It was first announced a few weeks ago, but it deserves a mention here too - DDD Adelaide 2019 is happening on Saturday 23rd November!

Andrew Best (Principal Consultant at Readify) has taken the organisational initiative and I'm excited to be working with him to bring a day-long conference for all software developers to Adelaide.

Long-time readers may remember we have actually had some events in Adelaide before. Indeed I blogged about the last DDD way back in 2011. In the intervening time, DDDs have been happening all around Australia. Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth are all now running annual DDD conferences. They've grown to become significant events (many selling out within hours of tickets being made available!), and some now regularly have 700-800 attendees (big enough that they have to book a proper convention centre for their venue).

So the DDD we're putting on this year is going to be a little different to anything that has ever happened in Adelaide before. It's going to be bigger and better (with two tracks), and is open to any and all software developers (plus related fields) and any programming language, technology, ecosystem, cloud, little and big-endian!

While we're not aiming to be quite as large as our interstate cousins, I think if this year's event is well supported by the local developer community, then the only way is up for the future.

DDD is run as a non-profit event. So while we are charge for registration, this covers the cost of providing catering for the day. There's other costs with running DDD, so it's great to have some big-name sponsors also supporting us. In fact there's still room for more sponsors to get on board.

So what happens between now and November 23rd?

Registrations are open now. Sign up to attend now!

The Call for Presentations closes at the end of Wednesday September 4th. If you've got something you'd be prepared to present to a group of interested people, submit it now!

The following week (12th September to be precise), the full list of proposed sessions will be published for registered attendees to vote on. Yes, the people who are going to attend get to vote on which sessions they want to see. Yet another incentive to register.

After voting closes (27th September) and we've confirmed presenter availability then the final agenda will be published (3rd October).

So sign up and I'll see you on the 23rd. It's going to be awesome!