A curated list of upcoming technical conferences

• (March 28 – 30) EmberConf (Portland, Oregon) - The flagship event of the Ember community

• (April 1) Fronteers (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - single-day front-end conference
• (April 2) Space City JS (Houston, Texas) - Focused on the rigor of JavaScript and the web platform
• (April 4 - 6) An Event Apart (Seattle, Washington) - Learning session for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design
• (April 5 - 6) SmashingConf (San Francisco, California) - Practical insights, tips, tricks and techniques
• (April 6 - 8) Le Web a Quebec (Quebec, Canada)
• (April 7) WebVisions (New York City, New York) - The future of the web
• (April 15 - 16) JSConf (Montevideo, Uruguay)
• (April 16) DevRelCon (San Francisco, CA) - 1 day conference for evangelists, dev advocates, and developer relations
• (April 22) dotSecurity (Paris, France) - The Security Conference for Developers
• (April 25 - 29) OpenStack Summit (Austin, TX) - A five-day conference for developers, users, and administrators of OpenStack Cloud Software
• (April 30) NoVA Code Camp 2016 (Reston, Virginia, US) - By Developers, For Developers

• (May 2 - 8) Techweek: Detroit - The nation's leading technology conference and festival - showcasing entrepreneurship and innovation.
• (May 4 - 6) RailsConf (Kansas City, KS) - Rails and Ruby, with other related frameworks
• (May 4 - 6) NG-Conf (Salt Lake City, Utah) - Angular JS conference
• (May 11 - 13) GeeCON (Kraków, Poland) - Everything around the JVM's ecosystem
• (May 16 - 19) Open Source Convention (OSCON) (Austin, TX) - Discussion around free and open source software
• (May 20) DEVit Conference (Thessaloniki, Greece) - A 360° world-class software development conference about Frontend, Backend, DevOps and Mobile, organised by the most active, independent, non-profit, local organizations
• (May 20 - 22) JandBeyond (JAB) (Barcelona, Spain) - Joomla! Developer and Sitebuilder Conference
• (May 22 - 24) WriteTheDocs NA (Portland, OR) - Explore the art and science of documentation
• (May 26 - 28) Moonconf (Boulder, CO) - A celebration of functional programming and community
• (May 27) Upfront 2016 (Manchester, UK) - a frontend conference for web developers
• (May 28 - June 5) PyCon (Portland, OR) - By the Python community for the Python community

• (June 6 - 10) NDC Oslo (Oslo, Norway) - NDC Oslo 2016 will once again be held at the Oslo Spektrum in the heart of Oslo.
• (June 7 - 9) dotnet Conf (Virtual) - Learn to develope across multiple platforms with .NET! This includes .NET Core, Roslyn, Visual Studio, Xamarin, and more!
• (June 8 - 11) BSDCan (Ottawa, Canada) - 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects
• (June 9 - 10) GeekOut (Tallinn, Estonia) - Everything around the Java and JVM's ecosystem
• (June 19 - 21) NodePDX (Portland, OR) - JavaScript, Node.js, and programmable hardware
• (June 20 - 26) Techweek: Chicago - The nation's leading technology conference and festival - showcasing entrepreneurship and innovation.
• (June 22 - 24) KCDC (Kansas City, MO) - Multi-track event that covers all aspects of software development, design and project management.
• (June 27 - 28) Wicked Good Ember (Thompson Island, Boston) - A two-day, one track Ember.js conference held on Thompson Island in Boston, Massachusetts
• (June 30 - July 2) PolyConf (Poznan, PL) - Advanced technologies for programmers interested in polyglot programming

• (July 10 - 12) .NET Fringe (Portland, OR) - .NET and Open Source
• (July 11 - 13) GopherCon (Denver, CO) - Largest event in the world dedicated to the Go programming language
• (July 17 - 24) EuroPython (Bilbao, Spain) - the largest Python conference in Europe
• (July 18 - 20) DjangoCon (Philadelphia, PA) - Django conference for the community by the community
• (July 22 - 23) Open Source & Feelings (Seattle, WA) - the intersection between software and humanities, as well as community engagement
• ⭐ (July 30) npm.camp (Oakland, CA) - a community conference for all things npm
• (July 25 - 31) Techweek: Toronto - The nation's leading technology conference and festival - showcasing entrepreneurship and innovation.

• (August 3 - 5) CascadiaFest (Semiahmoo, WA) - community-driven conference surrounding JavaScript and CSS
• (August 8 - 10) That Conference (Wisconsin Dells, WI) - Geek out on everything Mobile, Web & Cloud in over 150 sessions. All at a giant waterpark, so bring the family.
• ⭐ (August 10 - 12) Midwest JS (Minneapolis, MN) - Midwest JS is a premier technology conference focused on the JavaScript ecosystem.
• (August 12 - 14) Code on the Beach (Atlantic Beach, Florida) - Developer conference at a resort on the beach
• (August 18 - 20) Abstractions (Pittsburgh, PA) - Abstractions is a new conference that brings together everyone involved in modern software development — designers, developers, DevOps, and community leaders — to teach, learn, and connect with each other.
• (August 25 - 26) React Rally (Salt Lake City, UT) - a community React conference

• (September 12 - 18) Techweek: Kansas City - The nation's leading technology conference and festival - showcasing entrepreneurship and innovation.
• ⭐ (September 17) RustFest (Berlin, Germany) - conference all about the Rust language
• (September 18 - 20) WriteTheDocs EU (Prague, Czech Republic) - Explore the art and science of documentation in Europe
• (September 22 - 25) EuroBSDCon (Belgrade, Serbian Republic) - the premier European conference on the open source BSD operating systems

• (October 10) dotGo (Paris, France) - The European Go conference
• (October 10 - 16) Techweek: New York - The nation's leading technology conference and festival - showcasing entrepreneurship and innovation.
• ⭐ (October 17 - 18) Polymer Summit 2016 (London) - Code labs and talks by the Polymer team
• (October 25 - 28) SQL PASS Summit (Seattle, WA) - the world's largest gathering of SQL Server and BI professionals
• (October 25 - 28) OpenStack Summit (Barcelona, Spain) - A five-day conference for developers, users, and administrators of OpenStack Cloud Software
• (October 26 - 27) All Things Open (Raleigh, NC) - A conference exploring open source
• ⭐ (October 28 - 28) Reactive Conf (Bratislava, Slovakia) - Web development, JavaScript, and open source software from industry leaders
• ⭐ (October 27 - 28) Rust Belt Rust (Pittsburgh, PA) - a conference for all levels of Rust developers
• (October 28 - 29) WebCamp Zagreb 2016 (Zagreb, Croatia) - Technology oriented conference for developers & designers

• ⭐ (November 3 - 4) Thunder Plains (Oklahoma City, OK) - Thunder Plains is a web and mobile developer conference organized by Techlahoma. The conference focuses on JavaScript and related technologies in a wide variety of different use cases and platforms that make the web all the more interesting.
• (November 7 - 13) Techweek: Miami - The nation's leading technology conference and festival - showcasing entrepreneurship and innovation.
• (November 7 - 8) Velocity (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - web performance, DevOps, web ops sessions surrounding resilient web apps
• (November 14 - 20) Techweek: Dallas - The nation's leading technology conference and festival - showcasing entrepreneurship and innovation.
• (November 18 - 19) NodeConf Argentina (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Node.js conference for all things Node.js and JavaScript
• (November 28 - 29) JS Kongress (Munich, Germany) - JavaScript for web, hardware, and games
• (November 29 - 30) Node Interactive (Austin, TX) - JavaScript and Node.js

• (November 28 - December 4) Techweek: Los Angeles - The nation's leading technology conference and festival - showcasing entrepreneurship and innovation.
• (December 27 - 30) 33rd Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg, Germany) - Annual conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (Security, Cryptography, Privacy and online Freedom of Speech)

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