Winning with the Modern Web
SenchaCon 2016 is an event you won’t want to miss if you’re building cross‑platform web applications. It’s the largest universal application event in the world where developers, industry leaders, and Sencha experts come together to discuss the future of the modern web and how you can harness its power to elevate your career and drive business success. SenchaCon offers a balance of technical skills training, informative keynotes, and deep-dive developer sessions that will give you an inside look at groundbreaking technology advancements.
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- Get Early Bird tickets - $1195
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- Call for Speakers extended. Submit your abstract

What Attendees Love
About SenchaCon
- Seeing powerful things being done with Sencha
- Hearing the vision for Ext JS
- Getting deep dive on new architecture
- Talking to Sencha engineers directly
- Meeting fellow developers
- Getting fresh new ideas and networking
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Super Early Bird
$995
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Deadline: July 31, 2016
Early Bird
$1195
July 31 - November 2, 2016
Advanced
$1395
November 7 and onsite
Full Price
$1595
Sencha Speakers
First look at some of the key speakers you’ll see at SenchaCon 2016.
Call for Speakers extended. Submit your abstract today!

David Becker
Software Engineer
David is a Software Engineer at Sencha on the GXT development team. He has 25 years of experience as a developer and has focused most of his career on web development with skills in HTML5, Java, GXT, and GWT. Prior to joining Sencha, David worked for companies in the healthcare and financial services industries building web-based enterprise apps, including several projects using GXT 2 and 3.
Sessions

Don Griffin
Director of Engineering, Sencha
Don is the Engineering Director for Ext JS and Sencha Touch. He was an Ext JS user for 2 years before joining Sencha and has more than 20 years of software engineering experience on a broad range of platforms. His experience includes designing web application front-ends and back-ends, native GUI applications, network protocols, and device drivers. Don’s passion is to build world class products that people love to use.
Sessions

Gautam Agrawal
Sr. Director, Product Management, Sencha
Gautam leads product management at Sencha. He is responsible for guiding new product strategies and roadmap initiatives across the Sencha product portfolio. Additionally, Gautam works with strategic partners to establish and develop new market opportunities. Prior to joining Sencha, he held various product and engineering positions at organizations developing SaaS and Business Intelligence applications. Gautam holds a PhD and MS from State University of NY (SUNY) at Buffalo.
Sessions
10 Years On, Ext JS Reinvented Again
Mobile First? Desktop First? Or Should You Think Universal App!

Mark Brocato
Sr. Developer, Sencha
Mark is a senior developer at Sencha. He's been developing with Ext JS since version 2. Before coming to Sencha, he was the Director of R&D at BioFortis, a Life Sciences startup, where he led the development of several Ext JS apps. He is also the creator of mockaroo.com, a web service for generating large datasets for software testing and demos.
Sessions

Nige White
Sr. Software Architect, Sencha
Nige has 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He has seen computer systems evolve from batch processing, back room behemoths that dictated user behavior into distributed, user-centered enablers of everyday tasks. Nigel has been working with rich Internet applications, and dynamic browser updating techniques since before the term "Ajax" was coined. Nigel currently works as a Senior Software Architect on the Ext JS development team.
Sessions

Sandeep Adwankar
Product Manager
Sandeep is a Product Manager at Sencha and is passionate about innovations in mobile and web technologies. He has experience working for startups in Silicon Valley as well as large companies including Motorola and Time Warner Cable. He has an MBA from DePaul University in Chicago and a Masters in Technology from IIT Bombay.
Sessions
Web Development at the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the App Economy

Subu Baskaran
Sr. Product Manager, Sencha
Subu is a Senior Product Manager at Sencha. He is responsible for guiding new strategies and roadmap initiatives for Sencha Test. Prior to joining Sencha, he held many positions in software development at various financial services organizations. Subu holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Sastra, India and an MBA from Cass Business School, London.
Sessions

Vitaly Kravchenko
Graphics Engineer
Vitaly is a Graphics Engineer at Sencha. Over the past two years, he has transitioned Touch Charts to a single cross-toolkit package, adding numerous features to the API, and improving interactivity and 3D charts support. For 10 years before joining Sencha, Vitaly was an independent developer. He built desktop audio software called Spider Player with a user base of 2 million people, as well as apps for BlackBerry, WebOS, and Android.
Sessions
Call for Speakers
The SenchaCon 2016 team is hard at work on building an incredible agenda. We’re looking for great content from our customers and partners about experiences with using Sencha frameworks and tools. We’ve put together all of the benefits, track descriptions, requirements and process details.
The theme of this year’s conference is Winning with the Modern Web, and we will be exploring innovations and best practices around designing, developing, and testing HTML5 applications.
Speaker Guidelines
View the SenchaCon 2016 Call for Speakers Guidelines. Deadline extended to August 1.
Sessions
First look at some of the key sessions you’ll see at SenchaCon 2016.
10 Years On, Ext JS Reinvented Again
JavaScript is evolving, and ES6 (aka ECMAScript 2015) is its future. Sencha has always been at the forefront of the HTML5/JavaScript evolution. Now that ES6 language specifications are finalized, we are incorporating this technical innovation into our Ext JS framework. ES6 enables us to build huge applications in an easily scalable and maintainable manner. The ES6 support in Ext JS allows thousands of developers with backgrounds in Java or C# (or other higher languages) to use their expertise and experience in the modern web programming world. In this session, you will learn about the new ES6 support in Ext JS and all of the new possibilities available to you with building Ext JS apps.
Speakers: Don Griffin & Gautam Agrawal
Ext JS Grid – Bigger, Better, Faster
Over the years, the Ext JS Grid has supported thousands of enterprises with data-rich applications. We built the Grid at a time when legacy browser support was a must. With Ext JS 6, we introduced a modern grid which is even better and faster, because it’s built for ultra-high performance and HTML5 compliant modern browsers. Now, you can use the modern Ext JS Grid with an enormous amount of data that is updated at a very high frequency. When you see it in action, it will be clear why it’s "Bigger, Better, and Faster".
Speaker: Nige White
The Changing Landscape of JavaScript Unit Testing
Testing JavaScript applications can be difficult. In addition to testing application functionality, testers need to worry about browser compatibility, how to define tests, the environment under which tests will be run, integration into automation platforms, and the workflow of developers and testers. This presentation will discuss how Sencha Test provides development teams with a testing platform that addresses these challenges while minimizing the effort required to deploy and use testing tools--meaning that your team can focus on delivering awesome user experiences rather than fighting with their testing infrastructure.
Speakers: Don Griffin & Subu Baskaran
Add Magic to Your Ext JS Apps with D3 Visualizations
Ext JS provides easy-to-use charting components that satisfy common needs, but sometimes you want to deliver an exceptional, unique user experience. This presentation will discuss how Ext JS leverages the popular and extremely powerful D3 library to create sophisticated, data-driven visualizations. This functionality helps your users understand the story behind their data, so they can make informed decisions.
Speaker: Vitaly Kravchenko
Theming Made Easy for Your Ext JS Apps
Theme faster than ever before, and now with a click of a button. This presentation will discuss new tools and quick-theming technologies that enable development teams to easily create beautiful, consistently-branded user experiences.
Speaker: Mark Brocato
Make Your GWT Graphics Sizzle with D3.js and JsInterop
Use the D3 JavaScript library and bring the full power of cutting-edge visualization techniques to GWT. We'll walk you through the new JsInterop annotations in GWT 2.8 to map the D3 API to Java. You’ll learn how to open up a whole new world of advanced visualizations by using D3 in your own applications. We’ll also talk about some of the challenges we ran into along the way, and how we worked around them. Finally, we'll show you some sample D3 visualizations running natively in GWT.
Speaker: David Becker
Mobile First? Desktop First? Or Should You Think Universal App!
Historically, web developers approached app development from the desktop first, and mobile was a secondary goal. Even concepts like responsive design evolved from the desktop side. Developers began with a desktop app and worked their way down to make a responsive app available for smaller screens. But now with the extraordinary growth of mobile users across the globe, that approach is being reversed. Developers are building mobile first, and then making progressive enhancements so the app is available on desktop. Should you be taking either a mobile or desktop first approach, or thinking about Universal Apps to deliver the right user experiences. This approach maximizes the shareability of code across these experiences. In this presentation, we’ll explore case studies that show the benefits of each approach.
Speaker: Gautam Agrawal
Web Development at the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the App Economy
The Agile development has brought down the software delivery timelines from what used to be 12 to 18 months to a mere 2 to 4 months cycle. According to Forrester, software development is reaching a zero day event as feedback driven development is taking over requirements driven development. Because of this change, organizations need tools to optimize on the frequency of software delivery. In this presentation, we’ll explore unique ways to improve speed of app development using Sencha’s tools for visual drag and drop based app building and theming.
Speaker: Sandeep Adwankar
Training Sessions
Sign up for training, so you're up to speed on all of the latest advancements.
Sencha Ext JS Jumpstart Training
This half-day session will help you build great universal Ext JS apps. It provides an introduction to key concepts including MVVM architecture, data binding, the data package, as well as exposure to key components such as grids, charts, and more.
Add-on Cost: $250; Morning Session
Sencha Ext JS Advanced Concepts
This half-day session gives you hands-on experience with the newest capabilities in Ext JS. This session covers advanced techniques and best practices for building universal applications. Topics include innovations in the latest Ext JS release as well as a deep dive on tools that will increase your productivity.
Add-on Cost: $250; Afternoon Session
Sencha Ext JS App Camp:
This is a full-day, hands-on session where you will learn to build a universal application with the latest release of Ext JS. You’ll build a brand new application from the ground up and learn about key concepts and innovations in Ext JS.
Add-on Cost: $450; Full-Day Session
Sencha Test Training
This full-day, hands-on session will teach you best practices for testing your Ext JS applications using Sencha Test. You’ll learn how to write unit tests in Jasmine and integrate testing into your development process.
Add-on Cost: $450; Full-Day Session
Sencha GXT Jumpstart Training
Get started with the GXT framework in this full-day session. Learn how to use the rich set of UI components including layout containers, forms and validation, tabs, and data-bound components (grids, trees), and more.
Add-on Cost: $450; Full-Day Session
Agenda
Monday, November 7 - Training Day
Tuesday, November 8 - Conference
Wednesday, November 9 - Conference
Tracks
Design
This track is best suited for designers and developers looking for ways to create visually- compelling web applications. Sessions in this track will cover the best practices for working with themes, styling components, templates and highlight innovative application designs created by Sencha customers.
Develop
This track is suited for developers who would like to learn about the latest advances in the Sencha platform including Ext JS, GXT and Sencha tools. Sessions in this track will cover best practices around for visualizing complex data sets, developing apps for the modern web and advancement which will help teams improve development productivity and deliver robust universal applications.
Test
This track is suited for developers and test automation engineers who to learn best practices for improving application quality and accelerating application delivery through unit testing, end-to-end testing and automation.
Call for Sponsors
Don’t miss your chance to be a part of SenchaCon 2016. We are expecting one thousand HTML5 and Java developers from leading enterprises across the world, and we hope that you will partner with us for what promises to be an incredible technical conference.
The theme of this year’s conference is Design | Develop | Test. We will be exploring the latest innovations and best practices around designing, developing, and testing HTML5 applications. To continue on our success, we are bringing back our most favored conference features and sponsorship opportunities, including:
- Speaking opportunities
- Our ever-popular Community Pavilion for creating brand awareness, networking, socializing, and engaging with attendees
- The jam-packed evening Sponsor Reception in the Community Pavilion
To learn more about becoming a sponsor, read the Sponsorship Prospectus (download pdf) and contact the SenchaCon sponsorship team at sponsorships@senchacon.com.
Venue
Aria Resort & Casino
Reserve your room when you register and take advantage of our group rate of $199.00 per night + taxes and fees. Space is limited and our group rate is subject to availability, so book your room today!
Hotel Policies:
- Current Aria tax rate for hotel occupancy is 12%. Rates above do not reflect this amount and are subject to change.
- Resort fee of $29.00 plus tax per room, per night will be charged at time of check in. The resort fee includes unlimited local and toll free calls (North America), guest room high speed internet access, daily newspaper, as well as access to The Spa at Aria Fitness Center.
- Check-in time is 3:00 pm and Check-out time is 11:00 am.

