Event News from Instantiations

At Instantiations, we’re always exploring new ways to better connect with our customers and understand their needs. But honestly, there’s no substitute for face-to-face interactions. This belief, coupled with conversations at last year’s ESUG conference in France, inspired us to host an event in Europe this year. With a significant customer base in Germany (and […]

This past July, Instantiations continued its proud tradition of supporting the Smalltalk community at this year's ESUG Conference in Lille, France! Moreover, Instantiations had a big presence this year: 6 members of the company attended (even members from the new Fintech business line!) and we gave a total of 4 presentations! The conference itself was […]

Instantiations has been a proud sponsor of ESUG's conferences for many years, and this year marked the post-pandemic return of Instantiations to ESUG with our attendance in Lyon. This was my first ESUG conference, and I was quite impressed. The location, the presentations, and the interactions with various members of the community were awesome. For […]

As this year concludes, we've been reflecting on the past 300+ days... and it's been a whirlwind. In-person conferences have resumed. New versions of VAST with robust features and new technology continue to be released. And, even more exciting opportunities for VAST are on the horizon. While it was challenging to make enough time for […]

Instantiations recently attended and presented at the in-person Smalltalk community event: Camp Smalltalk Supreme. This event was held at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) from June 10th through 12th. For those who have never attended Camp Smalltalk, it is a regularly held conference with seminars and workshops about the Smalltalk programming language. This year marked the […]

On March 11, 2022, Instantiations hosted an in-person presentation and tech demo at an event organized by the Internet of Things (IoT) organization, RIoT. RIoT's event, Developer Day 2022, took place at Wake Technical Community College's RTP campus. Developer Day gave Instantiations the opportunity to talk about how the IoT development experience could be better […]

Tonel is a text-based file format used to store Smalltalk source code on disk, and was designed from scratch to be version control system (VCS) friendly. It is widely accepted by the Smalltalk community at this point, so Instantiations saw an opportunity to enhance ENVY (the standard VCS in VAST) by adding Tonel support for […]

Earlier this year, F.A.S.T. invited us to speak to their community about what Instantiations is doing from a business, marketing, and technical perspective. The event, Constant Refinement and Continuing Progress at Instantiations, took place on May 20, 2021. F.A.S.T was a great host which led to the event being a success with many attendees and […]