The Kansas City Developer Conference (KCDC) is Kansas City's premier educational conference for software development. Catch
#kcdc2024
June 26-28, 2024!
We sent team our newest team member over to the convention center early to make sure the
#kcdc2022
vendor and catering setup go according to expectation today.
The speakers have been selected for
#KCDC2024
and what a competitive year it has been! We want to share with you how we did the selection process. A thread 🧵
First official all-hands meeting of the
#kcdc2022
organizing team!!!
And also the first ever on-screen participation from our newest member, Baby Georgia Spurling. We are smitten. Think we'll put her in charge of content this year.
#DeveloperCommunity
#StartEmYoung
Q: What do these flags all have in common?
🇨🇴 🇪🇪 🇱🇰 🇧🇪 🇧🇦 🏴 🇫🇮 🇺🇸 🇲🇰 🇷🇺 🇦🇷 🇮🇳 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇮🇱 🇫🇷 🇦🇺 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 🇭🇺 🏴 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🇿🇼 🇳🇴 🇨🇭 🇷🇴
A: They're all places where
#kcdc2022
speakers live or have spent substantial portions of their lives! Join us!
#DeveloperCommunity
#GlobalCulture
So incredibly proud of our kids and their friends! We couldn’t ask for a better corps of volunteers. Believe me,
#kcdc2018
would not be possible without them.
Early Bird tickets for
#kcdc2023
are ON SALE NOW! As in, YES, you can get get them right now! So do that! There is not a single thing you could do today that is more important or that will bring you more joy.
In case you missed the announcement at the
#kcdc2021
closing, the dates for KCDC 2022 (!!!) are August 8-10, 2022.
It's a quick turnaround, only 10-1/2 months, so start getting ready! 🙂
#Gratitude
#DeveloperCommunity
#kcdc2022
Over 1600 (!!) people, and growing, are currently set to be at
#kcdc2022
in the Kansas City Convention Center next week, Aug. 8-10. These amazing folks will be joining us in JUST FIVE DAYS!!!
Will you?
Acquire
#kcdc2018
attendee raffle prizes: check!
We bought so much stuff the transformer blew and Best Buy's power went out right after completing our purchase.
#NotJoking
Happy Monday, everyone! The
#kcdc2023
CFP concluded on Friday night, and evaluations have begun. This will take several weeks. In the meantime, here are a handful of statistics from this year's open call:
Hey everyone, it’s been a long time coming, but we will publishing our list of distinguished speakers, sessions, and workshops for
#KCDC2019
within the next day or so, if not sooner.
Stay tuned... we’ll announce here on Twitter when that stuff goes live.
Alright,
#developercommunity
! The stage is set! Our
#KCDC2024
CFP is LIVE! Ready those brilliant abstracts for
@kc_dc
on June 26-28, 2024. Let's make magic happen! ✨🎤💻
DEADLINE: 26 JANUARY!
Hey
#DeveloperCommunity
!!!
The CFP for
#kcdc2022
is now officially OPEN! You have until late January to submit your sessions for the conference, which will be held in-person in Kansas City, August 8-10, 2022.
It's going to take some time to really digest the
#kcdc2022
session feedback from our attendees. We have received almost 2800 submissions to the feedback tool. But from my casual, totally unscientific perusal, our speakers CRUSHED it. This warms my heart after a long five days.
The hallway track.
This, as much as anything, is why we felt it was so important to bring
#kcdc2021
back last month as an in-person event for the
#DeveloperCommunity
.
It is seriously hard to believe, but TWO WEEKS from today, the first of our speakers for
#kcdc2021
will begin arriving in
#KansasCity
!!!
Tickets are still available. If you haven't grabbed yours yet: .
Our titanium and platinum sponsors are loading in as we speak. And signage is starting to go up. Tenth anniversary event is getting real now!
#kcdc2018
#bbqLogo
Oh, hey there,
#developercommunity
! So we just published a list of some a-maz-ing speakers who will be helping to make
#kcdc2022
as awesome as we've ever been. You might want to check it out!
Hey there,
#developercommunity
speaker friends! We know everyone is getting anxious. Sorry for the CFP delay. Several of our are going through busier-than-expected times right now.
The final round of session selection is starting tomorrow! Answers soon...
The FINAL board meeting prior to
#kcdc2023
has officially come and gone. So... uh, well... we hope we're ready. See you all next week!
(Not pictured:
@BillyKorando
, because he hung up SO fast that Jeff didn't even have time to tell him to hold for a photo.)
We're truly in the final frenetic days now. The first sessions of
#kcdc2022
are less than ONE WEEK from now. If you watch this video and get pumped, and then feel like you've forgotten something... maybe it's buying your tickets?? One. Week. People.
As promised, we just spent 2.5 hours and got through final selection on about half of our tracks. Meeting again tomorrow night!
(Also, we have three submissions, in three different tracks, with titles starting with "Don't Panic!")
Not only did
@egrootenboer
and
@AngeliqueGr28
leave their Dutch home, spend two weeks in Romania, and then fly through Qatar—just so they could come to
#kcdc2021
—but then they delivered three talks for us and scored 100% green reviews across the board!
#TeamGrootenboer
We have yesterday’s
#visualnotes
from
@OneSquigglyLine
on display at the registration table. Come check them out!
Melinda will still be illustrating the
#HumanSkills
talks all day today in Room 2215B.
Seems like stuff is happening at the Kansas City Convention Center. Is there an event going on or something? Can we come?
(Also, thank you to
@headspring
and
@oktadev
for being Titanium sponsors of
#kcdc2021
.)
Don't look now, but we have just started announcing our
#kcdc2023
speakers, sessions, and workshops.
Actually no, wait, DO go look, like, right now! Hurry!
This is Bob. Bob is sad because he procrastinated and now he has to pay twice as much to get his tickets to
#kcdc2022
. Don’t be like Bob.
You have until 11:59pm CT tonight.
Because "one of us" is fascinated by these things, so far we have
#kcdc2022
submissions from 108 individuals representing 60 different cities in 20 countries on five continents. And the CFP still has 25 days to go.
Join us, won't you?
#DeveloperCommunity
It's finally the last few days of the year! And look, New Year's resolutions are great and all, but instead, maybe you should close out THIS year with a bang and submit NOW to the
#kcdc2022
CFP.
The
#kcdc2022
Agenda is LIVE now.
Do remember that we are still slotting a handful more talks over the coming 53 days (but who's counting?) and minor changes may occur.
Rooms & times are now also listed with individual sessions on our sessions page.
Congrats to
@willjohnsonio
for being this year's FIRST submission to the
#kcdc2023
CPF. There've already been several since, but let the record show that Will was first.
After a tremendously successful last couple weeks, it is highly likely that
#kcdc2018
will sell out entirely this year! Tickets are still available for now, but seriously, don't wait until the last minute. We'd hate to miss you!
#DontSayWeDidntWarnYou
This year's award for biggest procrastinator goes to
@DavidKPiano
, who was so last-minute that it was actually 10:01pm when Sessionize logged his submission. Honorable mentions to
@CLCondron
and
@brndnpugh
for getting sessions in at 9:59 or later.
#HaveACookie
#kcdc2022
</CFP>
Happy New Year to all of our friends, speakers, partners, sponsors, and supporters around the world!
None of our growth and success over the past decade would have happened without you. So thanks for helping make our community great.
Here’s to the 20s and here’s to each of you!
Please come as an attendee for this year. It's your voice in the halls that makes this a community event worth putting on. ❤️
Congrats to our 2024 speakers - we'll see you in Kansas City in June!
#kcdc2024
And lastly, for the scary part, available slots that our dedicated—and perhaps self-loathing or masochistic—content team gets to fill from these 1479 outstanding submissions: 172
Estimated
#kcdc2023
acceptance rate: 11.63%
Lord help us all... good luck, friends!
Two weeks from right now, y’all will be in your first sessions of the morning for
#kcdc2023
. Can you believe it? Wait, what’s that? You don’t have your tickets yet? Still?!? Oh man, what an unfortunate oversight. Here, let us help you with that:
We have published the agenda for
#kcdc2021
! It still has a few gaps in it, but we have OVER 180 sessions and workshops slotted in for our three days and can't wait for you to check it out.
REMEMBER: Early bird pricing expires this weekend.
We are less than 90 DAYS out from
#kcdc2019
! Three months may seem like a long time, but it goes by quickly. You certainly don't want to miss out.
Early bird tickets are available for purchase NOW. Follow the link from our site or go directly to:
Happy Monday! Did you know that the Early Bird ticket pricing for
#KCDC2019
ends this Friday night, June 14?
Don't pay more for being a "late bird"! Fly over to our Eventbrite site and get your tickets today!
Another 1.5 hours with the selection team tonight. Only got through two more tracks, but they were doozies. Probably the two biggest and toughest. Progress...
#kcdc2022
Exciting news hot off the presses! In celebration of KCDC's 10th year, we have decied to extend our early bird pricing until close of business this Friday, June 15.
That's right, you have FIVE more days to get in on the fun at the early price!
#AnniversaryParty
Today is THE DAY. It's the LAST business day before
#kcdc2022
. Check-in opens at 6:30 on Mon. morning. So if you STILL haven't purchased tickets to join us for one of the premier community-run events in our industry, you really should do that. Like, now?
We are excited to be sponsoring a new learning opportunity for the KC
#DeveloperCommunity
. The great
@ladyleet
is bringing her "Modern Web" super-meetup to town in 2020, starting later this month with
@joesmorgan
and
@robocell
. Come check it out!
440 speakers were not accepted. Two of our organizers discuss the process:
If you didn't get selected this year, we assure you, that we want you to submit next year! The evaluation committee is different each time, and the industry needs different voices.
Total submissions: 1,479 (!!!)
Unique speakers submitting: 472
Submissions per speaker: 3.11
This is 330+ more abstracts than we have EVER received before, from almost 75 more people than have ever submitted in a given year. Wow!
‼️ Note to our
#kcdc2022
speakers:
If you received a message from a Michelle Farmington, or anyone else from
@Puffingston
Presentations, we don't know them are not affiliated in any way. Not saying you can't use them, but several have asked if that came through us. It did not.
Did You Know: Over the past four years, we have had nearly 1000 unique and dedicated speakers from the
#DeveloperCommunity
around the world submit their abstracts to present at KCDC? That is quite humbling!
Will you be next?
Alrighty then! I'm back from Europe—even though my Circadian rhythm is still somewhere over there—and so I'm here to remind you that
#kcdc2022
begins TWO WEEKS from today.