn Radisson Pulkovskaya
Conditions of participation: 12 000 rubles.
An international conference on blockchain systems will be useful, first of all, for those who are preparing their own project for entering the market. In addition to reports on the state of the market today, forecasts, what to expect from tomorrow and the ever-present topic of legislative regulation, there will be many specific recommendations from experts on how to conduct an ICO, both from a technical and marketing point of view. A tech who is belligerent and self-confident can take part in the ICO Battle, a start-up competition whose winners will receive not only valuable advice, but also promotion assistance.
Clouds 2018: Towards Public Services
When: February 20
Where: Moscow (the address will be specified)
Conditions of participation: 18 000 rubles.
CNews offers experts a rich topic for discussion and debate: the clouds, their perspectives and their role in the global digital transformation process. The discussion, for the most part, will revolve around the specifics of the Russian cloud market, which is now experiencing a phase of rapid chaotic growth. The speakers are invited to highlight such topics as the pace of its development, level of services, place in the global economy, relations with legislation, the ratio of private and public clouds and, of course, prospects for the near future.
TokenConf 2018
When: February 26-27
Where: Moscow, 1st Zachatievsky lane., 4, Infospace
Conditions of participation: 17 000 rubles.
All in the title: the organizers invite IT professionals to come together to jointly answer the simple question - do you need a blockchain in your project? The conversation will not turn on how to make money on cryptocurrency or conduct an ICO correctly - all the attention of the speakers and participants will be focused precisely on the technical capabilities of the blockchain and their impact on business processes. The speeches will focus on the specifics of creating blockchain platforms (architecture, protocols, security, speed), legal challenges (legislation, communication with Fiat, volatility), the scope of decentralized systems, the specifics of implementation from real companies. For beginners there is a short introductory course of lectures that will help to understand the basics.
JBreak 2018
When: March 4
Where: Novosibirsk, st. Station, 104
Conditions of participation: 10 000 rubles.
Siberians, who have been in the subject for a long time and have worked a lot with Java, are waiting for a lot of interesting things at the event, which the organizers without false modesty call the only Java-conference in the region. Topics selected are the most debatable: performance, concurrency, testing, distributed systems and high loads in the Java world and the future of the platform. Already, the program has several reports on various topics - from testing to machine learning - from representatives of large companies and invited foreign experts.
GopherCon
When: March 17
Where: Moscow, Volgogradsky Avenue, 425
Participation conditions: 6000 rub.
A fresh initiative for Go followers, which is carried out in partnership with Gett, JetBrains, Google and other interesting people. At the moment, 11 reports from various specialists are announced - you can read about them in the official announcement of the event.
CLOUD & DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION-2018
When: March 21
Where: Moscow, Ogorodny passage, 5, p. 3
Participation conditions: 21 414 rubles.
Digital transformation and all that it is made up of - that is, hot topics like IoT, big data analysis, MachineLearning, DevOps, Blockchain and cloud technologies. The organizers ambitiously set themselves the goal of examining the entire spectrum of modern models and solutions related to digitalization, the trends they show, the challenges they face, and real-life cases that illustrate all these processes.
Open Mobile Conference 2018
When: March 24
Where: St. Petersburg, nab. Karpovka River, 5, letter A, room 1-H
Conditions of participation: 2000 rubles.
IT-monsters about global trends of the last decade: digitalization, gamification, mobilization and others. Fascinating feed and unexpected examples. Reports will be of interest to both IT specialists, analysts and experts, and representatives of telecom operators and telecommunications companies.
Codefest
When: March 31 - April 1
Where: Novosibirsk, Station, 104, Expocentre
Participation conditions: 8 800 rub.
Multi-threaded conference in the capital of Siberia, which combines the development, testing, design and project management. The emerging program still shows a healthy balance of Russian and foreign speakers; among those dominated by the backend and management. If you want to somehow correct the balance - the organizers are actively accepting applications from potential speakers.
JPoint 2018
When: April 6-7
Where: Moscow, Krasnopresnenskaya emb., 12, Congress Center WTC, 4th entrance
Conditions of participation: 26 000 rubles.
Java developers in the capital will also have something to do in the spring: the already-traditional JPoint 2018 will be held this year for the sixth time. A little bit of everything is on the agenda: architecture, tools, frameworks, high-load and distributed systems, performance, DevOps, Data Science ... Also this time, besides a thousand or more representatives of the domestic community, experts from Pivotal, JetBrains, Azul Systems, Lightbend and some other foreign teams.
DUMP 2018
When: April 13
Where: Expo Center, transfer from metro. Geological
Conditions of participation: are specified
The annual initiative that the company IT-People.ru has been conducting for the Ural developer community since 2011. As part of this general conference, reports will be presented in eight sections: fronttalks (frontend development), Serverside (popular technologies, science and technology news), Mobile (reactive programming, mobile application testing, cross-platform development, security and new programming languages), Design (designer tools, UX), DevOps, Management (new approaches to project management and product management), Testing (classical problems) and Science.
Big data 2018
When: April 19
Where: Moscow (address specified)
Conditions of participation: 18 000 rubles.
And another forum from CNews - this time big data will be the topic of the day, their potential for systematizing information and solving global problems. If you have interesting materials about major Russian or foreign projects in this field, the experience of overcoming difficulties or a close acquaintance with the structure of the market - waiting for you as a speaker. If you are just wondering what is happening now with these technologies and how it will all end - you can get answers to your questions in the auditorium.
Chatbot conference
When: April 19
Where: Moscow (the exact address will be announced later)
Conditions of participation: information is being specified
One-of-a-kind event for those who have got a chatbot in the business or who are thinking about introducing it. The discussion is planned to be comprehensive, combining information about the technical implementation (case studies, application specifics, user experience) and marketing, however, for ease of filtering, these two areas will be divided into two consecutive streams. At the end of the lecture section, a round table will be organized on the site, where you can talk with speakers and experts and just sector enthusiasts, present joint projects of the participants, as well as communicate with representatives of customer companies to expand business contacts.
C ++ Russia
When: April 19-21
Where: St. Petersburg, st. Korablestroiteley, 14, Hotel Baltic
Participation conditions: 9500 rub.
Conference for C ++ developers with a high level of reports, a wide range of topics and vivid national colors. The presentations will be held in three streams in two languages and will concern only and exclusively the technical aspects of the development. Now in the program: crash reports, actors, algorithms and iterators, shared libraries - and this is just the beginning: the selection of speakers continues.
Mobius 2018 Piter
When: April 20-21
Where: St. Petersburg, Victory Square, 1, hotel "Park Inn by Radisson Pulkovskaya"
Conditions of participation: 20 000 rubles.
All imaginable and unthinkable aspects of mobile development on iOS and Android. Mobius organizers define their audience as follows: Middle and Senior level developers, team leaders, project managers and system architects, please do not disturb marketers. Accordingly, engineering reports are selected in the program: these are technologies (Java, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C, JS Native), tools (mobile DevOps, containers, GPU calculations), frameworks (Data binding, RxJava, Firebase, Realm) and architecture (MVP, MVVM, VIPER). In short, the maximum hardcore for your money. Read the detailed announcement here, on Habré .
DotNext
When: April 22-23
Where: St. Petersburg, Victory Square, 1, hotel "Park Inn by Radisson Pulkovskaya"
Conditions of participation: 20 000 rubles.
International .NET Developer Gathering. During the conference, speakers will look at the platform from the inside (CLR, GC, JIT), share best practices and profiling cases and optimize performance, talk about available tools and innovations, will also touch multi-threaded programming. The participants will be able to discuss narrow problems in more detail in special discussion zones.
Data Fest⁵
When: April 28
Where: Moscow, st. Bolshaya Novodmitrovskaya, 36 FLACON
Conditions of participation: information is being specified
Data Science: Theory, Practice, Case Exchange. The conference will be attended by a diverse audience from the sector - researchers, engineers, developers, speakers with big names from the academy and industry. The program combines reports, hands-on activities and interactivity with opportunities for networking and community input.
Positive Hack Days 8: Digital Bet
When: May 15-16
Where: Moscow, Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment, 12, World Trade Center
Participation conditions: 7 337 rub.
The conference, which will talk about the digital economy without embellishment and rainbow enthusiasm. PHDays offers us a look at the underside of the emerging digital society, a realistic and productive look at the problems that global digitalization will cause, and is already causing. In particular, the discussion will focus on the role of the state and regulators in these processes, on the specifics of the digital economy, on the safety of critical information infrastructure and measures to be taken to reduce risks and protect data. In addition to presentations by professionals in the field of information security, round tables, laboratory workshops and master classes are planned.
Heisenbug 2018 Piter
When: May 17-18
Where: St. Petersburg, Victory Square, 1, hotel "Park Inn by Radisson Pulkovskaya"
Conditions of participation: 17 000 rubles.
Quoting official sources: “practical and hardcore testing on real projects” - that is, reports only from testing specialists and only on business. It is noted, however, that the level of reports will not be so transcendental that only experts will be able to comprehend them - no, programmers who periodically write tests to their projects, and even those familiar with the process will be able to extract something useful for themselves in outline. The range of topics discussed, according to tradition, is wide: automation and manual testing, load testing, integration testing of modular or distributed systems, benchmarking, concurrency testing, comparative review of tools, testing games, metrics and even UX and A / B.
Voxxed Days Minsk
When: May 26
Where: Belarus, Minsk, 20 Pobediteley Ave., Mariott Hotel
Conditions of participation: 186 rubles.
A large international Java movement from Devoxx this year for the first time will settle in Minsk. The organizers will bring with them a whole bunch of world-class specialists who are ready to share their expertise with the audience - among them Venkat Subrahmanyam, the founder of Agile Developer, Inc., whose report will open the conference, Baruch Sadogursky from Jfrog and others.
Apps Conf
When: May 28-29
Where: Skolkovo
Conditions of participation: 16 000 rubles.
Creation and testing of mobile applications in detailed coverage. We invite developers on both iOS and Android. For the first, reports are being prepared on Objective-C, Swift, OpenGL, Metal, the second will be able to learn more about Java, Kotlin, NDK and application architecture; and in the tracks related to the architecture of the mobile platform, client servers, mobile identification, hardware and development processes, there is something valuable for those and others.
Backend conf
When: May 28-29
Where: Skolkovo, st. New, 100
Conditions of participation: 16 000 rubles.
The conference is held under the slogan "theory and practice of programming" - that is, that universal kit that does not hurt all developers, regardless of their language and platform beliefs. In deciphering, these are coding standards, refactoring, architectural patterns, testing, organization of program code, programming apradigms, support and solution of standard working situations; in general, everything is basic, eternal and necessary.
Rootconf
When: May 28-29
Where: Skolkovo, st. New, 100
Conditions of participation: 18 000 rubles.
The creation and launch of an IT project is only the first stages of its life cycle, and perhaps all subsequent ones are not sufficiently discussed. RootConf organizers intend to correct this omission - the conference will be entirely devoted to the problems of supporting and operating products. Guests will learn how to log and monitor what virtualization and containerization technologies exist, what is meant by configuration management, what problems may arise with continuous deployment and deployment, how to achieve fault tolerance and disaster recovery, and what are the specifics of project management over long distances.
HighLoad Junior
When: May 28-29
Where: Skolkovo, st. New, 100
Conditions of participation: 16 000 rubles.
Highly loaded systems with limited resources and experience - this is not fiction. Twenty developers with extensive expertise in this area will highlight all sorts of nuances of creating high-loaded solutions by a small team. The presentations will cover such aspects as: architectural patterns, horizontal and vertical scaling, use of queues, performance optimization, load testing, balancing, protection against DDoS, resiliency principles, search for bottlenecks and work on errors. Between presentations, participants will be able to talk with experts at meetings, study stands and participate in contests.
Mobile Fest 2018
When: June 2
Where: Ukraine, Kiev, st. Vadim Getman, 6, Mercure Congress Center
Participation conditions: $ 160 (9022 rub.)
And again, mobile development in all its diversity: iOS and Android, Swift and Kotlin, architecture and cross-plasm, testing and mobile design. The organizers place special emphasis on hard and ruthless selection of materials for the sake of creating a rich program with current topics and fresh views. The entertaining part is thought out no less carefully: here it will be possible to play and socialize and relax after the performance.
HighLoad ++
When and where:
Novosibirsk (Expocentre) - June 25-26
Moscow - November 7-8
Participation conditions: from 15 000 rub.
Conference for those who program in a large way: large-scale projects, high-load systems and how to manage them. In case someone oscillates between HighLoad ++ and Codefest, the organizers emphasize that their event is more focused and covers only a small part of the Codefest program, but it’s a good deal to understand. The program addresses a wide range of specific development, testing and management problems in large projects: scaling, performance, storage systems, architecture, hardware, machine learning and video work.
White nights conference
When and where:
Prague - February 13-14
Cyprus - April 26-27
St. Petersburg - June 28-29
Moscow - October 16-17
Participation conditions: from 150 € (10 383 rub.)
The next conference series from Nevosoft for those who make games. The reports consider various aspects of developing and promoting games on any platforms (PC, consoles, web, mobile platforms); Representatives of famous studios are invited to participate with impressive expertise. For indie developers, White Nights is a good opportunity not only to improve your level, but also to get connections or get support for your project - for this you can take part in an exhibition of projects or the Indie Game Cup championship.
Foreign countries
Developer Week
When: February 3-7
Where: USA, Auckland, 10th Street, 550
Participation conditions: from 55 $ (3099 rub.)
A long and crowded conference exhibition with a “technologically neutral bias” - in other words, a bit of everything. The reports are neatly grouped by day and flow so as to ensure thematic harmony of each session. Reports on AI, VR / AR microservices, Javascript, blockchain, IT career, as well as practical exercises will be presented on dev-directions in various blocks. At the beginning of the conference there will also be a two-day hackathon with a prize fund of $ 100,000.
INDEX
When: February 20-22
Where: USA, San Francisco, Howard Street 747
Participation conditions: $ 350 (19,725 rubles)
Conference with an impressive scale: the program announced more than a hundred reports in 8 different sections. Participants have the opportunity to choose from a variety of areas: programming languages (Java-languages, JavaScript, Scala, Spring, Go, Rust, R, Python, Swift, functional languages, tools and libraries); Internet of things and a new generation of applications; clouds, containers and microservices, methodologies ... The sections are led by such organizations as Amazon, Spotify, IBM, GoDaddy. The organizers urge the speakers to focus on the most up-to-date topics and technologies and illustrate their theses with code that will later be available on GitHub.
QCon London
When: March 5-9
Where: United Kingdom, London, Westminster, Broad Sanctuary, The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Center London
Conditions of participation: 1 669 £ (129 360 rub.)
Another event in a big way: three days are divided into 18 thematic development tracks, including: microservices, AI, architecture, backend, frontend, performance, distributed systems, security, development process monitoring, ethics in programming ... Reason on these topics more than 150 invited speakers, including experts from Uber, Google, Facebook, Spotify, Twitter and many other teams.
Bulgaria Web Summit 2018
When: April 14
Where: Bulgaria, Sofia, st. Tsarigradsko shose, 147
Conditions of participation: prices will be indicated later; pre-registration is open
The Bulgarian summit combines a very diverse set of specialists with a common commitment to the web: the program includes a frond, a backend, a UX design, security, a crypto sector, VR, IoT ... All this diversity is divided into four streams, and the schedule is arranged so that participants have the opportunity balance their areas of interest, be it web development, design or product promotion. An interesting bonus is the opportunity to take children with you: not only accommodation will be organized for them, but also a special mini-programmer mini-course.
Codemotion
When: May 8-9
Where: Netherlands, Amsterdam, 1018 VN, Weesperstraat 61
Participation conditions: from 270 € (20 927 rub.)
Organizers without false modesty call their brainchild “the largest conference for developers” and, judging by last year’s experience, there are some reasons for this - a six-stream program with various topics on languages, documentation, deployment, security, support and testing makes an impression. Among the invited gurus are representatives of GitHub, Badoo, LinledIn and other well-known companies.
PyCon
When: May 9-17
Where: USA, Cleveland, 300 Lakeside Ave E, Huntington Convention Center
Participation conditions: $ 400 (22 543 rub.)
The Python conference is distinguished by a variety of formats and initiatives. The program is very elegantly built: the first two days at the site are held seminars where you can quickly get acquainted with the participants and bring up the weak points, the next two are given to the standard conference set - expert speeches, poster and blitz reports by the participants and the exhibition;Finally, in the last three, all the accumulated storehouse of new skills and information can be used to collaborate on projects. To further unite the community, PyCon also holds a job fair between occasions where you can seal emerging professional connections with a contract.
php [tek] 2018
When: May 29 - June 1
Where: USA, Atlanta, Courtland Street 165
Conditions of participation: information is being specified
The thirteenth php conference for the global community. In their open letter to the speakers, the organizers emphasize that they prefer reports on PHP7, security and testing, as well as modern web development - HTML5, JavaScript, mobile development and the latest technologies. The program will feature performances, workshops and long trainings.
Develop: Brighton
When: July 10-12
Where: United Kingdom, London, Shoreditch High Street 56
Conditions for participation: information is being specified
Democratic platform where all game developers are welcome - from monster companies to tiny indie studios - and encourage them to share their market entry experience and listen to useful information about new tools and technologies. Last year, more than two thousand experts from gamedev gathered for the conference, and in this the organizers are counting on an even more numerous and active audience.
Information on other international conferences can be found in this list or alternative selection . Good luck on your travels and cultural exchange!
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