What is HDC?

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The Heartland Developers Conference (HDC) is an annual software design and development retreat held in Omaha, NE.  Each year over 500 attendees from all over the country come to network, learn, and enhance their professional design and engineering skills under one roof.  HDC features 3 days of jam packed content including workshops, hands-on labs, single topic sessions, and plenty of opportunities to connect with the community.

BRIEF HISTORY

HDC was founded in 2004 with the primary purpose of providing the Mid-west software design and development community with a world class professional event, locally, and for a reasonable cost.  What started as a 100 person, one day event in Des Moines, IA, has turned into one of the largest and most successful annual conferences in the country of its kind.  Past speakers at HDC reads like a “who’s who” in the software design and development community including some of the most influential technologists in our field. Since our humble beginnings we’ve created an event that is on par with all of the most prestigious events in our industry including all the amenities you would expect from any “major market” event.

The secondary goal of the HDC event was to provide the regional community with an opportunity to speak to large groups of their peers, enhancing their exposure to the group, and creating a regional powerhouse of thinkers and teachers that were accessible to our community as a whole.  Focusing on developing the community through the HDC event also provided members of the region the opportunity to forge lasting relationships to help further their careers and advance their techniques as new obstacles presented themselves through technology advancement.  Creating a sound body of extremely networked, knowledgeable, and accessible community leaders was our goal and each year we have succeeded in furthering that mission.

Lastly, the HDC event provides vendors and partners in our community the opportunity to stay connected to the growing and ever changing landscape of software design and development in our region. We believe that an important part of growing the community is making sure that each section of the ecosystem stays in sync and HDC provides an annual touch point to all the business that help make our design and development community strong.