Meet the future of programming @ Functional Conf

Functional Conf is less than a week away. The conference schedule is finalised with 45 world-class sessions across 3 days and 5 full-day deep-dive workshops. You can look forward to learning from an exciting roster of international and local experts, including leading figures in the Haskell and Elixir communities. There will be delegates to network with from 7 countries and over 100 organisations like Amazon, Atlassian, Bank of America, Booking.com, Cisco, Expedia, Flipkart, Ford, Gojek, Jio, Juspay, Microsoft, Oracle, PayTM, Swiggy, Thoughtworks, Walmart and Zoho.

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Speaker mentoring - it's a win for everyone!

One of the things we strive to provide at the conference are opportunities for less experienced speakers. To ensure a good experience for everyone, all newer presenters are mentored to help them sharpen their presentations so they are well structured, engaging and keep to time.

The speakers reveal a little more about themselves

We asked the speakers to tell us a little about themselves and their connection to the world of functional programming. Here's a sampling of what they had to say.

Edward Kmett notes that, "A lot of the benefit of functional programming only really shows up when you go all-in, and eschew traditional imperative programming techniques entirely." Read his full interview

"Finding the right balance between elegance and practicality," is one of the greatest challenges of Functional Programming says Michael Snoyman. Read his full interview

Bruce Tate recalls, "I was programming in Ruby and our company was starting to succeed. I got hints that we wouldn't scale well with Ruby and started to do some research to document my research. That research turned into Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. Eventually, José Valim found that book and wrote Elixir." Read his full interview

For Tony Morris, the best thing about FP is, "Delivering working software, then forgetting about it, knowing it will continue working." Read his full interview

Aaron Hsu believes, "FP has a huge navel-gazing problem. So much of the good work on FP is spent on internally grinding on problems that are introduced because of blind adherence to some other "first principle" without thinking of the bigger picture." Read his full interview

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What people have said about past conferences

"FnConf18 was amazing. I don't remember asking this many questions all through Uni or even high school for that matter and getting straight-up answers for all of them." - Aditya Singh, 2018 conference delegate

"Learning the power of APL from the masters, hands-on." - Gunjan Juyal, 2018 conference delegate

"This was hands-down the best conference I've ever attended. From the size of the conference, to the quality of workshops with an excellent instructor-student ratio; to the fact that I was learning from a language from its creators." - 2017 conference delegate

Come along this year and see for yourself!

With less than a week until the conference opens, now is the time to head on over and register before time runs out!

Finally, we'd like to thank our title sponsors, GoJek and Juspay for their generous support in helping to make the conference possible.

See you there!