6 talks on building to last.
This is a conference for anyone who takes responsibility for the code they commit.
We bring developers, academics, and hackers together, to figure out how to write good software in an accelerating world.
Speakers
Sophia Drossopoulou
Sophia Drossopoulou is Professor of Programming Languages at Imperial College London and winner of the 2023 Dahl-Nygaard Prize. She works on programming languages, models, and reasoning about programs and algorithms.
Somtochi Onyekwere
Somtochi Onyekwere is a Staff Software Engineer at Fly.io, working across backend systems, infrastructure, and open source. Previously at Weaveworks, she contributed to FluxCD, giving her hands-on experience with the tools and trade-offs behind modern cloud-native software.
William Schor
William Schor is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, working on online data stores and distributed data systems. He focuses on resilience, high availability, and low-latency serving, helping teams learn how large-scale data infrastructure can stay fast, safe, and reliable.
Ben Eggers
Ben Eggers is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI with a background in infrastructure engineering. He brings a grounded view of AI agents and software engineering, helping developers understand what these tools change, what they expose, and which engineering skills still matter.
30 September
As part of goto; Copenhagen, join us for a day of sessions on the Balcony Stage.
registration & morning refreshments
Breaks & goto; keynotes
Specification and Verification of Robust Open Systems: Capabilities, Effects, and Trusted Mediation
Sophia Drossopoulou, Imperial College London, 2023 Daul-Nygaard Prize
Break
Separating Protocol Logic from I/O for Deterministic Testing
Somtochi Onyekwere, Staff Software Engineer, Fly.io
From unit tests to synthetic canaries: Implementation-Agnostic Testing at Netflix
William Schor, Senior Software Engineer, Netflix
Lunch
Breaks & goto; keynotes
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Ben Eggers, Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI
Break
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Breaks & goto; keynotes
Logistics and travel
Flying into Copenhagen Airport (CPH) is easiest. It’s a short 9 min taxi ride to the conference venue, TAP1.
For a list of recommended area hotels please visit the goto; Copenhagen site.
If you are attending our Customer Summit: Plan on arriving on 28 September. The summit will start in the late morning on 29 September.
goto; Copenhagen and Bug Bash Sessions will end at 6:45pm everyday, so please plan your travel home accordingly.
Tickets
Purchase your tickets on the goto; Copenhagen site. Both the 1-day and 3-day tickets will include access to Bug Bash Europe.
We have a limited amount of passes for our customers! Reach out to your account manager to see about getting complimentary 1-day tickets.
Why we came back...
I’ve been to many conferences, but this was legitimately the first that I felt “a part of”... There are various combinations of testing conferences, devops conferences, and formal methods conferences, sure, but this still felt like a new stake in the ground.
Still my favorite conference — the right combination of industry and academia, research and practice… the conference is collecting the software-verification and distributed-systems people I want to meet and collaborate with.
I attended the BugBash 2026 these last two days, and had a blast.
I attended the first edition last year and it was where I finally met the correctness niche in person.
Talks from DC
Steel, Rust, and truth
Industrial transformation in the programming world.
Behaviors as the backbone of software correctness
Making TLA+ more usable again
Building confidence in an always-in-motion distributed streaming system
You should think about why your system should work.
Gary Marcus in conversation with Will Wilson
The robots aren't taking over this year.