# Tech conference

Concept · [Programs and community](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/community)

Also called: conference, developer conference, dev conference, tech conf

A one-day or multi-day event with talks, workshops and hallway [conversations](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/session) about technology. A local conference gathers much of a region's tech community in one room.

**For example:** A [founder](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/founder) buys a ticket to a local developer conference, hears a talk about [databases](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/database) and meets the speaker afterward.

## Connects to (26)

- [200OK](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/200ok): Techlahoma's annual one-day tech conference in Tulsa, with talks for web professionals and other people who build technology.
- [ThunderPlains](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/thunderplains): Techlahoma's annual web and mobile developer conference in Oklahoma City, organized by volunteers.
- [Meetup](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/meetup): An informal, recurring gathering of people with a shared interest.
- [User group](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/user-group): A club of people who use or study the same technology and meet regularly to share what they learn.
- [Talent](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/terms/talent): The skilled people a company can hire or work with, such as software engineers and designers.
- [BSidesOK](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/bsidesok): A volunteer-run community security conference held in the Tulsa area.
- [Luma](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/luma): An event platform for creating event pages, taking registrations, selling tickets and emailing guests.
- [Eventbrite](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/eventbrite): A platform for listing events and selling tickets.
- [Crestron](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/crestron): A company that makes control systems for rooms and buildings, such as touch panels that run a conference room's screens, lights and audio.
- [Q-SYS](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/q-sys): An audio, video and control platform from QSC, used to run sound and video in conference rooms, classrooms and venues.
- [Dante](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/dante): A system from Audinate that sends many channels of audio over an ordinary computer network instead of separate audio cables.
- [DevFest](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/devfest): A community tech conference held in cities around the world, each one organized independently by a local Google Developer Group, with…
- [Event venue](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/event-venue): A place that can host a gathering, such as a meetup, talk, workshop or launch party.
- [FutureCon](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/futurecon): A series of one-day cybersecurity conferences in cities across North America, run by FutureCon Events, with talks, a panel and sponsor…
- [Google Developer Experts](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/google-developer-experts): A Google program that recognizes experienced developers who know one or more Google or open source technologies well.
- [Oklahoma City Convention Center](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/okc-convention-center): A convention center in downtown Oklahoma City built by the City as a MAPS 3 project and completed in 2020.
- [Big Idea](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/big-idea-tulsa): A one-day technology event in downtown Tulsa, produced by Flywheel Tulsa, that brings technology leaders from large organizations together…
- [Flywheel Tulsa](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/flywheel-tulsa): A Tulsa events company, launched in 2022, that produces events about music, art, food and technology, including Big Ride, Big Bite, Big…
- [Gradient CHROMA](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/gradient-chroma): Gradient's innovation conference, held at Gradient's building in the Tulsa Arts District.
- [InnoTech Oklahoma](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/innotech-oklahoma): An annual business and technology conference and expo at the Oklahoma City Convention Center, presented by InterWorks.
- [OK AI Roundtable](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ok-ai-roundtable): An Oklahoma City group that calls itself Oklahoma's industry-led convener, educator and champion for AI.
- [OKATE](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/oklahoma-technology-association): A 501(c)(3) nonprofit association for education technology in Oklahoma, formerly known as OKSTE.
- [Women in Tech Summit](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/oklahoma-women-in-tech-summit): A summit for women in technology and their allies that Oklahoma Women in Technology hosts with InnoTech Oklahoma in Oklahoma City.
- [TechAccess Oklahoma](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/techaccess-oklahoma): A digital accessibility conference held in Oklahoma City, organized by the Digital Accessibility Team at Oklahoma ABLE Tech at Oklahoma…
- [Tulsa AWS Community Day](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa-aws-community-day): A community-led conference in Tulsa for cloud practitioners, developers and architects, with sessions on AWS, cloud computing, AI and…
- [WeDreaminOK](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/wedreaminok): A community-led, nonprofit Salesforce conference in Oklahoma City for admins, developers, analysts, designers and business people.

Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tech-conference