DevTernity is a paid, online software development conference with an emphasis on
software architecture
Software architecture is the fundamental structure of a software system and the discipline of creating such structures and systems. Each structure comprises software elements, relations among them, and properties of both elements and relations.
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, development best practices and technical leadership. The conference runs annually. It was first organized in 2015. The conference was hosted out of Riga, Latvia until 2019. There was no conference in 2020.
From 2021, the conference has been online-only. The 2023 annual conference was cancelled over claims of fake, AI-generated speaker profiles, leading to speakers dropping out.
The conference typically features about 20 speakers.
Controversy
In November 2023, it came to light that DevTernity had been listing fake women speaker profiles on all conferences organized since 2021. Also, Eduards Sizovs, the organizer of the conference, has been found to be the person behind a popular woman in tech Instagram account advertising the conference.
The controversy resulted in widespread backlash against the conference and its organizer. The fake speakers are speculated to have been created to create an illusion of diversity.
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Computer conferences