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GopherCon 2026

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GopherCon 2026 ran Aug 3–6, 2026 at Seattle Convention Center | Summit in Seattle, United States. It is an Open Source conference. ConferenceGrid lists 7 speakers, 28 sponsors and 10 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Lineup updated Jul 27, 2026 · dates verified May 4, 2026

GopherCon is an annual conference dedicated to the Go programming language, featuring community-driven programming by and for developers. The event brings together Go enthusiasts for workshops, talks, and networking opportunities, with an emphasis on inclusivity, education, and advancement of the Go community. The 2026 edition is set in Seattle, offering att…

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7Speakers
28Sponsors
10Sessions
27Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at GopherCon, in alphabetical order.

Benji Vesterby
Founder & Principal Security Engineer · CodePros
Cory LaNou
Go Author & Trainer · Gopher Guides
Derek Parker
Principal Software Engineer · Red Hat
Florin Pățan
Senior Software Engineer · Ardan Labs
Johnny Boursiquot
Principal Software Engineer · Stable Kernel
Neil Primmer
Software Engineer · CodePros
William Kennedy
Managing Partner · Ardan Labs

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

GoogleDiamond
Microsoft AzurePlatinum
AntithesisGold
Ardan LabsGold
Bayer Crop ScienceGold
Capital OneGold
JetBrainsGold
JetBrains (GoLand)Gold
SkoolGold
UberGold
CodeRabbitSilver
TailscaleSilver
Apartment 304Bronze
BloombergBronze
Bloomberg EngineeringBronze
GeomysBronze
RunpodBronze
Stable KernelBronze
BitlyContributing
CodeProsContributing
DiagridContributing
Gopher GuidesContributing
J.BourisquotContributing
JBourisquotContributing
JBoursiquotContributing
Jboursiquot.comContributing
Johnny BoursiquotContributing
MercariContributing

Agenda

Selected from 10 sessions.

  • Mon Aug 03 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT / 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM Your local time(2 hours)

    Women Who Go Meetup 💃🏻

    Calling All Women Who Go! Catch up with fellow Women Who Go while enjoying some light appetizers and drinks on a warm summer evening.

  • Tue Aug 04 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT / 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM Your local time(4 hours)

    Community Day: Challenge Series Safari Workshop - An Introduction to the Competition

    The Challenge Series is a set of logical, programming, and security puzzles designed to help software engineers of any experience level flex their (figurative) muscles, while havin…

    Community Day
  • Tue Aug 04 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT / 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM Your local time(4 hours)

    Half-Day Workshop: Agents the Hard Way: Building Agentic Systems in Go (requires a separate ticket)

    LLMs make it easy to generate code and call APIs. Turning those calls into reliable, agentic systems is harder. Hidden state, runaway loops, hallucinated actions, and opaque framew…

    Workshop
  • Tue Aug 04 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT / 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM Your local time(4 hours)

    Half-Day Workshop: Go Concurrency: Debugging Goroutines and Channels (requires a separate ticket)

    Debugging concurrent Go applications can be tricky. This is especially true in the AI Agentic coding era where more and more code is being written by the AI Agent, and the engineer…

    Workshop
  • Tue Aug 04 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT / 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM Your local time(4 hours)

    Half-Day Workshop: Profiling and Optimizing Go Programs (requires a separate ticket)

    Go ships with amazing profiling tools, but understanding how and when to use them, as well as understanding their output can be quite challenging. This course was designed to take…

    Workshop
  • Tue Aug 04 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT / 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM Your local time(9 hours)

    Full-Day Workshop: Ultimate Practical AI (requires a separate ticket)

    This is a hands-on workshop where you'll build a complete AI-powered application in Go from first prompt to production-ready system. You'll start by connecting your Go application …

    Workshop
  • Tue Aug 04 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT / 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM Your local time(9 hours)

    Full-Day Workshop: Ultimate Private AI (requires a separate ticket)

    Model servers are critical to any AI solution today, but many applications don't need the power, or cost, of cloud-based inference. A private model server tailored to your specific…

    Workshop
  • Tue Aug 04 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT / 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM Your local time(3 hours)

    Contributors' Summit (by invitation only)

    The Go Contributor Summit is an opportunity for active Go contributors to gather together, discuss issues, and get face time with some of the Go Team and project contributors who c…

  • Tue Aug 04 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT / 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM Your local time(7 hours)

    Challenge Series: Welcome to the Jungle!

    Whether it's a Unix system that you (think) you know, the magic word that you forgot to say, or some amphibian DNA that corrupted your DNS - There's no end to the potential problem…

    Challenge Series

Quick answers

When is GopherCon 2026?
GopherCon 2026 ran Aug 3–6, 2026 at Seattle Convention Center | Summit in Seattle, United States.
Where is GopherCon 2026 held?
GopherCon 2026 was held at Seattle Convention Center | Summit in Seattle, United States.
Who is speaking at GopherCon 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 7 speakers, including Benji Vesterby (Founder & Principal Security Engineer, CodePros), Cory LaNou (Go Author & Trainer, Gopher Guides) and Derek Parker (Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat).
Who sponsors GopherCon 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 28 sponsors, including Google, Microsoft Azure, Antithesis, Ardan Labs and Bayer Crop Science.
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 27 companies show up, and 4 bet on three roles at once?

27 companies. four 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
4All threespeak · spons · exh
22Sponsoringsponsor only
1Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Ardan Labs·CodePros·Gopher Guides·Stable Kernel

Speakers by seniority

29% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • Founder / Owner229%
  • Manager / Lead229%
  • Engineer · IC229%
  • Other roles114%

Of 7 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1Ardan LabsSponsor · Gold2
2CodeProsSponsor · Contributing2
3Gopher GuidesSponsor · Contributing1
4Stable KernelSponsor · Bronze1
5AntithesisSponsor · Gold-
6Apartment 304Sponsor · Bronze-
7Bayer Crop ScienceSponsor · Gold-
8BitlySponsor · Contributing-
9BloombergSponsor · Bronze-
10Bloomberg EngineeringSponsor · Bronze-
11Capital OneSponsor · Gold-
12CodeRabbitSponsor · Silver-
13DiagridSponsor · Contributing-
14GeomysSponsor · Bronze-
Sponsors by tier
diamond1
4% of 28
platinum1
4% of 28
gold8
29% of 28
silver2
7% of 28
bronze6
21% of 28
contributing10
36% of 28
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.

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