
Skills Matter is pleased to support the second annual GOTO Amsterdam conference designed for software developers, IT architects and project managers. The conference takes place in Amsterdam on 24th and 25th May and is followed by a post-conference training day on 26th May.
GOTO Amsterdam offers ideal opportunities for learning, networking and tracking innovation occurring in the Java, Mobile, .Net, OpenSource, Lean/Agile, Architecture New Languages & Process communities.
PROGRAMME
The conference includes a total of 10+ tracks with over 40 presentations being showcased in Amsterdam. Tracks include:
- Back End & Architecture: Architecture War Stories, Private Clouds
- Experience Report: Agile In Midlife
- Front End: Browser As A Platform, Designing & Coding For Tablets
- Languages: The JVM: One Platform To Bind Them All, Parallel Languages
- Solution Track: Cool Companies
The programme will continue to be updated as the conference approaches. Full details of Tracks and Schedule can be found
here.
SPEAKERS
Speakers at GOTO Amsterdam are authors, experts and practitioners across various areas of software development. The list of speakers includes:
Simon Brown: Coding the Architecture
Anton Keks: Software Craftsman, Co-Founder of Codeborne
Bernd Schiffer: Coach & trainer at the leading company for Agile SW Dev in Germany
Dave Snowden: Creator of the Cynefin framework and expert of complexity theory applied to orgs
John-Henry Harris: LEGO toy Designer - Inspire the Builders of Tomorrow
Michael Koch: CTO of Enough Software
Trisha Gee: Developer at LMAX, the London Multi Asset eXchange
Visit the conference site to view the latest list of speakers and view details of when they are speaking.
Registration
Registration is open! GOTO Amsterdam uses a dynamic registration system. The conference price starts at a level of EUR 515 and remains the same until February 1st, 2012. Afterwards the price increases daily by EUR 3 until March 15th, 2012.
Thereafter, the increase per day is EUR 6 until it reaches its final price of EUR 920 on April 30th, 2012. The following table shows the pricing levels and cut-off dates for the conference and training day:
|
Conference (2 days) |
1 day of training |
Conference and 1 day of training (3 days) |
| before March 15 2012 |
From €551.- |
€400.- |
From €951.- |
| before April 30 2012 |
From € 644.- |
€ 500.- |
From € 1,144.- |
| after April 30 2012 |
€ 920.- |
€ 600.- |
€ 1,520.- |
Below graph shows an overview of conference pricing.

SKILLS MATTER EXCLUSIVE DISCOUNT
Skills Matter is pleased to announce a special 50 Euro discount off conference ticket prices (note the system will deduct 50 Euros from the price quoted on the day of booking). To secure tickets at this exclusive price please enter promo code SkillsMatter2012 when booking online!
On Twitter? Follow @GOTOamst and use hashtag #gotoams for the latest conference news.
ABOUT THE ORGANISER: GOTO Amsterdam is co-produced by Trifork and Dutchworks and is a vendor independent conference where the program is put together by a Program Advisory Board.