Upcoming Tech Conferences in Ukraine
Ukraine’s IT sphere shows an outstanding growth rate. New companies and offices of the well-known giants seem to emerge every month, and they are becoming bigger really fast. It’s happening thanks to a huge talent pool of highly qualified specialists – their work is attractive for European and American customers due to the reasonable prices and brilliant skills. All these factors lead to the demand for knowledge-sharing, exhibiting and engaging IT conferences in the country. We came up with a list of the events with outstanding speakers from abroad, and lots of new things to be shown to Ukrainian public.
Highload fways’17
Where: Kyiv, Cosmopolite Congress Hall
When: Oct 14th
Entrance: 2,900–3,500₴
Highload fwdays’17 is a conference dedicated to development of high-load applications and projects, distributed architecture, microservices, BigData and machine learning. The panels will also include DevOps and database management for high-load projects. The most notable speakers from Elastic, CloudFlare, SoftServe, and other companies are expected to come.
.NET Fest
Where: Kyiv, Cosmopolite Congress Hall
When: Oct 28th
Entrance: $150
This event is dedicated to the most popular platform for development of desktop applications and business intelligence, as well as technologies and products related to it. .NET Fest will see some of the Microsoft developers and speakers from the world’s renowned companies. Apart from .NET technology, the discussions will cover Azure, SharePoint, Office365, F#, Xamarin, microservices, DevOps etc.
Javaday Ukraine 2017
Where: Kyiv, Parkovyi Exhibition Centre
When: Nov 4-5th
Entrance: $200
Welcome to the large 5-track conference with over 50 panels, which is considered to be the Top-3 IT conference in Ukraine for three years in a row. It was created and managed by Java User Group of Ukraine. Together with EPAM Ukraine, it offers opportunities to step into Java for newcomers and to talk with the world’s top Java developers about the leading edge tech.
LvivCSS 2017
Where: Lviv, Lem Station
When: Nov 11th
Entrance: 350₴
This is a highly anticipated new conference around the modern web technologies stressing the lean and clean CSS implementation of complicated web design without using lots of computing power. Although it’s the first LvivCSS, it expects demos from top developers of the promising Ukrainian companies, like Lohika, Binary Studio, and Frontender Mag.
Games Gathering 2017
Where: Kyiv, International Exhibition Centre
When: Dec 9–10th
Entrance: 1,000–3,200₴
At the end of 2017, Ukraine will host its largest gamedev conference covering every corner of the game industry. Over 70 panels will be dedicated to game design, Unity programming, VFX, VR, QA, management, etc. Do not miss the lectures from the specialists of Wargaming, Crytek, Ubisoft, Epic Games, Unity, 4A Games and Playrix.
