Sponsors & Exhibitors

IBM is a global technology and innovation company headquartered in Armonk, NY. It is the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 375,000 employees serving clients in 170 countries. Just completing its 22nd year of patent leadership, IBM Research has defined the future of information technology with more than 3,000 researchers in 12 labs located across six continents. Today, IBM is much more than a “hardware, software, services” company. IBM is now a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company.

Organisations worldwide use Black Duck’s industry-leading products to automate the process of securing and managing open source software, eliminating the pain related to security vulnerabilities, compliance and operational risk. Black Duck is headquartered in Burlington, MA, and has offices in San Jose, CA, London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

hello2morrow provides integrated static analysis tools to enable sustainable software development, lower project cost by at least 25%, mitigate risks and improve agility and quality.With Sonargraph-Architect we have one innovative static analysis tool with a focus on architecture and structure that enables our customers to assess, optimize and maintain their custom applications more efficiently whilst reducing cost, mitigate risk and increasing agility, quality and transparency. Sonargraph integrates easily into your current development landscape and is already used by many companies around the world to achieve more sustainability in their development processes. As of now the product supports Java, C# and C/C++.

Vaadin Framework makes creating stunning desktop such as web applications fast and easy. User interface is written in Java, run on server-side and used with any modern web browser. No plug-ins, XML or JavaScript development is needed. Vaadin Ltd offers support, services and add-ons for the free Apache licensed framework.

Aspose helps developers working with .NET, Java, in the cloud or on Android create, manage and convert documents and files. Aspose products support some of the most popular file formats in business, including: Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents, Microsoft Visio diagrams and Microsoft Project files. They also offer tools for OCR, OMR, image manipulation, email management, and barcode recognition and generation. Aspose Pty Ltd has been operating since 2002. The headquarters are in Australia and the company has teams situated throughout the globe with Sales Teams based in Australia, America, Scotland and India.

Endava is a privately-owned, global technology company, with over 16 years of experience of working with some of the world’s leading Finance, Insurance, Telecommunications, Media, Technology, and Retail companies. Through the Digital Evolution, Agile Transformation and Automation solutions, Endava is helping clients be more engaging, responsive and efficient.

Endava has over 3,900 employees located in offices in North America and Western Europe and delivery centres in Colombia, Moldova, Romania, Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria.

Along with investing in long term customer relationships, Endava recognised the importance of providing rewarding and challenging careers for people and, by doing so, has established itself as the employer of choice for the best and brightest engineers.

ADMIN Magazine is the leading technical magazine for system administrators on heterogeneous networks, with detailed, practical articles on securing, configuring, managing, troubleshooting, and optimizing Linux, Unix, Windows, and Solaris systems. Subscribe today!

Code First: Girls is a social enterprise that believe that more young women need to realise the career opportunities that exist in tech. Since 2013 we’ve delivered over £2.5 million worth of free education to young women across the UK. We have one purpose – to increase the number of women in tech. We do this to help address the gender imbalance in the tech industry, where women currently only represent about 17% of the workforce. 

DevChampions offers high-quality training courses for developers and IT professionals in the Baltics. We specialize, but are not limited to engineering practices, software architecture, automation, Agile methodologies and soft skills. We carefully choose only the best trainers, because we value your time and believe you must learn directly from industry influencers.

Latvian Software Craftsmanship Community is the biggest software development community in Latvia. LatCraft runs monthly meetups, where rock-stars present and discuss hot engineering topics. You can watch LatCraft live via Periscope!

Linux Magazine keeps the emphasis on real-life, practical techniques, which has helped make it one of the fastest growing Linux magazines worldwide. Linux Magazine delivers insightful technical articles on a range of topics related to IT technology every month.

The London Java Community (LJC) is a group of Java Enthusiasts who are interested in benefiting from shared knowledge in the industry. Through our forum and regular meetings you can keep in touch with the latest industry developments, learn new Java (& other JVM) technologies, meet other developers, discuss technical/non technical issues and network further throughout the Java Community.

Mkyong.com is for Java and J2EE developers, all examples are simple and easy to understand, and well tested in their development environments.

WebOps Weekly; a free, email round-up covering operations, infrastructure, performance, and everything from the browser down to the metal.

Women Who Code is a non-profit dedicated to inspiring women to excel in
technology careers. We provide an avenue into tech, empower women with
skills needed for professional advancement, and provide environments where
networking and mentorship are valued. The organization has executed more
than 3,000 events around the world, garnered a membership exceeding 50,000,
and has a presence in 20 countries.