DISCOVER THE FUTURE OF THE ERLANG AND ELIXIR ECOSYSTEM

Join the only North American conference to cover all of the BEAM languages, including Erlang and Elixir. Created for developers, by developers, Code BEAM SF is dedicated to bringing the best minds in the Erlang and Elixir communities together to SHARE. LEARN. INSPIRE. over two days. Learn from 50+ cutting-edge talks and our in-depth training program, how BEAM languages are revolutionising areas like IoT, Blockchain, Fintech, Security, Machine Learning and more! See you in San Francisco!

ABOUT CODE BEAM SF

2
DAYS
6
THEMES
5+
TRAININGS
50+
SPEAKERS

Code BEAM SF is the only conference in North America to bring all the languages that run on the BEAM together, including Erlang and Elixir.

Learn from 50+ cutting-edge talks and our in-depth training program, how BEAM languages are revolutionising areas like IoT, Blockchain, Fintech, Security, Machine Learning and more.

Our newly launched Code BEAM SF, formerly the Erlang Factory San Francisco (organised since 2008), is all about discovering the future of the Erlang Ecosystem and bringing together developers as a community to share knowledge and ideas, learn from each other and inspire to invent the future.

Themes

Introduction to Erlang and Elixir

New to Erlang and/or Elixir? Interested, but don't know quite where to dig in? We've all been there! In this track you will learn from other's experience, get a sense of the lay of the software ecosystem, get help from the community and contribute back for everyone's benefit.

Tools

Erlang and Elixir's popularity is growing but it's not always clear what off-the-shelf software is useful in production quality systems. In this track you will learn what existing production systems' maintainers are using to monitor and test their systems. This track will include the war stories and experience reports of novice and expert users alike.

Case Studies

Every new domain that Erlang and Elixir pushes into brings a new class of problems and a new class of solutions. In this track we'll learn from other's experience, where things have been peachy and where they haven't been so much. We'll all walk away with a more clear idea of how to build highly reliable software.

BEAM

In this track you will learn from the leading experts and Erlang committers about new language constructs, virtual machine implementations and powerful libraries which together form the Erlang eco-system. Esoteric VM implementations are presented, alongside improvements and enhancements to the existing ones. You will learn how many of its features work and how to best use them to write fast and efficient code.

Frameworks

In this track, you will learn from the leading experts and committers about new and leading frameworks such as (but not limited to) Phoenix, MongooseIM, Nerves and RabbitMQ. You will find out how these frameworks work, how to best use them and where not to use them.

Distribution, Concurrency, Multicore & Functional

Scaling vertically by adding more powerful hardware is a thing of the past. We scaled horizontally, by adding more commodity hardware. With the coming of age of mega-core architectures, we have the choice of either adding more hardware or more cores, or both. Erlang style concurrency puts us ahead of the game when it comes to scaling with both approaches.

TRAINING

OTP SUPERVISION TREES

Tutorial/

Ben Marx

Time/

17 Mar 2018
20:19 - 17:00

BEAM AND ERLANG RUNTIME SYSTEM

Tutorial/

Erik Stenman

Time/

17 Mar 2018
20:19 - 09:00

BUILDING DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS WITH RIAK CORE

Tutorial/

Mariano Guerra

Time/

17 Mar 2018
20:19 - 18:00

SEE TRAINING DETAILS

Our speakers

Miriam Pena

Voted one of the women to watch in tech by Women 2.0

Keynote:

Unsung heroes of the BEAM

15 Mar / 17.45 / CRYSTAL BALLROOM

Jessica DeVita

Senior Program Manager (Microsoft)

Keynote:

Unreachable Code - A Conversation about Safety and Human Factors

16 Mar / 17.05 / CRYSTAL BALLROOM

Kostis Sagonas

Creator of PropEr, CutEr and Concuerror

Keynote:

Testing Tools for the Erlang Ecosystem

15 Mar / 09.15 / CRYSTAL BALLROOM

Joe Armstrong

Co-creator Erlang

Keynote:

The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science

16 Mar / 09.05 / CRYSTAL BALLROOM

Mark Allen

Principle Software Developer (Alert Logic)

Spells, Hexes, and Charms: Running your Own Private Package Service

16 Mar / 14.30 / CRYSTAL BALLROOM

Kostis Sagonas

Creator of PropEr, CutEr and Concuerror

Irina Guberman

Principal Product Architect at Xaptum

High Performance Metrics Through Mutable Counters: A Bite of the Forbidden Fruit

15 Mar / 15.30 / CRYSTAL BALLROOM

Christopher Coté

Technology, Sustainability, Food but Not Always in That Order! (Entropealabs)

Arduino, Elixir And Nerves: A Deep Dive Into the Firmata Protocol

15 Mar / 11.35 / REGIMENTAL

Erik Stenman

Erlang Programmer (HappiHacking)

Aeternity: Scalable Smart Contracts Interfacing With Real World Data

15 Mar / 17.15 / CRYSTAL BALLROOM

Osa Gaius

Engineer Focused on Product and Distributed Systems - Mailchimp

Fred Hebert

Erlang, Tools, and Systems (Postmates)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Unexpected

15 Mar / 14.40 / CRYSTAL BALLROOM

Anna Neyzberg

Co-founder of ElixirBridge

Crypto + concurrency

15 Mar / 16.25 / CRYSTAL BALLROOM

Robert Virding

Co-creator of Erlang, Trainer

Implementing Languages on the BEAM

15 Mar / 11.35 / CRYSTAL BALLROOM

Simon Thompson

Functional programmer in Haskell and Erlang, researcher and teacher of computer science @ University of Kent

Making It Lazy: never evaluate anything more than once

16 Mar / 14.30 / CRYSTAL LOUNGE

Mohnish Jadwani

Senior Developer and Explorer (MoneySmart)

Learning Elixir Better through Collaboration and Giving Back

15 Mar / 13.50 / CRYSTAL BALLROOM

Anton Lavrik

Lead of WhatsApp Erlang team

Tools Everyone Needs - A Reflection On Building And Running A Server At Whatsapp

16 Mar / 11.25 / CRYSTAL BALLROOM

Emma Cunningham

Developer (Second Spectrum)

Hype For Types - Using Dialyzer to Bring Type Checking to Your Elixir Code

15 Mar / 17.15 / CRYSTAL LOUNGE

Sam Williams

CEO (Archain) and PhD Candidate

Fighting Authoritarianism With Blockchain And Blockweaves

16 Mar / 14.30 / REGIMENTAL

Bernardo Amorim

Built a bank using Elixir and created a Word to HTML converter in Ruby that also converted math formulas to MathML

CQRS and Event Sourcing

15 Mar / 15.30 / CRYSTAL LOUNGE

Murali Kashaboina

CEO (Entrigna), Former MD of Enterprise Architecture (United Airlines)

Erlang In Action – How Erlang Lets Us Create A Scalable Edge Based Iot Solution

16 Mar / 13.40 / REGIMENTAL

Geoffrey Lessel

Elixir Lover and Author of Phoenix in Action (Planning Center)

Gently Down the Stream

15 Mar / 17.15 / REGIMENTAL

Boshan Sun

Software engineer at Amazon, learned Erlang from Joe Armstrong

Understanding Erlang Term

15 Mar / 14.40 / REGIMENTAL

Jesse J. Anderson

Front End Designer (Planning Center)

Intro to Machine Learning

15 Mar / 10.45 / REGIMENTAL

Andrew Thompson

Author of Lager and Gen_smtp, Rebar and Riak Contributor

Bridging The Physical and Blockchain World With Erlang

15 Mar / 12.25 / REGIMENTAL

Jean Rouge

Tech Lead (Tripping)

The Magic Behind Immutable Maps, Or Why Erlang Didn't Have Maps Years Earlier

15 Mar / 12.25 / CRYSTAL BALLROOM

Brujo Benavides

🧙‍♂️ Oxbow Code Killer 🔥

Opaque Structures and Other Yerbas

15 Mar / 12.25 / CRYSTAL LOUNGE

Mariano Guerra

Programmer (Instadeq)

A Tour Through the Distributed System Zoo

16 Mar / 13.40 / CRYSTAL BALLROOM

Implementing Languages on the BEAM

15 Mar / 11.35 / CRYSTAL BALLROOM

Jay Hayes

(Stitch Fix)

Metaprogramming: Programs that Write Programs

15 Mar / 11.35 / CRYSTAL LOUNGE

Scott Lystig Fritchie

Stuck in distributed systems tarpits for 30 years

Wide World of Actors: comparing the Pony language to Erlang

16 Mar / 16.15 / CRYSTAL LOUNGE

Jeff Ching

Software Engineer (Google)

Designing Rich API Clients at Scale

16 Mar / 10.35 / CRYSTAL BALLROOM

Paul Schoenfelder

Prolific open source contributor, borderline workaholic. Speaker @ ElixirConf, Code BEAM SF, LoneStar Elixir

Releases and Elixir: Envisioning a more perfect union

16 Mar / 16.15 / CRYSTAL BALLROOM

Benoit Chesneau

Edge computing artisan

Bruce Williams

Author of "Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir" (CargoSense)

A GraphQL-on-Elixir Primer

16 Mar / 16.15 / REGIMENTAL

Mike Watters

Lifelong Learner (AdRoll)

Quaff that potion: saving $millions

15 Mar / 15.30 / REGIMENTAL

Anthony Molinaro

Architecture (OpenX, Inc.)

Packaging for Production

16 Mar / 10.35 / REGIMENTAL

Duncan Sparrell

Cyber security expert at sFractal Consulting

Let it Be Hacked

15 Mar / 13.50 / CRYSTAL LOUNGE

Adrian Cruz

Search, discovery and personalization software engineer

Mixing in Elixir to Build Search

16 Mar / 15.20 / REGIMENTAL

Brett Cameron

VP of open source applications and services at VMS Software, RabbitMQ expert

Next Generation SCADA: Monitoring and Controlling Devices in the Connected World

16 Mar / 10.35 / CRYSTAL LOUNGE

Getting to Know Your Rabbit

15 Mar / 13.50 / REGIMENTAL

David Brinnen

Versatile software and Embedded Systems Engineer (Energy Machines)

Next Generation SCADA: Monitoring and Controlling Devices in the Connected World

16 Mar / 10.35 / CRYSTAL LOUNGE

James Weaver

Developer, Author and Speaker (Pivotal)

Quantum Computing Exposed: Schrödinger's Grumpy Cat

16 Mar / 11.25 / REGIMENTAL

Tian Chen

VPE, Technical Writer, Elixir Enthusiast

Release, Deploy, Monitor and Upgrade Elixir Services in Real World

16 Mar / 15.20 / CRYSTAL LOUNGE

Richard Kallos

Developer (AdGear) Master's student (Concordia University)

Introducing Wrek; A Library For Executing Dependency Graphs

16 Mar / 12.15 / CRYSTAL BALLROOM

Robert Carbone

Visualizing the BEAM will Change the World

wxErlang & Faithful Representation

16 Mar / 13.40 / CRYSTAL LOUNGE

Paul Rogers

Independent Software Developer (Knoxen)

Is Security on Your Nerves?

15 Mar / 14.40 / CRYSTAL LOUNGE

Michal Muskala

Software engineer, speaker, trainer, open source. Erlang, Elixir, Ruby.

Raimo Niskanen

Software and hardware gaffer, author of gen_statem.

Gen_statem - the tool you never knew you always wanted

16 Mar / 11.25 / CRYSTAL LOUNGE

Update: OTP Team

16 Mar / 09.50 / CRYSTAL BALLROOM

James Fish

Software Engineer (Pinterest)

Sébastien Merle

I walked the road from C to Erlang in my quest for better concurrency.

From Cloud to Edge Networks

15 Mar / 10.45 / CRYSTAL LOUNGE

Sonny Scroggin

Rusterlium core team member

Bryan Hughes

Entrepreneur, Innovative and Creative Thinker, CTO of IoT (Space Time Insight)

LPWAN and Cellular IoT explained - How to connect devices in the wild

16 Mar / 12.15 / CRYSTAL LOUNGE

Ben Marx

Distributed Applications Tech Lead @ Subspace

Trusted autonomy

16 Mar / 15.20 / CRYSTAL BALLROOM

Schedule

Day 1 - 15 Mar 2018

Time	CRYSTAL BALLROOM	CRYSTAL LOUNGE	REGIMENTAL
08.00 - 09.00	REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST
09.00 - 09.15	WELCOME
09.15 - 10.00	Kostis Sagonas Keynote: CRYSTAL BALLROOM Testing Tools for the Erlang Ecosystem Beginner
10.00 - 10.15	CRYSTAL BALLROOM Update: Elixir Core Dev Team Beginner
10.15 - 10.45	COFFEE BREAK
10.45 - 11.30	CRYSTAL BALLROOM Why Elixir Matters: Functional Programming and Web Performance in the 21st Century	Sébastien Merle CRYSTAL LOUNGE From Cloud to Edge Networks Intermediate	Jesse J. Anderson REGIMENTAL Intro to Machine Learning Beginner
11.35 - 12.20	Robert Virding and Mariano Guerra CRYSTAL BALLROOM Implementing Languages on the BEAM Beginner	Jay Hayes CRYSTAL LOUNGE Metaprogramming: Programs that Write Programs	Christopher Coté REGIMENTAL Arduino, Elixir And Nerves: A Deep Dive Into the Firmata Protocol Intermediate
12.25 - 12.50	Jean Rouge CRYSTAL BALLROOM The Magic Behind Immutable Maps, Or Why Erlang Didn't Have Maps Years Earlier	Brujo Benavides CRYSTAL LOUNGE Opaque Structures and Other Yerbas Beginner	Andrew Thompson REGIMENTAL Bridging The Physical and Blockchain World With Erlang Intermediate
12.50 - 13.50	LUNCH
13.50 - 14.35	Mohnish Jadwani CRYSTAL BALLROOM Learning Elixir Better through Collaboration and Giving Back Beginner	Duncan Sparrell CRYSTAL LOUNGE Let it Be Hacked Intermediate	Brett Cameron REGIMENTAL Getting to Know Your Rabbit RabbitMQ (http://www.rabbitmq.com) is a popular 100% Erlang-based Open Source message queuing system that implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)... Beginner
14.40 - 15.25	Fred Hebert CRYSTAL BALLROOM The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Unexpected Intermediate	Paul Rogers CRYSTAL LOUNGE Is Security on Your Nerves?	Boshan Sun REGIMENTAL Understanding Erlang Term Beginner
15.30 - 15.55	Irina Guberman CRYSTAL BALLROOM High Performance Metrics Through Mutable Counters: A Bite of the Forbidden Fruit	Bernardo Amorim CRYSTAL LOUNGE CQRS and Event Sourcing Intermediate	Mike Watters REGIMENTAL Quaff that potion: saving $millions Beginner
15.55 - 16.25	COFFEE BREAK
16.25 - 17.10	Anna Neyzberg CRYSTAL BALLROOM Crypto + concurrency Beginner		REGIMENTAL Taking it to the metal
17.15 - 17.40	Erik Stenman CRYSTAL BALLROOM Aeternity: Scalable Smart Contracts Interfacing With Real World Data Intermediate	Emma Cunningham CRYSTAL LOUNGE Hype For Types - Using Dialyzer to Bring Type Checking to Your Elixir Code Intermediate	Geoffrey Lessel REGIMENTAL Gently Down the Stream
17.45 - 18.30	Miriam Pena Keynote: CRYSTAL BALLROOM Unsung heroes of the BEAM Beginner
18.30 - 22.00	CONFERENCE PARTY

Day 2 - 16 Mar 2018

Time	CRYSTAL BALLROOM	CRYSTAL LOUNGE	REGIMENTAL
09.00 - 09.05	WELCOME
09.05 - 09.50	Joe Armstrong Keynote: CRYSTAL BALLROOM The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science Beginner
09.50 - 10.05	Raimo Niskanen CRYSTAL BALLROOM Update: OTP Team Beginner
10.05 - 10.35	COFFEE BREAK
10.35 - 11.20	Jeff Ching CRYSTAL BALLROOM Designing Rich API Clients at Scale Beginner	Brett Cameron and David Brinnen CRYSTAL LOUNGE Next Generation SCADA: Monitoring and Controlling Devices in the Connected World Intermediate	Anthony Molinaro REGIMENTAL Packaging for Production
11.25 - 12.10	Anton Lavrik CRYSTAL BALLROOM Tools Everyone Needs - A Reflection On Building And Running A Server At Whatsapp	Raimo Niskanen CRYSTAL LOUNGE Gen_statem - the tool you never knew you always wanted Beginner	James Weaver REGIMENTAL Quantum Computing Exposed: Schrödinger's Grumpy Cat Beginner
12.15 - 12.40	Richard Kallos CRYSTAL BALLROOM Introducing Wrek; A Library For Executing Dependency Graphs	Bryan Hughes CRYSTAL LOUNGE LPWAN and Cellular IoT explained - How to connect devices in the wild In this talk, Brian will explain the differences between Low Power Wide Area Networks and Cellular IoT, and how to use them when deploying a real-world IoT solution in the wild, whether it is for remote wind and solar farms, rail, smart power poles, or real-time asset tracking for supply chain. Beginner	REGIMENTAL Building and Integrating A Data Platform Intermediate
12.40 - 13.40	LUNCH
13.40 - 14.25	Mariano Guerra CRYSTAL BALLROOM A Tour Through the Distributed System Zoo	Robert Carbone CRYSTAL LOUNGE wxErlang & Faithful Representation Beginner	Murali Kashaboina REGIMENTAL Erlang In Action – How Erlang Lets Us Create A Scalable Edge Based Iot Solution
14.30 - 15.15	Mark Allen CRYSTAL BALLROOM Spells, Hexes, and Charms: Running your Own Private Package Service Intermediate	Simon Thompson CRYSTAL LOUNGE Making It Lazy: never evaluate anything more than once Intermediate	Sam Williams REGIMENTAL Fighting Authoritarianism With Blockchain And Blockweaves Beginner
15.20 - 15.45	Ben Marx CRYSTAL BALLROOM Trusted autonomy Intermediate	Tian Chen CRYSTAL LOUNGE Release, Deploy, Monitor and Upgrade Elixir Services in Real World Intermediate	Adrian Cruz REGIMENTAL Mixing in Elixir to Build Search Beginner
15.45 - 16.15	COFFEE BREAK
16.15 - 17.00	Paul Schoenfelder CRYSTAL BALLROOM Releases and Elixir: Envisioning a more perfect union Intermediate	Scott Lystig Fritchie CRYSTAL LOUNGE Wide World of Actors: comparing the Pony language to Erlang Intermediate	Bruce Williams REGIMENTAL A GraphQL-on-Elixir Primer GraphQL, a data query language released by Facebook in 2015, has been growing steadily in popularity, with GraphQL APIs supplementing (and in many cases supplanting) REST APIs for use in modern client-side web and mobile applications. Beginner
17.05 - 17.50	Jessica DeVita Keynote: CRYSTAL BALLROOM Unreachable Code - A Conversation about Safety and Human Factors If I were to ask you what is your safety culture, what would that look like? Devops and continuous delivery and the tools that support it can offer us a measure of safety, but only against the things we think might go wrong. The importance of more dialogue on the nature of the relationship of humans and machines becomes apparent as twitter judges the UX of the Hawaii incident, while Equifax thinks email is a patching strategy. Beginner
17.50 - 18.00	CLOSING NOTES
18.00 - 19.00	LEAVING DRINKS

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