Summer has come, the wicked COVID-19 seems to have loosened its coronavirus grip, and along with it, quarantine restrictions are gradually weakening. All IT events in the spring were held online due to the pandemic: then offline events were canceled or postponed. Therefore, in the next two summer months and at the beginning of autumn - a quiet holiday period from the point of view of business activity - we will see noticeably more interesting events than usual. Since there are frankly few large international online events planned for the next months, this time we will focus mainly on a review of “local” events - with organizers in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Fortunately, between July and September 2020, quite a lot of conferences should be held for every taste, the participants of which will be able to gain up-to-date knowledge and have a good time hanging out among like-minded people. But don’t get too carried away: social distancing has not been canceled.
When: July 10-11, 2020. How much it costs: from 14 thousand rubles (about $200). Venue: Moscow, Russia. There is an online broadcast. Hydra is a conference dedicated to the development of parallel and distributed systems. “Today, any programming is associated with multithreading and distributed computing, whether explicitly or not. Whether it’s a multi-core machine, a computing cluster, or a large-scale distributed service, there are many processes everywhere that perform independent calculations in parallel, synchronizing with each other. The Hydra conference will be devoted to how this works in theory and how it works in practice,” say the organizers. According to them, conference participants will be able to see the design of large-scale infrastructure projects and services running on thousands of nodes around the world, as well as understand what scientific approaches underlie the work of their “under the hood” space.
When: July 11-12, 2020. How much it costs: from 170 Belarusian rubles (about $70). GoWayFest 4.0 is the fourth conference from organizers from Belarus dedicated to the Go language, which will certainly be of interest to many Java programmers. This year, primarily due to the coronavirus epidemic, it is being held online. Thanks to the new format, Go developers from different countries will be able to take part in this event, and you will be able to communicate with the speakers and ask them questions in virtual speaker rooms. Announced topics include: the importance of naming your codebase, accelerating the code-to-launch process for Go applications, implementing an efficient VM in Go, and others. In addition, the event will include a three-hour workshop dedicated to introducing the basic concepts of key-value stores in Go.
When: July 12-13, 2020. How much it costs: from 14 thousand rubles (about $200). Venue: Moscow, Russia. There is an online broadcast. The DevOops conference will be held in Moscow for the first time in July. The event will be dedicated to the processes and culture of DevOps, SRE and Cloud Native. According to the organizers, the event program will consist of three large blocks:
DevOps
Dedicated directly to processes and a culture that motivates to follow processes, send high-quality code to production and reduce development costs. The reports will include topics such as technical debt, complexity management, experience in implementing DevOps on large projects, etc.
SRE
Will include topics such as Kubernetes, Terraform, On-call Tools, Observability, Security, Zero Downtime infrastructure, monitoring, etc.
Cloud Native
Dedicated to cloud technologies, Cloud Native, CI/CD in the clouds, best practices in cloud architecture and a number of other topics.
When: August 7-8, 2020. How much: from 65 euros. The international conference .NET Summit 2020 will be held entirely online this year. Naturally, it will be devoted to everything related to .NET. In particular, the reports will cover topics such as practical experience in solving business problems using .NET and non-standard use of .NET stack technologies in projects. As is usually done with online conferences, it will be possible to communicate with speakers in text form or via video in virtual speakers rooms. The reports can be watched at any time, without choosing between different presentations running in parallel in two streams.
When: August 29, 2020. How much it costs: from 1800 UAH (about $70) Venue: Kiev, Ukraine There will also be a special event for those who lack soft skills or have a desire to develop them. It was originally planned for April, but due to quarantine, this conference was postponed to August. “Daily meetings with colleagues, solving non-standard problems, timely identification and work with problems, negotiations, defending one’s own point of view, constructive dialogues, general searches for the best solution, “selling” a successful solution to the customer - all these ordinary activities require special skills and knowledge that belong to the general Soft Skills group. That's why we created this conference, focusing on much-needed but often overlooked aspects of our daily work in IT,” say event organizers. According to them, this conference is intended for business analysts, project and product managers, Agile coaches and mentors, HR and recruiters, developers and QA, as well as all other IT industry specialists who are interested in developing their soft skills.
When: August 29-30, 2020. How much it costs: 5250 UAH (about $200). Venue: Odessa, Ukraine. An annual conference for everyone interested in the JavaScript programming language, which takes place under the slogan “Summer. Sea. JavaScript.” in the Ukrainian city of Odessa. OdessaJS 2020 should be the eighth annual conference of this kind, so we have every reason to expect that the organizers, armed with past experience, will hold the event at a high level. More than 500 people are expected to attend the conference. The speakers will be well-known and not so well-known JavaScript experts. Here are the most interesting of those speakers whose presentations have already been announced: Joel Lord, Developer Advocate at Red Hat OpenShift, Alexander Korotaev, chief front-end developer of the Russian social network VKontakte, Evgeniy Kot, director of developed by the Czech company Wrike, Blagoj Jovanov, Front End Tech Lead at Aurora Technologies, and others.
When: September 5, 2020. How much: free. Venue: Odessa, Ukraine. The second annual conference for Data Science specialists and those interested, organized by the international ODS.ai community. Like many other Ukrainian summer events, it should be held in Odessa. The list of speakers and topics of reports is still being formed. On the official website of the event you can see reports from last year's event. The conference will be completely free, which is great.
When: September 19, 2020. How much: free. Venue: Kiev, Ukraine. A non-profit conference organized by volunteers dedicated to free and open source software. It will be of interest to those who are close to the ideas of open-source development and the philosophy of this movement. OSDN conferences have been held in Kyiv annually since 2002. Naturally, the event will also be free.
When: September 25-26, 2020. How much it costs: $210-290 Venue: Kiev, Ukraine. One of the largest conferences for testers and automation engineers in the post-Soviet space, which will be held at the end of September in Kyiv for the seventh time. The conference will consist of four parallel streams, divided into key areas in the field of testing and automation. Namely: tools and approaches to testing (secrets of testing web and mobile applications, testing techniques, cases and tips), test automation and TestOps (technical aspects of automation of various applications, automation frameworks, test automation in a DevOps environment), non-functional testing and innovation (main processes, basic tools, new approaches, technical fundamentals), management and career (managing testing processes and quality on projects, building an effective team of testers, motivation and communication).
When: September 28 - October 4, 2020 How much: unknown Venue: online VMworld 2020 is one of the largest global online conferences, which will begin in the last days of September and will run throughout the week. Traditionally, the VMworld conference is an event where they talk about innovative technologies and approaches in the IT business, top managers of VMware speak, and experts from different niches share their experience. For the first time in the history of these events, VMworld 2020 will be held entirely online, which means everyone will be able to participate. However, the pricing policy for this event has not yet been announced - the organizers offer to register in order to receive a notification when this information becomes available.
Since there are frankly few large international online events planned for the next months, this time we will focus mainly on a review of “local” events - with organizers in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Fortunately, between July and September 2020, quite a lot of conferences should be held for every taste, the participants of which will be able to gain up-to-date knowledge and have a good time hanging out among like-minded people. But don’t get too carried away: social distancing has not been canceled.
Hydra is a conference dedicated to the development of parallel and distributed systems. “Today, any programming is associated with multithreading and distributed computing, whether explicitly or not. Whether it’s a multi-core machine, a computing cluster, or a large-scale distributed service, there are many processes everywhere that perform independent calculations in parallel, synchronizing with each other. The Hydra conference will be devoted to how this works in theory and how it works in practice,” say the organizers. According to them, conference participants will be able to see the design of large-scale infrastructure projects and services running on thousands of nodes around the world, as well as understand what scientific approaches underlie the work of their “under the hood” space.
GoWayFest 4.0 is the fourth conference from organizers from Belarus dedicated to the Go language, which will certainly be of interest to many Java programmers. This year, primarily due to the coronavirus epidemic, it is being held online. Thanks to the new format, Go developers from different countries will be able to take part in this event, and you will be able to communicate with the speakers and ask them questions in virtual speaker rooms. Announced topics include: the importance of naming your codebase, accelerating the code-to-launch process for Go applications, implementing an efficient VM in Go, and others. In addition, the event will include a three-hour workshop dedicated to introducing the basic concepts of key-value stores in Go.
The DevOops conference will be held in Moscow for the first time in July. The event will be dedicated to the processes and culture of DevOps, SRE and Cloud Native. According to the organizers, the event program will consist of three large blocks:
The international conference .NET Summit 2020 will be held entirely online this year. Naturally, it will be devoted to everything related to .NET. In particular, the reports will cover topics such as practical experience in solving business problems using .NET and non-standard use of .NET stack technologies in projects. As is usually done with online conferences, it will be possible to communicate with speakers in text form or via video in virtual speakers rooms. The reports can be watched at any time, without choosing between different presentations running in parallel in two streams.
There will also be a special event for those who lack soft skills or have a desire to develop them. It was originally planned for April, but due to quarantine, this conference was postponed to August. “Daily meetings with colleagues, solving non-standard problems, timely identification and work with problems, negotiations, defending one’s own point of view, constructive dialogues, general searches for the best solution, “selling” a successful solution to the customer - all these ordinary activities require special skills and knowledge that belong to the general Soft Skills group. That's why we created this conference, focusing on much-needed but often overlooked aspects of our daily work in IT,” say event organizers. According to them, this conference is intended for business analysts, project and product managers, Agile coaches and mentors, HR and recruiters, developers and QA, as well as all other IT industry specialists who are interested in developing their soft skills.
An annual conference for everyone interested in the JavaScript programming language, which takes place under the slogan “Summer. Sea. JavaScript.” in the Ukrainian city of Odessa. OdessaJS 2020 should be the eighth annual conference of this kind, so we have every reason to expect that the organizers, armed with past experience, will hold the event at a high level. More than 500 people are expected to attend the conference. The speakers will be well-known and not so well-known JavaScript experts. Here are the most interesting of those speakers whose presentations have already been announced: Joel Lord, Developer Advocate at Red Hat OpenShift, Alexander Korotaev, chief front-end developer of the Russian social network VKontakte, Evgeniy Kot, director of developed by the Czech company Wrike, Blagoj Jovanov, Front End Tech Lead at Aurora Technologies, and others.
The second annual conference for Data Science specialists and those interested, organized by the international ODS.ai community. Like many other Ukrainian summer events, it should be held in Odessa. The list of speakers and topics of reports is still being formed. On the official website of the event you can see reports from last year's event. The conference will be completely free, which is great.
A non-profit conference organized by volunteers dedicated to free and open source software. It will be of interest to those who are close to the ideas of open-source development and the philosophy of this movement. OSDN conferences have been held in Kyiv annually since 2002. Naturally, the event will also be free.
One of the largest conferences for testers and automation engineers in the post-Soviet space, which will be held at the end of September in Kyiv for the seventh time. The conference will consist of four parallel streams, divided into key areas in the field of testing and automation. Namely: tools and approaches to testing (secrets of testing web and mobile applications, testing techniques, cases and tips), test automation and TestOps (technical aspects of automation of various applications, automation frameworks, test automation in a DevOps environment), non-functional testing and innovation (main processes, basic tools, new approaches, technical fundamentals), management and career (managing testing processes and quality on projects, building an effective team of testers, motivation and communication).
VMworld 2020 is one of the largest global online conferences, which will begin in the last days of September and will run throughout the week. Traditionally, the VMworld conference is an event where they talk about innovative technologies and approaches in the IT business, top managers of VMware speak, and experts from different niches share their experience. For the first time in the history of these events, VMworld 2020 will be held entirely online, which means everyone will be able to participate. However, the pricing policy for this event has not yet been announced - the organizers offer to register in order to receive a notification when this information becomes available.
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