We believe that the Hong Kong developer community is skilled and diverse, but that often these skills end up hidden away in big organisations.
We aim to provide a forum for local developers to share these skills, and inspire their peers.
With a mixture of local and international speakers, we provide talks which are targeted and relevant.
We believe that conferences don't need to be big and expensive to be valuable.
Last year was Saturday September 6th. The time of year, and day of week were pretty good.
So I plan to do the same, subject to venue availability.
So I'm looking for a Saturday in September or early October.
Favouring earlier than later.
In 2014 we had 120 paid tickets, 12 speakers, and 4 helpers.
I would like to have a total of 200 attendees for 2015.
In 2014, I'd like to say we hosted all the best and most passionate coders in Hong Kong.
But because space was limited, we couldn't invite as many as I would have liked.
To describe our guests, it's probably most appropriate to list our speakers.
Our speaker list last year included:
- Amber Matthews (HK) - freelance UX consultant
- Richard Cohen (HK) - freelance android expert
- Matthew Lenher (Canada) - freelance Ruby and JavaScript expert
- Mu-An Chiou (Taiwan) - designer and developer at GitHub
- Bart Verkoeijen (HK) - full-stack developer at Quantified
- Jonas S Karlsson (Sweden) - former data storage architect at Google
- Brendan Tang (China) - student at HKU
- Sebastian Korfmann (Germany) - developer at Bulletproof Networks, Australia
- Hubert Lee (HK) - freelance web developer
- Andrew Medworth (HK) - developer at Goldman Sachs
- Michelle Sun (HK) - founder of First Code Academy
- Pedro Pimentel (HK) - former-CTO of first Code Academy
I expect 2015 to be a similar mix of local and international speakers.
- Matthew Rudy Jacobs
- Eddie Lau
- Jimmy Chu
- Steve Holmes
We've been running developer events in Hong Kong since 2010.
We run Codeaholics every month hosting 2-3 speakers on various software topics.
Most months we have 50-70 attendees.
- Codeaholics
- Thought Sauce
- 42labs
Codeaholics is our base. We have 474 Hong Kong coders on our mailing list, 937 likes on our Facebook page, and 266 followers on our Twitter.
We are a large and active community of passionate coders.
Thought Sauce and 42labs are local development companies that provide admin and financial assistance to our events.
In 2014 we only had one sponsor, Chengbao. They provided afternoon Coffee and cakes in exchange for a speaking slot to help recruit.
We don't want to be reliant on sponsors, but will offer sponsorship opportunities to cover the following costs
- Speakers dinner
- Refreshments during the day
- Lunch
- Afternoon coffee
- After party drinks
Companies who we'll approach will be local employers (eg. ChengBao, GoGoVan), and international service providers (eg. Microsoft, GitHub, Codeship)
We operate with a transparent budget. So you can see the accounts for our 2014 event here: https://github.com/codeaholicshk/codeconf-website/wiki/Budget
In 2014 our total revenue was 27,100 HKD.
For 2015 with larger attendee numbers, the self-sufficient budget is 40,000HKD
If the venue and catering costs exceed that, the remainder will come from sponsors.
I anticipate we can raise an additional 20,000HKD from sponsors if necessary.