Slides for my presentation at JavaOne 2017. Session description: Last year this session’s speaker came up with the idea of organizing his own JVM conference. What makes this conference different from (most) other Java/JVM conferences is that the attendees rate the session proposals. While voting, the attendees cannot see who proposed each session, to support equal opportunity. The top-rated sessions are included in the program. After he came up with the idea, the organizer's famous last words were, ”How hard can it be?” The last couple of months, he worked on everything, from the website to speaking with potential partners. If you (plan to) organize a conference, this session will give you some tricks such as organizing games to design a logo and useful applications.

1. How We Started
Our First Java
Conference:
JVMCON

2. HELLO!
I am Johan Janssen
Trainer/architect/evangelist and
competence centre Java lead
at Info Support
Founder of JVMCON
@johanjanssen42

3. - Presented 50+ conference sessions
- Participated in various program
committees
- Organized a small conference at
university

6. How it all
started

14. How hard can it be?

16. 16

18. Why?

23. Concept

28. Company
support

29. - Financial backing
- Taking risks
- Providing people / hours

30. Speakers

32. - Nothing
- Flight
- Hotel
- Fee
- …

35. Marketing

36. - Provide as much information as
possible
- Provide examples
- Invite designers

40. Website

41. - Domains
- GitHub Pages
- Bought a template
- Completely refactored the template

44. - Progressive web app
- Website
- Application
- Spring backend
- Amazon AWS

46. Tickets

49. Call for
papers

50. - Easy
- Lots of voters
- Voters cannot see speaker info
- No support for multiple speakers
- Around 125 proposals

51. Budget

52. Speakers
Location
and food
Marketing
Other
EXPENSES

53. Tickets
Partners
INCOME

57. Partners

61. Location

67. Community

68. - User Groups
- Meetups
- Related to JVM

69. Surprising
questions

75. Challenges

81. Conclusion

85. Help us!

88. Thanks for attending!
@johanjanssen42
johan.janssen@infosupport.com