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DevTernity Conference
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DevTernity is a paid, online software development conference with an emphasis on software architecture, development best practices and technical leadership. The conference runs annually. It was first organized in 2015.[1] The conference was hosted out of Riga, Latvia until 2019. There was no conference in 2020.[2]
From 2021, the conference has been online-only.[3] The 2023 annual conference was cancelled[4] over claims of fake, AI-generated speaker profiles,[5] leading to speakers dropping out.[6]
The conference typically features about 20 speakers.
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Controversy
In November 2023, it came to light that DevTernity had been listing fake women speaker profiles[7] on all conferences organized since 2021.[8] 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.[9][10]
The controversy resulted in widespread backlash against the conference and its organizer.[11][12][13] The fake speakers are speculated to have been created to create an illusion of diversity.[14][15]
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