In general, there are much more similar conferences, but these can be called flagship conferences. They take place in different parts of the world and I, of course, do not encourage them to personally visit them. What is the use? Watching video, audio, or presentations can help you see technological innovations, the general motion vector of technologies and, perhaps, already begin to introduce something new in your organization. I myself do in this sequence: I go to the conference site, watch the program, choose useful performances for myself, start to google them and then search on YouTube, Slideshare, Speakerdek or Soundkloud. Not always lucky, but more often traces of performances can be found. I even once addressed a question to one of the speakers through Linkedin.

In the post I will provide links to each conference, go to the site, see what was interesting in 2017, was or will be in 2018, google and study. At each event, not only software manufacturers, but also large companies that use it. No problem, you can find a business case similar to yours.

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This is not one conference, but a whole series, which is held on different dates around the world. All this is carried out not by one organization, therefore the formats may differ. Conferences are held on the principle of
Open Space . That is, topics can range from high technology to culture, board games or anything else. You can compare in Habrom, which has posts about business, high technology, cryptocurrency or board games.

Three-day conference on containerization technologies. Three days containers, containers, containers. Speakers explain how containers affect deployment speed, scalability, security, and networking.

A series of conferences for developers in different cities around the world. They write that people from Uber, Google, Facebook, Spotify, Twitter and other global companies come to speak to them. Following the results of the events held this year, you can download the presentations of some speakers in
London (March 5-7) ,
San Francisco (April 9-11) ,
Beijing (April 20-22) ,
San Paolo (May 9-11) ,
New York (June 27-29) .

JAX is a conference on Java technology and web development. JAX mainly about Java, Spring, JavaScript, Continuous Delivery and DevOps. The conference is held in Germany, was already in Mainz on April 23-27, will be in
London on October 8-11 and
Munich on November 5-9 . On Youtube, the conference has channels where they
post interviews with speakers and
publish speeches .

KubeCon and CloudNativeCon for those who have seriously and permanently settled in the cloud. The conference talks about technologies supporting the cloud ecosystem, projects of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, containerization technologies, microservices, orchestration, and the use of tools such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd, Linkerd, gRPC, CoreDNS, containerd, rkt, CNI, Envoy and Jaeger . The conference is held in different cities of Europe, America and Asia. This year, for example, was already in
Copenhagen (May 2-4) and will be in
Seattle (December 11-13) .

Red Hat Summit is an annual open source conference. The Red Hat Summit has sessions dedicated to cloud computing, virtualization, storage, and network management. I really liked their
home page with the list of speakers , from which you can immediately go to Youtube and watch the performance of each. This year's conference was May 8-10 in San Francisco.

DevOpsCon is a conference about continuous delivery, microservices, Docker technology, container and cloud technologies. At the conference, you can hear speeches about the transition to cloud technologies, CI / CD for microservices and serverless architectures. The nearest such conference will be in Munich on December 3-6. DevOpsCon has a
channel on Youtube , where they post presentations from the conference.

DockerCon is a conference for manufacturers and administrators of distributed applications built using containerization. In addition to presentations from practicing experts, there are special gaps between sessions for communication and dating. At last year's conference, speakers spoke: Adrian Mouat from Container Solutions and author of the book Using Docker; Ben Golub, Docker CEO; and Chris Anishkick, COO of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Vice President of the Linux Foundation’s Developer Program. The conference is held in North America and Europe. This year’s conference was held on April 29 - May 2 in San Francisco, and the next will be in Barcelona on December 3-5.
Video from the conference can be viewed on their website after registration.

This conference for leaders of large organizations that implement the principles and methods of DevOps, gives an idea of the development of technical practices of DevOps. The agenda of the event is devoted to the tools and methods needed to transform organizations, approaches to accelerate the development and deployment of software for market success. The event is held in London (it was June 25-26) and in Las Vegas (will be October 22-24).

Announce 30,000 participants and 700 sessions, which is impressive. The conference discusses include topics CI / CD, cloud infrastructure, building, deploying and managing applications running in containers. At the conference, representatives of Microsoft will talk about the vector of the company and the industry as a whole. This year's conference will be held September 24-28 in Orlando. Satya Nadella (Microsoft CEO) is announced as one of the speakers. Videos from last year’s event can be
viewed on the Ignite website .

This year will be held 7 times on November 26-30 in Las Vegas. Their place is always the same. More than 1000 sessions, labs, workshops and other events. They also have pub tours, informal parties, fitness camps and other bonuses for participants in the program. All videos from last year’s conference can be viewed
on the Youtube channel .

SREcon is an international conference organized by the USENIX Association for engineers who work with complex distributed systems. This year, speeches include anti-SRE anti-patterns, organization scaling with microservices, and the creation of successful SRE teams. Conferences are held around the world, the nearest will be in Dusseldorf from 29 to 31 August. From the
main conference site, you can go to the pages of past events and find there videos and slides from presentations.

This is a conference to bring together Ansible users and partners. All sessions are dedicated to IT automation with Ansible. In 2018, the conference will be held October 2-3 in Austin. View speeches from last year's conferences can be on the page of the relevant event.
Here, for example, London 2017.
The event is held in load to re: Invent. AWS Global Summits is an addition to their flagship event in Las Vegas. AWS holds over 30 regional summits worldwide each year. The conference is suitable for beginners and advanced users of AWS. The free ticket to the summit includes keynotes, sessions, and seminars. Videos from the seminars can be seen
on the Youtube channel .

Free online conference that lasts exactly 24 hours. 100 speakers will perform, the duration of each speech is 30 minutes. The conference includes 5 tracks: CI / CD, cultural transformation, DevSecOps, cloud technologies and SRE. There is also a special 6th track in which participants can go backstage to see how DevOps works in different organizations.
Video from last year’s conference can also be viewed here.

If you are not tired yet, I will tell you about the final conference. This is an annual conference that is dedicated to monitoring and DevOps. Speakers are both representatives of vendors and companies that tell how this or that solution works for them. All videos from the conference can be viewed
on their channel on Vimeo . This year the conference was already 4-6 June (in Portland), but there will be another 4-5 September in Amsterdam - the very first in Europe.
Tell us which comments on which of the foreign conferences did you manage to attend, what impressions did you get, is it useful or not, what useful connections did you manage to make.