Keynote!
by Søren Berg Glasisus
and Guillaume Laforge

Søren Berg Glasius
• Freelance Java developer
– Looking for new assignments
– Particularly with Groovy & Grails!
• Board member in Javagruppen
• Now: conference organizer
• Passionate about Groovy, Grails, Griffon and all
those GR8 technologies

Guillaume Laforge
• Groovy Project Manager
• JSR-241 Spec Lead
• Head of Groovy Development
at SpringSource
• Initiator of the Grails framework
• Co-author of Groovy in Action
• Speaker: JavaOne, QCon, JavaZone, Sun TechDays,
Devoxx, The Spring Experience, JAX, Dynamic
Language World, IJTC, and more...

Once upon
a time
Søren &
Guillaume met...

at Hindsgavl

Speaking
about sexy
technologies

And we thought...
• Groovy, Grails, and Griffon
are really GR8 technologies
• It would be nice to create a
special event dedicated
to these technologies
• Let’s launch
a conference!

The
idea

The concept
• Affordable
– We’re not in the business of making money on
conferences, we just cover our costs
• Great content
– Focused on innovative technologies, how to integrate
them together, show more advanced features
• From the horse’s mouth
– Sessions presented by makers and experts of these
great technologies
• Hands-on
– Concrete code samples, how to get advantage of these
technologies in your own projects

Speakers
Jonathan
Felch
Paul
King
Dierk
König
Guillaume
Laforge
Vaclav
Pech
Graeme
Rocher
Jim
Shingler

The Agenda: Monday
• 08:30 — Registration & Breakfast
• 09:00 — Keynote and welcome address
• 09:30 — A Case Study with Groovy and Grails
• 10:30 — Coffee break
• 11:00 — Groovy usage patterns
• 12:30 — Lunch
• 13:30 — What's new in Groovy 1.6?
• 14:30 — What's new in Grails 1.1?
• 15:30 — Coffee break
• 16:00 — Designing your own DSL
• 18:00 — Tivoli evening party
• 20:00 — Dinner at Valhal

Tivoli

The Agenda: Tuesday
• 08:30 — Breakfast
• 09:30 — Building a Twitter clone in Grails
• 10:15 — Coffee break
• 10:45 — The Grails Plug-in System
• 12:00 — Groovy and Grails using IntelliJ IDEA
• 12:30 — Lunch
• 13:30 — Creating a Griffon rich client
• 15:30 — Coffee break
• 16:00 — Industrial Strength Groovy
• 17:00 — Panel Discussion

Practical aspects

Practical aspects
• Wireless internet
– free for all attendees
• Power plugs
– available for pluging your laptops to code live with us!
• Breakfasts
– from 08:30 to 09:00 today and tomorrow
• Lunch
– from 12:30 to 13:30 today and tomorrow
• Coffee breaks

On the USB key

Win a SpringSource
training course
• If you fill the form,
you’ll get a chance
to win a free
SpringSource
training course!

Twitter!
• Use the #gr8conf hashtag

Tivoli, tonight!
• Entrance pass
– Free for those who signed up online
– 5 minutes walk from the venue
• Meet & Greet dinner at Valhal
– Meet at 20:00
– Two hours
– Food and drinks €40 / DKK 299

Navigating Tivoli
Valhal
Entrance

Our Sponsors
• The organizers
• Our sponsors
• Media sponsors

Appendix
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