conferences

These conferences, convened every ~15 years, have talks by the creators of various seminal programming languages recounting their histories.

They also have a research division that routinely publishes at all of the top conferences.

We actively contribute to personal and professional development and have a minimum budget allowance to be spent on courses, conferences, and books.

I think you'll get more value from local Meetups and the very few non-marketing conferences out there.

We use them at all of our conferences to scan badges.

I'll spend some time in Silicon Valley, will catch several relevant Open Source conferences, etc.

I've often asked at Agile conferences, it seems Agile can't be applied to hardware industries.

She was actively involved in documentation, communication, and conferences.

We provide learning opportunities through conferences and training.

Do people actually get value out of conferences?

You would have astronomy conferences filled with people trying to figure out what all these weird spectra objects are, or trying to decipher all these structured radio observations.

Go to some meetups, conferences, hackathons, etc.

Einstein is the exception, not the rule." Even Einstein probably spent a lot of time talking face to face with his colleagues and presenting his ideas at Physics conferences.

And when I've gone to speak at conferences, I'd show things like Sass and livereload, only to have them scoff at me and say "if it isn't in Visual Studio, it's not worth learning." And when VS included live reloading, it was the Greatest Thing Ever.

Conferences like Strangeloop and the no-fluff ones are usually better.