Reversim Summit 2017: Numbers and Stats

Ran Tavory
3 min readNov 10, 2017

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Reversim Summit is a community driven, not for profit, yearly conference for software developers, product managers and everyone else in the software creation sphere in Israel. It is reputed with its original high quality local content.

2017 is the fifth year that this conference is taking place; First was 2013, then 2014, 2015, 2016 and now 2017.

Reversim Summit originates from the popular software development podcast Reversim created by Ori Lahav and myself.

This year the conference took place at The College of Management in Rishon Le-Zion, Israel October 15th, 16th 2017.

We wanted to share a few numbers and stats for the benefit of the community.

People

  • Attendance Day 1: 825 purchased, 665 registered at desk (81%)
  • Attendance Day 2: 800 tickets, 485 registered at desk (61%)
  • Total attendance: 1047 tickets, 932 registered at desk 89%
  • 19% women
Women at the conference (and Knesset)
  • 2 babies < 3 months
  • 2 children ≥ 3 months and < 10 years
T-shirt size distribution (Men/Women)

Feedback

  • Day 1: 247 feedbacks
  • Day 2: 170 feedbacks
  • Total: 417
Overall Satisfaction

Content

  • Submissions: 339
  • Accepted: 56 (14 ignites, 10 open source, 32 full)
Content types
  • Women speakers — 18% (11 out of 61 total speakers)
Attendees interests in topics

Money

  • Sponsors: 19
Number of sponsors year over year
  • Total raised: 285k ILS
What car can you buy for 285k ILS?
  • Tickets admissions donated to The Public Knowledge Workshop: 69k ILS
Money donated to The Public Knowledge Workshop
  • Food costs: 130k
  • Shirt costs: 35k ILS

Misc

Distance to the nearest train station year over year
Commit history to https://github.com/rantav/reversim-summit-2017

Thanks

Thanks Nir Katz for helping (aka doing most of the work) on this blog post. Nir is a long time software developer and excellent writer, you should follow him on his blog http://www.nirkatz.com

A similar post with stats from 2016 can be found here and an infographic from 2014 is found here

Keep in touch

FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/806177629478248/

TW: https://twitter.com/reversim

Email: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/reversim-summit

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Ran Tavory

The voice @reversim, head of Data Science at AppsFlyer