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Ask HN: What are your favorite conferences?

17 points by jaycox2931 3y ago

I'm hoping to attend more tech conferences in 2024 due to an increased company learning budget. What are the tech conferences that you've attended/watched online that come to mind and that you could recommend?

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KLejmooo 3y ago
Fosdem (europen open source) Everything from the ccc (german hacker org): every year they have a congress called <number>c3 (we are at 38: 38c3; Every 4 year the ccc camp. Strangloops Defcon Edit: Kubecon (if you do k8s)
softwaredoug 3y ago
My two favorite (in the search space) - BerlinBuzzwords (https://berlinbuzzwords.de/ https://berlinbuzzwords.de/) - Haystack (http://haystackconf.com http://haystackconf.com)
m4lloc 3y ago
EuroRust and CppCon are fantastic. If the budget is generous enough then I'd recommend mainstream ones like NDC, Devoxx, or Strange Loop. Also, I've recently come across a newsletter that scans YouTube for newly uploaded conference talks and then sends them out in a weekly email. They maintain a list of conferences they're monitoring that is quite comprehensive. The newsletter is called Tech Talks Weekly and the conference list is here: https://techtalksweekly.substack.com/p/tech-conferences https://techtalksweekly.substack.com/p/tech-conferences
- dithered_djinn 3y ago
  Sadly, Strange Loop's 2023 edition was announced to be the last: https://twitter.com/strangeloop_stl/status/1573800528345268230 https://twitter.com/strangeloop_stl/status/15738005283452682...
  - jaycox2931 3y ago
    I've been following Strange Loop on YT for so many years. That's really bad. Any idea what happened?
    - mooreds 3y ago
      There's a retro video that might shed some light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suv76aL0NrA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suv76aL0NrA
      - jaycox2931 3y ago
        Thanks!
- in9 3y ago
  I've followed the Strange Loop conference on yt for a long time, and your mention led me to search more about it. Just found out the 2023 edition was the last one. Sad to see such a nice gathering not having another edition.
johnea 3y ago
HOPE - Hackers On Planet Earth In July in NYC: https://hope.net/ https://hope.net/
AstmmetryAware 3y ago
Re-Invent is fantastic if you’re into cloud stuff
gcheong 3y ago
https://bangbangcon.com https://bangbangcon.com https://www.youtube.com/@exclamationfoundation/videos https://www.youtube.com/@exclamationfoundation/videos