Scala Days 2013 are starting at Hudson Theater in New York City today, with a very promising lineup of presentations. Unfortunately I won't get to see all of them live as there are three parallel tracks. So far this is my selection of presentations I want to attend.

Monday, June 10th

Martin Odersky
Keynote - Scala with Style
Hudson Theater, 19:00 - 20:30

Tuesday, June 11th

Eric Torreborre:
A Walk Down the Beach, How Kiama Helps Implementing Distributed Collections on Top of Hadoop
Metropolis, 09:15 - 10:00

Viktor Klang & Roland Kuhn:
Concurrency – The good, the bad, the ugly
Room 4.11, 10:15 - 11:00

Christopher Severs & Vitaly Gordon:
Scalable and Flexible Machine Learning With Scala
Metropolis, 11:15 - 12:00

Kevin Brown:
Big Data Analytics with Delite
Metropolis, 13:30 - 14:15

Matei Zaharia & Reynold Xin:
The Spark Stack: Fast and Expressive Big Data Analytics in Scala
Metropolis, 14:30 - 15:15

Josh Wills:
Scala for Data Pipelines
Metropolis, 15:30 - 16:15

Sadache Aldrobi:
Realtime Web, The Urge for a Programming Model
Room 4.11, 16:30 - 17:15

Wednesday, June 12th

Rod Johnson:
Keynote - Scala in 2018
Hudson Theater, 08:45 - 10:00

Eugene Burmako:
Half a Year in Macro Paradise
Room 4.11, 10:15 - 11:00

Andrey Cheptsov:
Scala Developer Tools in IntelliJ IDEA: SBT, Play and Scalate
Metropolis, 11:15 - 12:00

Philipp Haller & Jason Zaugg:
Scala Async: A New Way to Simplify Asynchronous Code
Room 4.11, 13:30 - 14:15

Tathagata Das:
Spark Streaming: Fast Distributed Stream Processing with a High-Level API
Room 3.11, 14:30 - 15:15

Rex Kerr:
Designing for performance
Room 3.11, 15:30 - 16:15

Sébastien Doeraene:
Scala.js: write in Scala for the browser
Room 3.11, 16:30 - 17:15

In the next couple of days I will write about presentations and topics I found particularly inspiring.

-Matthias