{ August 2nd, 2025 }

Big Sky Dev Con is a summer tech conference in Bozeman, Montana, hosted by Montana Programmers. This year’s event features hours of presentations—17 talks in total—covering everything from running LLMs on mobile and JSX without React to Rust-powered potato cannons, HTMX 3D games, and teaching Vim at scale. It’s a mix of real-world software, ridiculous side projects, and lessons from the edge of what’s possible in dev, design, and tech business.

Join Montana’s tech community this August and get inspired to build something a little wild. If you're tired of boring conferences, this is your kind of conference.

{ Speakers }

Robbie Wagner
Currently slinging JS for HashiCorp; Previously slung JS for Amazon, Apple and Netflix. Host of Whiskey Web and Whatnot, member of the Ember Learning Core Team.
typecraft
Currently slinging JS for HashiCorp; Previously slung JS for Amazon, Apple and Netflix. Host of Whiskey Web and Whatnot, member of the Ember Learning Core Team.
Stephanie Gredell
Carson Gross
Dr. Gigi & Kendall Hamilton
Adam Stepinski
Barrett Breshears
I am a programmer and mobile developer
Mike Amundsen
Internationally known author and speaker
Dennis Ivy
Warren Buffering
Internet personality; he went to college for 7 years
Turner Houghton
Senior software engineer @ Liberty Mutual
Tony Ennis
Duncan Lutz
Ken Wheeler
Dan Vail
Jon-Michael Hartway
Alex Petros

{ Schedule }

8:00am - 9:00am
Check in
Light breakfast offered
9:00am - 9:10am
Opening Remarks
From Montana Programmers & BSDC Organizer
9:15am - 9:35am
Carson Gross
TBD
9:40am - 10:00am
Stephanie Gredell
From Human To Bots
10:05am - 10:25am
typecraft (Chris Power)
VaaS (Vim as a service) -- How to teach vim to thousands of people with Rails and Go
10:30am - 10:50am
Robert Wagner
HTML is stealing our jobs!
10:55am - 11:15am
Warren Buffering
Browsers are for Reads, Native Apps are for Writes
11:20am - 11:40am
Jon-Michael Hartway
Building things for twitter clout(http://x.com/)
11:40am - 12:50pm
Lunch & Live Podcast
Whiskey Web and Whatnot
12:55pm - 1:15pm
Ken Wheeler
you can just build things
1:20pm - 1:40pm
Duncan Lutz
Potatoes Go Brrr: Adventures in High-Speed Embedded Rust
1:45pm - 2:05pm
Mike Amundsen
Making Connections and Solving Problems : Hypermedia's Legacy and Future
2:10pm - 2:30pm
Barrett A Breshears
Backends?!? Where we are going we don’t need backends
2:35pm - 2:55pm
Adam Stepinski
Hyperview: Building a Hypermedia client for Mobile apps
2:55pm - 3:15pm
Afternoon Break
3:20pm - 3:40pm
Dr. Gigi Hamilton and Kendall Hamilton
Two Sides of the Game: How Esports & Gaming Skills Drive Success in Tech & Leadership
3:45pm - 4:05pm
Alex Petros
TBD
4:10pm - 4:30pm
Dennis Ivy
TBD
4:30pm - 4:50pm
Turner Houghton
JSX minus react plus htmx
4:50pm - 5:10pm
Tony Ennis
Hypertext Rails - The Ultimate Guide
5:15pm - 5:35pm
Dan Vail
I’m dumb and so can you!
5:35pm - 5:45pm
Closing Remarks
5:45pm - 5:55pm
On Stage Group Photo
7:00pm - 9:00pm
After party at the SHINE Brewery!

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