One of the best ways to evolve in the software industry is to interact with other developers and those technically minded. Resources such as user groups, Twitter and conferences are useful for this. It’s disturbingly easy to develop reality distortion or tunnel vision with the projects and technology stacks you spend a majority of your time with.

Conferences on my radar:

January
linux.conf.au, Geelong

Febuary
APIdays, Sydney

May
OpenStack Summit, Vancouver
MuleSoft Connect, San Francisco

June
LinuxCon, Tokyo
dockercon, San Francisco
DEVOXX, Poland

July
OSCON, Portland

August
LinuxCon, Seattle

September
ASWEC, Adelaide

October
Web Directions
OpenStack Summit, Tokyo

December
YOW! Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane