Go Conference ^‘19

For Immediate Release

The Go Conference of a programming language Go, will be held in Fukuoka on July 13

Go Conference '19 Summer in Fukuoka, Japan's largest event on Go, a programming language, will be held on July 13, 2019 (Sat) in Fukuoka.

The Go Conference has been held since 2013, and this is the seventh year. This is the 13th time this year's first local event will be held in Fukuoka-City, where The Engineer Friendly City Fukuoka*1 will be unveiled. Go attracts many engineers, including unique features not found in other programming languages*2 and container technology-related software that realizes distributed systems*3. A total of 29 sessions are scheduled by the Go engineers in Fukuoka, as well as by speakers from around the country, including Tokyo, and the number of visitors is expected to be 150-200.

• 1：Efforts that lead to visualization of the engineer community, increased motivation for engineers, and collaboration between engineers and companies, schools, and students in multiple industries. https://efc.isit.or.jp/about
• 2：Go was developed by Google and released as open source in 2009. Simple, reliable and efficient software construction. https://golang.org/
• 3：Go is used to implement Docker, Kubernetes, and Prometheus, which support distributed systems.

Overview of Conference

• Name：Go Conference'19 Summer in Fukuoka
• Date：Saturday July 13th, 2019
• Venue：Fukuoka Growth Next and Fukuoka-City Startup Cafe
• Fee：Free
• Capacity：200 seats
• Organizer：Go Conference'19 Summer in Fukuoka Committee
• Sponsores：Fukuoka Growth Next, Fukuoka-City Startup Cafe, GMO Pepabo, Circulation, teamLab, DeNA, Fusic, Nulab, Mercari, i³Systems and LINE
• Official：https://fukuoka.gocon.jp/
• Join：https://fukuokago.connpass.com/event/130797/

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