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!!Con 2019

May 11-12, 2019 in NYC

The joy, excitement, and surprise of computing

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!!Con (pronounced “bang bang con”) 2019 is two days of ten-minute talks (with lots of breaks, of course!) to celebrate the joyous, exciting, and surprising moments in computing.

Allison Parrish
Andrew Sillers
Anjana Vakil
Ayla Myers
David Mauricio Delgado Ruiz
Dawn Xiana Moon
Ellen Körbes
Em Lazer-Walker
Evy Kassirer
Geoffrey Lessel
Jayesh Kawli
Jenn Schiffer
Jes Wolfe!
Josh Triplett
Ju Liu
Kate Beard
Lee Butterman
Melody Starling
Michael Malis
Nabil Hassein
Nat Alison
Natalia Margolis
Omar Shehata
Peter Sobot
Pranshu Bajpai
Sarah Withee
Sophie Déziel
Tessa Alexanian
Uche Ogbuji
Vaibhav Sagar
Veena Sankaranarayanan
Victor Dibia

Who’s speaking?

Our call for talk proposals is closed. Thanks for all your wonderful talk proposal submissions! Learn more about our amazing speakers!

Livestream

Join the !!Con 2019 livestream on Saturday, May 11th and Sunday, May 12th!

Live streaming starts at 10am each day - see our program for details.

Where and when?

!!Con 2019 will be held at the AppNexus headquarters at 28 West 23rd Street, 4th floor, Manhattan, NYC, on the weekend of May 11-12, 2019. Learn more about our venue!

!!Con is a pay-what-you-want conference. Registration is via Eventbrite and is now closed. Thanks for your interest in !!Con!

What’s so great about !!Con?

Here’s what some of our past speakers and attendees said about us:

“We aren’t even at lunch yet and already this is the coolest conference I’ve ever been to!” – @mahtab_sabet

“@bangbangcon managed to pack more useful info into one day than most other conferences do in 3. And it was 10x more fun.” – @johnwittrock

“It’s refreshing to learn 30+ new things about programming in a single weekend at @bangbangcon, even though I’ve been programming for so long” – @pixelyunicorn

“@bangbangcon is the most exciting and important conference in NYC” – @aaronmblevin

“@bangbangcon was awesome! Learned a lot, met very friendly people, and left inspired.” – @bxmani

We hope !!Con 2019 will be at least as good!

How do I get updates?

For updates on !!Con, follow @bangbangcon on Twitter, or sign up for our mailing list below. We send about four or five emails per year for important announcements about our venue, submission deadlines, registration, and that sort of thing. No spam, we promise, and it’s easy to unsubscribe at any time.

Who’s organizing all this?

The !!Con 2019 organizing team: Erty Seidohl, Julia Evans, Ahmed Abdalla, Emily Xie, and Alicja Raszkowska. Organizers emeriti: Leo Franchi, Nabil Hassein, Maggie Zhou, Danielle Sucher, Alex Clemmer, Kiran Bhattaram, and Lindsey Kuper. Logo design by Lea Albaugh.

Sponsorship

Is your organization interested in sponsoring !!Con? Check out our sponsorship page!

Code of conduct

We have a code of conduct that all !!Con participants are required to observe.