Why "Buzzwords"?

The question that most often reaches us is for the reason for the name of Berlin Buzzwords. Well, when creating the first sketches of the conferences we quickly noticed that just by naming projects and topics of interest we were tossing around a good amount of buzzwords that are currently hot when talking about highly scalable systems. Joking around, the name Berlin Buzzwords appeared.

To clarify just how many Buzzwords will be part of the conference we have drawn a tag cloud of topics of interest, the result can be seen below:

The image is by no means meant to be even close to complete, however it gives a nice overview of what you will hear when attending the conference.