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- 07 Nov, 2025 *
The last three days I attended the Øredev Developers Conference in Malmö along with the rest of my team. It was my second year, and it was once again a pleasant and very well-run conference with a wide variety of talks. It falls in the category of generalised conference for developers, so most talks were sort of high-level on general topics and mostly not super sp…
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- 07 Nov, 2025 *
The last three days I attended the Øredev Developers Conference in Malmö along with the rest of my team. It was my second year, and it was once again a pleasant and very well-run conference with a wide variety of talks. It falls in the category of generalised conference for developers, so most talks were sort of high-level on general topics and mostly not super specific to one programming language or system, so if you are in the Copenhagen/Malmö and work in IT, I do recommend it.
All kinds of professionals go to conferences as it is a great way to network, be inspired by others in the field and a reasonable excuse to go a company paid trip with your colleagues. The direct benefits can be a bit difficult to measure, at least compared to when someone from a sales department comes back with something tangible like three new business partners and eight potential clients. For me, these types of conferences are a mix of inspiring talks, boring talks, hearing about something you mostly know already and talks that ended up being about something completely different than you anticipated.
While I don’t think any of us will go to work on Monday with something specific we can start implementing right away, there has still been planted and fostered plenty of new concepts, ideas and thoughts. Even hearing things you mostly already know can be beneficial. For once it doesn’t hurt to seal it a bit more in ones knowledge bank. It is also valuable to confirm that you are the one right track, that other people in the industry are dealing with the same set of challenges and it helps alleviate the imposter syndrome. Admittedly I should probably be better at going to talks about subject of which I know absolutely nothing about or stuff that might not even interest me, if I actually wanted to hear something challenging and thought provoking. Though my groundless fear of wasting time usually wins.
It is really just about showing up. New input is still important, despite how many years of professional experience you might have. I don’t have days at work where I can say, that this day I am using that thing I learned in that course I took in my third semester on my masters degree. Doesn’t work like that. Much of it might seem irrelevant, but I am certain all the impressions makes a difference gradually in the long run. And the impressions sets themselves a tad deeper by physically attending, than if I had just watched the talks on YouTube.
Since I don’t have any closing thoughts on this, here is me doing important work in the pinball machine.
