Technology Events and Conferences
Table of Contents
- 2026 Events
- 2025 Events
- Past Events (Selected)
- 2024
- EmacsConf 2024 (December 7-8, 2024, Virtual)
- RacketCon 2024 (October 5-6, 2024)
- Clojure/conj 2024 (October 23-25, 2024, Durham, NC)
- SPLASH 2024 (October 20-25, 2024, Pasadena, CA)
- DEF CON 32 (August 2024) - Hacking conference
- SmallCon / ESUG 2024 (July-November 2024)
- AWS Infrastructure Day 2024 - Cloud computing
- Google I/O Extended Boston 2024 - Android, AI/ML
- 2023
- Earlier
- 2024
- Recurring Events
- Boston-area Events
2026 Events
Q1 2026
Lambda Days 2026 (February 2026, Krakow, Poland)
- Functional programming across Clojure, Erlang, Haskell, Elixir
- Cross-pollination of ideas in the FP community
BOB 2026 (March 2026, Berlin, Germany)
- "Best of Breed" conference for developers and architects
- Clojure, Haskell, and modern programming paradigms
Q2 2026
PyCon US 2026 (April-May 2026, TBA)
- Python community's premier annual gathering
- Machine learning, data science, web development
GopherCon 2026 (TBA)
- Go programming language conference
- Systems programming, cloud infrastructure
Q3 2026
RustConf 2026 (TBA)
- Rust programming language conference
- Systems programming, WebAssembly, embedded
Strange Loop (TBA)
- Multi-paradigm conference
- Programming languages, distributed systems
Q4 2026
SPLASH 2026 (October 2026, TBA)
- Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications
- Programming language research and development
Clojure/conj 2026 (October 2026, TBA)
- Primary annual Clojure conference
- Lisp, functional programming, data-oriented design
EmacsConf 2026 (December 2026, Virtual)
- Annual conference for Emacs users and developers
- GNU Emacs, Emacs Lisp, Org mode
2025 Events
Q1 2025
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
Q2 2025
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
GrafanaCon 2025 (April 2025)
- Observability, Mimir architecture, k6 load testing
- OpenTelemetry instrumentation
- See: grafanacon-2025 notes
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
GDG Cloud Boston: AI Agents (June 3, 2025, Cambridge, MA)
- 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
Q3 2025
GraphQLConf 2025 (September 7-10, 2025, Amsterdam)
- 100+ sessions, 77+ speakers from 32+ companies
- Federation, AI/LLMs with GraphQL, scaling patterns
- Meta Instagram REST→GraphQL migration case study
- See: graphqlconf-2025 schedule explorer
SquiggleConf 2025 (September 18-19, 2025, Boston)
- Developer tooling conference at New England Aquarium
- Go, TypeScript, Rust, and Zig dev tools
- See: squiggleconf-2025 notes
Q4 2025
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
GitHub Universe 2025 (October 2025, TBA)
- Agentic AI, developer productivity research
- Session management and experiment framework
- See: github-universe-2025 research lab
GopherCon 2025 (TBA)
- Go agentic workshop preparation
- See: go-agentic-workshop
RustConf 2025 (TBA)
- Rust for production systems
- Zero to production patterns
Past Events (Selected)
2024
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
RacketCon 2024 (October 5-6, 2024)
- Celebrating 40 years of Racket/Scheme
- Keynote by Hal Abelson & Gerald Sussman
Clojure/conj 2024 (October 23-25, 2024, Durham, NC)
- Transactor performance, ML model deployment
- RDF and LLMs, Portal visual tools
SPLASH 2024 (October 20-25, 2024, Pasadena, CA)
- Interview with Alan Kay
- LLM-integrated static analysis
- "Discovering Your Software Umwelt"
DEF CON 32 (August 2024) - Hacking conference
SmallCon / ESUG 2024 (July-November 2024)
- European Smalltalk User Group 30th anniversary
- Pharo, Squeak, GemStone presentations
AWS Infrastructure Day 2024 - Cloud computing
Google I/O Extended Boston 2024 - Android, AI/ML
2023
- SPLASH 2023 - Programming languages
- Clojure/conj 2023 - Clojure community
- Strange Loop 2023 (Final year) - Multi-paradigm
Recurring Events
| 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-area Events
- Boston Clojure Group - Regular meetups
- DevOpsDays Boston - DevOps practices
- Boston Python - Python community
- Papers We Love Boston - Academic papers