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Beer City Code 2026

Beer City Code is an annual conference for software developers held in Grand Rapids, MI. It features a main Saturday conference day packed with sessions on modern and cutting-edge software technologies, plus an optional day of hands-on workshops the preceding Friday. Attendees can engage in workshops, network with peers and experts, and participate in a VIP…

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42Speakers
11Sponsors
124On the bill · sessions
28Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Beer, in alphabetical order.
Alfred Ojukwu
BAM Global Chair @ Microsoft | Virtualization Specialist, Health and Life Sciences | Public Motivational Speaker · Microsoft
Avindra Fernando
Principal Architect | Fractional CTO | AI-Driven Development & Modernization | Conference Speaker
Barret Blake
#MicrosoftMVP, architect @ NimblePros · NimblePros
Barry Stahl
Solution Architect and Developer
Becca Hiller
Leadership & Agility Coach, Product Strategist, & Creativity Cultivator
Bhaskar Bharat Sawant
Lead engineer at Cornerstone Building Brands (Chelsoft Solutions) · Cornerstone Building Brands
Brian McKeiver
Microsoft Azure MVP; Co-Owner at BizStream · BizStream
Carlus Henry
Principal Consultant · SageTech
Chad Green
Sr. Systems Architect at Jasper Engines | Cloud Tech Leader | Microsoft MVP | Speaker & Innovator | USMC Vet · Jasper Engines
Chris Ayers
Principal Software Engineer @ Microsoft · Microsoft
Chris Woody Woodruff
Independent Consultant, Author, JetBrains Community Contributor and Microsoft MVP
Cory House
Author / Consultant
Dan Mallott
Senior Principal @ West Monroe · West Monroe
David Giard
Microsoft Partner Solution Architect · Microsoft
David Ragsdale
Engineering Manager, Web at Aptiv · Aptiv
Diana Pham
Developer Advocate at Vonage and Appwrite Hero · Vonage
Drew Colthorp
Software Development Practice Lead, Atomic Object · Atomic Object
Dr. Renee Sunday
Physician, Fractional Wellness Consultant
Dustin Kingen
Consultant & Software Engineer
Eric Boyd
Founder & CEO, responsiveX, Azure & AI MVP, Microsoft RD · responsiveX
Guy Royse
Developer Advocate at Redis · Redis
Javiera Laso
Lead Engineer Consultant at Thoughtworks · Thoughtworks
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
BizStreamPlatinum
MeijerPlatinum
ProgressPlatinum
Atomic ObjectGold
Authorization HubSilver
GVSUSilver
KenticoSilver
LaFleur MarketingSilver
Leading EDJESilver
The C2 GroupSilver
Uno PlatformSilver
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Agenda

Selected from 124 sessions on the bill.
  • Friday, August 14, 2026 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

    1 Day, 4 Architectures: Hands-On w/ Monolith, N-Tier, Modular Monolith, and Microservices (WORKSHOP)

    Workshops
  • Friday, August 14, 2026 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

    A whirlwind tour of AI development tooling (WORKSHOP)

    Workshops
  • Friday, August 14, 2026 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

    Implementing agentic workflows with AI foundry and Microsoft Agent Framework (WORKSHOP)

    Workshops
  • Friday, August 14, 2026 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

    LLMs Under the Hood (WORKSHOP)

    Workshops
  • Friday, August 14, 2026, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

    1 Day, 4 Architectures: Hands-On w/ Monolith, N-Tier, Modular Monolith, and Microservices (WORKSHOP)

    Friday Workshops
  • Friday, August 14, 2026, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

    A whirlwind tour of AI development tooling (WORKSHOP)

    Friday Workshops
  • Friday, August 14, 2026, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

    Implementing agentic workflows with AI foundry and Microsoft Agent Framework (WORKSHOP)

    Friday Workshops
  • Friday, August 14, 2026, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

    LLMs Under the Hood (WORKSHOP)

    Friday Workshops
  • Saturday, August 15, 2026 10:00 am → 60 min

    Agents That Click Back: Teaching AI to Use the Computer

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 28 companies show up, and 2 bet on three roles at once?

28 companies. two are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
2All threespeak · spons · exh
9Sponsoringsponsor only
17Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Atomic Object·BizStream

Speakers by seniority

17% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite37%
  • Founder / Owner37%
  • Director / Head of12%
  • Manager / Lead1229%
  • Engineer · IC1536%
  • Research / Science12%
  • Other roles717%

Of 42 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01Atomic ObjectSp·G2V
  2. 02BizStreamSp·P1V
  3. 03Microsoft4V
  4. 04Authorization HubSp·S
  5. 05GVSUSp·S
  6. 06KenticoSp·S
  7. 07LaFleur MarketingSp·S
  8. 08Leading EDJESp·S
  9. 09MeijerSp·P
  10. 10ProgressSp·P
  11. 11The C2 GroupSp·S
  12. 12Uno PlatformSp·S
  13. 13Centric Consulting2V
  14. 14Aptiv1V
Sponsors by tier
platinum3
27% of 11
gold1
9% of 11
silver7
64% of 11
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

Related events · by shared sponsors