GeekOut is a technical Java conference and the first of its kind ever held in Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

. The first GeekOut was held and attended by 132 engineers in June 2011. The aim of the conference was to bring together Estonian developers with internationally recognized speakers to offer a chance to learn from well-known Java experts. The speakers of the conference were John T. Davies, Jevgeni Kabanov, Joonas Lehtinen, Peter Neubauer, Alex Snaps and Martijn Verburg. GeekOut was created and hosted by ZeroTurnaround

ZeroTurnaround

ZeroTurnaround OÜ is an IT software company based in Tartu, Estonia, which makes productivity tools for both Java EE development and production environments . In 2009, ZeroTurnaround received a Jolt Award for JRebel...

, and there are talks to host GeekOut not only in Estonia in 2012, but potentially in other countries through partnerships.