Code Europe, the largest programming conference in Poland, took place on September 21 at Ergo Arena. Evojam was there to talk to attendees at the exhibit booth and present conclusions from our blockchain project. 

It was the second event this summer where we could look for new Evojammers and potential business partners. Most of the conversations were carried out at our booth, among branded gadgets and leaflets with job openings. 

Some of our representatives moved from the booth to the Code Europe stage. 

Artur Bańkowski, our Head of Development, and Marcin Wadoń, Fullstack Developer, gave a presentation on “How to rumour: eventually consistent information exchange in a distributed blockchain.” The speech was built around the project they both have been running —  the architectural drivers they've faced, the communication models they've decided on, and their professional development encouraged by the nature of their work.

We also made sure not to miss any learning opportunities offered by other guest speakers. Cezary Cieslinski, our frontend developer, was in the audience. He shares his observations in the section below. 

Code Europe was actually the first IT conference I had a chance to attend.

It was a big event taking place at Ergo Arena in Gdansk, with 4 stages and a tight schedule of performances. 

The difficulty of the panels varied from the ones anybody could understand to those that required advanced knowledge in the field. I was mostly choosing the beginner level ones and I have to say they were quite informative for me.

The presenters were mostly very experienced programmers with lots of knowledge to give.

I attended the presentation about the technology revolution, deep fakes, writing clean code and programming for old video game consoles. I also watched the lecture by our Evojammers, Artur and Marcin, which gave me some insight into blockchain, an area that I didn’t know much about.

The closing keynote was presented by Richard Stallman, the man I hadn’t heard much about earlier. His lecture about non-free software made me think about the future of the technology we’re all building.

There were some flaws, like not a very well-thought silent disco system for multiple stages, which made it hard to ask questions about the presentation, or lack of water for the participants, but all in all I’m happy that I had a chance to attend the event.

I left with a good amount of knowledge and thoughts.

- Cezary Cieslinski, Frontend Developer