--- layout: post title: Announcing FortranCon 2020 category: newsletter --- FortranCon 2020, the first international conference targeting the Fortran programming language, will take place on July 2-4, 2020, in Zürich, Switzerland.

We're happy to announce the (to our knowledge first) International #Fortran #Conference July 2.-4. at the @UZH_en in #Zurich, #Switzerland with @DoctorFortran joining as keynote speaker! Call for presentations is open: https://t.co/LnyOZxHrZI #HPC

— tizianomueller (@tizianomueller) April 6, 2020
FortranCon aims to bring together developers of Fortran libraries, applications, and language itself to share their experience and ideas. The conference is organized in two full days of speaker presentations on July 2 and 3, and a half-day workshop with lectures and hands-on sessions on July 4. Click [here](https://tcevents.chem.uzh.ch/event/12/abstracts/) to submit an abstract. The keynote presentation will be delivered by Steve Lionel ([@doctorfortran](https://twitter.com/doctorfortran)), convener of the US Fortran Standards Committee. The [registration](https://tcevents.chem.uzh.ch/event/12/registrations/) is **free of charge**, with June 1, 2020 as the deadline. Virtual participation will be enabled for speakers and attendees unable to travel. Read more about FortranCon 2020 [here](https://tcevents.chem.uzh.ch/event/12/).