Celebrating

Software development

Joy of Coding is a one-day single-track conference held in Rotterdam. We bring internationally renowned speakers to Rotterdam to deliver talks. They cover diverse aspects of the craft, reflecting recent trends in industry and academia, as well as a serious amount of joy.

It's affordable

Joy of Coding is a non-profit event. With the help of our sponsors we keep registration fees low to provide the best value-for-money conference of 2023. Our very-early bird tickets sell at only EUR 128,- just like our previous editions!

It's by dev, for devs

Joy of Coding is organised by a bunch of developers. There is no commercial agenda, the schedule is purely based on stuff that developers, like us, love to see. Expert speakers but no talking heads. A place where we can all get together and talk about code.

Venue

Joy of Coding 2023 will take place in De Doelen, a concert venue and convention center in Rotterdam. Although mainly known as a venue for classical music and jazz, it is also a superb conference location. The monumental building is located right in front of the Rotterdam Centraal train station.

Speakers_

Dylan Beattie

@dylanbeattie@hachyderm.io

My name is Dylan Beattie. I'm a software development consultant, conference speaker and musician based in London, UK. I'm the founder and director of Ursatile, an independent consultancy specialising in software development, communications training and technology strategy.

Simone de Gijt

Simone is a 30 year old scuba dive fanatic, who loves to dance, sing and go on adventures. She lives in Amsterdam and is currently working for OpenValue Amsterdam, for who she's a Java and Kotlin software developer consultant. In her own time she volunteers as an educator on high schools about gender diversity and sexuality. Mainly to make the world a little kinder.

Romeu Moura

@romeu@mastodon.social

Endless conversation — with friends, compilers — on art, equivocacy, Symmathesy, methods, absurdism, dialectic, paradigm jumps, serendipity.

Mark Rendle

@markrendle@hachyderm.io

Mark is a software engineering teacher and consultant based in the UK. He specialises in back-end development with .NET but is aware that other programming disciplines and ecosystems exist. He gets to travel the world delivering workshops and speaking at conferences because he's incredibly lucky and he knows it. In his spare time he plays bass guitar and eats toast.

Holly Cummins

@holly_cummins@hachyderm.io

Holly Cummins is a Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus team. Before joining Red Hat, Holly was a long time IBMer, in a range of roles from cloud consultant, full-stack javascript developer, WebSphere Liberty devops architect, JVM performance engineer, to innovation leader. Holly led projects for enormous banks, tiny startups, and everything in between. Holly has used the power of cloud to understand climate risks, count fish, help a blind athlete run ultra-marathons in the desert solo, and invent stories (although not at all the same time). Holly is also a Java Champion, author, and regular keynote speaker.

Tomer Gabel

@tomerg

A programming junkie and computer history aficionado, Tomer's been an avid software professional for almost two decades, during which he's built any number of (predominantly back-end) systems, cofounded two major Israeli user groups (Java.IL and Underscore), organized an annual Scala conference (Scalapeño) and is a recurring speaker at software conferences. Plying his trade as a gun-for-hire at Substrate, he secretly still hopes to realize his childhood dream of becoming a lion tamer.

Marian Petre

Marian Petre (an Emeritus Professor at the Open University, UK) has spent decades 'picking the brains' of expert software developers to understand how they reason and communicate about design and problem solving.

Ben Smith

@binjimint

Ben Smith is a software engineer specializing in low-level systems and programming languages. Over his career, he's had the opportunity to work on award-winning games, implement new JavaScript engine features, and be a part of a team helping to design, develop and standardize WebAssembly. In his spare time, he loves building emulators for game consoles and optimizing code to do amazing things in thousands of bytes.

Team_

Alex Kuiper

@NightWhistler

Alex is an independent software consultant, a VIM nerd, Whovian, runner and model aviation fan. He heard about this obscure new conference called ‘Joy of Coding’, decided to visit and loved it so much he kept coming back and ended up joining the team.

Arthur van Leeuwen

@earthy_

Arthur fell in love with computers and code as a kid and has been privileged enough to turn that love into a career. Bounced around in academia as a programmer and assistant professor for a while, and now works at Nedap, where he gets to code, architect and teach.

Eline Brader, MSc.

Eline got a bachelor and master’s degree in food technology. With noob level knowledge on programming languages after graduation, Eline was able to fulfil her desire to program on a fulltime basis thanks to Nedap University. Since May 2022, she is a fulltime backend software developer in team OpenEHR at Nedap Healthcare. Her long-term dream would be to become a full stack developer. People would call her crazy for working every day of the week but her response would be: “My job is my hobby and my hobby is my job”.

Erik Pronk

@ErikJPronk

Erik is a passionate software engineer that has been working in IT since 2001. During this period he has gained a lot of experience in a variety of technologies, roles, development environments and market segments. His main focus is on implementing enterprise solutions in an agile way. In his spare time, Erik loves to run and experiment with VR and domotics. Erik works at JDriven where he shares his passion and drive with other colleagues.

Jenny Biekman

@Jenny_KuiBie

Jenny is a software tester at ANWB by day and a gamer by night. After being volunteerd to help out she fell in love with Joy of Coding and joined the team. Her favorite things are test automation and zumba.

Paul van der Maden

Paul is a versatile and independent software developer in the Java landscape. Besides coding on multiple big and small projects, this team player and music lover is always looking to explore exiting new lands. So, he joyfully grabbed the chance again this year to broaden his horizon by co-organizing the 2023 JoC edition.

Yosuf Haydary, MSc.

@YosufHaydary

Yosuf is an independent consultant at Softwaredam. He is usually involved in multiple facets of building and transforming systems. Yosuf is specialized in Solution Architecture, Continuous Integration/Delivery, DevOps, and near zero-downtime migrations.