Release Notes v2026.2
Spring is in the air and so is the agenda, and a round of workshop updates
Agenda
The wait is over! GopherCon Europe 2026 just shipped a major feature release, the full schedule is now live. Head over to gophercon.eu to see it. Here are the highlights:
We are happy to welcome back Jonathan Amsterdam from the Go team for the opening keynote on the topic of Containers data structures.
It’ 2 days in a single track setup, which means no tough choices, you get to see everything. The topics are varied, covering everything from runtime internals and garbage collection to bare-metal embedded systems, standard library evolution, and the art of squeezing every last byte out of your binaries.
Lightning talks will be announced closer to the date, stay tuned!
As a reminder, here’s how the four days break down:
Monday–Tuesday, June 15–16: Talk days
Wednesday, June 17: Workshops (booked separately)
Thursday, June 18: Community Day & Contributors Summit + HeyAI: Reshaping Software with AI Summit
Workshops
Workshops are on Wednesday, June 17 and can be booked separately. All our workshops got a round of updates:
Bill Kennedy’s workshop is now Ultimate Private AI: a full-day hands-on session taking you from zero to running open-source AI models directly inside your Go applications. No cloud APIs, no external servers, no data leaving your machine. You’ll configure models for your hardware, control output through sampling parameters, and build real applications including a RAG pipeline and a natural-language-to-SQL system. Everything runs locally, everything is yours. If you already had a ticket for Bill’s previous workshop, we’ve been in touch directly with all the details.
We’re excited to welcome Jesús Espino to the lineup for the first time, with Advanced Go Internals: Compiler and Runtime Mechanics, a hands-on deep dive into the Go toolchain itself. You’ll navigate the Go codebase from lexer and parser all the way through to the runtime scheduler, run safe experiments, and come away with a much more concrete mental model of how Go actually executes. If you’ve ever wanted to understand what’s really happening under the hood, this is the one.
Daniel Mahlow‘s workshop has been updated, and it’s now Go Faster with Agents: Build Your Own Claw in Go — a hands-on workshop where you’ll build an autonomous AI agent (a “claw”) from scratch in Go, from the core reasoning loop to inter-agent communication using Google’s A2A protocol. If you already had a ticket, nothing changes on your end.
Jonathan Amsterdam from the Go team will be joining Ronna Steinberg in the workshop Go Design Principles for Great Go Development: A hands-on workshop diving into the design principles that underpin Go, from type systems and interfaces to concurrency and functional programming. Whether you’re a Go newbie or a seasoned Gopher looking to refine your craft, this one will expand your Go thinking.Check them all out at gophercon.eu
Tickets
The Early Gopher has caught the worm and the early bird pricing is no longer available.
Tickets are still on sale! If you’re paying out of pocket, the Self Payer rate is for you. If your company is covering your ticket, the Corporate Gopher rate is the one.
All current rates apply until end of Sunday May 31. Starting Monday June 1, only the Late Gopher rate will be available. Don’t be a Late Gopher.
Grab yours at gophercon.eu
Diversity Scholarships
Applications are now closed and we’re excited to share that we saw a great deal of interest this year! We’re already hard at work on visas, and can’t wait to welcome the group.
Sponsorships
We’re still welcoming sponsors! If your company wants to join onboard this year, please contact us at team@gophercon.eu
That’s all folks!
As always, if you have any questions, please reach out to team@gophercon.eu
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