The Big Elixir is a two-day, single track conference to help developers take their Elixir skills to the next level. Join us on November 7th and 8th for our 2nd annual event in the heart of The Big Easy as fellow Elixir enthusiasts come together to teach, learn, and explore all things Elixir!
Speakers & Talks
This year, our conference theme is Emerging Elixir. We are looking to deliver a strong series of talks that all focus on new innovations in the Elixir ecosystem, present new ways of thinking about distributed systems, and talk deeply about lessons learned from taking Elixir far and wide.
We want to hear about the budding innovations that are happening in the Elixir community right now, from the very practical to even the very strange. How far and wide can we go with Elixir? How are we breaking the barriers of Elixir?
Our Featured Speakers
Seat Scouts
FISSION
Elixir Consultant
Versus Systems
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Schedule
Thursday, November 7th
| 08:00 - 09:00 AM | Registration / Breakfast | |
| 09:00 - 09:25 AM | Intro & Welcome | The Big Elixir MC |
| 09:25 - 09:30 AM | Platinum Sponsor | Revelry |
| 09:30 - 10:15 AM | Keynote | Brian Carderella |
| 10:30 - 11:15 AM | Beyond LiveView: Real-Time Features with LiveView, PubSub, Presence and Channels | Sophie DeBenedetto |
| 11:30 - 12:15 PM | Commandeering Kubernetes with Elixir | Cory O'Daniel |
| 12:15 - 01:45 PM | Lunch | |
| 02:00 - 02:45 PM | The Grass is Always Greener on the OTP Side: Building a Smarter Sprinkler with Scenic and Nerves | Powell Kinney |
| 03:00 - 03:45 PM | Rebuilding ESpec: Foundations in Metaprogramming | Bruce Park |
| 04:00 - 04:45 PM | Mix and Hex, the power couple of the Elixir community | Todd Resudek |
| 04:45 - 05:00 PM | Closing Remarks | The Big Elixir MC |
Friday, November 8th
| 08:00 - 09:00 AM | Registration / Breakfast | |
| 09:00 - 09:25 AM | Intro & Welcome | The Big Elixir MC |
| 09:25 - 09:30 AM | Platinum Sponsor | Recurly |
| 09:30 - 10:15 AM | Keynote: All Aboard the Stateful Train, Going Beyond a Simple Web App with Elixir | Eric Oestrich |
| 10:30 - 11:15 AM | Let business write business logic | Ben Church |
| 11:30 - 12:15 PM | Medical Messaging: an Elixir for Healthcare | Scott Southworth |
| 12:15 - 01:45 PM | Lunch | |
| 02:00 - 02:45 PM | A Dwarf-Fortress-clone in Elixir: a story of doing it wrong | Aldric Giacomoni |
| 03:00 - 03:45 PM | Playing with Elixir | Greg Vaughn |
| 04:00 - 04:45 PM | It’s An Evolution: Recreating Life With Elixir Processes | Johnny Winn |
| 04:45 - 05:00 PM | Closing Remarks | The Big Elixir MC |
Venue & Location
The Big Elixir is proud to once again to be working with New Orleans’s oldest operating playhouse, Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre. Really, we could not have asked for a better venue.
Since 1922, Le Petit has been located right across from Jackson Square in the French Quarter, and has entertained thousands of audience members in a wide array of dramas, comedies, musicals - and now tech conferences!
Le Petit offers an amazing stage for speakers, world-class acoustics, and a fantastic A / V team to create the perfect tech event for everyone! The theatre also includes ADA accessible seats and a beautiful French Quarter courtyard for our hallway track!
Hotel & Accomodations
The Hyatt Centric French Quarter is a New Orleans luxury hotel located in the historic French Quarter adjacent to Bourbon Street in New Orleans. This historic hotel offers smoke-free guestrooms, plush bedding, modern in-room amenities, and balconies that overlook the historic French Quarter, gorgeously landscaped courtyards and New Orleans' famous Bourbon Street.
To get the special rate, your reservation needs to be booked by October 7th, so make sure to book early!
Recommendations from Locals
Our Amazing Sponsors
Platinum
Revelry is a Digital Innovation Studio, guiding businesses and organizations of all sizes through digital transformation and corporate innovation, crafting digital solutions including custom software and design, and deploying their signature Platform as a Service to deliver industry solutions that have a real impact on immediate business goals.
Recurly, Inc. delivers an enterprise-grade subscription management platform to manage the entire subscription lifecycle for market-leading businesses worldwide. Businesses like CBS, NBC Universal, Sling.tv, Twitter, Asana, depend on Recurly’s ability to harness the power of the subscription model and drive recurring revenue growth. Since its launch in 2010, Recurly has deployed subscription billing for thousands of companies across 32 countries, making it the most trusted subscription management platform. Recurly, Inc. is PCI-DSS Level 1, SAS 70 / SSAE 18 Compliant. Recurly is headquartered in San Francisco with offices located in Boulder, CO and New Orleans, LA.
Lanyard
Mux is a powerful API to video and performance monitoring platform. POST a video; GET back a video URL that plays well on any device. Founded by video experts, including the creators of the biggest open-source video player (Video.js), Mux makes beautiful video possible for every development team.
Gold
Remember when software development was fun? SmoothTerminal remembers. We help developers learn emerging tech via on-demand screencasts and tutorials. Check out our free weekly emails spotlighting cool open source projects and the news you need to survive as a software developer.
Smartlogic is a 13-year old Baltimore-based custom software development firm that specializes in building web and mobile applications, API’s, and bots. We work with startups and established businesses to help them execute on their mission, building products that they’re taking to market, or that help streamline business operations.
DockYard is a digital product agency offering custom software, mobile, and web application development consulting. The company provides exceptional professional services in strategy, user experience, design, and full stack engineering to bring brilliant digital ideas into being for avant-garde clients such as Netflix, Apple, Cars.com, Nasdaq, and Harvard.
Scholarships
NewAperio is a web and mobile design and development studio. We are an agile but disciplined team that sweats the details and takes pride in our craftsmanship. We’ve worked with a broad cross-section of clients — from large institutions to scrappy start-ups — in industries far and wide, including technology, education, and health.
Special Thanks
We’d like to give special thanks to local developer Mark Anderson, who is always first in line to personally sponsor many local New Orleans tech events. His personal sponsorship has allowed us to provide scholarship tickets to the local tech community. A hearty thank you to Mark for all that he does for the local community!
The Organizing Team
Bryan Joseph
Bryan has worked with Elixir since 2014, has made contributions to both Elixir itself and Phoenix, and has written a number of very popular packages.
Nicky Mast
Nicky is a Tech Talent South graduate and co-organizer of BarCampNola. This conference is not possible without her incredible attention to detail.
Joe Ellis
Joe is the co-founder of many popular tech meetups in New Orleans and started learning Elixir because Bryan wouldn't stop talking about it.
