THE ERLANG AND ELIXIR USER CONFERENCE IN CANADA
Vancouver | March 23, 2026
Masterclasses | March 22 & 24, 2026


Full-day celebration of all things BEAM in Vancouver!

This event is in the past! It offered a unique opportunity to meet locally, learn from industry experts, and network with fellow Erlang, Elixir & Gleam programming language enthusiasts.

Learn. Share. Inspire.


The Conference for Erlang, Elixir & Gleam Developers in Canada

Meet people and companies using and developing high performance, fault-tolerant and resilient applications that scale to billions of users in production in areas like AI, Cloud, Fintech, IoT, Security and beyond! Come and join us to learn from each other, share knowledge and be inspired all while growing your network of contacts.

Developers of every level can expect to learn from each other, share knowledge all while growing our community reach in Canada.

SPEAKERS


Andrea Leopardi

Elixir Core Team Member

Agentic Elixir

Brooklyn Zelenka

Founder of Fission, Code & Coffee, BEAM Vancouver, and Vancouver Functional Programmers meetup

Redistributing Our Systems. Erlang's Enduring Lessons for Local-First

Joseph Koski

Author of Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir

Stealing from Ash: Building Better DSLs in Elixir

SCHEDULE






Time Talk/Activity Speaker
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Registration
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM Welcome to the Conference
9:10 AM - 9:50 AM Redistributing Our Systems: Erlang's Enduring Lessons for Local-First Robert Virding & Brooklyn Zelenka
9:50 AM - 10:20 AM Agentic Elixir Andrea Leopardi
10:20 AM - 10:50 AM Coffee Break
10:50 AM - 11:20 AM Sparking Joy - Tidying up GraphQL schemas with custom DSLs Nicholas Geraedts
11:25 AM - 11:55 PM Migrating live processes with Zenoh in widely distributed network Yutaka Kikuchi
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Concurrency, understanding the BEAM limits Lorena Mireles
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Stealing from Ash: Building Better DSLs in Elixir Joseph Koski
2:05 PM - 2:35 PM Erlang Distribution over AMQP James Aimonetti
2:40 PM - 3:10 PM Let Elixir into your Home(Kit) Mat Trudel
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Bridging the gap with Lustre and Universal Components Hayleigh Thompson
4:05 PM - 4:35 PM Templating, Meta-programming, and Meta-prompting Bruce Tate
4:35 PM - 4:45 PM Closing Notes

TRAINERS


MASTERCLASSES


VENUE & ACCOMMODATION


VIFF Centre

1181 Seymour Street
Vancouver, BC
Canada

VENUE DETAILS


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE


Brooklyn Zelenka

Founder of Fission, Code & Coffee, BEAM Vancouver, and Vancouver Functional Programmers meetup

Francesco Cesarini

Founder of Erlang Solutions, O’Reilly Author

Logan Leger

VP of Engineering at Hiive, Vancouver Erlang & Elixir meetup organizer

Lorena Mireles

Elixir Developer at Erlang Solutions

Noah Betzen

Senior Software Engineer @ SmartRent, Seattle Elixir Meetup co-organizer

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