So, before everything gets pushed out of my head, GOTO Copenhagen. It was my first conference "alone", in that I didn't have friends and colleagues from LMAX or the London Java Community there with me. And certainly at the start of the conference, I wasn't the only one who was standing around, hoping someone would talk to me (in all honesty some of the photos above are a little unfair - the schedule was a very nice, simple phone app so most people spent a lot of time playing with their phones). It actually turned out to be an advantage to be alone, as I met a lot of interesting new people. I was impressed actually by how local it feels - i.e. many of the speakers and attendees were from Copenhagen or at least Denmark. I liked this, because the alternative is that the conference feels like lots of the usual suspects travelling from place to place, doing the same thing and not really giving much to the city it's hosted in or getting much out of the loca...
