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    Kickoff Meeting
    For The Developers
    Lisbon, Portugal
    / People, code, trends
    It was on Nov, 2023
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    Bye-bye world!

    Hey, folks!

    My name is Eugene Vasilkov. I'm a founder of EpicHey!, and today I want to say goodbye.

    EpicHey! last year was the first and only one. There will never be another one like it again.

    For many years I was organizing one of the best developer conferences, CodeFest. In 2022, I sold CodeFest and moved to Portugal.

    My first wish was to try to realize the previous experience in new conditions: a new country, a new team, a new audience, everything new and unknown.

    I thought about it and did it :)

    Some things turned out well, some not, but it was an amazing experience in a team with the best people of today!

    This experience helped me to get to know the local community, Portugal, and the Portuguese better. Getting to know a lot of amazing people is priceless.

    However, I realized that the conference experience needs to be left in the past. I have another passion now.

    For the last year, my passion has been my new startup, Napkin Team—a team-friendly task&project management tool. Simple, transparent, the best one for asynchronous communications. I want to focus all my efforts on it.

    Thanks to the awesome members of EpicHey!

    Thanks to the amazing speakers!

    Thanks to the partners!

    Hugs to the dream team!

    See you again some day. Bye-bye. 👋
    Eugene Vasilkov
    Founder EpicHey!, Napkin Team
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    Amazing Speakers

    The program was full of amazing talks about people, code, trends, and people again. All talks underwent a careful selection process by our program committee. We didn't accept marketing talks and sell slots to sponsors. Only meaningful content, only hardcore.
    EpicHey! was a new professional conference for developer teams: backend, frontend engineers, product managers, team leaders, QA engineers, and more.

    EpicHey! was all about making connections, sharing knowledge and experiences, and having hot discussions in the hallways.

    The program was full of amazing talks about people, code, trends, and people again.

    All talks underwent a careful selection process by our program committee. There was no chance for marketing talks. Only meaningful content, only hardcore.

    Highlights: ≈250 participants, 3 parallel tracks, ≈ 40 speakers, expert zones, lightning talks, and a short sleep break between the first and second conference days.

    It was amazing, but never again. Archived.

    EpicHey! Dream Team

    • Eugene Vasilkov
      EpicHey! Organizer
      Twenty years of experience in product management, team management, and other digital experiences. Ex-founder and organizer of CodeFest—one of the biggest IT conferences in the heart of Siberia.
    • Innokentii Bodrov
      Head of Program committee
      Working with IT business system analysis for more than 15 years, now moved to product management in FinTech. Course author and trainer for experienced system analysts at otus.ru. Lives in Lisbon with his wife, son and two cats.
    • Vasilika Klimova
      Program committee
      Track: Frontend, Backend
      Vasilika works as a Developer Relations Engineer at Kadena. She had previously led one of the largest Russian-speaking JavaScript communities. Currently, she holds the position of organizer for LuxembourgJS.
    • Dmitrii Sugrobov
      Program committee
      Track: Backend, DevOps
      Engineering Manager at large retail company, Board Member of InnerSourceCommons Foundation, yacht skipper and serial speaker.
    • Anna Khvorostinina
      Program committee
      Track: QA
      Anna works as a tester and supports others in entering the IT industry as a curator of Manual QA at IT SWITCHER. She strongly believes that communication at conferences contributes to professional growth and unites people together.
    • Andrei Bezrukov
      Program committee
      Track: Management
      Andrei is an AdTech and MarTech evangelist with over 10 years of experience in digital marketing, product development, and company management, who runs products to help businesses grow and reach their clients.
    • Alexander Marshalov
      Program committee
      Track: Backend, DevOps
      Alexander is a passionate fullstack software engineer, maintaining open source software, loving communication, good music and beautiful algorithms and solutions.
    • Alexa Rudakovskaya
      Program committee
      Track: Product
      Product owner for OneAPI and Event tool at Apsis Sweden. Started as a product marketing manager 18 years ago and transitioned to product management. Driven by user needs and data-driven decision-making to improve product processes.
    • Dmitrii Ilenkov
      Program committee
      Track: Project
      A project management practitioner (PMP, Ph.D), contributing to standards (The Standard for EVM, The Standard for Project Estimating, PMBOK7, NUPP and P3.express) and developing e-learning courses in my company (p3.express.com).
    • Dmitrii Tuchs
      Program committee
      Track: QA
      Head of QA at Dodo Brands. 14 years in IT as a Java developer, analyst, project & team manager. Mentor, active speaker and teacher.

    • Eugenia Zigisova
      Program committee
      Track: Frontend
      Eugenia is a frontend engineer passionate about web performance and accessibility. She is an event organizer at Google Developer Group Berlin—an independent community of tech enthusiasts. Currently, she works as a frontend lead at Limehome, a digital-first hotel startup.
    • Alexander Kostin
      Program committee
      Track: QA
      Software Engineering Manager at Wrike. 15 years in QA, now moved to Engineering Management. Helping manual QA to start with automation. Based in Prague.
    • Evgeny Smirnov
      Program committee
      Track: Backend, DevOps
      As an entrepreneur and scholar, Evgeny combines expertise in IT, mathematics, and psychology. Founder of Startup Launcher, explore opportunities in FinTech, AI/ML, and HealthTech.
    • Alex Korzhikov
      Program committee
      Track: Backend, DevOps
      Instructor, Mentor based in Netherlands. Alex enjoys exploring technologies, coding open source and enterprise projects, teaching, speaking and writing about programming - JavaScript, Node.js, TypeScript, Go, Java, Docker, Kubernetes, JSON Schema, DevOps, Web Components, Algorithms

    • Vera Sycheva
      Event Planner
      Venue, contractors, and the second one million to-dos around the EpicHey!
    • Andrey Kitsen
      Brand designer, art-director
      EpicHey! brand identity. Awesome.
    • Artem Bogoslovskii
      Digital producer
      EpicHey! website functionality.
    • Elena Mogilnikova
      EpicHey! Event manager
      Infrastructure, services, partners, and the first million to-dos around the EpicHey!

    Thanks, Partners