Conferences and Events

ThoughtWorkers have always been active in the software development community - speaking at Conferences across the world. More recently we began hosting events for Business and IT Leaders as well as technology practitioners to share insight and best practice across the industry.

Quarterly Technology Briefings

Established first in Australia, the QTB series regularly attracts several hundred IT leaders. The briefings are grounded in reality - all of our speakers are active practitioners - and focus on technology in relation to business issues, rather than being deeply technical. The events are now run in the UK, China and Hong Kong as well as expaning in Australia.

Current Australia briefing

Current UK briefing

Geek nights and masterclasses

Primarily focussing on the practical application of new, challenging or advanced technologies, informal GeekNights are run more or less regularly in the UK and a MasterClass series is well established in India. These events are by techies for techies, and often include a workshop element.

London Geek Nights

Manchester Geek Nights

Conferences

ThoughtWorks is thrilled to be a Global Sponsor of the JAOO series of Conferences. Martin Fowler, Erik Doernenburg and many other ThoughtWorkers have spoken at JAOO and QCon for many years and we believe these are some of the best technology conferences around. Events are coming up in Australia in May/June, Aarhus in September and San Francisco in November.

The Erlang eXchange Dennis Bryne will be speaking on Using Jinterface to bridge Erlang and Java at the first Erlang eXchange in London in June 2008.

RailsConf 2008Ola Bini (JRuby on Rails in Practice), Neal Ford (Design Patterns in Ruby) and Zac Tamsen (Rails Testing) will be speaking at RailsConf in Oregon in June 2008. ThoughtWorks Studios is sponsoring the event and we'll be there for the exhibition of course.

We can't possibly keep track of all the speaking engagements ThoughtWorkers have in their calendars, so here are links to some of our regular speakers' sites for you to explore.