Groovy & Grails eXchange 2009 announced for December 10th, registration now open

[Skills Matter]

Following on from the success in previous years this years Groovy &
Grails eXchange will bring together the leading innovators in the
Groovy & Grails community, including Guillaume Laforge and Graeme
Rocher, the leads on Groovy and Grails projects respectively, for an
informal day of deep technical insight and friendly discussion.

The aim of the Groovy & Grails eXchange is to promote awareness and
adoption of innovative ideas and technologies for enterprise JEE
development with Groovy and Grails.

With Groovy Project Lead Guillaume LaForge and Grails Project Lead
Graeme Rocher providing the conference keynotes, 5 expert talks and
two Parkbench sessions, the programme is structured to encourage
discussion and bring together the leading thinkers and passionate
members of the UK JEE, Groovy & Grails community. With a maximum
number of 125 delegates, we aim to provide an informal and intimate
environment where you can share experience, demonstrate new ideas and
techniques, talk to the experts and generally have lots of fun.

Programme
http://skillsmatter.com/event/java-jee/groovy-grails-exchange-2009/wd-211

Structure
1 day, 1 track, 125 delegates

Speakers
Russ Miles has kindly agreed to be the Programme Lead, and is
currently working with Guillaume LaForge, Graeme Rocher, Hans Dockter,
Burt Beckwith and other leading experts on an interesting and exciting
set of talks!

Groovy & Grails eXchange website
http://skillsmatter.com/event/java-jee/groovy-grails-exchange-2009/wd-211

Register today - Tickets just £50 (offer valid until Aug 31st)
To event aims to provide a real opportunity to share ideas, learn and
discuss, so we have limited the number of delegates to 125 only. There
is also an /Early Bird Discount of nearly 75% if you book on or before
September 10th/, so if you would like to join us, get your skates on
and register today  http://skillsmatter.com/event/java-jee/groovy-grails-exchange-2009/wd-211

Webcasts
For those who won't be able to get to the UK from Germany: we will
also be filming each talk and publish these on our website! We'll
announce publication on twitter/skillsmatter using the tag
#groovygrailsX

Help spread the word
If you are member of any user group and would like to announce the
conference on any Groovy, Grails or Java User Group webpages, that
would be fantastic! If so, please send us an email with subject line:
“[community] Groovy & Grails eXchange” and include the link where the
event is published, plus a small user group logo and a short
description of your user group and we'll publish the logo + link on
the conference pages.....

Sponsorship
There are a variety of sponsorship packages available for
organisations that wish to reach this audience. If you think your
organisation may be interested in sponsoring the event, or you know of
any other organisations, please contact Skills Matter's Community
Manager Natalie Gray further details about sponsorship packages.
Natalie can be reached on natalie [dot] gray [at] skillsmatter dot
com