Keynote!by Søren Berg Glasisus and Guillaume Laforge

Søren Berg Glasius

• Freelance Java developer–Looking for new assignments–Particularly with Groovy & Grails!

• Board member in Javagruppen

• Now: conference organizer

• Passionate about Groovy, Grails, Griffon and all those GR8 technologies

• Groovy Project Manager• JSR-241 Spec Lead• Head of Groovy Development

at SpringSource• Initiator of the Grails framework

• Co-author of Groovy in Action

• Speaker: JavaOne, QCon, JavaZone, Sun TechDays, Devoxx, The Spring Experience, JAX, Dynamic Language World, IJTC, and more...

Guillaume Laforge

Once upon a time

Søren & Guillaume met...

at Hindsgavl

Speaking about sexy technologies

• Groovy, Grails, and Griffonare really GR8 technologies

• It would be nice to create aspecial event dedicated to these technologies

• Let’s launch a conference!

And we thought...

Theidea

The concept

• Affordable–We’re not in the business of making money on

conferences, we just cover our costs

• Great content–Focused on innovative technologies, how to integrate

them together, show more advanced features

• From the horse’s mouth–Sessions presented by makers and experts of these

great technologies

• Hands-on–Concrete code samples, how to get advantage of these

technologies in your own projects

SpeakersJonathan

FelchPaulKing

DierkKönig

GuillaumeLaforge

VaclavPech

GraemeRocher

JimShingler

The Agenda: Monday

• 08:30 — Registration & Breakfast • 09:00 — Keynote and welcome address• 09:30 — A Case Study with Groovy and Grails• 10:30 — Coffee break• 11:00 — Groovy usage patterns • 12:30 — Lunch• 13:30 — What's new in Groovy 1.6?• 14:30 — What's new in Grails 1.1?• 15:30 — Coffee break• 16:00 — Designing your own DSL• 18:00 — Tivoli evening party• 20:00 — Dinner at Valhal

Tivoli

The Agenda: Tuesday

• 08:30 — Breakfast• 09:30 — Building a Twitter clone in Grails• 10:15 — Coffee break• 10:45 — The Grails Plug-in System• 12:00 — Groovy and Grails using IntelliJ IDEA• 12:30 — Lunch• 13:30 — Creating a Griffon rich client• 15:30 — Coffee break• 16:00 — Industrial Strength Groovy• 17:00 — Panel Discussion

Practical aspects

Practical aspects

• Wireless internet–free for all attendees

• Power plugs–available for pluging your laptops to code live with us!

• Breakfasts–from 08:30 to 09:00 today and tomorrow

• Lunch–from 12:30 to 13:30 today and tomorrow

• Coffee breaks

On the USB key

Win a SpringSource training course

• If you fill the form,you’ll get a chanceto win a free SpringSourcetraining course!

Twitter!

• Use the #gr8conf hashtag

Tivoli, tonight!

• Entrance pass–Free for those who signed up online–5 minutes walk from the venue

• Meet & Greet dinner at Valhal–Meet at 20:00–Two hours–Food and drinks €40 / DKK 299

Navigating Tivoli

Valhal

Entrance

• The organizers

• Our sponsors

• Media sponsors

Our Sponsors

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