Welcome to GR8Conf.

About the conference

GR8Conf is an affordable conference dedicated to the Groovy dynamic language, the Grails web framework, the Griffon Swing framework, and other great technologies, such as Gradle, Spock, GPars, and more.

This year, the conference is growing. We kick of the conference with a university day. Here we have two tracks, one intermediate and one advanced, with workshops and hands-on training. The intermediate will kickstart your Groovy and Grails development skills with a Groovy workshop, followed by a Grails workshop. The advanced track will feature an AST transformations workshop, followed by a Grails plugin workshop. The university day is optional.

The conference will feature updates from Groovy, Grails, Griffon, Gradle and others. There will be case studies from various companies, telling about real life projects, and there will be lots of sessions covering various topics in the Groovy ecosystem. To cram this in to two days, the conference is going to be two-tracked.

To top it off we feature Hackergarten — an open event, where you can come and hack your favorite Open Source project. Hackergarten is sponsored by Canoo Engineering and you can attend even if you are not a conference attendee.

Speakers and audience

All the sessions and labs of the agenda will be presented by experts in the field in the field and makers of those technologies, and will give you — developers, tech leads and architects — an in-depth coverage of the subjects at hand.

Why you should attend

Here are several reasons why you should attend this conference, beyond just learning more about Groovy, Grails and Griffon:

• Learn directly from the experts
• Get up-to-speed rapidly on Groovy, Grails, Griffon and the other GR8 technologies
• Make you come back to work proficient and productive with Groovy, Grails, Griffon and the other GR8 technologies.
• Meet other enthusiasts and share your experiences with them
• Foster a community around those technologies
• Sharpen your skills in a down economy to get ready when the tables are turning back
• Network with others who has an interest in these GR8 technologies

Practical information

The university day is on May 17th, and the conference is is on May 18th and 19th 2011. The conference will take place at the IT University of Copenhagen.

Please find more practical information in the Information menu above.

Pricing

* Save up to 35% of the regular price if you register before April 15th!