Søren Berg Glasius and Guillaume Laforge, co-organizers of the GR8 Conference in Copenhagen, are opening the conference with a general keynote.

2. Keynote!
by Søren Berg Glasisus
and Guillaume Laforge

3. 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

4. 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...

5. Once upon
a time
Søren &
Guillaume met...

6. at Hindsgavl

7. Speaking
about sexy
technologies

8. 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!

9. The
idea

10. 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

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

14. 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

15. Tivoli

16. 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

17. Practical aspects

18. 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

19. On the USB key

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

21. Twitter!
• Use the #gr8conf hashtag

22. 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

23. Navigating Tivoli
Valhal
Entrance

24. Our Sponsors
• The organizers
• Our sponsors
• Media sponsors

26. Appendix
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