Ask HN: What are your favorite conferences?

[jaycox2931]

I'm hoping to attend more tech conferences in 2024 due to an increased company learning budget. What are the tech conferences that you've attended/watched online that come to mind and that you could recommend?

[m4lloc]

EuroRust and CppCon are fantastic. If the budget is generous enough then I'd recommend mainstream ones like NDC, Devoxx, or Strange Loop.

Also, I've recently come across a newsletter that scans YouTube for newly uploaded conference talks and then sends them out in a weekly email. They maintain a list of conferences they're monitoring that is quite comprehensive. The newsletter is called Tech Talks Weekly and the conference list is here: https://techtalksweekly.substack.com/p/tech-conferences

[dithered_djinn]

Sadly, Strange Loop's 2023 edition was announced to be the last:

https://twitter.com/strangeloop_stl/status/15738005283452682...

[jaycox2931]

I've been following Strange Loop on YT for so many years. That's really bad. Any idea what happened?

[mooreds]

There's a retro video that might shed some light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suv76aL0NrA

[jaycox2931]

Thanks!

[in9]

I've followed the Strange Loop conference on yt for a long time, and your mention led me to search more about it. Just found out the 2023 edition was the last one. Sad to see such a nice gathering not having another edition.

[johnea]

HOPE - Hackers On Planet Earth

In July in NYC: https://hope.net/

[gcheong]

https://bangbangcon.com

https://www.youtube.com/@exclamationfoundation/videos

[softwaredoug]

My two favorite (in the search space)

- BerlinBuzzwords (https://berlinbuzzwords.de/)

- Haystack (http://haystackconf.com)

[KLejmooo]

Fosdem (europen open source)

Everything from the ccc (german hacker org): every year they have a congress called <number>c3 (we are at 38: 38c3; Every 4 year the ccc camp.

Strangloops

Defcon

Edit:

Kubecon (if you do k8s)

[AstmmetryAware]

Re-Invent is fantastic if you’re into cloud stuff