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Gluecon 13: 2023

Mar 06, 2023

GlueCon will occur for the thirteenth time, on May 24th-25th, in Broomfield, Colorado.

My Foundry partners and I helped Kim and Eric Norlin create Gluecon in 2009 because we saw the need for a developer-focused event to explore emerging technologies around the cloud and APIs. 

The first year that GlueCon occurred, it seemed like nearly every session began with someone defining “what cloud computing is.” In the interim years, dozens of products and startups have launched or used GlueCon as one of the venues for their early premieres. Twilio, Docker, and Kubernetes all appeared on the GlueCon stage long before they were known by the wider tech community. 

GlueCon has always prided itself on being a welcoming community that seeks quality interaction over being lost in a sea of people on an expo floor. We’ve long held GlueCon at the Omni Interlocken — a space that allows the attendees to come together in an informal fashion, making it easy to meet just about anyone you’d like to while at the event. 

It’s always been fun to host a national tech conference in Boulder. In addition to bringing in plenty of people from around the country, we always get focused attendance from a bunch of tech leaders in Boulder and Denver.

Some of this year’s presenters include:

  • KellyAnn Fitzpatrick and Kate Holterhoff from Redmonk
  • Adrian Cockcroft, ex-Cloud Architect (Netflix) and VP (AWS)
  • Dormain Drewitz, VP, PagerDuty
  • Alex Williams (interviewing an industry leader) from The NewStack

Topics cover everything from Observability to WebAssembly to Generative AI for developers to Microservice architecture. You can view the full agenda here

We hope that we’ll see you at this year’s GlueCon. Use “feld15” to grab 15% off of your registration.