On the 13th and 14th of June Ignite has been to GeekOut conference in Tallinn. This was a 2-day JVM conference, organized by ZeroTurnaround guys at Salme Kultuurikeskus.
Last years conference was a success, so this year Ignite delegation was huge, 6 people. Huge for a company of that size of course :)
GeekOut is one of a kind event in Estonia and number of participants grows each year. On the other hand, there is one important difference from conferences that happen in other countries - it’s local and local means that there are many familiar faces.
Conference was quite nicely organized. Networking was really brought to the front line. There was enough time between talks to meet colleagues from other companies as well as new interesting people. One of the best parts of the conference was networking event - party at F-hoone.
On Day-one Geert Bevin from ZeroTurnaround was entertaining the audience with his Eigenharp in a speech “Programmers are way cooler than musicians”. Java-world celebrity presenter Juergen Hoeller gave us insight on the future of Spring & Java in his “Spring 4 on Java 8” speech.
Second day will be remembered by hilarious presentation from Sven Peters (Atlassian) on the topic of “How To Do Kick-Ass Software Development”.
Beside these there were many other interesting talks.
Trade show organization was quite unusual. Vendors did not hide in the booth and took the stage during breaks between main talks.
Thanks to ZeroTurnaround guys for organizing such a great event!
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