Past Camps
CVCC 2026
Presentation Materials:
See something you loved? Workshop and Presentation materials - slides, instructions, demo code:
- Teach Your AI to Code Like You: A Hands-On Setup Workshop
- AgentOps for Real: Evals, Tracing, and Regression Tests for AI Agents
- Build Your Own Private ChatGPT: Local AI with Docker, Ollama, Open WebUI, and ZImage Turbo
The Day in Pictures
Keynote
The day kicked off with a Keynote by the phenominal Brian P. Hogan
The Keynote was a deeply thoughtful take on how AI is affecting software engineering as a trade, and our role in industry as a whole. The takeaway? Those who provide value will always be valued.
Workshops
There’s no better way to learn than hands-on, from experts.
Lunch
Sandwhiches were served with help from our volunteers:
Presentations
The real meat of any tech conference is it’s presentations:
Pictured: Brandon, Charley, Brian, Aaron
Panel: IT Education DEATHMATCH
A feature of the conference was the IT Education DEATHMATCH panel, a head-to-head battle to determine the most ferocious IT educator.
Teaching is a noble art. These folks care a heck of a lot about their students!
After and Forward
At the end of a good day, we deserved a good beverage!
Going forward? It’s our community, and we’ll take care of it.
We’ll continue with our goal of provding a place for our community of folks who build cool things with computers.
Attendees
We had 89 registered attendees. Students and Staff from the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire as well as Chippewa Valley Technical College attended, in addition to folks from:
- University Credit Union
- Paramount
- Jamf
- Royal Credit Union
- Wood County
- Menard Inc
- Ashley Furniture Industries
- Drywood Creek Consulting
- Prosper Marketplace
- eau.dev
- Lunatek LLC
- Marshfield Clinic Health System
- Regenix Research Institute
Thank you
We hope to see y’all next year!
CVCC 2025
Chippewa Valley Code Camp 2025 was held on Saturday, March 15th. The theme for the conference was tech entrepreneurship.
After our keynote speaker Todd Gardner was introduced with a comedic icebreaker, he regailed us with his journey as an entrepreneur. He included insights into realizing commercially-viable software products. The keynote was personal and relatable!
Presentations are the meat of any tech conference. Ranging from soft skills like resume writing, to technical implementation of useful open source platforms, we were able to schedule content to benefit everyone!
In addition to six scheduled presentations, the conference was bolstered with a hands-on workshop, and a panel on tech entrepreneurship.
We were able to provide a great lunch, as well as a t-shirt giveaway & 3d-printed conference SWAG. Not bad for a conference that’s free to attend!
After we wrapped up the main conference, we met for beverages. Hope to see everyone again next year.
Cheers! -Dan
CVCC 2023
On Saturday, December 2nd, 2023, professionals and students alike gathered at beautiful Chippewa Valley Technical College to engage in a full day of learning, networking, and comradery.
The day kicked off with a keynote by Zach Halmstad, Eau Claire’s celebrity entrepreneur and co-founder of Jamf Software!
All in all, we had a total of 95 folks participate at the event. Free sandwiches helped open conversation with current and potential friends who share similar interests.
We had almost a dozen volunteers working to manage registration, sound, talks, food, and every other need throughout the event.
We had two concurrent tracks with presenations ranging from C++ testing and Arduino coding for commercial products, to cloud software services and neural networks. There was also a morning-long workshop for hands-on web development with Golang. We even had a panel of AI industry experts. There was something for everyone.
People learned, people talked, our community grew. Thank you to everyone who participated in this unique community event!
