With a few teammates of my company, we are thinking about organizing a conference about distributed systems, big data/databases, and machine learning. I already got some money saved for the organization and also for renting a cool place where to do it. The conference would be in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the end of April or beginning of May 2018. The conference would take one or two days.
We have already talked with a few companies and we might be able to pay between 3 and 5 plane tickets to invite a few speakers that live in the US/Europe. We have already talked with a few possible speakers and they told us they would be interested in talking at the conference. The rest of the speakers would be speakers working in the local industry.
Do you have any recommendation on who to invite? From your point of view which are the more interesting and accessible people to follow in big data, machine learning, distributed systems and programming languages design.
I have organized a few conferences but not related to the software industry. Do you have any recommendation or tip related to the organization of a conference?
Here’s a couple of quick tips:
This is just what quickly came to my mind…
All I can say is THANKS
I’m one of the organizers of !!Con in New York City, an annual programming conference about to be in its fifth year. if you’re interested, I’d be happy to answer any questions you have either here in the comments, or DM me and we can set up a time to chat. :)
Thanks! I will reach you as soon as I finish working. I am a big fan of the !!Con, I hope you can upload the 2017 videos :)!
Thanks for the reminder, we’ve had a PR open for that for a long time that you just prompted me to merge :|
http://bangbangcon.com/recordings.html
From my personal experience organizing EFLBA this year and watching Monika organize many Erlang factories over the years:
Maybe you can find some interesting tips here: “Perl Jam aims to collect together the knowledge and experience of organising some great Perl events, and order them in such a way that anyone wishing to do the same, can follow the footsteps of those who have gone before, and prepare themselves for what will hopefully become a great event.”