Schedule & Speakers
MAIN TRACK
Everything about the cutting edge of Kotlin
ANDROID TRACK
Practical applications of Kotlin on the Android platform
All Day
KOTLIN CLINIC by JetBrains
It’s offical! JetBrains will host an all-day Kotlin Clinic at the conference. If you want to ask Kotlin-related questions from the people behind the language, or would like to meet folks from the Kotlin team, you’ll have the chance to do so.
10:45
12:30
15:00
17:00
MAIN TRACK
Everything about the cutting edge of Kotlin

Eugene Petrenko
Eugene is a developer advocate at JetBrains, software developer, speaker, and blogger. His interests include software development, distributed systems design, cloud computing, and programming languages. Eugene holds a PhD in computer science, and he writes code in Kotlin, Go, Java, C/C++, Kotlin/Native, and JavaScript. A Kotlin fun for years he started using Kotlin before 1.0 and completed his first production Kotlin app back in 2013.

Wojtek Kaliciński
Wojtek is a Developer Advocate at Google and works primarily to support developers in building great apps using Android Studio and Kotlin, as well as teaches about new Framework and Play features. He enjoys looking for ways to make apps more usable, mostly through better development patterns and code optimizations.

Qian Jin
Qian works as an Android developer, and also organises the meetup Mobile Things, a local mobile developer gathering in the city of Paris. She likes to build shoebox robots in her spare time. Her current center of interest is applying machine learning technologies to mobile and IoT applications. She is a firm believer of Calm Technology & enthusiast for TechForGood subjects.

Jorge Castillo
Jorge Castillo is an Android developer currently working as Mobile Tech Lead at 47 Degrees. He is actively focused on Functional Programming and applying those concepts to mobile development. He’s an active part of the official maintainers team for Λrrow. Jorge has been speaker since years ago, having talked at events like KotlinConf, Mobilization, or Droidcon.

Enrique López Mañas
Google Developer Expert and freelance dev. He has been working with mobile technologies and learning from them since 2007. He is an avid contributor to the open source community and a FLOSS kind of guy, being among the top 10 open source Java contributors in Germany. He is a part of the Google LaunchPad accelerator, where he participates in Google global initiatives to influence hundreds of the best startups from all around the globe. He is also a big data and machine learning aficionado.

Sanat Serikuly
Sanat is a backend engineer currently working at N26. He has 5 years of experience of developing distributed microservices and large enterprise applications using JVM-based languages. He is passionate about functional programming and different architectural patterns and trying to apply them on daily basis.

Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez
Amanda is an Android developer, blogger, and co-organizer at Chicago KUG with a passion for native desktop development and metaprogramming in statically-typed languages. She’s active in the community online and offline hosting workshops, crowd-sourced tutorials on Kotlin Thursdays as well as working with other tech communities in Chicago to bring open-source as a culture shift in the industry. She’s spoken at engagements like KotlinConf, WindyCity Dev Fest, and even a Talking Kotlin episode.
ANDROID TRACK
Practical applications of Kotlin on the Android platform

Arnaud Giuliani
Arnaud is a software developer for more than 12 years. Since a while now, he works mainly as an Android developer and keeps his hands in backend stuff. He is the Koin project lead developer, a lightweight dependency injection framework for Kotlin.

Roberto Orgiu
Born in Italy in 1987, passionate for everything that switches on and off and particularly for handheld and wearable devices. He loves to learn new languages such as Kotlin, patterns, and everything Android-related. He is am now working in The New York Times Android team as Android Engineer.

Guillermo Orellana
Guillermo is a Software Engineer that has been doing Android since it was commercially available. From sunny Spain through snowy Poland to rainy London, he is currently taking care of the core mobile platform efforts in Skyscanner. He believes Kotlin is a strong player in all the fields, and envisions a future where all things will be done in Kotlin. Warning: may contain traces of sarcasm and siesta.

Márton Braun
A Kotlin enthusiast since the 1.0 of the language, and an aspiring writer, speaker, educator. Android developer and self-proclaimed Kotlin evangelist at AutSoft. Android/Kotlin tech editor for RayWenderlich.com. University student and instructor at BME-VIK, studying computer engineering while teaching Kotlin and Android. Creator of the MaterialDrawerKt and Krate libraries. Occasionally gets addicted to StackOverflow.

Viktor István Plézer
Viktor is an experienced mobile developer in the fields of finance, banking, security and employee development. Over the past several years he has had the opportunity to build great teams who build fantastic products. He believes in doing things right the first time, focuses on testability and efficiency, and is passionate about shorter code being better code. He loves Kotlin, because it enabled developers to be far more efficient.

More speakers to be announced soon...
Kotliners shape
the future of programming
We’re a conference for everything Kotlin. Our speakers are experts, who will talk about the present and future of the Kotlin ecosystem.
This is the designated meeting point for Kotliners all around the globe, to share knowledge, experiences, and the love of Kotlin.
It doesn’t matter if you just heard about the language, are an expert coder, or work on the ecosystem, you better be here.
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About the venue
BMC: Budapest Music Center
The conference will be held at Budapest Music Center, a beautiful and modern venue in the heart of Budapest.
More than 700 events take place in BMC every year, with half of them being classical, contemporary, and jazz concerts. BMC is also the home of Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundadtion, which educates, supports, and promotes young talent.
BMC is a prestigious conference center, with excellent acoustics and equipment, in walking distance from the Danube river.
Why Budapest?
Budapest, located in the heart of Europe, has it all: a thriving and ever-growing tech community, scenic architecture and sights, relaxing spas, booming food scene, and epic parties. And we’re pretty close:
- only an hour from Berlin, Warsaw, Vienna, or Prague
- only 2 hours from Paris, London, Rome, or Amsterdam
- only 3 hours from Barcelona, Madrid, Dublin, or Tel Aviv
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Cultural mission
We build digital services used by millions all around the world. We’ve been using Kotlin in production for more than 3 years now, both for Android and backend. Kotlin changed the way we work, so we decided to give back, and help the community to grow and flourish – this is why we started Conference for Kotliners in 2018. We also orchestrate trainings, run monthly meetups, and publish blog posts around the language.
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ANDRÁS KINDLER
Co-Founder @ Makery

BALÁZS ZSÉDELY
Co-Founder @ Makery