About

HYTRADBOI is a online conference about databases, programming languages, and everything in between. A place for ideas to cross-fertilize between the two disciplines.

The conference is hosted in a chat room and all the talks are recorded and captioned in advance. Join from a different time-zone, watch talks on your lunch break, answer questions in your pajamas, pause the talk to go feed your baby. Conferences work better async.

HYTRADBOI takes place 2025 Feb 28 0900-1500 PDT. The chat will stay open for several days afterwards for those who can't attend live.

Program

To be announced...

Lightning talk buffet

You can submit a pre-recorded lightning talk for the lunchtime break. We will automatically accept any talk that:

• Is vaguely on topic.
• Is not just a sales pitch for a product/project. If your product/project vanished tomorrow, would the talk still be worth watching?
• Is submitted before Jan 28.
• Is at most 3:00 minutes long. Not 3:01 minutes. (If it's close just speed it up.)
• Has an accurate .srt subtitle file (try the descript free tier).

Tickets

Tickets will go on sale 2025 Jan 28. Discounted tickets will be available for those who need them.

FAQ

Why no sponsors? Most industry conferences are dominated by adverts from vendors. We wanted to do something a little different. But it's hard to say no to people who already gave you money.

What about accessibility? All the talks are captioned and the event is based around a text chat.

Will recordings be available afterwards? All the talks will be prerecorded and will be published here afterwards. The discussion and chat rooms will not be recorded.

Can we behave like idiots? We expect everyone to conduct themselves like the professionals you are. Also: be curious and constructive rather than cynical and dismissive, stay on topic and avoid digressions that are likely to start fights.

Who is running this thing? HYTRADBOI is organized by Jamie Brandon.

If you have any other questions get in touch at info@hytradboi.com.