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Time: September 29, 2025 at 6pm to October 1, 2025 at 7pm
Location: Colorado Springs Marriott
Website or Map: https://www.dev2next.com/8/ne…
Event Type: conference
Organized By: Venkat
Latest Activity: Sep 4, 2025
Event Description
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It's hard to believe, but we're in the last few weeks heading up to the dev2next 2025 conference. I'm eager to welcome speakers and attendees at the event.
The Near Time Registration is open for those who have been waiting to get their final approvals to attend.
Hotel rooms reserved, flights booked, meals planned, swags ordered (did I say swags), I can't wait for the conference to begin.
If you've not already done so, please make sure to select the talks you'd like to attend using the ⊕ Schedule builder on the schedule page.
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Tickets, Raffles, and DiscountsNear Time Registration now open. Bring your team along and save big with group discounts.
Checkout the details on the register page.
Each of the last three months leading up to the conference we select a winner for a complimentary ticket. Check out the past winners of the raffle at the stayinformed page. In addition, we run raffles for members of participating user groups. Checkout our community supporters at the supporters link.
Get $50 off on individual registration price using the discount code LEVIN_2_DEV2NEXT
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