September 28th to October 3rd, 2026

Varberg, Sweden

On the wind-whipped, rain-beaten shores of Sweden's west coast we took a stand. As the respite of summer fades back into the wet, cold misery and on into the snow-forlorn winter of this miserable coast we saw a moment. The summer crowds scattered. The sun not quite gone yet. And we seized it.

A gathering unlike anything the Elixir community had ever seen before. It was not the size. There have been many much bigger. It was not the legendary cast, although there were legends. Still we have seen more impressive line-ups. It was the people, the intent, the willingness to engage. A hopeful promise of something unusual was made. The people responded in kind. A pact was formed. A different event. And with that it became what it was.

We return to Varbergs Teater. We return again, a small event. Our hope is to once more offer an earnest promise to do something different. Our hope is to see you all again.

The flaming bridge signals the arrival of the ancient gods with rainbow light.

Structure

28-29th of September are workshop days. These are held at Campus Varberg and will be free of charge. We'll require registration as space, seats and other factors may limit the size of each thing. These will be community hack sessions, workshops, lectures and trainings. Two 4-hour sessions each day. Many of the hosts for these sessions will be familiar faces. Luminaries. Prior Goatmire speakers. Knowledgeable Elixir developers from across the ecosystem and other special guests. A time for learning, socializing and breaking the ice with hands on keyboards.

30th of September to 2nd of October is the conference. If you have a ticket you are welcome to attend. Tickets are typically bought. There will also be a few other ways. The ticket sale will be announced later. The conference is three days the first of which is focused on Nerves and should be considered NervesConf EU. You should not skip this if you do Elixir. Typically the NervesConf talks are some of the most technically in-depth talks you can find.

3rd of October. Details still coming. There will be an Ash event. And rumor rumbles of a hands on day of hacking for Elixir folks.

The rodent of legend connects snake and eagle.

Slight differences

We will make room for some more people. We believe that we can fill the theater further without making things unwieldy. The workshops will be the biggest change.

Where the heart finds room, so does the rear.

Speakers

A Hundred Eyes
by Quinn Wilton
Maas-Neotek
The Rebirth of an Elixir-based Personal Agent
by Evadne Wu
Bodgemaster at Heart / Programmer at Large
Bryan Hunter
Builder of distributed systems in Elixir
Zach Daniel
Creator of Ash Framework
Frank Hunleth
Nerves core team
Sam Aaron
Creator of Sonic Pi
And Then There Were Nil
by Parker Selbert
Oban Core Team
And Then There Were Nil
by Shannon Selbert
Oban Core Team
Maps: Easier Than Expected!
by Aaron Seigo
Open source developer; Principal Engineer at Esri
Make yourself at Home(x)
by Kevin Schweikert
Software Engineer
Driving LEDs with Fledex
by Matthias Reik
Tesco & JEMS Solutions Kft, Software Development Manager
We got Communist Nerves before GTA 6 lol
by Sahil Pohare
Just a curious guy building stuff for fun.
Elixir Made Me Lazy (And That’s a Good Thing)
by Getty Orawo
SWE | sci-fi | community
Operational hazards of managing PostgreSQL DBs over 100TB
by Teresa Lopes
Teresa Lopes - Database Engineer @Adyen
Video Game Archaeology with Elixir
by Rebecca Le
Lead software engineer at Alembic
Nerves, Nerves everywhere
by Marc Lainez
Owner & Co-founder at Spin42
Let It Crash: How Elixir Helped Me Stop Fearing Failure
by Uwabunkeonye Ijeoma
Your skills are your tools, sharpens it
Beam Bots: Robotics on the BEAM
by James Harton
Elixir, Robots and Declarative Design
Elixir in the Enterprise
by Erik Hansen
Maersk, Senior Engineering Manager
Controlled Noise on Nerves
by Marta Habdas
Full-stack Developer at Curiosum
Taming Control Flow with Result Monads
by Stefan Fochler
Building Scalable Systems
Perceive That Which Cannot Be Seen: The Architecture of OpenRiak
by Robert Carbone
Erlang Architect, Designer & Accountant
AtomVM: When Constrained Doesn’t Mean Boring
by Davide Bettio
Creator of AtomVM
Emerge of Elixir GUI, what does it Solve?
by Damir Batinović
Tinkerer: Mostly Software, Not Afraid of Solder

Workshops

You can register for workshops for free. Please only register if you intend to attend the workshop. We have limited capacity.

Make some noise
by Sam Aaron
Creator of Sonic Pi
Nerves community hack session
by Frank Hunleth
Nerves core team
Hardware hacking
by Gus Workman
Founder of Protolux Electronics, Nerves core team
Introduction to Elixir
by Bruce Tate
Founder of Groxio, The Bob Ross of Elixir
Introduction to Elixir
by Benjamin Milde
@lostkobrakai
Demystifying ML and AI
by Alvise Susmel
Director of Vision, Driver Technologies
Test-Driven Development
by Daniel Raniz Raneland
Sourceror @ factor10
Pragmatic AI engineering
by Oliver Mulelid-Tynes
Founder & Chief Slop Officer of FSI Evolution AS
The Tinkerer's Guide to Elixir Processes
by Johan Mattisson
Simplicity. This is the way.
Upcycling smartphones with Nerves
by Marc Lainez
Owner & Co-founder at Spin42
Multimedia with Membrane 101
by Łukasz Kita
Software Engineer @ Software Mansion
Multimedia with Membrane 101
by Feliks Pobiedziński
Membrane Framework Contributor
Achieving Balance in the Workshop
by James Harton
Elixir, Robots and Declarative Design
Emerge & Solve - GUI and State in Elixir
by Damir Batinović
Tinkerer: Mostly Software, Not Afraid of Solder

Tickets

If you don't see a ticket-purchasing section here, you can go here. We've had reports of it failing to load.

You can also register for workshops for free. Please only register if you intend to attend the workshop. We have limited capacity.