DevDay 2015 was a complete success

Why do I go to conferences? To be inspired, to be a part of the community, to learn something new. It's hard to make a conferenence without any of these. I'm the person who finds it easy to talk to people and I feel already a part of the community. What about the other two then?

Inspiration is like a spark. It can be one brilliang presentation at the conference, one sentence at some session, one hallway conversation with another attendee and I'm excited, coming back with the head full of new ideas. Every conference has this little spark.

There were brilliant and less awesome conferences of course. I believe organizers do a hard work to fill in conference days with variety of subjects, trying to make people with various interests and levels of experience happy. Sometimes it plays along well, othertimes it falls apart due to many reasons. We create our programme with care and love and being developers ourselves, visiting many conferences we have a slight idea of what would be interesting.

I'm happy when someone has this spark in the eye coming back from our conference, the same thing I had coming back from my beloved Øredev in 2010. Did we inspire someone this year? I think so, I hope so! Looking at feedback after the conference, there are many people who are really excited about what they saw and heard. They're also excited about the opportunity to talk to other like-minded people. 

Christian Heilmann or Chad Fowler, they gave us wonderful performances as Dan North, Jon Skeet, Scott Hanselman or Rob Ashton in the previous years. 

I'm thankful for all the feedback we got, without it we couldn't improve (and we want to improve massively next year, we can't stop ideas flowing around our heads). Speakers do appreciate this feedback as well because they're trying to be better at what they're doing. Being a speaker myself I can't understand all of the feedback we got from our attendees though. Sometimes it was harsh and thoughtless. I don't mind honest, constructive critique but sometimes we had people just trying to express themselves rathen than to help speakers improve.

Having more speakers this year we got more opportunities for less known and less experienced people to take the stage but it's needed to let some air and refresh speaker lineup from time to time

It's all about sessions and networking, after 5 years of doing DevDay community around it is vibrant, willing to meet. Whatever we would do, they would meet anyway. This is one of the shining elements of this year's conference. 

I'm very happy with how DevDay 2015 went. Looking at those little sparks in the eyes of our attendees, at what people learned, looking at how community was stimulated - it was a complete success. In the future I'd like more people to feel the same.

We already started working on the next edition, we will probably change the venue to make more space for all the ideas we couldn't do in the current. We will also work super-hard to provide topics and speakers who will inspire, teach something new. I cannot wait to do it again!

See you 15-16th of September 2016!
Add draft version of DevDay 2015 aftermath
Add draft version of DevDay 2015 aftermath
