Welcome to Scala Days 2012!

Scala Days is the premier event for Scala enthusiasts, researchers, and practitioners. The 2012 edition will be held at the Barbican, London, UK on the 17th and 18th of April 2012.


The Barbican, London

Come and join us!

Scala Days 2012 is a fantastic and unique occasion to meet with Scala-using professionals and companies, to exchange ideas and form business relations, as well as to discover the latest practical and theoretical development concerning the Scala language.

A central part of the Scala Days event will be the Third Scala Workshop, a forum to showcase and discuss a wide range of cutting-edge Scala research projects. In addition to the Workshop, further Scala Days sessions will be devoted to technical talks, experience talks, and tool demonstrations, offering a comprehensive insight on all that is going on in the Scala world. We have also planned social lunches and an evening Scala Days Reception, which will offer further opportunities to meet and discuss with all the people that matter in the Scala world in a relaxed social context.

On this website you will find plenty of information about the event program, the venue, and practical details. More information concerning Scala days will be posted on this website as it becomes available.

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Latest News:


Scala Days Videos

Tue, 2012-04-17 16:37 — admin

Check out all the Scala Days 2012 talks online! Now videos are being constantly uploaded right now, courtesy of Skills Matter. You can find them on the skillscast video page.

Scala Days - Sold out!

Thu, 2012-03-15 14:24 — admin

Due to the incredible interest in Scala Days, we are booked to capacity: the event is sold out! Registrations are currently closed.

IMPORTANT: If you have a free registration coupon, you can still proceed to the checkout page. Just type in your coupon code, and you will be able to complete registration. You must complete your registration in order to attend. If any coupons are not used by the registration deadline (April 9th), we will reallocate the corresponding places.

If you are interested in attending Scala Days, but have not managed to complete registration, you can try and send us a message using our contact form. If we get any cancellations, or if any places become available, we will notify you for a last-minute registration. Please send us your message now.

Thanks again to all our participants and to the fantastic Scala community! Scala Days 2012 will be an incredible event!

Very few places remaining!

Mon, 2012-03-12 12:26 — admin

A few announcements concerning Scala Days: first of all, due to the unprecedented number of registrations, the Scala Days reception will take place not only in the Great Hall at Lincoln's Inn, but also at the Old Hall, always at Lincoln's Inn. Additional details are available on the reception page.

A second, very important announcement is that we are now nearing maximum capacity for our venues! There are only about 35 places left out of 400. If you have a coupon code your place is reserved, but you must still register before the deadline in order to attend. Therefore: register now, or you risk missing out on this great event!

Scala Days 2012 - Shaping Up!

Tue, 2012-02-14 17:02 — admin

Already over 160 people are coming to Scala Days 2012, April 17/18, a full complement of research papers are in, and more than 25 practical technical talks have been proposed, with more on the way. They cover a diverse set of interests including: Scala in the browser, Anti-XML, Binary Compatibility, Web Frameworks, Cloud computing, Big data processing, Akka 2.0, unified Futures, Testing, new immutable data structures and much more.

Of course, Martin will be talking about the future of Scala, while Guy Steele and Simon Peyton-Jones keynotes will give strong hints as to where languages are going in general. On the other hand the keynote by Anthony Rose will give a succesful technical entrepreneurs insight into where technolgy is taking the media and television industry.

There will be opportunities to find out about the latest Scala Eclipse Plugin developments and roadmap from Iulian Dragos or learn about the latest EPFL language research areas, Virtualization from Adriaan Moors, the "Delite" project from Tiark Rompf or just share ideas with the rest of the EPFL team that will be there.

The London area has the fastest growing Scala commercial user community in the world. You can expect to see people from financial companies like HSBC, Morgan Stanley, UBS, GSA Capital as well as fast growing innovative companies like Zeebox and Mind Candy. And of course lots of people from the USA will be joining us too, companies like Autodesk, Heroku, Jayway, and so on.

Being at the London Barbican means there will be lots of space and a super environment for casual meet ups with all these people. More space for technical sessions. There is still time for you to submit another great talk and be included in the program too, deadline 22 Feb.

With the help of our Sponsors, Skills Matter, Typesafe, Heroku, Zeebox and Cloud Foundry we are able to offer participants a magical evening reception and dinner at the Lincoln Inn, one of Londons classic historical buildings.

Don't leave it too late to reserve your place at Scala Days 2012. Register soon!

Keynotes and Call for Speakers

Mon, 2012-01-23 14:19 — admin

Scala Days 2012 shapes up! You will have top-notch keynote speakers, great research papers, a magical evening event and now we call for stimulating speakers to give session talks. If you have used Scala in an innovative commercial application, created a neat Scala development tool or used Scala in a new and productive way then the rest of the community would like to hear about it. Being a speaker at Scala Days and sharing your knowledge not only helps everyone up their game but also gives you a free ticket to the 2012 event.

Submit a 200-300 word talk abstract here, submission cutoff deadline is the 22th February 2012. The talks review committee, Andy Hicks, Nathan Hamblen, Chris Conrad, Phil Bagwell and Adriaan Moors, will make the selection for inclusion in final Scala Days program. Speakers choosen will receive a free entry coupon for registration while the remainder can still obtain a discounted "Early Bird" registration.

Your keynote speakers this year need little introduction. They will be: Anthony Rose, Simon-Peyton Jones, Guy Steele and Martin Odersky.

Keynote Speakers

Guy is a Software Architect and Principal Investigator of Programming Languages in the Programming Languages group at Oracle Labs. He has contributed to the implementation and standardization of many popular programming languages and is currently heavily involved in Fortress, a high performance language designed to obsolete Fortran.

Simon is a researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England. Best known perhaps for being the major design contributor to the Haskell programming language and the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). His main interests are in the design, implementation and application of lazy functional languages.

Anthony is the Co-Founder/CTO of Zeebox and the technology visionary behind a revolutionary social TV concept that has attracted the attention of the whole television industry and 15 million pounds early investment from BSkyB. For many he is recognised for being the driver behind the extremely successful BBC IPlayer, a service replicated on many TV channels world wide.

Martin is the creator of Scala and co-founder of Typesafe, the company that makes Scala support products.

Venue

Whether you come to Scala Days as a speaker or to hear what's new you will enjoy mixing with some of the best experts in the industry during the sessions at the Barbican or in the evening. The Scala Days reception and dinner will be held at the Lincoln's Inn, one of London's magical historic buildings.