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---
title: near you
speakers:
  - name: Aaron Patterson
    img: aaron
    bio: |
      Ruby, Rails and Rack Core contributor. Renowned
      speaker at numerous international events,  and author of Nokogiri(XML
      parser) and Psych(YAML parser) Aaron Patterson
      (<a href='https://twitter.com/tenderlove' target='_blank'>@tenderlove</a>)
      is one of Ruby's most respected and loved programmers. He has improved
      ActiveRecord substantively in usability and performance and is also
      on the Ruby and Rails security teams.
  - name: Xavier Noria
    img: xavi
    bio: |
      Famous for his excellent work on Rails documentation and Rails
      Guides, Xavier Noria
      (<a href='https://twitter.com/fxn' target='_blank'>@fxn</a>)
      is Member of the Rails core team and Ruby Hero
      Award winner in RailsConf 2010. A self-employed Ruby developer from
      Barcelona, he has spoken at numerous Ruby and Rails conferences
      across the world and is the author of Rails Contributors.
  - name: Kerri Miller
    img: kerrizor
    bio: |
      Senior Software Developer based in Seattle, Kerri Miller
      (<a href='https://twitter.com/kerrizor' target='_blank'>@kerrizor</a>)
      has participated in numerous events around the world spreading her knowledge
      and voicing her opinions which are very highly regarded in the Ruby community.
      She is often in the role of bridging the gap between hard demands of technology
      and the soft desires of business and art. Kerri enjoys teaching among many
      things and is now part of the Github team.
  - name: Godfrey Chan
    img: chancancode
    bio: |
      Godfrey Chan (<a href='https://twitter.com/chancancode' target='_blank'>@chancancode</a>)
      is a member of the Ruby on Rails core team and an Ember.js contributor.
      He currently works at Tilde as an in-house Canadian. In his previous life,
      he was also an award-winning WordPress™ plugin author.


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<h1>
<img id='logo' src='img/logo.png' alt='logo'>
  Conferencia Rails
  <em class='date'>Madrid, 13-15th October 2016</em>
</h1>

<h2>What is this?</h2>
<p>

Conferencia Rails is the most venerable large
scale Spanish Ruby and Rails related event. It has held <b>7</b> editions,
spawned 1 spin-off sister js event, received +1.600 attendees and
brought +120 speakers.
</p>

<p>
This year we had some workshops, and two days full of amazing talks. The
conference took place in Madrid as customary.
</p>

<section id='speakers'>
  <h2>Speakers</h2>
  <p>We had also a good deal of talk proposals from all around the world.
  The selected talks and schedule can be found at the
  <a href="/shcedule.html">Shcedule page</a>.<br>
  but have a glance at the international <b>guest stars</b> that visited us on
  2016:
  </p>
  <div class="cards">
    {% for speaker in page.speakers %}

    <div class="card">
      <div class="card-image {{speaker.img}}">
      </div>
      <div class="card-header">
        {{speaker.name}}
      </div>
      <div class="card-copy">
        <p>{{speaker.bio}}</p>
      </div>
    </div>
    {% endfor %}
  </div>
  <p>And a lot more you can check out at the
    <a href="/speakers.html">speakers page</a>.
  </p>
</section>

<section id='venue'>
  <div id='main'>
  <h2>Talks:</h2>
  <p>
  The conference talks took place at the unique
  <a href='http://meeu.es/acerca/sobre-meeu'><i>MEEU</i> space</a>
  just on top of the well known
  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Chamart%C3%ADn_railway_station">
  Chamartin Station
  </a>
  </p>
  </div>

  <div>
  <h2 id='dinner'>Friday's Dinner &amp; Saturday Drinks</h2>
  <p>
  Conference nights were full of fun, paarty and relaxed networking, because
  tech is only half of the history, Conferencia Rails always makes place for
  some good old human-to-human interaction.
  </p>
  </div>

</section>

<section id='pictures'>
  <h2>Cheese!</h2>
  <p>We did and open album so you can all add your own photos and comment:
  <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/o3W2o8DXXD41UPEP9">
    Conferencia Rails 2016 in pictures
  </a>
  </p>

</section>

<section id='organizers'>
<h2> Who are the organizers?</h2>
<p>Conferencia Rails is
organized by the <i>“Asociación para la Promoción del Desarrollo
  web” (APRODEWEB)</i> a non-profit, volunteer-driven association
to promote web development in Spain. It has been organizing a
conference on Ruby and Rails for the past 6 years.
</p>
</section>