IT days

The IT days are an annual meeting and specialist conference for technologies in the areas of digitization , IT , software development and IT operations. The conference is organized by the specialist magazine Informatik Aktuell from Alkmene-Verlag.

conference

The IT days consist of a conference program lasting several days and an accompanying exhibition. The speakers are renowned IT experts, book authors and specialists with a focus on digitization , IT and software development . The conference was initially aimed at a purely technical audience such as software architects, database architects, developers and administrators. The areas of digitization, IT security, project management, agile software development and software architectures are now further focal points that are addressed with their own theme days.

history

The first conference took place in 2013 at the Collegium Glashütten near Frankfurt under the name "Database Days" and, according to the organizers, had around 200 participants. In 2014, the online magazine Informatik Aktuell was founded, which has since published specialist articles on software development and made them available free of charge as part of the Open Knowledge Initiative. The publication is carried out by Alkmene-Verlag. In 2015, the magazine's annual conference called IT-Tage was held in Frankfurt am Main at the Congress Center of the Messe im Maritim with a significantly expanded range of topics.

In 2016, the conference took place again in Frankfurt am Main at the fair with around 500 participants. The 2017 conference presented more than 160 lectures, workshops and keynotes in seven parallel tracks in the congress center of Messe Frankfurt.

During the IT days 2018, Prof. Dr. Peter Buxmann gave a keynote on artificial intelligence . Ben Stopford , the developer and architect of Apache Kafka , spoke in his keynote about streaming and Robert Panholzer from Atlassian spoke about innovation culture. Around 160 sessions, workshops and keynotes provided information in seven parallel tracks. Around 800 participants followed the conference.

In 2019 more than 220 sessions were held in 13 sub-conferences. More than 1000 people took part.

In 2020, the conference will take place remotely from December 7th to 12th. The background is the situation around the corona pandemic. The organizers state that they will hold the conference in the same bandwidth with sub-conferences and sessions.

Web links

• Conference pages of the IT days
• Database days: database conference
• Java Days: Conference on software development and architecture
• The history of MySQL and MariaDB - Keynote by Kaj Arnö / MariaDB AB (German)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Admin magazine. Retrieved March 22, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Computer Week . Retrieved March 22, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Admin Magazine :. Retrieved March 22, 2017 . 
4. ^ Conference program 2013. Accessed March 22, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Computer Week January 22, 2013. Retrieved June 22, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Admin Magazine: Successful Database Days. Retrieved March 22, 2017 . 
7. ↑ IT Days 2015. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 28, 2016 ; accessed on March 22, 2017 . 
8. ↑ IT days 2015 review. Retrieved January 17, 2019 . 
9. ↑ conference page . Retrieved March 22, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Conference page 2017. Accessed March 1, 2018 . 
11. ^ Pro-Linux: IT days at the end of the year in Frankfurt. Retrieved January 22, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Conference page 2019. Accessed January 29, 2020 . 
13. ↑ IT Days 2020. Accessed on May 8, 2020 .