Sessions

GOTO Copenhagen 2026

Keynotes

Thursday Oct 1 @ 13:15

AI as an Amplifier: State of AI-assisted Software Development

Nathen Harvey

quality artificial intelligence (AI) platforms

Thursday Oct 1 @ 17:45

Troy Hunt & Scott Helme

Troy Hunt

Scott Helme

Wednesday Sep 30 @ 09:00

Grokking the Brain: What AI Reveals About How You Really Learn

Barbara Oakley

Wednesday Sep 30 @ 17:45

Evan Ratliff: Talk details coming soon

Evan Ratliff

Friday Oct 2 @ 13:15

A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence

Tim Berglund

artificial intelligence (AI)

Wednesday Sep 30 @ 13:15

Lu Wilson: Talk details coming soon

Lu Wilson

Friday Oct 2 @ 16:45

Closing Keynote

Friday Oct 2 @ 09:00

Linda Liukas: Talk details coming soon

Linda Liukas

Thursday Oct 1 @ 09:00

Morning Keynote

Conference Talks

Friday Oct 2 @ 11:30

What If Your Biggest Technical Debt Is Social?

Xin Yao

artificial intelligence (AI) ways of working

Wednesday Sep 30 @ 10:15

Basics Designs and How We Got Them Wrong

Adam Furmanek

programming languages

Wednesday Sep 30 @ 16:45

Functional Programming for Parallel and Concurrent Systems - Theory and Practice

Gabriele Keller

programming languages

Friday Oct 2 @ 14:30

Orion Reed: Talk details coming soon

Orion Reed

Thursday Oct 1 @ 14:30

Playing The Long Game: A Hobby Project For 2029

Jon Skeet

ways of working

Wednesday Sep 30 @ 15:45

Plus c'est la même chose

Dave Thomas

artificial intelligence (AI)

Wednesday Sep 30 @ 11:30

Generating Test Inputs and Interactions with the Fandango Fuzzer

Andreas Zeller

security quality

Thursday Oct 1 @ 11:30

Keeping Humans In The Loop With AI Coding Agents

Gojko Adzic

quality ways of working artificial intelligence (AI)

Thursday Oct 1 @ 15:45

Security Is No Longer For Security Teams. It's For Everyone

Laurentiu Spilcă

security

Friday Oct 2 @ 10:15

Spying on your Agent: Security and Privacy Observability

Katharine Jarmul

security Privacy

Wednesday Sep 30 @ 10:15

The Reliable AI: Bridging System Engineering and Large Language Models

Alex Ewerlöf

artificial intelligence (AI) architecture

Friday Oct 2 @ 11:30

Biocomputers: When Living Neurons Become Hardware

Ewelina Kurtys

sustainability hardware

Thursday Oct 1 @ 11:30

All about dependencies

Ixchel Ruiz

security architecture quality

Wednesday Sep 30 @ 11:30

Building Composable Platforms: Patterns, Practices, and Pratfalls

Daniel Bryant

platforms architecture

Thursday Oct 1 @ 11:30

Spotting Digital Waste in Code Gives You Energy

Wilco Burggraaf

quality sustainability

Wednesday Sep 30 @ 16:45

The Pub-Time Parliament

Jim Webber

architecture data

Friday Oct 2 @ 11:30

AI Engineering: A production story, from first LLM call to multi-agent chaos

Marie-Alice Blete

architecture artificial intelligence (AI)

Wednesday Sep 30 @ 14:30

Engineer Confidence with Reliable Training Programs

Jennifer Petoff

ways of working

Thursday Oct 1 @ 16:45

Learning Modern Java The Playful Way

Marit van Dijk

Piotr Przybyl

programming languages

Friday Oct 2 @ 14:30

Rethinking Observability as a Platform Product

Kasper Borg Nissen

architecture platforms

Thursday Oct 1 @ 14:30

The Validation-First Loop: How to Ship Production Code with AI Coding Assistants

Cole Medin

quality AI engineering

Friday Oct 2 @ 10:15

Understanding Progressive Collapse (or How To Avoid A Cascading Failure)

Sam Newman

architecture

Thursday Oct 1 @ 15:45

When every FLOPS counts: GPU Sharing Strategies at CERN

Diana Gaponcic

platforms hardware

Friday Oct 2 @ 15:45

To RAG Or Not To RAG

Piotr Przybyl

architecture artificial intelligence (AI)

Wednesday Sep 30 @ 10:15

AI-Friendly Code: The Missing Link for Speed with Quality

Adam Tornhill

quality artificial intelligence (AI)

Wednesday Sep 30 @ 16:45

Group Intelligence: What Science Says About the Intelligence of Groups

Linda Rising

(tech) teams

Thursday Oct 1 @ 10:15

Heidi Howard: Talk details coming soon

Heidi Howard

Wednesday Sep 30 @ 11:30

The Philosophy of Software Architecture

Barry O'Reilly

philosophy software architecture

Wednesday Sep 30 @ 14:30

Am I holding this right?

Daniel Terhorst-North

Thursday Oct 1 @ 10:15

Green AI: Making Machine Learning Environmentally Sustainable

Charles Humble

Friday Oct 2 @ 10:15

Nobody Reads the Code Anymore: Quality Engineering for the Software Factory

Vilhelm von Ehrenheim

Wednesday Sep 30 @ 14:30 & Wednesday Sep 30 @ 15:45 & Thursday Oct 1 @ 14:30 & Thursday Oct 1 @ 15:45 & Thursday Oct 1 @ 16:45 & Friday Oct 2 @ 15:45

Reserved for the latest thing worth discussing

Wednesday Sep 30 @ 15:45 & Thursday Oct 1 @ 16:45 & Friday Oct 2 @ 14:30 & Friday Oct 2 @ 15:45

Reserved for the latest thing worth discussing

Thursday Oct 1 @ 10:15

Watch Your Language

Kevlin Henney