You might have already noticed it, but our site got redesigned! Kudos to our designer Taichi Kaminogoya for the great design, again. We also like to thank Kenichi Ishigaki and drry for translating the site navigation into Japanese.

Speaking of acknowledgments, we've got plenty of sponsors this year again, as you can see on the right side of this post. To our sponsors, we appreciate all of your help to make this conference happen.

We are also happy that now the first round of accepted talks are announced. The list includes keynotes by Larry Wall and Michael Schwern.

By "first round" I mean there'll be more talks to come.

The thing is, there are lots of interesting talks on the border of accept-or-reject and it's really hard for us to decide which to accept. We still have slots for about 15 talks out of the rest 33 talks. We're planning some transparent and democratic way to make the list.