Hey everyone! The biggest event of the year for our community is fast approaching - ElixirConf US 2026! Whether you’ve been writing Elixir for years or are just taking your first steps, this year’s edition is shaping up to be incredible. The conference is happening in a hybrid format, so everyone can join in, no matter where you are.
Here is a sneak peek at what we have planned: (elixirconf.com/#schedule)
Keynote Speakers
This year, true legends and innovators of our ecosystem are taking the main stage:
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José Valim (Creator of Elixir) - He’ll be discussing the continued evolution of the language, enterprise adoption, and the sustainable open-source work he and the Dashbit team are driving.
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Chris McCord (Creator of Phoenix) - Will showcase what’s next for Phoenix, developer tooling improvements, and his vision for the future of modern web development (and perhaps some AI-assisted workflows!).
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Zach Daniel (Creator of Ash Framework) - Will share his experiences in building ambitious, maintainable, and highly reliable production systems at scale.
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Quinn Wilton (Open-source Contributor & Language Hacker) - Will bring her deeply technical and fascinating perspective on type systems, compilers, and virtual machines within the BEAM ecosystem.
Featured Talks & Sessions
The conference isn’t just about keynotes; it’s packed with knowledge straight from the trenches. Here is a taste of what our speakers are bringing to the table:
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Building Global Clusters at Supabase: Filipe Cabaço will show how they pushed the boundaries of Erlang’s built-in distribution. You’ll learn how his team built a custom, two-tier Phoenix.PubSub adapter to reduce inter-region traffic and how to properly test real distributed systems (without using mocks!).
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Updates from the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation: Dan Janowski will deliver a vital introductory overview of the frontier of our ecosystem. He’ll break down the latest foundation news, covering everything from critical security planning and reinforcing core components to working with governments on regulatory compliance and expanding the BEAM’s role in the wider open-source world.
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Terminal UIs? That’s a Breeze: Gary Rennie from the Phoenix core team will prove that building beautiful terminal applications in Elixir has never been easier. He’ll introduce Breeze, a LiveView-inspired framework that works without relying on any NIFs.
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Handling Time Zones the Right Way: Jacob Swanner will tackle one of the hardest problems in programming time. He’ll share practical strategies for managing time zones in LiveView, Ecto, and databases to build a trustworthy user experience.
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Local-First Apps & Browser Power: Bart Blast will take us on a deep dive into the Hologram framework, showing how to write rich web applications in pure Elixir running directly in the browser.
On top of that, we have a full day of deep-dive Training Sessions covering everything from the absolute basics of functional programming (“The Toy Alchemist” with Jamie Wright) to hands-on embedded Elixir with Nerves.
Event Details:
Are you planning to attend this year (in person or virtually)? Which talk or training are you looking forward to the most? Let us know!
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Hey all 
We’re in the last week before regular registration closes for ElixirConf US (Sept 10–11, Chicago & online), so a quick rundown in case you’re still deciding.
It’s 2 days, 2 tracks, with keynotes from José Valim, Chris McCord, Zach Daniel & Quinn Wilton, and talks from folks like Bruce Tate, Francesco Cesarini, Filipe Cabaço, Stephanie Lane, Paulo Valente, Bart Blast and plenty more.
+ Roundtables (40-min small-group Birds of a Feather sessions) are in-person only - worth knowing if you’re weighing in-person vs. virtual.
Rather than list everything, here’s the kind of thing you’ll actually walk away knowing how to do:
- Ship code in the age of agents - how juniors grow into seniors when AI writes half the diff (Bruce Tate), paying down tech debt with AI (De Wet Blomerus), and OTP patterns for agentic workflows that hold up (Lorena Mireles).
- Run Elixir at real scale - building a global cluster at Supabase (Filipe Cabaço), distributed load testing with AMoC + FLAME (Coby Benveniste), and supervision strategy so you crash the right things, not everything (Stephanie Lane & Joe Harrow).
- Evaluate LLMs in Elixir - practical LLM evaluation with Tribunal (George Guimarães).
- Push LiveView & Phoenix further - pushing LiveComponents hard (Garth Hitchens), guided workflows in LiveView (Matt Milton), and Phoenix Contexts that survive a real codebase (Juan Manuel Azambuja).
- Improve your tooling & DX - an LSP built for large codebases (Jesse Herrick), a dev environment per branch (Jason Axelson), terminal UIs made easy (Gary Rennie).
- Go deeper on fundamentals - set-theoretic types from scratch (José Valim) and where Nx is headed with sharding (Paulo Valente).
- Take security seriously - findings from pentesting Hex via the Ægis Initiative (Jonatan Männchen & Michael Lubas).
If you’ve been meaning to sort out your ticket, this is the week. Current pricing ends August 25, 11:59 PM CT.
Register: ElixirConf®
See you in Chicago or online!
The ElixirConf US Team
We’re now just 10 days out from ElixirConf US 2026, and we wanted to give the forum a proper heads-up, with a little thank-you discount attached.
Dates: September 10–11, 2026
Where: Chicago, IL (and streamed live everywhere)
Two days of production war stories and real scaling challenges, deep dives into Phoenix, LiveView, OTP, Nerves & Nx, keynotes including “Set-Theoretic Types from Scratch” with José Valim, and hallway-track conversations with the people who maintain the libraries you actually ship on. Meeting the community in person is the part you can’t stream - grab an in-person ticket while they last.
Not in the area? No problem. The virtual pass gets you every talk streamed live, the conference app, live Q&A, and early access to the recordings. Same content, from wherever you are.
Use code FORUMVISITORS for 10% off your ticket (in-person or virtual): 
ElixirConf US 2026
See you in Chicago - or on the stream! 
The ElixirConf US Team
Sept 10-11, live from Chicago. Can’t make the trip? Grab a virtual pass and stream the whole thing from wherever you are.
You get every talk live, the conference app, live Q&A, and access to the recordings. José Valim on set-theoretic types, Chris McCord, Zach Daniel, plus 30+ sessions on Phoenix, LiveView, OTP, Nerves and Nx.
10% off for the forum with code FORUMVISITORS: elixirconf.com/#register
No flight needed. See you on the stream or on-site!
Hi There!
That’s a wrap on ElixirConf US 2026, and what a two days it was. Some of the talks are already public + here’s a quick recap of what you missed:
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Many jokes from the stage - including the room shouting out their country out loud at the end of every day. You had to be there. (Or, you know, watch it back.)
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Even more jokes from Aaron, our Track host, who kept the energy high between sessions.
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Roundtable sessions - which turned out to be overpopulated by 300%!
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The Bingo Bard game - a full board of squares we prepared for you to play throughout the event. Shoutout to the one person who completed the entire thing in the first two hours. We know who you are… (No, we don’t. But we’re impressed.)
And of course, two full days of talks, keynotes, lightning talks, and roundtables from across the Elixir community.
Want to see all of the talks? Grab the video pass
- It’s 3 months of access to the recorded sessions after the conference (edited, ready-to-watch session videos)
Grab the video pass for $199 HERE.
Craving more Elixir?
Join us at Code BEAM Europe 2026! Expect 30+ talks from José Valim & many others, across the Erlang, Elixir, and Gleam communities, informal zone sessions, and two days of the same great people, ideas, and energy - this time in Europe, Haarlem, NL, 21-22 October.
Register for it here.
See you at the next ElixirConf (or Code BEAM event :))
The Code Sync Team
