Announcement of the Java Conference Joker 2015

    Hello!

    Exactly 3 months later, on October 16-17 in St. Petersburg we will hold the Joker 2015 conference . The best Java speakers from Russia, Europe and the USA, current and fashionable topics, hundreds of programmers from all over the Russian-speaking Java world - this will be Joker 2015. What is waiting for us all at Joker 2015? Let's go under the cut, I’ll tell you everything. Last year's Joker Last Joker was held in St. Petersburg, too, in mid-October. This was the fourth major Java conference from JUG.ru. There were 38 reports in the Joker 2014 grid . Of these, 36 are in the main program and 2 keynote. There were quite a few participants: more than 700 people gathered together with speakers. This video describes in detail what last year's Joker was:
















    Now it's time to talk more about Joker 2015.

    Format
    It will remain the same: reports of 60 minutes, two days, three parallel tracks. Of the new products, we will slightly extend the breaks so that the participants can communicate normally with the speakers and with each other, drink coffee, go for a smoke, etc. etc. Secondly, we will experiment with closing - at the end of each day we will collect all participants in one room and make closing keynote. Thus, in the current grid we have 28 reports - 4 keynotes and 24 section ones.
    Unlike last time, all keynotes will be technical!



    Speakers and topics
    With whom we have already managed to agree:




    shipilev
    Alexey Shipilev is a performance expert from Oracle, the face of the Java SE Performance team, a brilliant speaker. He repeatedly spoke both in Russia and abroad, he is consistently included in the top speakers at any conference at which he speaks. His numerous papers in Russian are available on the new site JUG.ru . Alexei is now thinking about what to report on. Most likely, this will be a report about updates to the String class based on his current projects: Compact Strings , Indify String Concat .




    thompson
    Martin Thompson is an expert on high-performance systems, author of the famous Disruptor framework , now working more on Aeron, a high-performance message transport. Martin will make two reports: one about the 20-year evolution of Java through the prism of platform performance, and the second about the problems of building fast (in the sense of low-latency) systems for exchanging data between flows (in the original - “challenges of doing low-latency message exchange between threads in memory ").

    In general, about half of the reports will be in English. We will not do simultaneous translation - this is our principled organizational position. Learn English, gentlemen!

    However, you shouldn’t be scared here: almost all the coming speakers have very clear English - speech without hellish accents and slangs, at a moderate pace.
    Here's an example of one of Martin's reports.






    pangin
    Andrey apangin Pangin - an expert in JVM and high performance from Odnoklassniki, sun.misc.Unsafe Gangster, who loves to hack a virtual machine in his spare time and tell the world about his hacks. And also the author of interesting Java problems . The people love Andrey's reports because of the magic that he occasionally shows and for his love to do live demo, that is, to hack everything live right during the report !




    neward
    Ted Neward is a man and a ship, a well-known specialist in Java and .NET platforms, a lover of functional programming, a master of keynotes. Frequent guest of QCon and No Fluff Just Stuff, a brilliant speaker who can talk equally powerful about simple and complex.
    For example, I really love this Ted talk about bytecode.






    keks
    Anton Keks is a master of creating software from beginning to end, one of the founders of Codeborne, the only Baltic company engaged in extreme programming (XP). Well and, of course, a wonderful speaker. In Russia, it thundered a couple of years ago with its report “How can we save Java,” in which he carefully walked through the sore spots of the “bloody enterprise”. Most likely, he will talk about Java cryptography.




    subramaniam
    Venkat Subramaniam is a man-machine who makes 300 reports a year, an excellent speaker, author of a large number of books on development for the Java platform. There Java, and Scala, and Groovy and Concurrency. For every taste and color. Venkat will make two reports: keynote about syntax and semantics, as well as a sectional report on one of their favorite topics. Which one - we are discussing now.




    anastasiev
    Oleg Anastasiev is a world-class expert on Cassandra, whose Kassandra people are not shy about typing features and ideas :) Leading developer at Odnoklassniki, top speaker Joker and JPoint. This time will tell us about the principles of developing distributed sustainable systems.




    nurkiewicz
    Tomasz Nurkiewicz , a well - known blogger , a great speaker, loves to write about Concurrency and Performance: queues, hash tables, fast I / O - these are the topics of his last posts. He will make two live demos with us about CompletableFuture and about the trendy Netflix Hystrix library .




    nurkiewicz
    Josh Long is a Spring evangelist at Pivotal, the best speaker of JEEConf 2015. He will talk about Spring Boot and about ... microservices! Yes, this trendy topic today has reached us, although, admittedly, we have been thinking for a long time whether to make reports on the topic of microservices in the program.




    solntsev
    Andrey Solntsev is an expert on TDD, a master of pair programming, an excellent speaker. Codeborne guys have long been known for the Play framework. They love him so much that they are the main contributors to his Java branch 1.3. And so we asked Andrei to highlight the back side of this framework. The working title of the report is “What's wrong with Play?” The announcement will appear the other day.





    We are currently negotiating with approximately 20 more speakers . According to our estimates, by the end of August the program will be formed by 90 percent. So wait for the announcements!

    Conclusion

    A few important things in the end.

    Firstly, despite the fact that 60% of the program has already been formed, we have a Call for Papers form . This means that anyone can submit an application for a report, which will be considered by our program committee, headed by real_ales. If you are an experienced speaker and there are good videos from your speeches on the Internet, you have good chances to get into our program. If you haven’t performed much before - don’t blame me, there’s not much chance. We will train you in every possible way, arrange test performances, and only the most daring and persistent will get into the main program.



    Secondly, registration for the conference is already open . This time we have three types of tickets:
    • Online - a ticket that allows you to watch an online broadcast;
    • Standard - a ticket that includes a standard conference attendance, lunches and coffee breaks, gifts from the organizers;
    • Business - major ticket: registration at a separate counter, seats in the front rows, Afterparty with speakers.


    In the upcoming publications, I’ll talk more about last year's Joker, analyze the top-rated reports of 2014 and, of course, talk more about the upcoming conference. Follow the news in 2015 Joker comfortable in our public servers in social networks: VC , FB and Twitter JUG.ru . As you approach the conference, more and more news about it will appear there. And of course on the conference website .

    We are waiting for you at Joker 2015!

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