Open Space

DDD Europe features an Open Space, where participants self-organise. Watch the video to learn how it works. Access is to the Open Space is included in a Hands-on Lab ticket, or you can get an Open Space-only ticket.

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Hands-on Conference

Learn by doing. DDD Europe 2021 consists almost entirely of interactive hands-on labs and workshops, led by industry experts. You’ll collaborate with other participants in practical sessions with modelling, design, visualisation, code, architecture, discussion, …

Schedule

	Times in CET (UTC+1)
Wednesday Feb 3	17:00 - ...	Social: Remote Vegan Cooking with Michael Plöd
	17:00 - ...	Evening Reception - meet the other participants in the social sessions
	18:00 - 18:15	Marketplace - Propose your Open Space session ideas and discover others
	18:15 - ...	Open Space (throughout the entire event)
Thursday Feb 4	08:00 - 09:00	Morning Networking
	09:00 - 10:00	Official Opening & Lightning Talks "Reductionism and Holism in DDD" by Trond Hjorteland "People and Patterns" by Andrew Harmel-Law "Dearth of a Drafter" by Einar Host "No, you don't need to access my data" by Alberto Brandolini
	10:00 - 12:00	Hands-on Labs Slot 1
	10:00 - 10:15	Marketplace - Propose your Open Space session ideas and discover others
	10:15 - ...	Open Space (throughout the entire event)
	12:15 - 13:00	Lightning Talks "The businesscase for architecture" by Niek Van Raaij "Tech alignment with Narratives" by Lothar Schulz "What do you mean by “is”?" by Duncan Jones "The Distributed Human System" by - Alan Jefferies
	12:15 - 12:30	Marketplace - Propose your Open Space session ideas and discover others
	14:00 - 16:00	Hands-on Labs Slot 2
	16:30 - 17:30	Interview with Eric Evans, by Cyrille Martraire
	18:00 - ...	Evening Social
Friday Feb 5	08:00 - ...	Open Space (throughout the entire event)
	09:00 - 10:00	Lightning Talks "Explaining flow in 5 minutes" by Michel Grootjans "Incidents are new normal" by Kasia Balcerzak "Aiding bounded contexts design with design heuristics" by Kamil Szymański "Time-based domain events quickly" by Konrad Jakubiec
	10:00 - 10:15	Marketplace - Propose your Open Space session ideas and discover others
	10:00 - 12:00	Hands-on Labs Slot 3
	12:15 - 12:30	Marketplace - Propose your Open Space session ideas and discover others
	14:00 - 16:00	Hands-on Labs Slot 4
	16:30 - 17:30	Lightning Talks "What is DDD in 1 slide" by Javiera Laso "Sociotechnical Architecture as an enabler for Product Thinking" by Eduardo da Silva "Sweet Streams are Made of These: data-driven development in stream processing" by Caito Scherr
	18:00 - ...	Afterparty
Saturday Feb 6	06:00 - 12:00	Morning After Open Space

The online venue is open for the entire duration of the conference. You can even self-organise night sessions.

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Program

What to expect?

A Hands-on Lab consists of one or more speakers and a small group of participants in a video conference. Typically, there will be some explanation by the speakers, but for the most part, you'll be doing things yourself, together with other participants. This may involve discussions, virtual whiteboard sessions, pair or mob programming, and other activities, under the guidance of the instructors.

Note that the labs have limited capacity, based on the speaker's preference. This ensures they can guarantee the best quality and give all participants sufficient attention.

During the 2020 edition alone, we had 23 labs, with titles like "Cashflow & Finance Modelling", "Modelling with Business Capabilities", "Distilling Design Heuristics", "Monoids in Practice", "Context Maps Applied", "Exploring Connascence".... In the "Blink Modelling" sessions, we paired speakers like Eric Evans and Alberto Brandolini with a domain expert they'd never met before. After the speakers interviewed the domain experts, small teams of participants drew models of the domain. At the end, the speakers synthesized the results.

For more examples, have a look at the program for the previous editions:
2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017

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