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GOTO Copenhagen 2026

GOTO Copenhagen 2026 is a software engineering conference dedicated to crafting software with confidence in the age of AI. The event brings together pioneers, practitioners, authors and thought leaders to discuss topics such as concurrency, distributed systems, testing, resilience, observability, sustainability, security, green computing, and human aspects i…

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60Speakers
4Sponsors
67On the bill · sessions
17Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at GOTO, in alphabetical order.
Adam Furmanek
Adam Tornhill
Aino Vonge Corry
Alberto Brandolini
Alex Ewerlöf
Andreas Zeller
Barbara Oakley
Professor of Engineering at Oakland University · Oakland University
Barry O'Reilly
Ben Eggers
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI · OpenAI
Ben Linders
Charles Humble
Claus Vagner Pedersen
Cole Medin
Founder of Dynamous AI · Dynamous AI
Daniel Bryant
Daniel Terhorst-North
Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & Associates · Dan North & Associates
Dave Thomas
Diana Gaponcic
Evan Ratliff
Ewelina Kurtys
Gabriele Keller
Gojko Adzic
Heidi Howard
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
ThoughtworksGold
SyndicateSilver
TriforkSilver
IcePanelStartup
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Agenda

Selected from 67 sessions on the bill.
  • Friday Oct 2 @ 09:00

    Linda Liukas

  • Friday Oct 2 @ 10:15

    Nobody Reads the Code Anymore: Quality Engineering for the Software Factory

  • Friday Oct 2 @ 10:15

    Spying on your Agent: Security and Privacy Observability

  • Friday Oct 2 @ 10:15

    Understanding Progressive Collapse (or How To Avoid A Cascading Failure)

  • Friday Oct 2 @ 11:30

    AI Engineering: A production story, from first LLM call to multi-agent chaos

  • Friday Oct 2 @ 11:30

    Biocomputers: When Living Neurons Become Hardware

  • Friday Oct 2 @ 11:30

    What If Your Biggest Technical Debt Is Social?

  • Friday Oct 2 @ 13:15

    A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence

  • Friday Oct 2 @ 14:30

    Orion Reed

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 17 companies show up — and 1 bet on three roles at once?

Seventeen 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
3Sponsoringsponsor only
13Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Thoughtworks

Speakers by seniority

12% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite35%
  • Founder / Owner23%
  • VP-level12%
  • Director / Head of12%
  • Manager / Lead47%
  • Engineer · IC35%
  • Other roles4677%

Of 60 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01ThoughtworksSp·G1V
  2. 02IcePanelSp·S
  3. 03SyndicateSp·S
  4. 04TriforkSp·S
  5. 05QA.tech2V
  6. 06Antithesis1V
  7. 07Confluent1V
  8. 08Dan North & Associates1V
  9. 09Dynamous AI1V
  10. 10Eventmodelers.ai1V
  11. 11Fly.io1V
  12. 12Imperial College London1V
  13. 13JetBrains1V
  14. 14Netflix1V
Sponsors by tier
gold1
25% of 4
silver2
50% of 4
startup1
25% of 4

In the same series

Prior and forthcoming editions