SAVE THE DATE

Scala Days 10-Year Anniversary

Celebrated at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland | 11-13th June 2019



Now OpenCall For Proposals

About

In celebration of the 10th anniversary, Scala Days in 2019 will only take place where it all started - at EPFL, June 11th - 13th hosted in the SwissTech Convention Center.

The Scala Days conference started in 2010, with about 150 people. In the meantime, it grew to become the leading Scala conference in the world, with two editions every year, around 1500 participants, great workshops, related community events; attracting businesses, developers and Scala lovers all over the globe.

For 10 years, Scala Days brings together developers to share their experiences and new ideas around creating applications with Scala and related technologies, like Spark, Kafka, and Akka. Scala Days provides a unique opportunity for Scala users to interact with the contributors to the language and related technologies and connect with fellow developers.

Program Committee

Martin Odersky

Lightbend (Chair)

Inventor of the Scala language, a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, and a founder of Lightbend. ACM fellow, co-designer of Java generics, and original author of the current javac reference Compiler.

Manuel Bernhardt

Independent

Passionate engineer, author, speaker and consultant. Co-organizer of the Scala Vienna User Group.

Sébastien Doeraene

Scala Center

Executive director of the Scala Center at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. Author of Scala.js. Singer

Darja Jovanovic

Scala Center

Communication and Community Manager at the Scala Center; second time Scala Days Program Manager; first time Scala Days conference coordinator, always focused on creating a positive change

Lars Hupel

Technical University Munich

PhD student in Munich, Germany. One of the founders of the Typelevel initiative, providing principled, type-driven Scala libraries.

Adriaan Moors

Lightbend

Scala Team Lead @ Lightbend, with a decade of scalac contribution experience.

Heather Miller

Carnegie Mellon University

Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, in the School of Computer Science, primarily affiliated with the Institute for Software Research. Co-founder and former Executive Director of the Scala Center at EPFL, where she was also a research scientist.

Josh Suereth

Google

Senior Software Developer at Google, the author of Scala In Depth, and a contributor to the Scala community.

Support for Speakers

For newbies in the speaker world we have compiled a useful collection of links on challenges such as finding a topic, writing a good abstract, making good slides, giving a good presentation, and how to handle the Q&A.

Code of Conduct

Scala Days are dedicated to providing a conference for technologists from various regions and communities. We want to make it a fun experience for everyone, regardless of gender, race, and many different backgrounds. All participants, including speakers and sponsors, are asked to be respectful to each other and comply with the following code of conduct.

All communication should be appropriate for a technology conference with a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Scala Days do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form.

We expect all participants, including guests, exhibitors, sponsors, booth staff, and the organizers, to follow these rules at all conference venues and conference-related social events. Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior (regardless of the intention) are expected to comply immediately.

Harassment includes, but is not limited to:

  • Asking other participants out (comments about appearance, romantic or sexual interest) or inappropriate physical contact.
  • Offensive verbal comments or discriminatory behaviors related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, age, race, nationality, ethnicity, or religion.
  • Sexual images in public spaces.
  • Deliberate intimidation; stalking, following, harassing photography or recording.
  • Sustained disruption of talks or other events.
  • Use of sexualized images, activities, or other material during the session.
  • Use of sexualized clothing/uniforms/costumes by the booth staff or volunteers, or otherwise creating sexualized environment in the booth or the displayed material.

If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the conference organizers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the conference with no refund. All participants, including guests, exhibitors, sponsors, booth staff, must comply to the order by the conference organizers immediately without condition.

The code of conduct is subject to change without notice.

Contacts

If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, please contact one of the following members or any nearby conference staff immediately.

For any questions or concerns, please email the organizers at [email protected].

The text part of this policy is licensed under the Creative Commons Zero license. A similar code of conduct has been adopted by Scala Matsuri, PNW Scala, NE Scala, and Reactive Summit to provide a harassment-free conference. We also support the cause.