Technology Events and Conferences
Table of Contents
- 1. 2027 Events
- 2. 2026 Events
- 3. 2025 Events
- 4. Past Events (Selected)
- 4.1. 2024
- 4.1.1. EmacsConf 2024 (December 7-8, 2024, Virtual)
- 4.1.2. RacketCon 2024 (October 5-6, 2024)
- 4.1.3. Clojure/conj 2024 (October 23-25, 2024, Durham, NC)
- 4.1.4. SPLASH 2024 (October 20-25, 2024, Pasadena, CA)
- 4.1.5. DEF CON 32 (August 2024) - Hacking conference
- 4.1.6. Smalltalk Conferences 2024 (July-November 2024)
- 4.1.7. AWS Infrastructure Day 2024 - Cloud computing
- 4.1.8. Google I/O Extended Boston 2024 - Android, AI/ML
- 4.2. 2023
- 4.3. Earlier
- 5. Recurring Events
- 6. Boston-area Events
1.1.1. POPL 2027 (January 2027, TBA)
- 54th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages
- Programming language theory, semantics, verification
- Co-located: CPP, VMCAI workshops
2.1.1. Lambda Days 2026 (February 2026, Krakow, Poland)
- Functional programming across Clojure, Erlang, Haskell, Elixir
- Cross-pollination of ideas in the FP community
2.1.2. BOB 2026 (March 2026, Berlin, Germany)
- "Best of Breed" conference for developers and architects
- Clojure, Haskell, and modern programming paradigms
2.2.1. BugBash 2026 (April 22–24, Washington DC)
- Antithesis-hosted software correctness conference (~200 curated)
- Deterministic simulation testing, formal methods, CALM, Quint/TLA+
- Speakers: Peter Alvaro, Nada Amin, Kyle Kingsbury, Ron Minsky, Will Wilson, Gabriela Moreira
- AICamp at Microsoft NERD, three-hour program + community science fair
- Copilot CLI tooling, agent harness surface, hands-on build session
- Free community event at OBA Oosterdok (~50 attendees)
- Keynote: David Nolen — More with Less
- Babashka scripting, SCI, bb tasks/pods
- 6th edition, free non-profit community event
- Full talks + lightning talks; Borkent on async/await in ClojureScript
- Partners: Exoscale, FreshCode, Nubank
2.2.5. ELS 2026 (May 11–12, Kraków, Poland)
- European Lisp Symposium, 19th edition, single-track
- MOP, codegen semantics, CL implementations (ECL, McCLIM)
- Keynotes: François-René Rideau, Daniel Kochmański (x2)
- Hosted by Takima, three 20-minute talks
- Vite plugin pipeline, TS server plugins, tsgo/Corsa compiler shift
- Python community's premier annual gathering
- Machine learning, data science, web development
2.2.8. PLDI 2026 (June 15–19, Boulder CO)
- ACM SIGPLAN, co-located with ISMM and LCTES
- PAgE workshop (Principles of Agentic Engineering), EGRAPHS, SOAP
- Tutorials: Nitro Isolation Engine, Oxidized OCaml, Mechanized Specifications
2.3.1. GopherCon 2026 (August 3–6, Seattle)
- US Go conference at Seattle Convention Center Summit
- Pre-conference workshops, 150+ talk submissions, lightning talks
- Go runtime underpins Prometheus, Grafana, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
2.3.2. ICFP 2026 (August 24–29, Indianapolis)
- ACM SIGPLAN, International Conference on Functional Programming
- miniKanren workshop: relational programming, program synthesis
- Co-chairs: Chris Martens (Northeastern), William E. Byrd (UAB)
- Rust programming language conference
- Systems programming, WebAssembly, embedded
- Final edition held September 2023, St. Louis
- Multi-paradigm conference, permanently concluded
2.4.1. SPLASH/ISSTA 2026 (October 3-9, 2026, Oakland, CA)
- Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications
- Co-located with ISSTA 2026 (Software Testing and Analysis)
- OOPSLA, Doctoral Symposium, REBASE industry track
- Venue: Oakland Marriott City Center
- Primary annual Clojure conference
- Lisp, functional programming, data-oriented design
- Annual conference for Emacs users and developers
- GNU Emacs, Emacs Lisp, Org mode
3.1.1. POPL 2025 (January 19-25, 2025, Denver, CO)
- ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Principles
- LLM/AI systems verification, WebAssembly, probabilistic programming
- Co-located: CPP, VMCAI, WAW workshop
- See: popl-2025 notes
3.2.1. dotJS 2025 (April 3, 2025, Paris)
- JavaScript conference at Folies Bergère
- AI Integration, local-first web, runtime advancements
- Ryan Dahl special announcement (Node.js/Deno creator)
- See: dotjs-2025 notes
- Observability, Mimir architecture, k6 load testing
- OpenTelemetry instrumentation
- See: grafanacon-2025 notes
3.2.3. TLA+ @ ETAPS 2025 (May 4, 2025, Hamilton, Ontario)
- TLA+ Community Event co-located with ETAPS
- Formal specification, distributed systems verification
- Industrial case studies and academic research
- See: tla-etaps-2025 notes
- Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Gemini 2.5
- Google ADK, A2A Protocol, Vertex AI deployment
- Workshop at Google Cambridge
- See: gdg-cloud-boston-agents-2025
3.4.1. RacketCon 2025 (October 4-5, 2025, Boston)
- Cloudflare DNS verification with Rosette keynote
- Compositional OO prototypes, formal methods
- 310 planned experiments across 20 tracks
- See: racketcon-2025 experiments
4.1.1. EmacsConf 2024 (December 7-8, 2024, Virtual)
- Emacs 30 features, Rust core experiments
- Org mode future, accessibility improvements
- 31 talks, 10.7 hours of content
- Celebrating 40 years of Racket/Scheme
- Keynote by Hal Abelson & Gerald Sussman
4.1.3. Clojure/conj 2024 (October 23-25, 2024, Durham, NC)
- Transactor performance, ML model deployment
- RDF and LLMs, Portal visual tools
4.1.4. SPLASH 2024 (October 20-25, 2024, Pasadena, CA)
- Interview with Alan Kay
- LLM-integrated static analysis
- "Discovering Your Software Umwelt"
4.1.5. DEF CON 32 (August 2024) - Hacking conference
- European Smalltalk User Group 30th anniversary
- Pharo, Squeak, GemStone presentations
| Event |
Focus |
Typical Time |
| Lambda Days |
Functional Programming |
February |
| BOB |
Modern Programming |
March |
| PyCon |
Python |
April-May |
| GopherCon |
Go |
Summer |
| RustConf |
Rust |
Summer |
| SPLASH |
PL Research |
October |
| Clojure/conj |
Clojure |
October |
| EmacsConf |
Emacs |
December |
| DEF CON |
Security |
August |
- Boston Clojure Group - Regular meetups
- DevOpsDays Boston - DevOps practices
- Boston Python - Python community
- Papers We Love Boston - Academic papers