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GopherCon UK 2026

GopherCon UK brings together Go developers from across Europe and beyond for three days of talks, workshops, and community. Expert speakers share insights on Go best practices, performance, concurrency, tooling, and real-world applications. The event includes a dedicated workshop day at The Minster Building and two days of conference sessions at The Brewery.…

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22Speakers
8Sponsors
20On the bill · sessions
22Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at GopherCon, in alphabetical order.
Aditya Singh
Production Engineer
Ainsley Clark
Senior Software Engineer · Just Eat Takeaway.com
Andrew Williams
CEO · Apptrix.ai
Andrew Wormald
Senior Staff Engineer - Competency Lead · Luno
Andy Kuszyk
Staff Engineer · Typeform
Andy Williams
CEO · Apptrix.ai
Bill Kennedy
Managing Partner · Ardan Labs
Bryan Boreham
Distinguished Engineer · Grafana Labs
Christian Simon
Software Engineer · Grafana Labs
Daniela Petruzalek
Senior Developer Relations Engineer · Google
David Cheney
Staff Systems Engineer · GitHub
Eleanor McHugh
Freelance Reality Consultant
Florin Pățan
Consultant · Ardan Labs
Haseeb Majid
Software Engineer
Jesús Espino
Principal Engineer · VictoriaMetrics
Kemal Akkoyun
Staff Software Engineer · Datadog
Luciano Ramalho
Master explainer
Rabieh Fashwall
Technical Lead · GALERIA
Sadie Freeman
Senior Software Engineer · Paramount Commerce
Sam Burns
Developer, software architect, and application security researcher · GoCardless
Tom Coupland
Principal Engineer · Paddle
Veronika Volokitina
Software Engineer · Zalando
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
GooglePlatinum
CodeRabbitGold
GitButlerGold
Just Eat TakeawaySilver
London GophersCommunity Partner
loveholidaysTrack
Manchester GophersCommunity Partner
Women Who GoCommunity Partner
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Agenda

Selected from 20 sessions on the bill.
  • 09:15

    How to Stay Passionate in the Age of AI

    The Google Track
  • 10:00

    Full Desktop Environment in Go

    The loveholidays Track
  • 10:00

    Having fun with the go source code

    The King Vault Track
  • 10:00

    Kronk: Hardware Accelerated Local Inference

    The Google Track
  • 10:00

    Tutorial Having fun with the go source code

    The King Vault Track
  • 11:30

    Beyond pprof: Hardware Performance Counters

    The loveholidays Track
  • 11:30

    From AI Sceptic to AI Sceptic Who Ships

    The Google Track
  • 11:30

    Having fun with the go source code continues

    The King Vault Track
  • 11:30

    Tutorial Having fun with the go source code continues

    The King Vault Track
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 22 companies show up — and 1 bet on three roles at once?

22 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
7Sponsoringsponsor only
14Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Google

Speakers by seniority

14% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite29%
  • Founder / Owner15%
  • Manager / Lead732%
  • Engineer · IC1045%
  • Research / Science15%
  • Other roles15%

Of 22 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01GoogleSp·P1V
  2. 02CodeRabbitSp·G
  3. 03GitButlerSp·G
  4. 04Just Eat TakeawaySp·S
  5. 05London GophersSp·C
  6. 06loveholidaysSp·T
  7. 07Manchester GophersSp·C
  8. 08Women Who GoSp·C
  9. 09Apptrix.ai2V
  10. 10Ardan Labs2V
  11. 11Grafana Labs2V
  12. 12Datadog1V
  13. 13Galeria1V
  14. 14GitHub1V
Sponsors by tier
platinum1
13% of 8
gold2
25% of 8
silver1
13% of 8
community partner3
38% of 8
track1
13% of 8
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