Inaugural ServerlessDays Belfast conference announced for 2020

  • ServerlessDays is a global series of community focused, one day events. It will hold its inaugural island of Ireland conference in Belfast on January 24 2020. 

    The event will be headlined by keynote speakers including Amazon Web Services (AWS) ‘Serverless Hero’ Jeremy Daly, Danilo Poccia, the principal evangelist at AWS and Sheen Brisals, serverless solutions architect at The LEGO Group.

    The conference will also feature talks from local serverless advocates.

    It is being jointly organised by volunteers from Liberty IT, Kainos and Instil. It is supported by headline sponsors AWS, Liberty IT and Workgrid. The event will demonstrate the movement of the software industry towards serverless solutions. 

    According to Dave Anderson, technology director at Liberty IT, these have “the potential to completely transform companies, making them faster and more efficient.  

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    “At its core, the Serverless Days movement focuses on the reality of serverless based solutions rather than the hype surrounding it.  It’s about fostering a community locally and helping all of us learn from each other as we embrace a new way of building applications.”

    He continued: “The speaker panel in made up of global serverless advocates who have been invited to speak and local software engineers who submitted papers to the organising committee.  We’re really excited to be providing a platform for serverless advocates to share, collaborate and learn from eachother and the full speaker panel line-up is now live on our website.”

    The single track event will take place in Life Church Belfast and spaces are limited to 200.  Tickets cost £40 per person and include lunch. Book at Belfast.serverlessdays.io and follow the conversation on Twitter at @BFSServerless 

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