We BEAM Together

Thank you for joining and see you at our next event! Code BEAM America is the only North American event designed to bring the Erlang and Elixir communities together.

This was our second American VIRTUAL event for the year with a brand new line up of world-class speakers sharing the latest use cases, coolest new frameworks and challenging you to improve your programming and the entire Erlang Ecosystem.

Code BEAM America was held at Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) to suit attendees on both the US West and East Coast.

OUR NEXT CONFERENCES

3 x 0.5

DAYS

TRACKS

40+

SPEAKERS

200+

ATTENDEES

Code BEAM V America Attendee

Code BEAM V is a top-notch conference for meeting and learning from the best in the Elixir and Erlang community!

Code BEAM V America Attendee

The toucan app was a choice above all others. It helped it feel like a community again.

Code BEAM V America Attendee

It honestly was the best online conference I've seen this year. The community engagement was great and the talks were excellent. The format worked, we all understand zoom etc better than we did at the beginning of the pandemic. It really went off with out a visible hitch! Well done!

Code BEAM V America Attendee

I loved the Toucan app. Of any electronic solution I have used during the pandemic it came the closest to making it feel like I was in the same room with other actual people. I also really enjoyed the one-day tutorial with Steven Nuñez and Sophie DeBenedetto. It was one of the best 1-day trainings I have done in my career.

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What not where: Sharing in a world of distributed, persistent memory /// Peter Alvaro

#Code BEAM America 2021

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WHERE THE BEAM COMMUNITY CAN COME TOGETHER

Now Going Virtual!

The number of adopters of Elixir is growing including some of the world’s biggest eCommerce giants while Erlang continues to underpin some of the biggest fintechs and messaging platforms in the world.

Created by developers, Code BEAM America is dedicated to bringing the best minds in the Erlang and Elixir communities together to SHARE. LEARN. INSPIRE. Over 3 half days you will learn from 30+ cutting-edge talks and our in-depth training program, how BEAM languages are used in production and revolutionising areas like eCommerce, Engineering, IoT, Gaming, Blockchain, Fintech, Security, Machine Learning and more!

As always, community and social interaction will be at the core of the event to enable everyone to connect and interact to share the same experience as with our physical conferences. We offer the opportunity to mingle and meet naturally during coffee breaks and after show virtual party.

Let’s stay connected!

Keep up with Code BEAM America

REGISTER - Grab cheaper tickets while you can. Virtual tutorial tickets are selled as combo with conference tickets.

GROUP TICKETS - Contact us for special group discounts for group bookings.

ACADEMIC TICKETS - We love students and academics. Erlang Ecosystem Foundation again is sponsoring tickets - apply earlier than later!

DIVERSITY SCHEME - We're committed to diversity at Code BEAM America. The application process closes on 22 October 2021.

VOLUNTEER - Join the Code BEAM America family and get free access to the virtual conference!

Sign up to the Code BEAM SF mailing list for the latest updates, or follow @CodeBEAMio to be reminded of all of our key dates, speaker announcements, and ticket news.

THEMES

INTRODUCTION TO ERLANG AND ELIXIR

If you're new to the languages there's no better place to start. The community is super helpful and supportive. And with the co-creator of Erlang and creator of Elixir in attnedance you'll be learning with the best.

LATEST ON THE BEAM ERLANG VM

Come and speak with Erlang committers about what's new in the Erlang eco-system.

SCALING AND RELIABILITY

Once you learn the potential of the BEAM, it's time to learn how to put it to good use in the real world. Join us to hear the stories of Erlang and Elixir in production and share your own experiences.

PRODUCTION USE CASES

In this track, we'll learn from other's experience, where things have been peachy and where they haven't been so much. The conferecne is set-up for you to ask the questions you want and to help others with the answrs to theirs.

FRAMEWORKS, TOOLS, LIBRARIES

In the frameworks track, you will discover what's coming next with frameworks like Phoenix, Nerves and more. This is the conference where people choose to share their new projects and releases.

WEB AND API

The BEAM is suitable for rapid web application development. There is much to learn about the technology's potential and we provide the time and space at our virtual conference to dig a little deeper.

Our speakers

Quinn Wilton

Collector of Dead Languages

Keynote:

100 Years of Erlang

Peter Alvaro

Computer Science Assistant Professor at the University of California

Keynote:

What not where: Sharing in a world of distributed, persistent memory

Boyd Multerer

Creator of Scenic and lead engineering for Xbox Live, XNA

Keynote:

Trust but Isolate. The future of software

Alda Rocha

Paved the way for diversity, inclusion, mental health and social issues at tech events

Keynote:

How community can change people's lives.

Sean Cribbs

Experienced tech leader and long-time BEAMer

Keynote:

Elixr Outlaws: Live from Undisclosed Locations

Chris Keathley

Dynamic Language Apologist, Elixir hacker, Senior Engineer

Keynote:

Elixr Outlaws: Live from Undisclosed Locations

Amos King

CEO @ Binary Noggin, @TheErlef member, Co-Host of Elixir Outlaws

Keynote:

Elixr Outlaws: Live from Undisclosed Locations

Anna Neyzberg

Co-founder of ElixirBridge

Keynote:

Elixr Outlaws: Live from Undisclosed Locations

Anna Lito Michala

Researching better systems for IoT at the University of Glasgow.

Machine learning, IoT and Erlang: is this the right mix for reliable federated learning?

#Case studies

Hideki Takase

Embedded/IoT Researcher

Rclex: A Library for Robotics to meet Elixir

#Frameworks

Vanessa Lee

Senior Software Engineer at Interfolio

And Yet Akin: Name Disambiguation in Elixir

#Tools

Maxim Fedorov

Performance & scalability engineer

Fireside chat on BEAM security

Harnessing OTP through Continuous Integration

#Case studies

Adi Iyengar

Senior Software Engineer/Architect; Elixir, TDD & Open Source Advocate

Writing a well-tested & deterministic Elixir book

#Tools

Digit

Generalist

Macaroons + Elixir: Distributed API Authorization

#Web & APIs

Eric Saxby

Senior software engineer at Geometer LLC

It's made of people

#Tools

Jacqueline Manzi

Engineering Manager and seasoned Full Stack software engineer at Mux

Practical uses for Metaprogramming in a highly trafficked web API

#Web & APIs

Jeffery Utter

Senior Software Engineer at Bleacher Report

Fables and Foibles of Observability and Monitoring

#Tools

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tagline

Learning Elixir and OTP through LiveView

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Marc Sugiyama

Experienced Erlang engineer, consultant, and trainer

When you have to make it faster

#Case studies

Niko Tsikoudis

Software engineer at Datometry

When you have to make it faster

#Case studies

Victor Caciquinho

Software Engineer and creator of Neo4Ecto an Ecto adapter for Neo4j

Using Neo4j and the BEAM to evaluate Students' Proficiency

#Case studies

Willian Frantz

Software Alchemist, love to create and maintain distributed bugs.

Using Neo4j and the BEAM to evaluate Students' Proficiency

#Case studies

Jan Cieśla

MongooseIM developer, bringing scalability and reliability to FinTech industry

Survivor bias in software testing, observability and monitoring.

#Case studies

Daniel Widgren

Co-founder of Nova

Getting around with NOVA

#Web & APIs

Niclas Axelsson

Co-founder of Nova

Getting around with NOVA

#Web & APIs

Michał Śledź

One of the authors of WebRTC implementation in Elixir

WebRTC redefined - a new SFU API for Elixir from Membrane Framework.

#Web & APIs

Sean Cribbs

Experienced tech leader and long-time BEAMer

Rearchitecting Toward Resilience

#Case studies

Robert Carbone

Visualizing the BEAM will Change the World

Stack to the Future

#BEAM

William Huba

Distributed systems engineer and co-founder of JumpWire

Ditch the DB: Using In-Memory Replicated Distributed State

#Tools

Benoit Chesneau

Edge computing artisan

Building a Serverless platform for Edge Computing

#Frameworks

Dmytro Lytovchenko

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

typed_erlc: Prototype of a safe and fast compiler for Erlang

#BEAM

Simon Unge

Senior Developer at Zoom Communications

EDBG: Your TTY debugger

#BEAM

José Valim

Creator of the Elixir Programming Language, Chief Adoption Officer at Dashbit

Ask me anything about Elixir

Kenneth Lundin

Head of the Erlang/OTP Team at Ericsson

Ask me anything about OTP

John Högberg

Erlang compiler & VM developer

Ask me anything about OTP

Nicholas Adams

Director of global support operations at T.I Tokyo

Fireside chat on Riak

#Frameworks

Andrei Zavada

Software Engineer at TI-Tokyo, tending to riaks

Fireside chat on Riak

#Frameworks

Rachel Curioso

Software consultant at Erlang Solutions and Elixir Lab Co-Host

Fireside chat on how to grow your local community / Como criar sua comunidade local

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Joel Jucá

Founder and host of Elug CE

Fireside chat on how to grow your local community / Como criar sua comunidade local

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Renan "Milhouse" Ranelli

Elixir and cocktail mixer

Fireside chat on how to grow your local community / Como criar sua comunidade local

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Manuel Rubio

Polyglot Developer, Writer, Manager and Trainer

Panel discussion on Beamer's modern life ó La vida moderna de un Beamer

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Laura M. Castro

Professor and lead researcher @ University of A Coruña

Panel discussion on Beamer's modern life ó La vida moderna de un Beamer

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Brujo Benavides

🧙‍♂️ Oxbow Code Killer 🔥

Panel discussion on Beamer's modern life ó La vida moderna de un Beamer

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Anayeli Malvaez

Backend Developer at SoundTrackYourBrand

Panel discussion on Beamer's modern life ó La vida moderna de un Beamer

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Raúl Chouza

Elixir Programmer at Erlang Solutions

Panel discussion on Beamer's modern life ó La vida moderna de un Beamer

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Carlo Gilmar

GitHub Campus Expert, ilustration and founder of Visual Partnership

Panel discussion on Beamer's modern life ó La vida moderna de un Beamer

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Sophie DeBenedetto

Senior Engineer at Github and Co-author of Programming Phoenix LiveView

Panel Discussion: Message Protocols and The BEAM

#Frameworks

Ayanda Dube

Principal Engineer and RabbitMQ Contributor

Panel Discussion: Message Protocols and The BEAM

#Frameworks

Fireside chat on RabbitMQ

#Frameworks

Paweł Chrząszcz

Architect @ Erlang Solutions

Panel Discussion: Message Protocols and The BEAM

#Frameworks

Dylan Kennedy

Global VP @ Emqx.io

Panel Discussion: Message Protocols and The BEAM

#Frameworks

Karl Nilsson

Karl wrestles distributed rabbits for a living

Fireside chat on RabbitMQ

#Frameworks

Frank Hunleth

Nerves co-author

Fireside chat of Embedded programming on the BEAM

Peer Stritzinger

GRiSP Inventor, Distributed Computing in IoT and everywhere

Fireside chat of Embedded programming on the BEAM

Robert Virding

Co-creator of Erlang, Trainer

Fireside chat on BEAM Languages with Erlang co-inventor Robert Virding

#BEAM

Mariano Guerra

Programmer (Instadeq)

Fireside chat on BEAM Languages with Erlang co-inventor Robert Virding

#BEAM

Omer Kilic

IoT Plumber at Ordinatra Minima

MQTT for Home/Building Automation Hardware Interfacing

Bram Verburg

Grand Prior of Software Security @ Bluecode

Fireside chat on BEAM security

Schedule

Day 1 - 03 Nov 2021

Time	Zoom 1	Zoom 2	Zoom 3
09.00 - 09.15	Welcome - timing in Pacific Time Zone
09.15 - 10.00	Quinn Wilton Keynote: Zoom 1 100 Years of Erlang
10.05 - 10.30	Kenneth Lundin and John Högberg Zoom 1 Ask me anything about OTP
10.40 - 11.05	Jan Cieśla Zoom 1 Survivor bias in software testing, observability and monitoring. #Case studies	Benoit Chesneau Zoom 2 Building a Serverless platform for Edge Computing Intermediate #Frameworks	Frank Hunleth and Peer Stritzinger Zoom 3 Fireside chat of Embedded programming on the BEAM #BEAM #Frameworks
11.15 - 11.55	Marc Sugiyama and Niko Tsikoudis Zoom 1 When you have to make it faster Intermediate #Case studies	Daniel Widgren and Niclas Axelsson Zoom 2 Getting around with NOVA Beginner #Web & APIs	Sophie DeBenedetto , Ayanda Dube , Paweł Chrząszcz and Dylan Kennedy Zoom 3 Panel Discussion: Message Protocols and The BEAM #Frameworks
11.55 - 12.25	Coffee Break
12.25 - 13.05	Vanessa Lee Zoom 1 And Yet Akin: Name Disambiguation in Elixir Beginner #Tools	Dmytro Lytovchenko Zoom 2 typed_erlc: Prototype of a safe and fast compiler for Erlang Intermediate #BEAM	Maxim Fedorov and Bram Verburg Zoom 3 Fireside chat on BEAM security
13.15 - 13.40	Anna Lito Michala Zoom 1 Machine learning, IoT and Erlang: is this the right mix for reliable federated learning? #Case studies	Eric Saxby Zoom 2 It's made of people Intermediate #Tools	Nicholas Adams and Andrei Zavada Zoom 3 Fireside chat on Riak #Frameworks

Day 2 - 04 Nov 2021

Time	Zoom 1	Zoom 2	Zoom 3
09.00 - 09.05	Welcome - timing in Pacific Time Zone
09.05 - 09.50	Peter Alvaro Keynote: Zoom 1 What not where: Sharing in a world of distributed, persistent memory
10.00 - 10.40	Michał Śledź Zoom 1 WebRTC redefined - a new SFU API for Elixir from Membrane Framework. #Web & APIs	William Huba Zoom 2 Ditch the DB: Using In-Memory Replicated Distributed State Advanced #Tools	Manuel Rubio , Laura M. Castro , Brujo Benavides , Anayeli Malvaez , Raúl Chouza , Carlo Gilmar and Zoom 3 Panel discussion on Beamer's modern life ó La vida moderna de un Beamer #Introduction to Erlang & Elixir
10.50 - 11.15	Jacqueline Manzi Zoom 1 Practical uses for Metaprogramming in a highly trafficked web API Beginner #Web & APIs	Jeffery Utter Zoom 2 Fables and Foibles of Observability and Monitoring Intermediate #Tools	Ayanda Dube and Karl Nilsson Zoom 3 Fireside chat on RabbitMQ #Frameworks
11.15 - 11.45	Coffee Break
11.45 - 12.10	Simon Unge Zoom 1 EDBG: Your TTY debugger Beginner #BEAM	Adi Iyengar Zoom 2 Writing a well-tested & deterministic Elixir book #Tools	Rachel Curioso , Joel Jucá and Renan "Milhouse" Ranelli Zoom 3 Fireside chat on how to grow your local community / Como criar sua comunidade local #Introduction to Erlang & Elixir
12.20 - 12.45	Victor Caciquinho and Willian Frantz Zoom 1 Using Neo4j and the BEAM to evaluate Students' Proficiency #Case studies	Robert Carbone Zoom 2 Stack to the Future #BEAM	Omer Kilic Zoom 3 MQTT for Home/Building Automation Hardware Interfacing
12.55 - 13.40	Boyd Multerer Keynote: Zoom 1 Trust but Isolate. The future of software

Day 3 - 05 Nov 2021

Time	Zoom 1	Zoom 2	Zoom 3
09.00 - 09.05	Welcome - timing in Pacific Time Zone
09.05 - 09.50	Alda Rocha Keynote: Zoom 1 How community can change people's lives. Beginner
09.55 - 10.20	José Valim Zoom 1 Ask me anything about Elixir Beginner
10.30 - 10.55	name Zoom 1 Learning Elixir and OTP through LiveView Beginner #Introduction to Erlang & Elixir	Hideki Takase Zoom 2 Rclex: A Library for Robotics to meet Elixir Intermediate #Frameworks	Mariano Guerra and Robert Virding Zoom 3 Fireside chat on BEAM Languages with Erlang co-inventor Robert Virding #BEAM
11.05 - 11.45	Sean Cribbs Zoom 1 Rearchitecting Toward Resilience Intermediate #Case studies	Maxim Fedorov Zoom 2 Harnessing OTP through Continuous Integration #Case studies	Digit Zoom 3 Macaroons + Elixir: Distributed API Authorization Intermediate #Web & APIs
11.45 - 12.15	Coffee Break
12.15 - 13.00	Anna Neyzberg , Amos King , Chris Keathley and Sean Cribbs Keynote: Zoom 1 Elixr Outlaws: Live from Undisclosed Locations
13.00 - 13.15	Closing notes
13.15 - 13.45	Afterparty - time to mingle!

TRAINING

We offer workshop-style, one or half-day TUTORIALS that provide hands-on learning experiences. All courses are run online in Pacific Standard time zone.

Architecting Reactive Systems for Scalability and Availability

Tutorial/

Francesco Cesarini

Time/

01 Nov 2021
09:00 - 13:00

The BEAM VM under the hood

Tutorial/

Dmytro Lytovchenko

Time/

08 Nov 2021
09:00 - 17:00

EEF STUDENTS TICKETS!

As part of our efforts to grow the community, the Education working group at the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation would like to invite students, underrepresented groups in tech, people with disabilities or people who could otherwise not afford to, to attend the Code Beam America virtual conference for free.

CLOSED

DIVERISTY & 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 2021.

CLOSED

VENUE

JOIN US ONLINE (SF spirit)

This is a global event accessible to all online!

In spirit, we will be in San Francisco, the original location of the Code BEAM SF event originally scheduled at the time of this event!

Call for Talks - CLOSED!

Calling all #Erlang and #Elixirlang devs! We want to see you share your amazing work at #CodeBEAM this November! We’re accepting talks to be delivered virtually from anywhere in the world. Deadline: 25th July!

SUBMIT

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Sophie DeBenedetto

Senior Engineer at Github and Co-author of Programming Phoenix LiveView

Amos King

CEO @ Binary Noggin, @TheErlef member, Co-Host of Elixir Outlaws

Rachel Curioso

Software consultant at Erlang Solutions and Elixir Lab Co-Host

Francesco Cesarini

Co-author of Designing for scalability with Erlang/OTP

Bryan Paxton

EEF Board Member

VOLUNTEERS

Want to join one of the most exciting IT conferences in America free of charge? Join our team as a volunteer! Helping us means access to the coolest talks, most interesting people, chats, BEAM quiz and hallway Toucan lounge!

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Code BEAM V America Attendee

Code BEAM V America Attendee

Code BEAM V America Attendee

Code BEAM V America Attendee

videos

How Community Can Change People's Lives /// Alda Rocha

100 Years of Erlang /// Quinn Wilton

Trust but Isolate The future of software /// Boyd Multerer

What not where: Sharing in a world of distributed, persistent memory /// Peter Alvaro

WHERE THE BEAM COMMUNITY CAN COME TOGETHER

THEMES

Our speakers

Quinn Wilton

Peter Alvaro

Boyd Multerer

Alda Rocha

Sean Cribbs

Chris Keathley

Amos King

Anna Neyzberg

Anna Lito Michala

Hideki Takase

Vanessa Lee

Maxim Fedorov

Adi Iyengar

Digit

Eric Saxby

Jacqueline Manzi

Jeffery Utter

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Marc Sugiyama

Niko Tsikoudis

Victor Caciquinho

Willian Frantz

Jan Cieśla

Daniel Widgren

Niclas Axelsson

Michał Śledź

Sean Cribbs

Robert Carbone

William Huba

Benoit Chesneau

Dmytro Lytovchenko

Simon Unge

José Valim

Kenneth Lundin

John Högberg

Nicholas Adams

Andrei Zavada

Rachel Curioso

Joel Jucá

Renan "Milhouse" Ranelli

Manuel Rubio

Laura M. Castro

Brujo Benavides

Anayeli Malvaez

Raúl Chouza

Carlo Gilmar

Sophie DeBenedetto

Ayanda Dube

Paweł Chrząszcz

Dylan Kennedy

Karl Nilsson

Frank Hunleth

Peer Stritzinger

Robert Virding

Mariano Guerra

Omer Kilic

Bram Verburg

Schedule

Day 1 - 03 Nov 2021

Day 2 - 04 Nov 2021

Day 3 - 05 Nov 2021

TRAINING

EEF STUDENTS TICKETS!

DIVERISTY & INCLUSION

VENUE

JOIN US ONLINE (SF spirit)

Call for Talks - CLOSED!