This event is about the sustainable creation of useful software in a responsible way.

It's about People

Everyone who is concerned with coding, testing, code quality, software craft, if

  • you are passionate about software development and testing
  • you have heard of Software Craft or even are already part of the growing community
  • you want to share your knowledge, experience and expertise

It's about Action

The event is run as a non-profit, low-cost event. It is a joint-effort of all Softwerkskammer groups, the community of all German-speaking Software Craft groups. It will be much like a retreat. We will be there for 48 hours to collaborate and share ideas. There will be:

  • Highly collaborative interactions
  • A self-organised Open Space, with
    • hands-on coding sessions
    • sessions focused on discussion
    • interactive talks
    • lots more

It's about Fun

We will not only spend the days together but also the nights. And – believe it or not – programmers and testers are great company! There will be lots of opportunities to have fun; starting with simple chit-chat about hiking, to playing board games, dancing and any activity you can think of.

Check out the full schedule

SoCraTes is an international conference, and the conference's language is English. We cordially ask you to keep all conversations in English, even for colloquial discussions.

COVID-19 Policy

Although COVID-19 has now largely disappeared from the news, and statistics are no longer maintained properly, there are still a noticeable number of infections in Germany every day. We intend to keep attendees safe during the conference and have decided to keep in place our COVID measures:

  • Attendees are kindly requested to take a provided lateral flow test upon arrival. You will not be allowed on the premise otherwise and will be charged a night's stay as per hotel policy.
  • Additionally, attendees will receive one lateral flow test for each day. We trust you to inform the organisers in case you test positive.
  • We recommend attendees bring and wear FFP2 masks indoors, but we will not enforce the wearing of masks.

Thank you for your cooperation!

What about the Environment?

In today's day and age, bringing people together over long distances is always a tough decision: What impact will my travel and consumption have on the environment? Is it really worth it?

We believe that learning, sharing, community, and inclusiveness are valid reasons for spending time and resources. But we should still be mindful - there is a difference between justified investment, and careless waste.

For this reason, SoCraTes 2025 will

  • offer giveaways (swag) only via opt-in
  • facilitate travel-pooling
  • encourage off-setting unavoidable air travel carbon emissions via Atmosfair

I am anxious to go alone!

We are fully aware that an in-person conference can be energy draining.

Traveling to an unknown location and meeting many new people is not automatically a positive experience for everyone.

But our community needs input from participants who are not experienced conference attendees or speakers.

For this reason, some of our participants volunteer as ConferenceBuddies.

They commit to supporting you in attending the conference. They could, for example, meet with you before the conference starts, and explore the conference venue. Or they will be the person you can always walk up to during the conference.

Head over to the #buddies Slack channel and find your ConferenceBuddy, or offer to be one yourself.

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