You must attend the following online conferences this year 2022
Tags: javascript, webdev, office365, conference
Published: 2022-01-20 08:39:29

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Conferences allow people with common interests on a specific topic to exchange opinions, points of view, and debate on specific issues. They also serve to establish new friendships, build relationships with other people with the same interests and share experiences among peers.

Nowadays, many conferences are held all over the world throughout the year. In the world of software development, there are conferences with specific topics: for each existing programming language (javascript, python, go, .net, etc.), generic aspects of software development (architectures and paradigms), also on the management of the developed source code itself (DevOps, Git, Mercurial, CI/CD, etc.), and even on tools, applications and services (Office 365, AWS, Google, etc.).

In this article I offer you the conferences that I consider the most interesting for the topics and the depth with which they deal with them. I have divided them into two different lists based on my professional interests: the [Office 365][O365] suite ([SharePoint Online][SPO], [OneDrive for Business][OD4B], [Power Platform][Power Platform], [Microsoft Teams][Teams], etc.) and my personal interests: the world of web application development with JavaScript.

> _The conferences and their information about the sessions, topics and dates indicated have been obtained directly from the links indicated in each one of them and at the date of publication of this article. All these data are subject to change as the days progress during the year._


__Office 365 Conferences__

For those of you who do not know, [Office 365][O365] is a set of products, applications and services that Microsoft makes available to companies for the management and development of their employees' day-to-day tasks. Among them we have [SharePoint Online][SPO], [OneDrive for Business][OD4B], [Power Platform][Power Platform], [Microsoft Teams][Teams], etc., and [Viva][Viva] as the latest addition.

[_**Microsoft Ignite**_][Ignite]

Microsoft is the organizer of one of the most important conferences of the year, the [_"Microsoft Ignite"_][Ignite], in which Microsoft professionals along with others with a very close relationship expose new features of products and tools and others that will come in the near future or are included in the roadmap.


![Microsoft Ignite Logo](https://1gew6o3qn6vx9kp3s42ge0y1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/prod/2020/09/MS_Ignite_web_1920x1080-logo-1.png)


The last two years they have held the conference remotely and everyone, from anywhere on the planet, could attend with their web browser without any problem. In addition, all sessions are recorded and are available to the general public on the event's own website, [_"Microsoft Ignite"_][Ignite] and on the official Microsoft documentation website, https://docs.microsoft.com/.

They have not yet released the date for this year's event but it will be around the first week of November. Check their website regularly for the timing of the release date.

[_**European SharePoint Office 365 & Azure Conference**_][ESPC]

Another of the most important conferences on [Office 365][O365] is the [_"European SharePoint Office 365 & Azure Conference"_][ESPC] in which professionals from around the world show experiences, best practices and other techniques to get the most out of the products offered by Microsoft.


![European SharePoint Office 365 & Azure Conference flyer](https://www.sharepointeurope.com/wp-content/uploads/slider4/espc22_copenhagen_logo_colourreverse.png)


The last two years it has been done remotely, but this year, they are also face-to-face. In addition, the sessions have been divided into 3 categories to guide the attendees in the contents they want to attend:
 * _Learn @ESCP22_ aims to showcase the latest practices, tips and techniques thanks to the best professionals on the planet,
 * _Connect @ESCP22_ aims to reconnect attendees through various events and activities. There is also an area where companies will exhibit their products and services,
 * _Be Inspired @ESCP22_ aims to inspire attendees through talks from industry leaders.

This year it will be held in Copenhagen (Denmark) from November 28 to December 1.

[_**European Power Platform Conference**_][EPPC]

Finally, this year for the first time there will be a conference on [Power Platform][Power Platform] called [_"European Power Platform Conference"_][EPPC]. The organizers are the same as the [_"European SharePoint Conference"_][ESPC] and with the same categorization in the existing sessions: Learn, Connect and Be Inspired. This conference will be face-to-face only, a real shame for those of us who will not be attending.

This year it will be held in Berlin (Germany) from April 6 to 8.

__JavaScript Conferences__

The JavaScript programming language is, according to the ["Developers Survey 2021"][DevSurvey], the language most used by developers at the moment, together with other web technologies (HTML and CSS). It is continuously evolving and incorporating new functionalities year after year.

[_**Jamstack Conf**_][Jamstack Conf]

[Jamstack][Jamstack] is a web space where the benefits of the application architecture with the same name based on the development of web applications hosted in CDN with calls to different API services to work the information of the application itself are shown. Experts from different parts of the world have contributed and continue to contribute to the development of this architecture with best practices, use cases, scenarios where it can be useful, and other things.

Last year there was only one conference, however, in previous years they held several at different times of the year and this year they already have 2 planned: the first one at the end of January, and the second one at the end of February. Stay tuned to their website for more events as the year progresses.

![Jamstack Florence conference flyer](https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/1/4/clean_501362580.jpeg)

[_**TheJam.dev**_][TheJam.dev]

[_"TheJam.dev"_][TheJam.dev] collects expert sessions on [Jamstack][Jamstack] and makes them available to the general public. As we said in the previous talk, [Jamstack][Jamstack] is a web-based architecture that focuses on the web application itself and relies on API services to work with the information.

This year the conference is free of charge and takes place over 2 days, January 26 and 27.

![TheJam.dev conference flyer](https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/ff21ff9132a0f506f3513896a7e6488eeaa337cf/c5259/img/banners/jamdev-012622.png)

_**Other conferences**_

There are many other conferences dedicated to _JavaScript_ but I wanted to highlight these two because of the content they offer and because they are free. The rest of the conferences offer very interesting sessions but they return to the face-to-face model and, consequently, you have to pay to attend or under a mixed model in which they offer a series of sessions and contents online and free and the rest of the sessions under a payment model.

__Summarizing__

Conferences and sessions are a way to meet people with similar tastes and experiences to yours. It also allows you to expand your network and learn new things that you may not have known before or, on the contrary, to realize the knowledge you treasure and share it in future sessions.

In this article I have listed those conferences and events that I consider most appropriate to follow, firstly, the [_Office 365_][O365] world and, secondly, to be updated about best practices, architectures, and techniques about _JavaScript_ within web application development.

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[O365]: https://www.office.com/ "Office 365"
[SPO]: https://www.microsoft.com/es-es/microsoft-365/sharepoint/collaboration "SharePoint Online"
[Teams]: https://www.microsoft.com/es-es/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software "Microsoft Teams"
[Power Platform]: https://powerplatform.microsoft.com/en-us/ "Power Platform"
[OD4B]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/onedrive/onedrive-for-business "OneDrive for Business"
[Viva]: https://www.microsoft.com/es-es/microsoft-viva "Microsoft Viva"
[Ignite]: https://myignite.microsoft.com/home "Microsoft Ignite"
[ESPC]: https://www.sharepointeurope.com/ "European SharePoint Office 365 & Azure Conference"
[EPPC]: https://www.sharepointeurope.com/european-power-platform-conference/ "European Power Platform Conference"
[DevSurvey]: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#technology-most-popular-technologies "Developers Survey 2021"
[Jamstack Conf]: https://jamstack.org/community/ "Jamstack Community"
[Jamstack]: https://jamstack.org/ "Jamstack"
[TheJam.dev]: https://cfe.dev/events/the-jam-2022/ "TheJam.dev"
[Unsplash]: https://unsplash.com/ "Unsplash"
[Twitter]: https://twitter.com/BugsCoding
[Dashboard]: https://dev.to/codbugs "Dashboard"