Conference Reports
All the tech conferences I attended over the years.
| Name | Date | City | Visitors | Ticket | Rating | Summary | |
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CodeCrafts 2025 | May 2025 | Vienna | 500 | 169 € |
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A community-driven, architecture-focused CodeCrafts 2025 in Vienna that felt reassuringly familiar to 2024—great stage and execution in the big Expedithalle but slightly less “wow” in the lineup. |
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CodeCrafts 2024 | May 2024 | Vienna | 500 | 139 € |
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CodeCrafts 2024 in Vienna was a bigger, less intimate but still high-quality conference with strong lessons on sociotechnical design, scaling architecture, and value-driven modernization. |
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CodeCrafts 2023 | Jun 2023 | Vienna | 250 | 129 € |
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CodeCrafts 2023 in Vienna mixed architecture, product thinking, and real-world engineering lessons into a conference that felt bigger and more ambitious than last year. |
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Craft Conference 2023 | May 2023 | Budapest | 2000 | 800 € |
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Craft Conference 2023 in Budapest mixed strong keynotes with a festival-like venue and lots of breadth across architecture, testing, and platforms—great for inspiration, but sometimes not deep enough. |
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Kandddinsky Berlin 2022 | Oct 2022 | Berlin | 1300 € |
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KanDDDinsky 2022 in Berlin was a Domain-Driven Design conference that explored how software architecture, team structures, and organizational design co-evolve to enable sustainable flow in complex sociotechnical systems. | |
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Agile Austria 2022 | Oct 2022 | Graz | 399 € |
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A two-day conference in Graz about agile transformation, organizational structures, leadership, and the ongoing tension between agile ideals and process-heavy enterprise reality. | |
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CodeCrafts 2022 | May 2022 | Vienna | 250 | 139 € |
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Vienna CodeCrafts 2022 was a strong first-time, single-day Vienna conference by SQUER that gathered 600+ attendees for a single-track program blending deep technical talks with practical software-craft mindset and networking. |
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goto; Amsterdam 2019 | Jun 2019 | Amsterdam | 800 | 1425 € |
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goto; Amsterdam 2019 was a well-organized software development conference with strong speakers, practical tech talks, and an interesting after party. |
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WeAreDevelopers Conference 2018 | May 2018 | Vienna | 8000 | 299 € |
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WeAreDevelopers 2018 delivered an impressively large, celebrity-packed developer convention in Vienna, but for me the scale made it feel impersonal and the content often too surface-level to justify returning. |
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Droidcon London 2017 | Oct 2017 | London | 1500 | 485 € |
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Droidcon London 2017 combined high-quality Android engineering talks with a fun and community-driven atmosphere, making it one of the most enjoyable Android conferences in Europe. |
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WeAreDevelopers Conference 2017 | May 2017 | Vienna | 3800 | 59 € |
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The We Are Developers Conference 2017 took place on May 11–12 at Vienna’s Marx Halle, drawing thousands of developers to a program spread across three stages, three igloos, and a large expo and lounge area. |
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Script 17 | Jan 2017 | Linz | 300 | 150€ |
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Script17 was a one-day JavaScript conference featuring international speakers and a dense program of engaging talks covering a wide range of topics. |
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Droidcon Vienna 2016 | Sep 2016 | Vienna | 150 | 60€ |
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Droidcon Vienna 2016 was an Android-focused developer conference held in Vienna, bringing together engineers and community members for talks and workshops on Android app development. |
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DevFest Vienna 2015 | Nov 2015 | Vienna | 200 | Free |
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A community-driven DevFest at TU Wien in 2015 with strong Android and web focus, blending student energy, free pizza, and early-stage tech talks. |
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Droidcon London 2015 | Oct 2015 | London | 1000 | £500 |
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Droidcon London 2015 was a major Android developer conference in London that brought together engineers, designers and vendors for talks, workshops and hands‑on sessions. |
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DevFest Vienna 2014 | Oct 2014 | Vienna | 200 | Free |
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DevFest Vienna 2014 continued the community-focused formula with Android, cloud, and web talks in a relaxed TU Wien atmosphere. |
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DevFest Vienna 2013 | Oct 2013 | Vienna | 200 | Free |
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A community-driven DevFest at TU Wien in 2013 that mixed Android, Java, and web technologies in an open, beginner-friendly atmosphere. |
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26C3: Here be Dragons | Dec 2009 | Berlin | 3000 | 30 € |
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Between Christmas and New Year, over 3,000 hackers, geeks and tech enthusiasts gather in Berlin for the CCC to exchange ideas and look ahead to the new year—while, for the first time, talks and workshops from 35+ distributed mini-conferences worldwide (the "Dragons everywhere") can be followed online. |