Description The largest programming event in history, featuring programming language creators & thought leaders - 100% virtual. 100% for charity. Location San Francisco, California, United States Event Type Conference, Hackathon Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Event Organizers Ed Roman Start Date Feb 22, 2016 End Date Feb 24, 2016 Venue Name Virtual Event URL hacksummit.org Registration URL Click here to register
What if you could hear from top thought leaders in the dev space from the comfort of your home? You can. Presented by Pluralsight, we’re thrilled to announce the second annual hack.summit(), a virtual conference taking place the week of February 22, 2016. The event unites renowned programming language creators, open-source contributors and other
top experts.
Last year’s hack.summit() had 64,000 registrants, making it the largest virtual conference ever held and the largest programming conference ever created (physical or virtual).
All proceeds from the event are donated to coding non-profits, including Code.org, Women Who Code, Code for America, Black Girls Code and many more. Last year’s event raised $50,000 for nonprofits, and we expect this year’s to raise much more.
Dozens of speakers will present about their experiences in the field, sharing insights and anecdotes to educate and inspire coders of all levels. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with a high-caliber roster of speakers, including:
David Heinemeier Hansson (creator of Ruby on Rails)
Joel Spolsky (Co-founder and CEO of StackOverflow, founder of Trello)
Thomas Kurian (EVP at Oracle. Oversees all 3000+ of Oracle software products)
Rebecca Parsons (CTO of Thoughtworks)
Kent Beck (Created Extreme Programming, created TDD, co-created Agile, authored 9 books)
Bob Martin (created the Software Craftsmanship Movement)
Tom Chi (co-created Google Glass)
Yehuda Katz (Ember.js, JQuery, Rails Core committer. Created HandleBars)
Jocelyn Goldfein (recent Engineer Director, Facebook)
Qi Lu (EVP at Microsoft. Oversees R&D for Office, SharePoint, Exchange, Yammer, Lync, Skype, Bing, Bing MSN, and more)
Ed Roman (founder of theserverside.com, Java book author)
Aaron Skonnard (CEO of Pluralsight)
Brian Fox (created the GNU Bash Shell, Emacs maintainer)
Chris Richardson (Java Champion, created the original Cloud Foundry)
Orion Henry (founder of Heroku)
Hampton Catlin (Created SaSS, HAML, m.wikipedia.org, and book author)
Jon Skeet (#1 answerer on StackOverflow)
Dries Buyataert (created the Drupal programming language)
Janet Weiner (Engineering at Facebook, big data expert)
Floyd Marinescu (CEO, InfoQ)
Nathan Marz (creator of Apache Storm)
Rod Vagg (Node.js Technical Chair and Core Committer)
Sarah Allen (Co-creator of After Effects, Flash video, recent Presidential Innovation Fellow)
