The BrazilJS Conf, identified as the Brazilian JavaScript Conference, whose official website is http://braziljs.com.br, is having in 2015, its fifth edition. To be held on the dates of 08/21/2015 and 08/22/2015, based in the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, at BarraShoppingSul mal, at Diário de Notícias Avenue, 300, Cristal.
Repeat the success of previous years, keeping the hegemony of the main JavaScript conference in Brazil, expanding international recognition, becoming again one of the biggest events of the JavaScript Universe. Bringing abroad to Brazil some of the greatest, most recognized and renowned professionals, as well as Brazilian speakers, as they are admired by the public, providing a spectacle of technology, and an opportunity to accompany the big news in Brazil and the world, related to JavaScript.
JavaScript is a programming language in extreme rise, becoming more and more featured in market and certainly the most supported language by some of the biggest companies in the world, such as Google, Mozilla, Opera, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Adobe, among other giants of the technology. Altogether with this growth and market need, the BrazilJS project was born, which aspires to bringing the latest, contextualized and reliable information regarding this technology, and make it possible for attendees and speakers from all over the world to get in touch and exchange their experiences.
The targeted audience is made of entrepreneurs in the technology and business professionals, students and enthusiasts interested in software development based on JavaScript, both server and client-side. The auditorium has a capacity of 1500 seats. The estimated audience is about 1300 participants.
- More than 4.000 attendees, in the last editions
- More than 50.000 people watched it live
- More than 60 videos available from the conferences, on our youtube channel
- 2.000 Youtube subscribers
- More than 70.000 views on Youtube
- More than 15.000 Twitter mentions (91.72% positive) during conferences
- More than 4.000 Twitter followers
- 4.000 likes on Facebook
- More than 250.000 page views at conference's page
- More than 3000 subscribed to our weekly
Braziljs already had some of the most meaningful speakers on its previous editions. Among them:
- Brendan Eich, father of JavaScript, and(by the time) CTO at Mozilla
- Douglas Crockford, one of the most respected gurus/masters of JavaScript in the planet.
- Josh Holmes, main evangelist at Microsoft
- Robert Nyman, evangelist at Google
- Angus Croll, developer at Twitter
- Stoyan Stefanov, from Facebook
- Caridy Patino, from Yahoo!
- Yehuda Katz, respected developer, creator of many JavaScript solutions
- Ricardo Cabello, creator of the main graphic library for JavaScript
- Renato Mangini, from Google
- Mike Taylor, from Opera (nowadays, at Mozilla)
- Zeno Rocha, from Liferay
- Ben Alman, creator of Grunt, from Bocoup
- Maximiliano Firtman, one of the performance masters for mobile and HTML5
- Dave Herman, one of the main developers at Mozilla