34Speakers
3Sponsors
9Sessions
8Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at GopherCon, in alphabetical order.

Adi Schacham-Shavit
HeyAI Speaker
Ale Kennedy
Event MC
Alex Rios
Principal Engineer · Memed
Amit Yahav
Senior SWE · Cyolo
Anderson Queiroz
Andrea Barisani
Head of Security Engineering
Andy Williams
fyne.io
Anette Haferkorn
Senior Software Engineer · Eye Security
Anthony Alaribe
HeyAI Speaker
Bill Kennedy
Workshop Instructor
Cedrick Namkat
Software Engineer
Daniel Esteban
TinyGo
Daniel Mahlow
Workshop Instructor
Daniel Morsing
Software Engineer
Elad Gavra
Software Engineer · Cyolo
Eliott Bouhana
Software Engineer
Felix Geisendörfer
Gili Kamma
Team Leader
Jesús Espino
Workshop Instructor
Johan Janssens
HeyAI Speaker
Jonathan Amsterdam
Go Team Developer · Google
Mariano Cocirio
HeyAI Speaker

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

GoogleDiamond
JetBrainsGold
GeomysSupporting Partner

Agenda

Selected from 9 sessions.

  • 10:00

    Opening Words

    Our MC, Ale Kennedy kicks off two days of talks and will introduce our fantastic line up of speakers.

  • 10:30

    Collections for the Standard Library

    Aside from the built-in slices and maps, Go doesn't have much in the way of container data structures. The ones in the `container` part of the standard library haven't been updated…

  • 11:20

    Go 1.26 Prints Floats Faster: How I Brought Dragonbox to Go

    Dragonbox is a modern float-to-decimal conversion algorithm by Junekey Jeon. I recently ported it from C++ to Go and worked on integrating it into the Go standard library. That wor…

  • 12:00

    Observability-Driven Development: Why 99.9% Uptime Doesn't Mean Your Product Works

    Your users are leaving before you know they had problems. A slow signup flow, a failing payment endpoint, or a broken onboarding step. By the time you hear about it from support t…

  • 14:00

    Green Tea GC: The Insight Behind Go's New Garbage Collector

    Green Tea's insight is elegant: scan spans, not objects. But how do you actually implement that? What data structures track which objects are marked vs. scanned? Why does the owner…

  • 14:40

    Runtime/Secret: Go's New Best-in-Class Zeroization Package

    Zeroization is a procedure where a program erases sensitive information in memory, usually cryptographic keys, hoping to stymie attackers that get access to that memory later. In G…

  • 15:20

    Leak and Seek: A Go Runtime Mystery

    Join us for an in-depth exploration of the Go runtime, where we unravel a real-world memory leak mystery that pushed us deep into the internals of the language. Based on our blog p…

  • 16:30

    How Datadog Reduced the Size of its Agent Binaries by up to 77%

    This talk explains how we managed to reduce the size of the Datadog Agent Go binaries by up to 77%. This first involved carefully investigating the dependencies pulled into each o…

  • 17:10

    The Ghost in the Machine: Orchestrating the Go Netpoller for High-Performance I/O

    Every Go developer takes for granted that they can spin up 100,000 goroutines to handle concurrent network requests without crashing the operating system. But beneath the surface …

Company intelligence

What does it mean when 8 companies show up, and 1 bet on three roles at once?

Eight companies. one 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
1All threespeak · spons · exh
2Sponsoringsponsor only
5Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Google

Speakers by seniority

3% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • Director / Head of13%
  • Manager / Lead412%
  • Engineer · IC1029%
  • Other roles1956%

Of 34 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1GoogleSponsor · Diamond1
2GeomysSponsor · Supporting Partner-
3JetBrainsSponsor · Gold-
4Cyolo2
5CyberAgent1
6Datadog1
7Eye Security1
8Memed1
Sponsors by tier
diamond1
33% of 3
gold1
33% of 3
supporting partner1
33% of 3
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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