How We Started Our First Java Conference: JVMCON

HELLO!

I am Johan Janssen

Trainer/architect/evangelist and competence centre Java lead at Info Support

Founder of JVMCON

@johanjanssen42

- Presented 50+ conference sessions

- Participated in various program committees

- Organized a small conference at university

How it all started

How hard can it be?

16

Why?

Concept

Company support

- Financial backing

- Taking risks

- Providing people / hours

Speakers

- Nothing

- Flight

- Hotel

- Fee

- …

Marketing

- Provide as much information as possible

- Provide examples

- Invite designers

Website

- Domains

- GitHub Pages

- Bought a template

- Completely refactored the template

- Progressive web app

- Website

- Application

- Spring backend

- Amazon AWS

Tickets

Call for papers

- Easy

- Lots of voters

- Voters cannot see speaker info

- No support for multiple speakers

- Around 125 proposals

Budget

Speakers

Location and food

MarketingOther

EXPENSES

Tickets

Partners

INCOME

Partners

Location

Community

- User Groups

- Meetups

- Related to JVM

Surprising questions

Challenges

Conclusion

Help us!

Thanks for attending!

@johanjanssen42

johan.janssen@infosupport.com