Skills Matter is pleased to organise the first annual Functional Programming eXchange. We hope to bring together the leading innovators in the Functional Programming community with the UK's enterprise developer community, for an informal day of deep technical insight, inspiration, innovation and friendly discussion.

The aim of the Functional Programming eXchange is to inspire and promote awareness and adoption of innovative ideas in Functional Programming for enterprise development. Rather than focusing on the specifics of one language, we will focus on the paradigm and ideas of Functional Programming that apply across the various languages and what these can bring to modern enterprise development today.

With 6 expert talks and two Parkbench sessions, this intensive one day, one track event is structured to encourage discussion and bring together the leading thinkers and passionate members of the Functional Programming community. With a maximum number of 125 delegates, we aim to provide an informal and intimate environment where you can learn, ask questions, share experience, demonstrate new ideas and techniques, talk to the experts and have some fun too.

Programme
Robert Pickering has kindly agreed to be the Programme Lead, and is currently working with Duncan Coutts, Ganesh Sittampalam, Anton Schwaighofer, Miles Sabin, Sadek Drobi and Matthew Sackman an interesting and exciting set of talks! You can find the Functional Programming eXchange 2009 conference programme here.

Registration now open!
To event aims to provide a real opportunity to share ideas, learn and discuss, so we have limited the number of delegates to 125 only - and we expect tickets to go fast, so if you would like to join us, get your skates on!

There is also an early bird discount of just over 50% if you book before November 7th, so if you like to join us at this event, then register today!

Stay up to date
More information will follow soon, but if you would like us to keep you up to date, please follow us on twitter where we will be posting conference updates using twitter tag #functionalpx or sign up for our mailing list, and we'll send you updates now and then.

Help spread the word!
If you like the look of this conference, then tell your friends and colleagues about it too! If you tweet or blog about the eXchange please use the tag #functionalpx, so we can all find it - and we'll aim to RT or link to your blog from these pages!

Sponsorship
As with all Skills Matter eXchanges, we are trying to provide the community with an opportunity to learn and share ideas and experience at the lowest possible cost. Any help is therefore greatly appreciated! There are a variety of sponsorship packages available, if your organisation would like to help us support this event for the enterprise development community. For further details about sponsorship packages, please contact Skills Matter's Community Manager Natalie Gray