Release Notes v2025.4
AI workshop update (MCP+Agents), Reshaping Software summit, CFPs: LT+roundtables, contributors summit, and more
We are less than 3 weeks away from the conference, hopefully you are as excited as we are!
Here are some last updates:
AI workshop swap
Unfortunately Johnny Boursiquot will not be able to join us this year with the workshops AI-Powered Backends in Go. We can’t believe we are missing you this year, Johnny! 💙
Luckily, we get to offer instead a great instructor with a workshop on the same topic of developing with AI: Go Faster with Agents: Building and Using MCP Tools in Go by Daniel Mahlow, who will share from his rich experience in bringing GenAI projects to production as the Managing Partner & Generative AI Lead at Contiamo.
You can find the full description on the workshop’s page of our website.
Emails with alll the options have been sent to everyone who signed up to Johnny’s workshop.Lightning talks
The call for lightning talks is now open, until the end of Friday June 6. Submit your Go-related talk for your 5-7 min of fame on Wednesday June 18!
Anything from a fun project, to an interesting challenge at work, to your favorite library will be interesting to the audience. Whether you are new to public speaking or a seasoned speaker - we’d love to encourage you to submit.
The first round of invites will be sent on Monday June 9.Questions for the Go Team Panel
On Tuesday June 17 we’ll hold a panel with the Go team. If you have a question you’d like to ask the team - submit it here by end of Monday June 16. We cannot guarantee all submitted questions will be asked during the panel.
(we corrected the link on June 5)
Contributors Summit
As published by the Go team at the Google Go Group, the Contributors Summit will take place at the conference again. This year, the first half of it will be invite-only during the morning of Thursday June 19, where the invites are sent to active contributors by the Go team. All the details are in this Google Go Group thread.Roundtable Discussions
Would you like to lead a group discussion a technical topic during the second half of the Community Day on Thursday June 19?
Submit your idea in our call for roundtables. If you’ll get invited to lead a roundtable, you would bring questions, and get to hear many opinions and participate in brainstorming sessions about it. Some past topics over the years were: Switching to Go, APIs, Metrics & Logs, AI & LLMs, etc.
Experience in moderation can be helpful but not required. This is not recorded.
The submissions form closes at the end of Monday June 9, and invites sent out on Thursday June 12.
During the roundtable discussions the Go team will be around for informal conversations, everyone is welcome.Reshaping Software With AI Summit
During the community day on Thursday June 19, we’ll host talks on the topic of how is AI reshaping software development, and what might our future in tech look like. These talks include Go-related topics (like the MCP go-sdk) but also general software topics.
For this day, tickets are sold to this day separately on the dedicated website: heyai.dev. Spread the word with your Software x AI enthusiastic friends!
Access to this day is included with your GopherCon Europe 2025 pass.As always, if you have questions - reach out to team@gophercon.eu, follow us on X (Twitter) and on Bluesky.
