On December 5th IT Jam 2009 gathered more than 700 IT specialists.

The event took place in AKKO International in Pushkin Park.
The main idea of IT Jam 2009 was knowledge sharing and peer-to-peer communication.

Registration started early – as there were many people arriving from other cities.

At 11.00 the Keynote presentation started on “Things to unlearn in software development” by Alexey Krivitsky and Natalia Trenina (Scrumguides).

At 12.00 mini-barcamps (Agile, Dynamic Languages, CMS, Mobile Development, RIA and “Mixed Topics”) opened their stages.

Panel Discussion “Software Development Ukraine 2012” gathered a lot of participants. Roman Khmil (Globallogic), Torben Majgaard (Ciklum), Roman Yasochka (NetCracker), Andrew Uminsky (NewtonIdeas), Viktoria Kovalskaya (ArtMaster) and Dmitro Bratina (Infopulse) shared their visions on where Ukrainian IT industry is going, what are the main challenges for developers and managers are in an open dialog with the audience.

During the whole day participants were voting for the Best Speaker.

Alexander Dymo, our well known Ruby-on-Rails “guru” from Nikolaev received the biggest number of votes and received HDD. The second and third places were taken by agile “gurus” Tim Yevgrashin and Nikolai Alimenkou.

During the Party informal communication - accompanied by music, beer and food – continued!

Fire show was a nice surprise to all participants from organizers.

p.s. #itjam became the leader in Russian speaking twitter on Saturday! :)

Please see the reports about the event here:

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