GopherCon 2016 Kickoff Party

Join us for the Pre-Party and kick off the GopherCon event in style! You do NOT need a GopherCon ticket to attend this event!

Sponsors

A big thank you to our sponsors this year for fully funding the event!

• Platinum Sponsor - New Relic (https://newrelic.com/)

• Gold Sponsor - Kaztronix (http://www.kaztronix.com/)

• Bronze Sponsor - Comcast VIPER (http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/comcast-viper)

Venue

We will be at the amazing Wynkoop Brewery (http://www.wynkoop.com/)! We'll have exclusive use of the 1st level, with catered heavy appetizers, beer, wine, and non-alcholic beverages. Check out this menu:

BBQ Pulled Pork Sliders, Fried Chicken Sliders, Margherita Pizza, Warm Flatbread with Garlic, fresh Mozzarella, Basil and Olive Oil, Oven-glazed Buffalo Wings, Crispy Southwestern Egg rolls, Applewood-smoked bacon-wrapped shrimp, house made pretzels!

Agenda

6:00 pm to 6:30 pm - Enjoy some drinks and food while we get ready to start the talks!

6:30 pm to 6:35 pm - Cory LaNou (http://twitter.com/corylanou), Austin Riendeau (https://twitter.com/apriendeau) - Quick introduction about the nights events and words from some of our sponsors.

6:35 pm to 6:40 pm - Karissa Peth - A word from our Platinum Sponsor - New Relic.

6:40 pm to 6:55 pm - Chris Haupt (https://twitter.com/chaupt) - Little "Session" YAML: A Code Brewing Story

6:55 pm to 7:10 pm - Craig Smith (https://twitter.com/csmith0651) - Tapjoy + New Relic = <3

7:10 pm to 7:15 pm - Anthony Russo - A word from our Gold Sponsor - Kaztronix

7:15 pm to 7:40 pm - William Kennedy (https://twitter.com/goinggodotnet) - Go delivers on performance and productivity.

7:40 pm to 7:45 pm - Elizabeth Perlmuter (https://twitter.com/thatrecruitrgrl) - A word from our Bronze Sponsor - Comcast VIPER

7:45 pm to 7:55 pm - Carlisia Campos (https://twitter.com/carlisia) - Let's Make the Go Remote Meetup Awesome!

7:55 pm to 8:20 pm - Ben Johnson (https://twitter.com/benbjohnson) - The Burger Stack - Simplifying Web Application Development

8:20 pm to 8:30 pm - James Nugent (https://twitter.com/jen20) - DTrace and Go

8:30 pm to 8:40 pm - Landon Jones (https://twitter.com/landonbjones) - Building a Web Startup in Go

8:40 pm to 8:50 pm - Leigh McCulloch (http://twitter.com/leigh) -How to write go with friends, pair programming with tmux

8:40 pm to 9:05 pm - Anand Babu Periasamy - Protect Petabytes of Application Data from Hardware Failures

9:05 pm - 10:00 pm - Continue socializing with all the amazing attendees!