Watch GOTO Copenhagen 2026
Find the release dates to all of the GOTO Copenhagen 2026 talks here.
The GOTO Copenhagen 2026 talks are coming to YouTube, two to four a week from November 3 to March 11. Each one goes live at 2pm Copenhagen time, so pick your favorites and put them in your calendar.
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NOVEMBER 2026
Tue, Nov 3 · Kent Beck · The Augmented Forest
Wed, Nov 4 · Adam Tornhill · AI-Friendly Code: The Missing Link for Speed with Quality
Thu, Nov 5 · Daniel Terhorst-North · Am I holding this right?
Mon, Nov 9 · Barbara Oakley · Grokking the Brain: What AI Reveals About How You Really Learn
Tue, Nov 10 · Joakim Sundén · “The smoothest reorg I've ever seen”: lessons in collaborative org design
Wed, Nov 11 · Evan Ratliff · Among the Agents: What it's like inside a company staffed (almost) entirely by AI
Thu, Nov 12 · Linda Liukas · Climbing inside the machine
Mon, Nov 16 · Andrea Magnorsky · The Making of a Decision
Tue, Nov 17 · Jennifer Petoff · Engineer Confidence with Reliable Training Programs
Wed, Nov 18 · Dave Thomas · Plus c'est la même chose
Thu, Nov 19 · Wilco Burggraaf · Spotting Digital Waste in Code Gives You Energy
Mon, Nov 23 · Evan Ratliff and Tim Berglund · Unscripted: Which part of this moment will look obvious in twenty years and which will look absurd?
Tue, Nov 24 · Lu Wilson · Jam-oriented programming: Bringing improvizational jazz to engineering
Wed, Nov 25 · Kasper Borg Nissen · Rethinking Observability as a Platform Product
Thu, Nov 26 · Charles Humble · Green AI: Making Machine Learning Environmentally Sustainable
Mon, Nov 30 · Barry O'Reilly · The Philosophy of Software Architecture
DECEMBER 2026
Tue, Dec 1 · Tim Berglund · A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
Wed, Dec 2 · Jon Skeet · Playing The Long Game: A Hobby Project For 2029
Thu, Dec 3 · Linda Rising · Group Intelligence: What Science Says About the Intelligence of Groups
Mon, Dec 7 · Xin Yao · What If Your Biggest Technical Debt Is Social?
Tue, Dec 8 · Rebecca Parsons · How do YOU define Responsible Software?
Wed, Dec 9 · Aino Vonge Corry · What we (should have) learned from Lord of The Rings
Thu, Dec 10 · Anders Sveen · Compliant, Not Slow: Shipping Every Day in a Highly Regulated Environment
Mon, Dec 14 · Erik Doernenburg · Designing and building for public service users
Tue, Dec 15 · Lu Wilson and Linda Rising · Unscripted: Do groups think better than the people in them, or worse?
Wed, Dec 16 · Aino Vonge Corry and Luxshan Ratnaravi · Friday Standup
Thu, Dec 17 · Marit van Dijk and Piotr Przybyl · Learning Modern Java The Playful Way
Mon, Dec 21 · Kent Beck and Charles Humble · Unscripted: What can software learn from improvisation?
Wed, Dec 23 · Barbara Oakley and Evan Ratliff · Unscripted: Stuck? The Neuroscience of Stepping Away
Mon, Dec 28 · Kevlin Henney · Watch Your Language
Wed, Dec 30 · Andrew J. Turner · Don't Become Case 15: Why AI Projects Fail Even When The Systems Are Right
JANUARY 2027
Tue, Jan 5 · Luca Mezzalira · Garbage context, garbage code
Wed, Jan 6 · Cole Medin · The Validation-First Loop: How to Ship Production Code with AI Coding Assistants
Thu, Jan 7 · Nathen Harvey · AI as an Amplifier: State of AI-assisted Software Development
Tue, Jan 12 · Jim Webber · The Pub-Time Parliament
Wed, Jan 13 · Heidi Howard · Making the Impossible Possible: Ten Years of Flexible Paxos
Thu, Jan 14 · Vilhelm von Ehrenheim · Nobody Reads the Code Anymore: Quality Engineering for the Software Factory
Tue, Jan 19 · Gabriele Keller · Functional Programming for Parallel and Concurrent Systems - Theory and Practice
Wed, Jan 20 · Adam Furmanek · Basics Designs and How We Got Them Wrong
Thu, Jan 21 · Marie-Alice Blete · AI Engineering: from first LLM call to multi-agent chaos
Tue, Jan 26 · Laurentiu Spilcă · Security Is No Longer For Security Teams. It's For Everyone
Wed, Jan 27 · Ixchel Ruiz · All about dependencies
Thu, Jan 28 · Gojko Adzic · Keeping Humans In The Loop With AI Coding Agents
FEBRUARY 2027
Tue, Feb 2 · Simon White · Your Teams Aren't the Problem - Your System Is: Why Most Software Leaders Optimise the Wrong Things
Wed, Feb 3 · Nathen Harvey and Simon White · Unscripted: Are you measuring the right thing?
Thu, Feb 4 · Sam Newman · Dark modules, Cobots, and Architecting for AI
Tue, Feb 9 · Daniel Bryant · Building Composable Platforms: Patterns, Practices, and Pratfalls
Wed, Feb 10 · Piotr Przybyl · To RAG Or Not To RAG
Thu, Feb 11 · Barbara Oakley and Linda Liukas · Unscripted: What do children understand about computers that adults have forgotten?
Tue, Feb 16 · Camilla Montonen, Clément Pascutto and Samuel Kelemen · Beyond the Scanner: Security Infrastructure for AI-Generated Software
Wed, Feb 17 · Barry O'Reilly and Kevlin Henney · Unscripted: We Don't Understand Our History
Thu, Feb 18 · Diana Gaponcic · When every FLOPS counts: GPU Sharing Strategies at CERN
Tue, Feb 23 · Frank Lyaruu · Watts Matter: The Energy Cost of Software Architecture
Wed, Feb 24 · Andreas Zeller · Generating Test Inputs and Interactions with the Fandango Fuzzer
Thu, Feb 25 · Xin Yao and Alberto Brandolini · Unscripted: Domain-Driven Design vs. Spec-Driven Development, are they melting into the same coin in the age of AI?
MARCH 2027
Tue, Mar 2 · Orion Reed · Software Is Not Soft
Wed, Mar 3 · Barry O'Reilly and Andrea Magnorsky · Unscripted: Overengineering Isn't What You Think It Is
Thu, Mar 4 · Ewelina Kurtys · Biocomputers: When Living Neurons Become Hardware
Tue, Mar 9 · Lu Wilson · The birth and death of a jam
Wed, Mar 10 · Laurentiu Spilcă and Samuel Kelemen · Unscripted: Whose Job Is Security When Nobody Wrote The Code?
Thu, Mar 11 · Laurentiu Spilcă, Marit van Dijk and Piotr Przybyl · Unscripted: Three Java Champions walk into a room
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