700 Developers Will Gather in Barcelona for JBCNConf

Barcelona has become one of the main technological cities in Europe. Since 2018, corporations such as Microsoft, Siemens and Facebook have settled there. The city has been chosen as the 3rd city preferred by entrepreneurs to create start-ups and in the fourth position in the “10 technological hubs of the EU by number of startups“ ranking.

In this context, Barcelona will host the 5th edition of the JBCNConf conference, the Java programming benchmark event. This new edition aims to surpass the figures of 2018, gathering more than 700 attendees and 70 international speakers who will participate in the most important Java conferences in southern Europe.

Java is a programming language chosen by companies such as Google, IBM or Mastercard for the creation of websites and mobile applications, being present in more than 15,000 million electronic devices in the world such as mobile phones, game consoles, computers, tablets or even supercomputers. The JBCNConf speakers will discuss the great advances that Java has experienced in recent years as it is the programming language chosen by more than 9 million developers around the world.

The JBCNConf is a meeting point for programmers and development professionals, who meet to network and learn about the Java world and its latest developments. The organization of JBCNConf has focused on giving women a more relevant role in the event through the selection of speakers, with the goal of attracting more women to the software development sector.

The event has the support of international software development and programming companies such as Red Hat, Codurance and Clever Cloud, which are looking for recruiting the best international and Barcelona-based international developers at the event. Both the Generalitat de Catalunya, through Smart Catalonia, and the Barcelona City Council, through Barcelona Activa, are supporting the congress organization which also has the collaboration of the promoters of the City Alliance "Barcelona Digital Talent", the Mobile World Capital Barcelona Foundation, Cercle Tecnològic de Catalunya (CTecno) and ACEC (Catalan Association of Consulting Firms).

The event is organized by Barcelona JUG (Barcelona Java Users Group), a non-profit organization made up of programmers, engineers and other technology lovers. Spearheading the initiative, we find Nacho Cougil, software craftsman in Codurance and founder of Barcelona JUG, and Jonathan Vila, Red Hat senior software engineer specializing in the design and development of Java applications. As professionals in their sector, they created the event with the goal of putting Barcelona in the international software development map.

As Nacho Cougil, one of the organizers of the event, says: "Barcelona has become one of the main technological cities of the world. In 2018, giants such as Microsoft, Siemens and Facebook installed their technology centers in Barcelona. And this is a trend that goes beyond the 22@ district. Barcelona is very popular among technology companies.

Jonathan Vila, JBCNConf organizer adds: "These companies come to Barcelona attracted by the good weather, good standard of living, fabric of start-ups and local talent. And not only that; The fact of being in Barcelona also helps them attract developers from all over the world. One of the objectives of JBCNConf is to facilitate this process by providing a framework where companies can strengthen their teams by recruiting the best software developers in the world.