Ask HN: Best conferences in Europe 2017?

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Best conferences in Europe in 2017?

Looking for interesting software engineering conferences in 2017 to hunt for tickets already, both with general theme and focused on specific technology stacks. Do you have some favorites?

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Somebody gave me a ticket for ScalaDays 2016 Berlin, and it was awesome. Would go again this year (Copenhagen, May 30th - June 2nd, 2017) if it weren't that expensive.

Edit: added date

Devoxx Belgium is a great conf, really good value for the price as well.
It may be a bit specialised, but VLDB is in Munich this August.
Voxxed Locations 2017 https://voxxeddays.com/

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Zurich 23rd February, 2017

CERN 25rd February, 2017

Bristol 2nd March, 2017

Bucharest 10th March, 2017 (* I am speaking about BigQuery here)

Vienna 16th & 17th March, 2017

Dakar April, 2017

Ticino 6th May, 2017

Athens 18th – 20th May, 2017

Singapore 2nd June, 2017

Luxembourg 22nd June, 2017

Belgrade 19th – 20th October, 2017

Thessaloniki October, 2017

Algiers TBC

Dubai TBC

Øredev, Malmö, November. http://www.oredev.org

Very broad - spoke at last year's on leadership and organisation, attended sessions on Elm, Frege, privacy, DDD (and API design), big data, microservices, ...

dotConferences has a great series throughout the year in Paris, France — https://www.dotconferences.com/

- dotSwift (Jan 27, 2017)

- dotSecurity (Apr 21, 2017)

- dotScale (Apr 24, 2017)

- dotAI (Apr 25, 2017)

- dotGo (Nov 6, 2017)

- dotCSS (Nov 30, 2017)

- dotJS (Dec 1, 2017)

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I can second dotConferences - IMHO an awesome return for the low price!
DEVit Conference - 360° Web dev conf (Frontend, Backend, DevOps or Mobile)

May 20-21 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

http://devitconf.org/

Most likely I will join this year, but the devops tracks were considerably weak the past yeats... This is primarily a webdev conference.
I warmly recommend Joy of Coding this June in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

It's volunteer organised (so affordable) and it only attracts programmers who are passionate about their jobs. No recruiters, no businesspeople (who don't also code), etc. No company booths. It's very un-enterprisey and has a great atmosphere because of that.

http://joyofcoding.org/

No specific software stack, albeit rather web focused in practice. Central theme is (surprise) the Joy of Coding, so there's space for new cool tech, for meta-level stuff about how to enjoy your work/hobby better, and for in-depth workshops.

There are a number of Python conferences that take place every year listed at http://www.pycon.org/ (several of these are in Europe).