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GopherCon 2026

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opherCon 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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7Voices
13Underwriters
0Exhibitors
10On the bill · sessions
15Companies · in total
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The Voices

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
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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
GoogleDiamond
Ardan LabsGold
Bayer Crop ScienceGold
Capital OneGold
SkoolGold
TailscaleSilver
Apartment 304Bronze
BloombergBronze
GeomysBronze
CodeProsContributing
Gopher GuidesContributing
Johnny BoursiquotContributing
MercariContributing
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The Programme

Selected from 10 sessions on the bill.
  • 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
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 15 companies show up — and 3 bet on three roles at once?

Fifteen companies. three 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.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
3All threespeak · spons · exh
10Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
2Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Ardan Labs·CodePros·Gopher Guides

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, 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 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01Ardan LabsSp·G2V
  2. 02CodeProsSp·C2V
  3. 03Gopher GuidesSp·C1V
  4. 04Apartment 304Sp·B
  5. 05Bayer Crop ScienceSp·G
  6. 06BloombergSp·B
  7. 07Capital OneSp·G
  8. 08GeomysSp·B
  9. 09GoogleSp·D
  10. 10Johnny BoursiquotSp·C
  11. 11MercariSp·C
  12. 12SkoolSp·G
  13. 13TailscaleSp·S
  14. 14Red Hat1V
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
diamond1
8% of 13
gold4
31% of 13
silver1
8% of 13
bronze3
23% of 13
contributing4
31% of 13
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's 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.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters