DevTernity is a paid, online software development conference with an emphasis on software architecture, development best practices and technical leadership.
[3] The 2023 annual conference was cancelled[4] over claims of fake, AI-generated speaker profiles,[5] leading to speakers dropping out.
In November 2023, it came to light that DevTernity had been listing fake women speaker profiles[7] on all conferences organized since 2021.
[8] Also, Eduards Sizovs, the organizer of the conference, has been found to be the person behind a popular woman in tech Instagram account advertising the conference.
[9][10] The controversy resulted in widespread backlash against the conference and its organizer.