Announcing GraphQL Conf 2019 🎉

June 20th & 21st, Berlin. Apply to speak — the CfP is now open!

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4 min readOct 19, 2018

Since being open sourced in 2015, GraphQL has surged in popularity! As GraphQL runs in production at places like Github, Twitter, Yelp, and Facebook, the enthusiasm around GraphQL is accelerating.

GraphQL EU has grown beyond the European community

We, ourselves, have been blown away by the excitement and growth of the past GraphQL Europe conferences. When we launched in 2017, we dubbed our conference, “Europe’s first GraphQL Conference” and had just over 300 attendees. Since then, we’ve seen our numbers grow. This year, over 500 people attended. Check out this year’s highlights:

Watch all talks from GraphQL Europe 2018

🇪🇺 GraphQL Europe 2018 had brilliant talks from top companies like Facebook, GitHub, Twitter, Docker, Shopify, Prisma…

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The places that participants came from stretched far beyond Europe, with over 35 countries represented!

GraphQL Conf details ✨

We wanted to highlight the global excitement around GraphQL and reflect that in the conference name!

This year, we are thrilled to announce GraphQL Conf, now two days long and in a new venue!

Location and Date: Berlin, June 20th and June 21st.
Venue: KOSMOS
Get Tickets: Early Bird Conference Pricing now available!
Conference Details: graphqlconf.org

As always, this conference focuses on bringing together GraphQL enthusiasts to learn, share, and connect over all things GraphQL. To kick things off, we have some fantastic confirmed speakers:

Lee Byron (GraphQL co-creator; from Robinhood, previously Facebook)
Dan Schafer (GraphQL co-creator; from Facebook)
Mirela Iclodean (from Twitter)

Speak at GraphQL Conf!

We’re seeking talks on a variety of GraphQL topics. The CfP for GraphQL Conf 2019 is now open.📝

Submit your proposal now: https://www.papercall.io/graphqlconf19

Whether it’s your first time speaking or you’re a seasoned pro; whether you want to dive into how GraphQL helped your frontend team, or share your stories from the server-side usage of GraphQL, or any other use case, best practice or experiment you’ve done with GraphQL, we want to hear about it!

One of our main goals is to create supportive speaker experience, especially for those who are delivering a talk for the first time.

Here are some of the categories of talks that have been well received:

Case Study: Did you or your company decide to use GraphQL in production? Tell us how it went, what the original motivation was to adopt GraphQL, the challenges you came across and how it affected your engineering process and team structure as a whole.
Best Practices: With GraphQL still being a fairly new technology, it’s very common to hear developers ask how to do X (Authentication, Permissions, Realtime, Offline, Native, Testing,…) with GraphQL. If you have discovered patterns that work well for you and your team, submit a talk to share your approach with the community!
Frontend: Are you using Relay or Apollo Client in a bigger project? Or maybe you’re building a native mobile app with GraphQL? Did you discover new patterns or was there a specific client-side feature that really helped your team and boosted your development process? Let the community know by submitting a talk about it!
Backend: The server-side space is probably the one that’s most exciting about GraphQL, not only because it reaches so many programming communities. Being an API technology, most of the challenges to be solved with GraphQL lie on the server. Solutions, patterns and ideas can be shared across programming languages. Tell everyone about your approaches for how your team adopted a GraphQL gateway or how you decided to structure your application. What libraries and tools are you using to build, deploy and maintain your GraphQL server?
Experimental Features: The future of GraphQL is bright and many ideas are already discussed and experimented with in the wild before they make it into the official specification. Topics like live queries, schema stitching or code generation are on the cutting-edge of the GraphQL ecosystem. Be sure to submit a talk if you’ve already gained experience with any of the experimental features of GraphQL.

Making GraphQL Conf a diverse and inclusive event

With the growth of GraphQL Conf, we remain committed to making it welcoming to all. As we’ve done every year, we have diversity tickets available for individuals from underrepresented groups.

It is extremely important to us that GraphQL Conf is an inclusive event that becomes a great experience for everyone! We do not tolerate any sort of discrimination or harassment based on gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices! For more info, read our code of conduct.