2018 in events and trips

I just did a quick round-up of my events and trips in 2018, and despite me promising myself to do less, it tallies up to quite a bit. Here is my 2018, and I am not quite sure if I haven’t missed some bits and bobs:

January

• BTconf Munich – I gave the opening keynote Sacrificing the golden calf of coding
• PWA Meetup London – a quick meetup presenting about the PWA strategy in Windows 10 / Desktop, my slides are here

February

• SmashingConf London – I was the surprise evening talk presenter, talking about “Taking the vile out of privilege”:
• Awwwards London – I talked about PWAs – again – this time pointing out the progressive part of them

March

• MVP Summit – a Microsoft event for Most Valuable Partners/Programmers
• PAX Day – a planning event with the team I was with back then
• Techdays Finland – again a Microsoft centric event, but great fun.

April

• Frontend Newcastle – this was my first time up there, and it was a great event. My writeup is here .
• eMagine Serbia – an AI/Machine learning event by Bosch. This was super exciting as I had no idea of how many cool things they are doing
• Pilot Serbia – this was a meetup where I was asked to present about what happens after senior developer
• Skillshare Video Shoot – I flew over to New York for two days of shooting videos with Skillshare. The result is my course on creating AI powered human interfaces and rediscovering JavaScript as a development environment . I am happy to report that both have over 1000 students

May

• Beyond Tellerand Duesseldorf – a must, every year
• //build – Microsoft’s flagship event for developers
• Influencer Day – this is an event we run right after build where we invite selected people to peek under the hood and have meetings with our development teams for candid conversations
• We are Developers Vienna – as described in my blog post I gave a workshop, the opening keynote, acted as MC and took part in a panel about artificial intelligence and ethics

June

• NDC Oslo – I love this event, great crowd and super speaker community
• EnterJS Darmstadt – this is the first time I did that one, an enterprise-ish, German JavaScript conference. I got a lot of good leads from that one, giving the opening keynote and a talk I think :)

July

• Video Shoots One Dev Question – these are a great format, where you get one question to ask in videos of tops 2 minute length, so that they can be put in tweets. I shot a series for Webhint and another for VSCode. I’ll do more of those.

August

• I recorded a JavaScript Jabber podcast with the topic of So you learned JavaScript, now what? which got a lot of good feedback

September

• Reasons.to in Brighton is always a shock to the system to me. An amazing amount of talent speaks there, so I was happy to give the keynote for the event
• State of the Browser is a great little event in London I was a part of almost every year. This year was no exception, here are my notes and materials of my talk

October

• Web Unleashed Toronto was my first time at an FITC event, and I will be back this year, they do a great job. My notes and resources are here .
• Nuremberg Web Week was an odd one, as I was asked by people of the local government to present there. It was great as my family lives nearby, so I could bring my nephew.
• DevFest Nantes – this was one of the biggest DevFests and interesting to present there. I got really good feedback for the keynote.
• TDC Trondheim – I was there once before and very happy to come back. Again I did a lot of work and had a great time seeing some surprising talks

November

• DevRel Summit Singapore was insightful, I wrote in great detail about my findings there
• BTConf Berlin – I didn’t present, but helped with the warm-up
• Halfstack London – good show, always, as I explained in my post
• Codemotion Berlin – I was let down by Codemotion events in the past, but this one really worked, as I explained in the post here
• DotJS Paris – I went to man the Microsoft booth there, but this year I shall be back to present :)

December

• We are Developers AI Congress – I went back to Vienna to give the opening talk and MC the AI Congress for the two days. Some really great material there.
• FHWS Wuerzburg – I went to the place I grew up to give a guest lecture at the university I would have gone to had I chosen to pursue a degree :)

All in all a nice, full year, and I managed to squeeze a few more podcasts, a book chapter and some articles in magazines, too. Don’t try this at home. It is exhausting, but I am happy that I have these opportunities to work with so many amazing people.