One of the best ways to evolve in the software industry is to interact with other developers and those technically minded. Resources such as user groups, Twitter and conferences are useful for this. It’s disturbingly easy to develop reality distortion or tunnel vision with the projects and technology stacks you spend a majority of your time with.
Conferences on my radar:
January linux.conf.au, Geelong
Febuary APIdays, Sydney
May OpenStack Summit, Vancouver MuleSoft Connect, San Francisco
June LinuxCon, Tokyo dockercon, San Francisco DEVOXX, Poland
July OSCON, Portland
August LinuxCon, Seattle
September ASWEC, Adelaide
October Web Directions OpenStack Summit, Tokyo
December YOW! Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane