GOTO Copenhagen 2026

Description

GOTO Copenhagen 2026 is the premier five-day software engineering conference focusing on what it really means to build, ship, and maintain software in the age of AI. Running from September 28 to October 2, 2026 at TAP1 in Copenhagen, this conference brings together pioneers, practitioners, and thought leaders who are shaping the future of software delivery on solid engineering foundations. ## What Makes This Conference Different Under the theme "Engineering for Reality," GOTO Copenhagen 2026 addresses the challenges developers face today: delivering AI-enabled software while maintaining reliability, security, and sustainability. This isn't about theoretical possibilities — it's about practical engineering for systems you ship, own, and maintain. The conference explores critical topics including concurrency, distributed systems, testing and debugging in AI-driven environments, legacy modernization, resilience, observability, CPU and GPU optimization, green computing, and agentic software development. You'll also dive into the human side: skills development, maintaining responsibility, and what it means to be a developer when AI changes the landscape. ## World-Class Speaker Lineup GOTO Copenhagen 2026 features an exceptional roster of industry leaders. **Kent Beck** will rethink incentives in software design. **Troy Hunt**, creator of Have I Been Pwned, explores what real-world breaches teach us about web security. **Gojko Adzic** examines human-centered software delivery in the age of AI, while **Nathen Harvey** discusses AI as an amplifier of software delivery. **Dave Thomas**, co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer, presents on pragmatic programming in the ages of AI. **Sam Newman**, author of Building Microservices, covers building and evolving distributed systems. **Andreas Zeller** explores fuzzing and automated debugging, **Katharine Jarmul** demonstrates designing and running AI agents locally, and **Wilco Burggraaf** tackles green software down to code level. Other notable speakers include **Barbara Oakley** (Professor of Engineering at Oakland University), **Gabriele Keller** (researching type systems and functional languages), **Laurentiu Spilcă** (security fundamentals), **Ewelina Kurtys** (building computers from living neurons), **Russ Miles** (chaos engineering), **Tim Berglund** (VP Developer Relations at Confluent), and **Lu Wilson** (organizing without hierarchy). ## Deep-Dive Masterclasses Beyond the main conference sessions, GOTO