Episode Details

Bryan and Adam were joined by Theo Schlossnagle, KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, and Steve O'Grady to talk about conferences in tech. A lot has changed in the past couple of decades about the impetus for conferences and what makes it worthwhile to attend.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Theo Schlossnagle, KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, and Steve O'Grady.

The lightly edited live chat from the show:

• ellie.idb: 2005, huh? y’all met when i was 2
• goodjanet: yea i was younger than 10 lol
• jgrillo_: I was just thinking I feel very young because I was a junior in high school but not anymore lol
• aka_pugs: my first conference - 1975
• ellie.idb: oxide appeals to the youth
• jbk1234: my first one was LISA in 05 or 06... mostly because it took a near act of god because my director didn't believe in sending his people to conferences
• jgrillo_: "before software ate the world" is what I usually call "when the internet was still fun"
• ellie.idb: my earliest memory was, uhhh, Google I/O 2008 when they gave every attendee that android phone
• ellie.idb: i don’t recall which one it was, but i do remember playing with it when i was 5 hahahaha
• taitomagatsu: I've only been to one tech conference in person, and it was a very tame SIGGRAPH that happened in Santiago, CL (I live in Chile). It was a lot about animation. I wanted it to have talks on image processing like the ones over on the US x3 but oh well, beggars can't be choosers
• goodjanet: I've never been to a tech conference
• devdsp2175: The Germans know how to run a conference. The chaos communications congress is wild.
• ellie.idb: same!! never actually attended one as an adult hahaha
• taitomagatsu: Have you attended one remotely?
• goodjanet: nope, closest is just watching recorded talks after the fact
• taitomagatsu: I attended the rustconf of 2 years ago remotely. It was amazing and I was soooo tired by the end of it. Brain got depleted of juice for the day
• network2501: looking forward to in person dtrace conference with a dedicated zball room
• ahl0003: more of a trade show, but I went to the MacWorld conference in the late '90s
• ahl0003: I still have some BeOS install CDs from then
• goodjanet: im so thankful for recorded talks
• ahl0003: this is kind of wild: I went with my brother who was 12 or so and we met a guy at Be... my brother would go on to work with him 30 years later!
• ellie.idb: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Droid the OG droid with the flip up keyboard and everything
• tocococa: ISCA this year was just around the corner from Santiago in Buenos Aires and it was pretty cool, and CARLA took place this year in Santiago too
• blacksmithforlife: Since I can never get a conference approved from work, I live off recorded conference videos on YouTube
• network2501: best mom
• devdsp2175: The shade! Sending hugs to Bryan's inner child.
• taitomagatsu: daaaaaamn, I didn't know about either! I might keep an eye on ISCA, maybe I can go next year ❤️
• devdsp2175