Only a few weeks left until I go to my first tech conference this year. Travelling means for me learning something new. And I like learning. Especially the immersion in a foreign culture and the contact to people of other countries makes me happy.
It’s always time to grow beyond yourself. ๐ค
BUT why visit Riga just for a conference? Riga is a beautiful city on the Baltic Sea and the capital of Latvia. Latvia is a small country with the neighbours: Russia, Lithuania, Estonia and the sea. AND it’s a childhood dream of me to get to know this city. ๐
The dream was created by an old computer game named “The Patrician”. It’s a historical trading simulation computer game and my brothers and I loved it. We lost a lot of hours to play it instead of finding a way to hack it. ๐
For this dream, I will take some extra private days to visit Riga and the Country as well. ๐
Preparation
The most important preparation such as flight, hotel, workshop and conference are completed.
Furthermore, I also plan to visit some of the famous Latvian palaces and the Medieval C
Some facts about the conference
There are four workshops available on the first day:
- Serverless apps development for frontend developers
- Vue state management with vuex
- From Zero to App: A React Workshop
- Advanced React Workshop
I chose the workshop with VueJS of course ๐ and I’m really happy to see that I can visit most of the talks in the following days. There are some interesting speeches like “Building resilient frontend architecture”, “AAA 3D graphics” and secure talks and server-less frontend development. Click here for the full list of tracks.
My expectations
Above all, I’m open to events to learn new things. Therefore, I have no great expectations in advance. So I’m looking forward to the
- VueJS & Reacts parts
- Visit the speakers from Wix, N26 and SumUp
I’m particularly curious about the open spaces between the speeches. I will be glad to have some great talks with the guys. ๐คฉ
For my private trips:
- The Riga central market (constructed by reusing old German Zeppelin hangars)
- Visit some of the famous Latvian palaces
- Visit the “House of the Blackheads“
- Jump into the Baltic Sea
- Enjoy Riga’s night life
- Enjoy some typical Latvian food
That’s all for now
to be continued…