Welcome to &:conf

&:conf, pronounced "and conf," is a code retreat and an unconference for intersectional feminist programmers, August 14-17, 2015 in the woods of western Sonoma County, CA. Saturday’s code retreat will be a day of pair programming on one kata where each hour we throw our code away and work with a new person. Sunday’s unconference will have two tracks: yak and hack, where we'll talk about technologies, programming, careers, and culture.

&:conf will take place at St. Dorothy's Rest camp and retreat center.

Tickets

Tickets are currently sold out! Thanks to everyone who signed up.

Attendee Details

See the Attendee Details and FAQ for full details about what to bring, how to get there, and where we'll be.

Sponsors

A huge thank you to our generous sponsors for helping to make &:conf possible:

Interested in sponsoring? Check out our sponsorship prospectus or contact us if we can help find a custom sponsorship opportunity that's right for you.

Code of Conduct

&:conf is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Conference participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the conference without a refund at the discretion of the conference organizers.

Read the full code of conduct.

Contact

Questions? Contact the conference organizers at info@andconf.io.

About the Organizers

Lillie Chilen Lillie Chilen is a software engineer at Omada Health and a veteran open source event organizer. She chairs the RailsBridge board and is the CTO of Double Union, a feminist hacker/makerspace in San Francisco.

Stella Cotton Stella Cotton is a software engineer and project lead at Indiegogo. Coming to software after six years in the Financial sector, she’s passionate about building robust payments systems and diverse teams.

Emily Nakashima Emily Nakashima is a software engineer at GitHub and a volunteer with RailsBridge. She writes and speaks at conferences on the topics of web performance, client-side monitoring, javascript patterns, and supporting diversity in technical organizations.