May 22, 2012
A handful of the Riak team are descending on Europe, attending and speaking at various conferences and meetups, and we couldn’t be more excited to meet and mingle with the growing European Riak community.
Here’s the full list of places and events where we’ll be. If you will be at any of these events and want to talk Riak, we want to hear from you! Send us a tweet or email Tom at tsantero@riak.com
GOTO Copenhagen
May 21-23
GOTO Copenhagen began yesterday and runs through May 23. The GOTO conference series are international events put on for, and by, software developers. This year’s theme is “Real Stories from Real People” and attendees can expect to learn about solving real life problems form real life experiences from a number of leading experts and authors.
Put these talks in your calendar:
- Riak in the Cloud – Tom Santero
- NoSQL Knockout – Ian Plosker
Riak will also have a booth on the exhibition floor. Be sure to stop by in between talks to chat with Ian or Tom about Riak, distributed systems or your favorite fancy cocktail.
GOTO Amsterdam
May 24-25
GOTO is on a roll this year, with two European conferences scheduled back to back. GOTO Amsterdam is hosted at Beurs van Berlage. For a two day conferences, the list of speakers is quite impressive so kudos to the GOTO Program Advisory Board for putting this one together.
In addition to a booth on the exhibition floor, Andy Gross will deliver the following talk that cannot be missed:
Be sure to corner [Andy](https://twitter.com/#!/argv0) or [Tom](https://twitter.com/#!/tsantero) in between sessions and ask them hard questions about Riak.
### NoSQL Matters
**May 29-30**
Riak’s [Tom Santero](https://twitter.com/#!/tsantero) will be attending [NoSQL Matters](http://www.nosql-matters.org/) set to take place in Cologne, Germany. This is a brand new conference, and we have very high expectations for success considering the caliber of [speakers](http://www.nosql-matters.org/speakers/) on deck.
If you’re in attendance, be sure not to miss these talks from members of the Riak community:
* [Designing for Concurrency with Riak](http://www.nosql-matters.org/agenda/) – Mathias Meyer
* [Theoretical Aspects of Distributed Systems, Playfully Illustrated](http://www.nosql-matters.org/agenda/) – Pavlo Baron
### Erlang User Conference
**May 28 – June 1**
Stockholm plays host to this year’s [Erlang User Conference](http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/ErlangUserConference2012). The events put on by Erlang Solutions are usually exceptional, and Riak will be well represented this year.
The conference itself last for two days, Monday and Tuesday, followed by a day of tutorials on Wednesday and then wrapped up with two days of workshops on Thursday and Friday.
We’ll be delivering the following talks:
* [Sweden’s Next Top NoSQL Data Model](http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/ErlangUserConference2012/speakers/IanPlosker) – Ian Plosker
* [Innovation: What Every Developer Absolutely Needs To Know](http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/ErlangUserConference2012/speakers/SteveVinoski) – Steve Vinoski
Riak’s VP of Engineering, [Dizzy Smith](https://twitter.com/#!/dizzyd), will host a [tutorial](http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/ErlangUserConference2012/speakers/DizzySmith) demonstrating [Rebar](https://github.com/basho/rebar), an open-source build-system for Erlang/OTP applications.
[Ian Plosker](https://twitter.com/#!/dstroyallmodels) will be running a two day class on
[Building distributed clusters with Riak](http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/ErlangUserConference2012/university/RiakTraining). Everyone who attends will walk away with a very clear understanding of just why Riak is the best distributed database you will ever run in production.
### London Riak Meetup
**May 30**
Riak is pleased to announce that Ian Plosker will be hosting the [Inaugural London Riak Meetup](http://www.meetup.com/riak-london/events/62061262/).
This first meetup in London will feature a talk by Riak’s VP of Engineering, [Dizzy Smith](https://twitter.com/#!/dizzyd) and is hosted in Google’s new [co-working space](http://www.campuslondon.com/).
If you’re in or around London on May 30, missing this is not optional.
*Don’t forget to [RSVP](http://www.meetup.com/riak-london/events/62061262/).*
### EuRuKo
**June 1-2**
[EuRuKo](http://www.euruko2012.org/) is an annual Ruby conference hosted in Amsterdam. All attendees can expect a killer [venue](http://www.euruko2012.org/#venue), awesome [lineup of speakers](http://www.euruko2012.org/#speakers) and a fancy Boat Party sponsored by GitHub.
[Sean Cribbs](https://twitter.com/#!/seancribbs) will give a talk titled *A Case of Accidental Concurrency* – if you haven’t been lucky enough to hear Sean speak in person before, than you’re in for a real treat.
### Berlin Buzzwords
**June 4-5**
Last, but certainly not least, we’ll be at [Berlin Buzzwords](http://berlinbuzzwords.de/) for two days of [brilliant technologists](http://berlinbuzzwords.de/speakers), [hackathons](http://berlinbuzzwords.de/wiki/hackathons) and training.
The theme of this conference is “search”, “store” and “scale”, our natural habitat so to speak.
You’ll get to hear form the Riak team:
* [Germany’s Next Top Data Model](http://berlinbuzzwords.de/sessions/germanys-next-top-data-model) – Ian Plosker
* [Eventually Consistent Data Structures](http://berlinbuzzwords.de/sessions/eventually-consistent-data-structures) – Sean Cribbs
As well as the Riak community:
* [From Hand to Mouth](http://berlinbuzzwords.de/sessions/hand-mouth) – Pavlo Baron
[Tom](https://twitter.com/#!/tsantero)
