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I'm aware of JavaOne etc but don't think I can persuade my Boss to pay for a trip to San Francisco. So I was wonder if anyone knew of, or had attended any UK based conferences for Java Developers that they would reccomend?

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The LJC organise several conferences a year, the most recent one being a very successful Open Conference. We plan to hold more ~150 person open conferences next year.

JAX London is a major conference that the LJC is helping support.

QCon London is another major conference

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Don't think the LJC is any good for me personally (Glasgow based), but thanks for the link to JAX I may be able to persuade the company to part with the cash for that. Can't get QCon to load but I'll try again later. Thanks for the answer – Kevin D Dec 15 '10 at 11:12
@Kevin D Do you belong to a local JUG in Glasgow? We'd be interested in working together (starting to reach out to all UK groups) – Martijn Verburg Dec 15 '10 at 11:18
@Martijn I don't, but I'm looking around just now to see if anything is availble here. – Kevin D Dec 15 '10 at 11:21
Got my company to sign off on a trip to JAX London. Should be interesting :) – Kevin D Mar 16 '11 at 13:58
Will hopefully see you there :) – Martijn Verburg Mar 16 '11 at 15:59
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If you can pursuade your boss to pay for a trip to Belgium you can always visit Devoxx (former Javapolis)

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Yup. About the size of JavaOne these days. Flights direct from LCY to Antwerp, Eurostar or fly to Brussels then train isn't too bad. – Tom Hawtin - tackline Mar 16 '11 at 14:09
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There is a conference held in Glasgow that is free. It looks quite popular and also covers an interesting variety of topics.

http://www.developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/scotland2011/

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Not a Java-only conference, but by far the best conference for Java programmers in the UK IMO is the ACCU Conference near Oxford. 2011 conference is April 13-16. It's the only UK conference I go to.

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