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ExMex 2026

ExMex 2026 is a two-day, single-track conference dedicated to the Elixir programming language. Join leading Elixir developers and the vibrant Austin tech community for keynotes, talks, and hands-on learning. Experience in-depth sessions during the day, then enjoy Austin’s legendary live music, food, and cultural scene in the evenings. ExMex features a welcom…

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1Sponsors
16Sessions
7Companies · in total

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Speakers

Programmed at ExMex, in alphabetical order.

Amos King
Sr Staff Engineer and Collector of Bad Jokes
Brian Meeker
Engineering Manager at GetThru · GetThru
Chris Bell
CTO/Co-founder at Knock · Knock
David Bluestein II
Senior Software Engineer at ii, inc. Agent Swarm Researcher and Developer. · ii, inc.
Hal Fulton
Just another hacker caught somewhere between the 20th and 22nd centuries
Isaac Yonemoto
Recovering Ex-elixirist
James Edward Gray II
Keynote
Jamie Wright
Professional nerd
John Curran
John Mauro
Designer, engineer, investor
Justin Tormey
I build things
Lorena Mireles Rivero
Keynote · Erlang Solutions
Owen Bickford
Senior Challenge Acceptor
Petrus Janse van Rensburg
Cape Town–based AI product engineer and ElixirZA organizer building production AI systems
Thomas Athanas
Co-Head of Engineering at Level All · Level All
Thomas Millar
Anthropic · Anthropic

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

LoLoSilver

Agenda

Selected from 16 sessions.

  • 10:05-10:35am

    A Love Letter to the Web Form

    Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1990. He forgot to include forms. A 24-year-old graduate student in Berkeley fixed that. Every time you fill out a web form and click…

  • 10:15-10:45am

    MOB: The BEAM on the phone

    In this talk I’ll introduce Mob, a framework that embeds OTP inside iOS and Android apps. Screens are GenServers with a familiar LiveView-style API. UI is rendered natively through…

  • 11:05-11:35am

    The Future of Full-Stack Elixir: Building Local-First Apps with Hologram

    What if you could build instant-feeling web apps in pure Elixir? In this talk, you’ll discover how Hologram enables local-first applications with Elixir code running directly in th…

  • 11:15-11:45am

    What the heck is taking so long?

    Your user is staring at a spinner, wondering: Is it working? Did it freeze? Did it fail? Can I leave this page? While the system works, the user worries. That worry is a bad user e…

  • 11:40-12:10pm

    GPU-poor no more: closet to production with Elixir and Tailscale

    Have you ever put off a side project because your cheap and you don't want to pay the server cost? It's so much worse with AI. You can either pay by the token, expensive per user, …

  • 11:50-12:20pm

    Don't Turn the LLM Into Your State Machine

    Your LLM feature started as a chat loop. Now it has to collect specific information, move through stages, respect business rules, and hand off to a human. Where should that structu…

  • 2:10-2:40pm

    The Compounding Codebase: Never Build the Same Feature Twice

    Every new app starts the same way: mix phx.new, then auth, OAuth, billing, organizations, invites, an admin panel... the same 20% of the product that isn't the product. You've buil…

  • 2:20-2:50pm

    This Is My Third Deployment Talk. I Think I Have a Problem.

    This is my third talk about deploying Elixir. The first was in 2015, about AWS. Last year at ExMex I told you how we deploy with Google Managed Instance Groups. Both times I descri…

  • 2:45-3:15pm

    Termex and Tidex: Building a Tiny Terminal Workbench in Elixir

    Many developers spend most of their day in a terminal, yet modern development workflows often require constant context switching between shells, browsers, editors, test runners, Gi…

Company intelligence

An audience of 7 companies, parsed from the program.

Seven companies in attendance.

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
0All threespeak · spons · exh
1Sponsoringsponsor only
6Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

13% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite16%
  • Director / Head of16%
  • Manager / Lead213%
  • Engineer · IC16%
  • Research / Science16%
  • Advisor / Investor16%
  • Other roles956%

Of 16 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1LoLoSponsor · Silver-
2Anthropic1
3Erlang Solutions1
4GetThru1
5ii, inc.1
6Knock1
7Level All1
Sponsors by tier
silver1
100% of 1