GR8Conf is an affordable conference dedicated to the Groovy dynamic language, the Grails web framework, the Griffon Swing framework, and other great technologies, such as Gradle, Spock, GPars, and more. The conference consists of a university day with at least two tracks, one intermediate and one advanced, with workshops and hands-on training, followed by two days of two-tracked conference, that will feature updates from Groovy, Grails, Griffon, Gradle and others. To top it off we feature Hackergarten - an open event, where you can come and hack your favorite Open Source project. Hackergarten is sponsored by Canoo Engineering and you can attend even if you are not a conference attendee. GR8Conf is also a social conference with several events that promotes networking and general feel-good.