JFokus 2015 - the VM Tech Day

[Marcus Lagergren]

And to further clarify things - you can attend _only_ the VM Tech day / tech summit, should you so desire, and skip the rest of the JFokus conference. (What a strange thing to do, given the quality of JFokus, but I can’t be the one questioning your priorities here)

(http://www.jfokus.se/jfokus/register.jsp <http://www.jfokus.se/jfokus/register.jsp>)

/M

> On 18 Jan 2015, at 22:54, Marcus Lagergren <marcus.lagergren at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Greetings community members!
> 
> Here is something that I'm sure you'll find interesting.
> 
> I want to advertise the upcoming "VM tech day” event, scheduled to
> take place February 2, 2015 at the JFokus conference in
> Stockholm. Sorry I am on a bit of a short notice here, but finalizing
> the speaker list took us a bit more time than expected.
> 
> The VM tech day is a mini-track that runs the first day of the JFokus
> conference. This is its schedule: 
> https://www.jfokus.se/jfokus/jvmtech.jsp
> 
> After some rather challenging months of jigsaw puzzles, it is with
> great pleasure that I can announce that our speaker line up is now
> complete - and it is great indeed! We are talking 100% gurus,
> prophets, ninjas, rock stars, and all other similar terms that
> normally gets your resume binned if it passes my desk. But in this
> case the labels are true. We have strictly top names from both the
> commercial world and from academia ready to take you on a great
> ride.
> 
> So what is the VM tech day? For those of you familiar with the JVM
> Language Summit (JVMLS) that usually takes place in Santa Clara in
> the summers, the format is similar. It’s the usual deal: anyone
> morbidly interested in runtime internals, code generation, polyglot
> programming and the complexities of language implementation, should
> find a veritable gold mine of stimulating conversation and knowledge
> transfer here. What is different from a typical JVMLS (except for the
> shorter duration), is that we have widened the scope a bit to include
> several runtimes, language implementation issues and polyglot
> problems.
> 
> There will be six scheduled sessions and plenty of time for breakouts
> and discussions. We will also heavily encourage audience interaction
> and participation.
> 
> The JFokus VM tech day is opened by John Rose. I am sure John needs 
> no introduction to the subscribers of this list. With advanced OpenJDK
> projects like Valhalla and Panama booting up, John will discuss what
> the JVM has in store for the future. 
> 
> Other speakers include the tireless Charlie Nutter from Red Hat, the
> formidable Remi Forax, the brilliant Vyacheslav Egorov of Google v8
> fame, the esteemed Dan Heidinga from IBM and the good looking Attila
> Szegedi from Oracle.
> 
> We also have plenty of non-speaking celebrity participants in the
> audience, for example Fredrik Öhrström: invokedynamic specification 
> wizard extraordinaire and architect behind the new OpenJDK build
> system. Stop by and get autographs ;)
> 
> Thusly: if you are attending JFokus, or if you are making up your mind
> about attending it right now, the VM tech summit is definitely
> something anyone subscribing to mlvm-dev wouldn't want to miss. The
> cross-platform/cross-technology/cross-company focus that we have tried
> very hard to create will without a doubt be ultra stimulating. Of that
> you can be sure.
> 
> Please help us spread the word in whatever forums you deem
> appropriate! Talk to you friends! Tweet links to this post! Yell from
> your cubicle soap boxes across the neverending seas of fluorescent
> lights!
> 
> Any further questions you may have about the event, not answered by
> the web pages, can be directed either to me (@lagergren) or Mattias 
> Karlsson (@matkar) or as replies to this e-mail thread.
> 
> On behalf of JFokus / VM Tech Day 2015
> Marcus Lagergren
> Master of ceremonies (or something)
> 
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