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Ask HN: What are the 10-12 most important conferences each year?
Which conferences are the ones where truly historic decisions are made? Where you can meet people who will inspire? Where you'll find youself at talks that you already can't wait to go home and watch again? Where the random party conversations end up turning into household-name projects?
Note: I don't necessarily mean big conferences, although those are fine too. I also want to hear about some small ones that you think are great.
- doubt_me 13y agoI don't know anything about conferences but Defcon should be one of them I am guessing
- TravelTechGuy 13y agoThe last 2 years I've been going to HTML5DevConf (coming up again on Oct. 22) and Silicon Valley Code Camp (next week - and this year I have a session :)). I also go to CES every year - heaven for geeks (and it's in Vegas). I used to go to TechEd/Build, but can't justify it, or recommend it anymore.
- michaelpinto 13y agoA quick list of fun geeky conferences: Game Developers Conference http://www.gdconf.com http://www.gdconf.com Maker Faire Bay Area http://makerfaire.com http://makerfaire.com Comiket in Japan http://www.comiket.co.jp/index_e.html http://www.comiket.co.jp/index_e.html Worldcon http://www.worldcon.org http://www.worldcon.org Frankfurt Book Fair http://www.buchmesse.de/en/fbf/ http://www.buchmesse.de/en/fbf/
- moveoergosum 13y agothat's a real good list of events.
- debacle 13y agoOSCON is still a relatively high quality event.