JVM Language Summit

July 30–31, 2018
Oracle Auditorium, Santa Clara, California

We are pleased to announce the 2018 JVM Language Summit to be held at Oracle’s Santa Clara campus on July 30–31, 2018.

The JVM Language Summit is an open technical collaboration among language designers, compiler writers, tool builders, runtime engineers, and VM architects. We will share our experiences as creators of both the JVM and programming languages for the JVM. We also welcome non-JVM developers of similar technologies to attend or speak on their runtime, VM, or language of choice.

Presentations will be recorded and made available to the public.

This event is being organized by language and JVM engineers—no marketers involved! So bring your slide rules and be prepared for some seriously geeky discussions.

The Summit will be immediately followed by the OpenJDK Committers’ Workshop, August 1–2.

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Format

The summit is held in a single classroom-style room to support direct communication between participants. About 100–120 attendees are expected.

The schedule consists of a single track of traditional presentations interspersed with less-formal multi-track “workshop” discussion groups and, possibly, impromptu “lightning talks.”

Workshops are open discussions with only a small amount of prepared material. We ask each registrant to suggest a few topics of interest. After choosing the most popular topics, we'll ask some registrants if they'd like to act as discussion leaders.

Many JVM Language Summit speakers and attendees are also deeply involved in the OpenJDK Community, where they do much of their technical work in their roles as OpenJDK Committers. This year, as an experiment, we’re going to host the first OpenJDK Committers’ Workshop right after the JVM Language Summit. To fit everything into the week, and allow time for travel, there will be two (rather than the usual three) days of the JVM Language Summit followed immediately by two days of the OpenJDK Committers’ Workshop, at the same location.

In short, OpenJDK Committers in attendance can look forward to four days of intense, inspiring collaboration around the JVM this year.

Why Should I Attend?

Two days of technical presentations and conversations about programming languages and the JVM.
Prepared talks by numerous visiting language experts, OpenJDK engineers, and other Java luminaries.
Many opportunities to visit and network with your peers.
For OpenJDK Committers, complimentary admission to the OpenJDK Committers’ Workshop.
Da Vinci Machine Project memorabilia (useful for proving to your grandchildren that you were there).
A conference dinner at a local restaurant on Tuesday night.
A chance to help shape the future of programming languages on the JVM.

Registration

As space allows, we are open for registration at register.jvmlangsummit.com. Speaker registration ends May 25.

All registrants who are OpenJDK Committers may choose to concurrently register for the OpenJDK Committers’ Workshop. There is no additional charge.

Speakers: If you’d like give a presentation, please register as JVMLS Speaker or JVMLS Speaker (Oracle) (the latter for Oracle employees) and include a detailed abstract. There is no fee. See below for help preparing your abstract and talk. You will be notified about whether your proposal has been accepted; if not, you will be able to register as a regular attendee.

Regular attendees: Please register as an Attendee. To cover costs, we are charging a conference fee of $295. Space is limited; if there are no available slots, send us an email and we'll let you know if we end up with more openings.

Oracle employees: Oracle employees interested in attending (but not speaking) should register as Attendee (Oracle). There is no fee. There may be more interested employees than there is space to accomodate them. Thus, all Oracle registrations are provisional, and you will be notified about approval. In the mean time, you should also get approval to attend from your manager.

Questions? Please send inquiries to inquire2018@jvmlangsummit.com.

All registrants should review the Oracle Event Code of Conduct.

Instructions for Speakers

For a successful speaker submission, please note the following:

All talks should be deeply technical, given by designers and implementors to designers and implementors. We all speak bytecode here!
Each talk, we hope and expect, will inform the audience, in detail, about the state of the art of language design or implementation on the JVM, or will explore the present and future capabilities of the JVM itself. (Some will do so indirectly by discussing non-JVM technologies.)
Know your audience: attendees may not be likely to ever use your specific language or tool, but could learn something from your interactions with the JVM. A broad goal of the summit is to inspire collaboration on JVM-based technologies that enable a rich ecosystem at higher layers.

The conference will be recorded professionally for posting on the Internet. We encourage you to allow your talk to be recorded and posted by completing the speaker release form (PDF). If you do not wish your talk to be recorded, simply do not complete the release form.

Previous Summits

2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

Our short URL is jvmlangsummit.com. It redirects into the OpenJDK Da Vinci Machine Project.