Where is GopherCon UK 2026 held?

GopherCon UK 2026 was held at The Brewery in London, United Kingdom.

Who sponsors GopherCon UK 2026?

ConferenceGrid lists 9 sponsors, including Google, CodeRabbit, GitButler, JUXT and Just Eat Takeaway.

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GopherCon UK 2026

Name: GopherCon UK 2026
Start: 2026-08-11
End: 2026-08-13
Location: London

This edition has ended

GopherCon UK 2026 ran Aug 11–13, 2026 at The Brewery in London, United Kingdom. It is an Open Source conference that expected about 612 attendees. ConferenceGrid lists 22 speakers, 9 sponsors and 20 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Lineup updated Aug 4, 2026 · dates verified Jun 15, 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

9Sponsors

20Sessions

23Companies · in total

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

Agenda

Selected from 20 sessions.

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

Quick answers

When is GopherCon UK 2026?: GopherCon UK 2026 ran Aug 11–13, 2026 at The Brewery in London, United Kingdom.
Where is GopherCon UK 2026 held?: GopherCon UK 2026 was held at The Brewery in London, United Kingdom.
Who is speaking at GopherCon UK 2026?: ConferenceGrid lists 22 speakers, including Aditya Singh (Production Engineer), Ainsley Clark (Senior Software Engineer, Just Eat Takeaway.com) and Andrew Williams (CEO, Apptrix.ai).
Who sponsors GopherCon UK 2026?: ConferenceGrid lists 9 sponsors, including Google, CodeRabbit, GitButler, JUXT and Just Eat Takeaway.

Company intelligence

What does it mean when 23 companies show up, and 1 bet on three roles at once?

23 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

8Sponsoringsponsor only

14Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

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 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies

#	Company	Roles	Speakers
1	Google	Sponsor · Platinum	1
2	CodeRabbit	Sponsor · Gold	-
3	GitButler	Sponsor · Gold	-
4	Just Eat Takeaway	Sponsor · Silver	-
5	JUXT	Sponsor · Gold	-
6	London Gophers	Sponsor · Community Partner	-
7	loveholidays	Sponsor · Track	-
8	Manchester Gophers	Sponsor · Community Partner	-
9	Women Who Go	Sponsor · Community Partner	-
10	Apptrix.ai		2
11	Ardan Labs		2
12	Grafana Labs		2
13	Datadog		1
14	Galeria		1

Sponsors by tier

platinum1

11% of 9

gold3

33% of 9

silver1

11% of 9

community partner3

33% of 9

track1

11% of 9

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.

Microsoft×2 peers
Temporal×2 peers

Related events · by shared sponsors

Conference	Date	City	Shared sponsors
LeadDev Berlin 2026	November 9, 2026	Berlin	2
San Francisco Ruby Startup Conference 2026	November 10, 2026	San Francisco	2
RustWeek 2027	May 24, 2027	Utrecht	2

GopherCon UK 2026

How to Stay Passionate in the Age of AI

Full Desktop Environment in Go

Having fun with the go source code

Kronk: Hardware Accelerated Local Inference

Tutorial Having fun with the go source code

Beyond pprof: Hardware Performance Counters

From AI Sceptic to AI Sceptic Who Ships

Having fun with the go source code continues

Tutorial Having fun with the go source code continues

23 companies. one are betting more than once.