We’re excited to announce that Code BEAM Europe 2026 is now open for talk submissions
There are three ways to get involved:
Submit a talk
Join the* waiting list to get the best ticket prices as an attendee
Become a sponsor
If you’re working with Erlang, Elixir, Gleam, or anything in the BEAM ecosystem, we’d love to hear from you -whether you’re deep into internals, scaling systems in production, or exploring new ideas.
Talk details:
20 or 40-minute slots
In-person at the Philharmonic in Haarlem, Netherlands
Presented to both a live and virtual audience
Topics we’re especially interested in this year:
Data sovereignty & digital autonomy
Open source sustainability
Backend & IoT architecture
BEAM adoption & team growth
Production realities & lessons learned
Scalability & green computing
Not sure if your idea fits? Submit it anyway — we’re always open to fresh perspectives.
If you’re new to speaking, the programme committee offers mentorship to help you shape your abstract and refine your slides.
We’re also committed to reflecting the diversity of the BEAM community. If you know someone doing great work, please encourage them to apply or suggest them through the submission form.
As part of my submission preparations I am walking through the submission form, and found a field “TBD” between blusky and github details. What do you expect to be done here?
Took me a while to understand that “X” was not a placeholder, but the name of a product/service formerly known as “twitter”, and rereading with that understanding put some sense in your sentence
Happy to see BEAM come to the Netherlands. Hoping the pricing will not break the bank for individuals with no company backing. For me at least the travel expenses are reduced to < 50 euros!
We’re also committed to reflecting the diversity of the BEAM community.
I ever get so confused about that. I still insist on helping white male with financial trouble as these too are part of the diverse community. We are not all well beings; especially those in trouble could use some support. Last time I addressed it and asked if the support was also including those, I got excluded from the topic. I trust our open nature and diverse community will prevent from that happening again.
Now, back to the invitation. Anyone already sharing their submission?
Subjective, so it is not a boolean. Last time I checked the prices seemed high - to me. Bill Gates and Elon Musk did not share my view.
For companies invested in the BEAM the prices are not an issue I suppose, but they might be too high for companies (and certainly individual) not in the ecosystem.
I did make the call for me as an individual that the price was too high for me at that time. Lets see how this year goes (I would not even need a hotel die to the short distance…)
For the record: not blaming, just observations with derived analysis (which might be 100% wrong).
Not every great idea fits a talk slot - and that’s exactly why we’re hosting an informal space at Code BEAM Europe 2026.
Think demos, panel discussions, hacking sessions, lightning talks, games, or conversations in your language of choice. If you have something you want to run or coordinate, we want to hear about it.
The best conferences happen in the spaces between the official programme. This is us making room for that. Have an idea? Let us know. 21–22 October · Philharmonic, Haarlem
Have an idea? Let us know.
21–22 October · Philharmonic, Haarlem
