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Clojure/Conj 2026

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Clojure/Conj 2026

Table of Contents

1. Overview

2. Notes

  • 16th Clojure/Conj (2025 was the 15th, same Charlotte venue).
  • Program: 6 workshops, 20+ sessions, 4+ social activities; all sessions livestreamed.

3. Workshops

Wednesday, September 30 — two blocks, seven workshops including W205CD Backseat Driver: Calva Tools for AI agents (PEZ), which maps directly onto our REPL tooling: Workshops.

4. Schedule

Talk days, all in the W207 rooms. Times Eastern.

4.1. Thursday, October 1

  • 9:05 — In Context — Rich Hickey (author of Clojure, designer of Datomic)
  • 9:55 — Powering a 3D Game Engine with Clojure — Jared Cone (Off By One Games)
  • 10:45 — Clojure in Academia — Jim Newton (EPITA)
  • 11:35 — Would you believe it's jank? — Jeaye Wilkerson (creator of jank)
  • 1:40 — W207AB Porting Ideas, Not Code — Delaney Gillilan (Synadia) · W207CD Reimagining the Spreadsheet with ClojureScript and SCI — Markus Holmström
  • 2:30 — W207AB The Game That Deleted Its Frontend — Fabian Merkle · W207CD From OutOfMemoryError to Root Cause: Analyzing Clojure Heap Dumps — Santiago Cabrera (Nubank)
  • 3:40 — W207AB Simplicity Ain't Free — Aaron Brooks (Supabase) · W207CD Live Systems, Live Thinking: Materializing Production Traces into AI-Assisted REPL Flows — Juliana Prieto (Nubank)
  • 4:30 — W207AB Building Simple Systems in the World of Natural Language Programming — Cameron Barre (ObneyAI) · W207CD What tipped the scales for Clojure — Brendan Foote (JoinIn AI)

4.2. Friday, October 2

  • 9:30 — W207AB Making Simple Faster — Chris Nuernberger (TechAscent) · W207CD Production ClojureDart for iOS, Android, and macOS — Burin Choomnuan (Newscorp Australia)
  • 10:20 — W207AB Compiling Clojure in Parallel using Bazel — Allen Rohner (Griffin) · W207CD Where Did This div Come From? — Patrick de Kruif
  • 11:10 — W207AB The Code Was the Easy Part — Arthur Fücher · W207CD Applied Logic Programming — Daniel Glauser, Jose Gomez (Gateless; Clara Rules)
  • 1:20 — W207AB Smuggling Clojure into Statically Compiled Video Games — James Tolton · W207CD A GIS DSL Across the JVM and the Browser — Will Cohen (City of Boston Planning)
  • 2:10 — W207AB Modeling a Fabric Stash with Datomic — Wendy Randolph · W207CD Teaching Automata Theory with Clojure — Ariel Ortiz (Tec de Monterrey)
  • 3:30 — The Infrastructure & Growth of Clojars — Toby Crawley (Clojars lead maintainer)
  • 4:20 — How to Make Things, and Why — Stuart Halloway

5. Links