THE ALTERNATIVE TECH CONFERENCE

We bring together a unique mix of programming language inventors, developers, innovators, researchers, and visionaries to help solve real-world problems using innovative, non-mainstream tech.

This year Code Mesh goes virtual - opening up the conference to an even more exciting spectrum of speakers, attendees and partners. It will run across timezones for attendees in the Americas and Europe with the opportunity to catch up with any talks you miss via the conference app.

DAY 1 (UK TIME) 10 AM - 6.30 PM
DAY 2 (US EASTERN TIME) 11AM - 19 PM

Code Mesh will demonstrate how thinking beyond the conventional can empower you to master the challenges of implementing distributed systems in the multicore era.

The lineup is what you have come to expect from Code Mesh, with Cynthia Solomon speaking about Logo, functional programming pioneer David Turner on his recent open-sourcing of Miranda, Turing Award winner Leslie Lamport doing an ask me anything session on Maths and Programming and Felienne Hermans leading a panel on Type Systems featuring Scala co-creator, Martin Odersky and other well known programming language inventors. Speakers are from some of the biggest and best companies in tech including - Facebook, Google, Lightbend, Red Hat and others.

A combined Half or Full-Day Tutorial and Conference ticket combo can be purchased via our Eventbrite page which you can reach from the ticket section below. Once on Eventbrite, you can select which of the inspiring tutorials you would like to attend - for any help you can email us directly at training@erlang-solutions.com

Don't forget that, as the conference will run virtually across US and European time zones, people who have been unable to visit Code Mesh previously will, at last, have the opportunity to enjoy live talks, workshops, networking and idea-sharing no matter where they are located. SHARE. LEARN. INSPIRE.

OUR NEXT CONFERENCES

videos

Inside Every Calculus Is A Little Algebra Waiting To Get Out /// Erik Meijer

Open Sourcing Miranda /// David Turner

Cultures of Programming /// Tomas Petricek

Panel discussion: Types for All: From weak to strong, from static to dynamic /// Gilad Bracha , Sophia Drossopoulou , Martin Odersky and Edwin Brady

A Computer Culture for Children /// Cynthia Solomon

Concurrent Affairs: Procedural Programming Unlocked /// Kevlin Henney

ALL MEDIA

THE ALTERNATIVE TECH CONFERENCE

2
DAYS
7
THEMES
50+
SPEAKERS
300+
ATTENDEES

CODE MESH V 2020 - BACK THIS NOVEMBER!

Code Mesh V is a two-day virtual conference, bringing together users and speakers of different functional programming languages and alternative tech.

The conference will run virtually across US and European time zones so that you can participate no matter where you are located.

Day 1: Thursday, 10:00 - 18:00 GMT Check the times where you are

Day 2: Friday, 16:00 - 24:00 GMT or 11:00 - 19:00 US Eastern Time Check the times where you are.

We bring together a wide range of alternative technologies and programming languages and the diverse people who use them to solve real-world problems in the software industry. We promote “the right tools for the job", as opposed to automatically choosing the tools at hand. And by ‘tools’ we mean technologies, programming languages, libraries, databases, operating systems, hardware platforms, or more general techniques, styles or paradigms.

In the spirit of learning from one another, it encourages the sharing of innovative ideas, through inspiring projects, top talks, in-depth tutorials, and networking opportunities.

A combined Half or Full-Day Tutorial and Conference ticket combo can be purchased via our Eventbrite page which you can reach from the ticket section below. Once on Eventbrite, you can select which of the inspiring tutorials you would like to attend - for any help you can email us directly at training@erlang-solutions.com

If you've never been to the conference, check out some of the Best Talks from past Code Mesh events.

HOW TO ATTEND

HOW TO ATTEND

TICKETS - Register as an attendee to the conference.

TUTORIALS - Purchase a combo ticket for Tutorial + Conference ticket on Eventbrite here (you chooses your course after selection the half or full day course length ticket type)

STUDENT AND ACADEMIC TICKETS - We love students and academics. Get a special academic discount.

DIVERSITY SCHEME - We're committed to diversity at Code Mesh V. Applications to be submitted by 22 October 2020 apply here.

VOLUNTEER - Join the Code Mesh family and get free access to the conference! Applications to be submitted by 22 October 2020 apply here.

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Our speakers

Tomas Petricek

Not just a computer scientist

Keynote:

Cultures of Programming

05 Nov / 10.15 / Track 1

Felienne Hermans

Assistant Professor Delft University of Technology

Keynote:

Panel Discussion: Types for All: From weak to strong, from static to dynamic

05 Nov / 17.10 / Track 2

Cynthia Solomon

Co-creator of Logo, author of "Computer Environments for Children"

Keynote:

A Computer Culture for Children. Encouraging Children’s Inventive Spirit

06 Nov / 16.15 / Track 1

Erik Meijer

If you look close enough, you discover dualities everywhere.

Keynote:

Keynote: Inside Every Calculus Is A Little Algebra Waiting To Get Out

06 Nov / 23.15 / Track 1

Leslie Lamport

Author of LaTeX, Researcher @ Microsoft

Ask the expert - Thinking Mathematically Above The Code Level

06 Nov / 20.40 / Track 1

Philippa A. Gardner

Professor of Theoretical Computer Science

Gillian: a Multi-language Platform for Compositional Symbolic Analysis

05 Nov / 13.45 / Track 2

David Turner

Designer of SASL, KRC and Miranda

Open Sourcing Miranda

05 Nov / 11.30 / Track 1

Laura Bocchi

Senior Lecturer @ University of Kent

Protocol engineering for communicating actors

06 Nov / 17.30 / Track 2

Herbert Daly

Academic, Talent Scout, Advocate @ University of Wolverhampton

A funny thing happened on the way to the future...' - Why Mainframes Still Matter

05 Nov / 12.50 / Track 1

Sophia Drossopoulou

Professor, Imperial College London

Panel discussion: Types for All: From weak to strong, from static to dynamic

05 Nov / 17.10 / Track 1

Martin Odersky

Inventor of the Scala, founder of Lightbend

Ask Me Anything sessions with Scala Creator

05 Nov / 14.40 / Track 1

Panel discussion: Types for All: From weak to strong, from static to dynamic

05 Nov / 17.10 / Track 1

Kofi Gumbs

UI Engineer @Twitter

Teaching WebGL to Dance to Music

06 Nov / 18.50 / Track 1

Mary Grygleski

Passionate community builder who believes in using tech for good

Deploying a Modern Serverless Reactive container to the Cloud

06 Nov / 18.50 / Track 3

Satnam Singh

Software Engineer at Google Research

A True Heart Of Silicon

06 Nov / 22.20 / Track 2

Roopsha Samanta

Verifies, repairs, and synthesizes code @ Purdue University

MANTIS: Semantics-driven Inductive Program Synthesis

06 Nov / 19.45 / Track 1

Kevlin Henney

Words and Code and Words about Code

Concurrent Affairs: Procedural Programming Unlocked

05 Nov / 13.45 / Track 1

Elizabeth Ramirez

Working @ the intersection of High-Performance Computing, Numerical Linear Algebra, and Machine Learning.

Ask Me Anything Session on Machine Learning and AI

05 Nov / 14.40 / Track 3

The Linear Algebra of Deep Learning

05 Nov / 16.15 / Track 3

Ron Pressler

Veteran programmer, leader of OpenJDK's Project Loom

Why User-Mode Threads Are Often the Correct Answer

06 Nov / 21.25 / Track 2

Veronica Lopez

Member of the Kubernetes Core Team

Panel Discussion: The number of orchestration technologies is too damn high!

06 Nov / 21.25 / Track 3

Sergey Bykov

Bringing Cloud down to Earth

State of Affairs or Affairs of State

05 Nov / 15.20 / Track 1

Viktória Fördős

Erlanger @ Cisco NSO core

Security of the BEAM

05 Nov / 12.50 / Track 3

Jonas Bonér

Founder & CTO at Lightbend

Cloudstate - Towards Stateful Serverless

05 Nov / 11.30 / Track 3

Nobuko Yoshida

Professor of Computing at Imperial College London

Session Types: a History and Applications

05 Nov / 16.15 / Track 1

Edwin Brady

Creator of the Idris programming language; Lecturer

Panel discussion: Types for All: From weak to strong, from static to dynamic

05 Nov / 17.10 / Track 1

Dependent Type Driven Program Synthesis in Idris

06 Nov / 17.30 / Track 3

Anahit Pogosova

Lead Cloud Software Engineer at Solita

Ask me anything on Serverless

05 Nov / 14.40 / Track 2

Serverless Data Streaming on AWS

05 Nov / 15.20 / Track 3

Aaron Turner

Core team member of AssemblyScript, Creator / Maintainer of WasmByExample

Building a better web with WebAssembly at the edge

06 Nov / 22.20 / Track 3

Chelsea Troy

By day, writer of code. By night, researcher of software risks. By always, lover of bubble tea.

What Counts as a Programming Language?

06 Nov / 22.20 / Track 1

William Byrd

Relational programming and program synthesis

What can we Learn from Pro-Gamers?

05 Nov / 15.20 / Track 2

James Roper

Creator of Cloudstate

Cloudstate - Towards Stateful Serverless

05 Nov / 11.30 / Track 3

Oskar Wickström

Functional programming, architecture, and testing

Quickstrom: Specifying and Testing Web Applications

05 Nov / 12.50 / Track 2

Valentin Rothberg

A Bavarian living in France working on all-things containers.

Ask me Anything on Containers and Orchestration

05 Nov / 12.10 / Track 2

Podman - create, run and secure Linux containers

05 Nov / 13.45 / Track 3

Ramsey Nasser

Lisp Compilers and Video Games

Building My First Lisp Compiler

05 Nov / 16.15 / Track 2

Bernardo Amorim

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

Learn You Some Lambda Calculus

06 Nov / 17.30 / Track 1

Francis Toth

Principal Engineer @ Contramap. Supports strongly-typed Functional Programming

How I learned to stop worrying and love Functional Design

06 Nov / 21.25 / Track 1

Simon Tabor

Principal Software Engineer @ DAZN with a passion for scaling APIs

Serverless WebSockets at Scale

06 Nov / 19.45 / Track 3

Lukas Larsson

Erlang VM core committer

JIT Compiler for Erlang/OTP

06 Nov / 18.50 / Track 2

Dmytro Lytovchenko

Senior developer at Erlang Solutions, refactoring terrible software to be pretty and readable

Hitchhiker's Tour of the BEAM

05 Nov / 11.30 / Track 2

Dean Wampler

Author of O'Reilly's "What Is Ray?" report and "Programming Scala, Third Edition"

Ray: A System for High-performance, Distributed Computing

06 Nov / 19.45 / Track 2

Bryan Hunt

Open source contributor, solutions architect at Erlang solutions

Panel Discussion: The number of orchestration technologies is too damn high!

06 Nov / 21.25 / Track 3

Gilad Bracha

Computational Theologist Emeritus. Known for Java specs, but proud of Newspeak

Panel discussion: Types for All: From weak to strong, from static to dynamic

05 Nov / 17.10 / Track 1

David Schainker

Let it crash

Panel Discussion: The number of orchestration technologies is too damn high!

06 Nov / 21.25 / Track 3

Thomas Depierre

Building collaborative Software Agents

Panel Discussion: The number of orchestration technologies is too damn high!

06 Nov / 21.25 / Track 3

Jani Leppanen

In building services that power typographic features in Adobe's applications, efficiency equals happiness.

Panel Discussion: The number of orchestration technologies is too damn high!

06 Nov / 21.25 / Track 3

Jake Morrison

Lover of Elixir, DevOps and green tea

Panel Discussion: The number of orchestration technologies is too damn high!

06 Nov / 21.25 / Track 3

Erlang Creators

Bjarne Däcker, Mike Williams, Robert Virding

Ask Me Anything with Erlang Creators

05 Nov / 12.10 / Track 1

Schedule

Day 1 - 05 Nov 2020

Time	Track 1	Track 2	Track 3
10.00 - 10.15	Welcome - GMT timing!
10.15 - 11.15	Tomas Petricek Keynote: Track 1 Cultures of Programming
11.30 - 12.10	David Turner Track 1 Open Sourcing Miranda Beginner	Dmytro Lytovchenko Track 2 Hitchhiker's Tour of the BEAM	Jonas Bonér and James Roper Track 3 Cloudstate - Towards Stateful Serverless Intermediate
12.10 - 12.40	Erlang Creators Track 1 Ask Me Anything with Erlang Creators	Valentin Rothberg Track 2 Ask me Anything on Containers and Orchestration
12.50 - 13.30	Herbert Daly Track 1 A funny thing happened on the way to the future...' - Why Mainframes Still Matter Beginner	Oskar Wickström Track 2 Quickstrom: Specifying and Testing Web Applications Intermediate	Viktória Fördős Track 3 Security of the BEAM
13.45 - 14.25	Kevlin Henney Track 1 Concurrent Affairs: Procedural Programming Unlocked Intermediate	Philippa A. Gardner Track 2 Gillian: a Multi-language Platform for Compositional Symbolic Analysis	Valentin Rothberg Track 3 Podman - create, run and secure Linux containers Intermediate
14.40 - 15.10	Martin Odersky Track 1 Ask Me Anything sessions with Scala Creator	Anahit Pogosova Track 2 Ask me anything on Serverless	Elizabeth Ramirez Track 3 Ask Me Anything Session on Machine Learning and AI
15.20 - 16.00	Sergey Bykov Track 1 State of Affairs or Affairs of State Intermediate	William Byrd Track 2 What can we Learn from Pro-Gamers?	Anahit Pogosova Track 3 Serverless Data Streaming on AWS
16.15 - 16.55	Nobuko Yoshida Track 1 Session Types: a History and Applications	Ramsey Nasser Track 2 Building My First Lisp Compiler Intermediate	Elizabeth Ramirez Track 3 The Linear Algebra of Deep Learning Intermediate
17.10 - 18.10	Sophia Drossopoulou , Martin Odersky , Edwin Brady , Felienne Hermans and Gilad Bracha Track 1 Panel discussion: Types for All: From weak to strong, from static to dynamic Beginner	Felienne Hermans Keynote: Track 2 Panel Discussion: Types for All: From weak to strong, from static to dynamic
18.10 - 18.20	Closing notes
18.30 - 19.00	Dylan Beattie unplugged
19.00 - 20.00	Birds of a Feather sessions

Day 2 - 06 Nov 2020

Time	Track 1	Track 2	Track 3
16.00 - 16.15	Welcome
16.15 - 17.15	Cynthia Solomon Keynote: Track 1 A Computer Culture for Children. Encouraging Children’s Inventive Spirit
17.30 - 18.10	Bernardo Amorim Track 1 Learn You Some Lambda Calculus Beginner	Laura Bocchi Track 2 Protocol engineering for communicating actors Intermediate	Edwin Brady Track 3 Dependent Type Driven Program Synthesis in Idris Advanced
18.10 - 18.40	Jane Waite and Cynthia Solomon Track 1 Ask Me Anything on Teaching Children to Code	John Hughes Track 2 Ask Me anything about Haskell
18.50 - 19.30	Kofi Gumbs Track 1 Teaching WebGL to Dance to Music Beginner	Lukas Larsson Track 2 JIT Compiler for Erlang/OTP Intermediate	Mary Grygleski Track 3 Deploying a Modern Serverless Reactive container to the Cloud Beginner
19.45 - 20.25	Roopsha Samanta Track 1 MANTIS: Semantics-driven Inductive Program Synthesis Beginner	Dean Wampler Track 2 Ray: A System for High-performance, Distributed Computing	Simon Tabor Track 3 Serverless WebSockets at Scale Intermediate
20.40 - 21.15	Leslie Lamport Track 1 Ask the expert - Thinking Mathematically Above The Code Level
21.25 - 22.05	Francis Toth Track 1 How I learned to stop worrying and love Functional Design Intermediate	Ron Pressler Track 2 Why User-Mode Threads Are Often the Correct Answer Why User-Mode Threads Are Often the Correct Answer Intermediate	Bryan Hunt , Veronica Lopez , David Schainker , Thomas Depierre , Jani Leppanen and Jake Morrison Track 3 Panel Discussion: The number of orchestration technologies is too damn high!
22.20 - 23.00	Chelsea Troy Track 1 What Counts as a Programming Language? Intermediate	Satnam Singh Track 2 A True Heart Of Silicon Intermediate	Aaron Turner Track 3 Building a better web with WebAssembly at the edge Intermediate
23.15 - 00.15	Erik Meijer Keynote: Track 1 Keynote: Inside Every Calculus Is A Little Algebra Waiting To Get Out

TUTORIALS

Friendly for Europe, Africa and the Americas. Check the starting times for London, Paris, New York, San Francisco and join us whenever is the most convenient for you! Choose the half or full-day ticket type from our Eventbrite page and then select your chosen tutorial. training@erlang-solutions.com

Haskell from Zero to Hero

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John Hughes

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04 Nov 2020
08:00 - 11:30 London 8.00AM, Paris 09.00AM

Highlights and Insights in Distributed Programming

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Peter Van Roy

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04 Nov 2020
13:00 - 16:30 New York 8.00AM, Paris 14.00PM

Introduction to TLA+

Tutorial/

Annette Bieniusa

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05 Nov 2020
16:00 - 19:30 New York 11.00AM, San Francisco 8.00AM

Architecting Reactive Systems for Scalability and Availability

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Francesco Cesarini

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05 Nov 2020
20:00 - 23:30 San Francisco 12.00PM, New York 15.00PM

Functional Software Architecture

Tutorial/

Michael Sperber

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06 Nov 2020
13:00 - 16:30 New York 8.00AM, Paris 14.00PM

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

We are always looking to improve diversity at our conferences. To help achieve this, we are providing free diversity places to under-represented groups in tech. Applications close on 22 October 2020.

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