Lambda Days
10th-anniversary edition! Let’s celebrate together this one-of-a-kind experience in the functional world.
5-6 June 2023
Kraków | Poland

Next year's dates: 27-28 May 2024

Thank you for celebrating with us our 10th anniversary and making it so special!

For nearly a decade, Lambda Days has brought the functional programming worlds of academia and industry together. The collision of practical application and research has offered an exciting fresh approach, regardless of your level of expertise.

Whether you’re new to Lambda Days or you are one of the many friendly faces we see regularly at our events, we were happy to celebrate with you.

Come to beautiful, sunny Krakow for Lambda Days to find out what is possible with functional programming - explore the latest in battle-tested Scala, Erlang and Haskell, experience the energy that F# and Elixir bring to the table, connect with the innovators working with Elm, Luna and Ocaml and see what will come next!

Why is it worth attending Lambda Days? Learn by watching the video invitation from Michał Ślaski, the co-creator of Lambda Days and Keynote speaker.

Some of the highlights this year:

  • Verse is the new programming language, designed at Epic Games as language of the metaverse. Simon Peyton Jones and Tim Sweeney will give us a sense of what it is, and what functional logic programming is about with their Keynote talk.
  • If you would like to learn a new approach to programming and delivering distributed systems, don't miss the presentation about Unison, which introduces a new perspective by combining effect systems and abilities.
  • Building a system is only the first step to its success, the next one is making sure it will stay alive. Concurrency and the actor model can help with load testing a system and making sure the SLAs are met.
  • Grasp how to make a safe and stable continuous deployment pipeline with highly distributed and stateful services - a battle story and lessons learnt talk.
  • Local-first software is getting more and more traction. Get to know more about it and see how functional programming helps with this new paradigm in a talk on ElectricSQL.
  • Functional programming can be seen in so many areas of the IT space. If you ever wondered how FP can be used with Postgres, now you can learn about TimescaleDB and how it helps build functional pipelines. 
  • Interested in Blockchain?  Watch a case study from which we will learn what helped build a successful, real-time and distributed blockchain network in Haskell that helped save millions of dollars of wasted effort.

Speakers

Programme

Day 1

June 5, 2023

Tap on hour to see the talks

8:00 - 9:00

REGISTRATION

9:00 - 9:30

WELCOME

10:30 - 11:00

COFFEE BREAK

12:20 - 12:40

Let it Be
Ariel Alexi

Lisp
Clojure
debugging

12:40 - 13:40

LUNCH BREAK

14:55 - 15:25

COFFEE BREAK

16:35 - 16:45

CLOSING NOTES

18:30 - 22:00

Afterparty (location: Aquarius Restaurant)


Day 2

June 6, 2023

Tap on hour to see the talks

8:30 - 9:00

REGISTRATION

9:00 - 9:15

WELCOME

10:25 - 10:55

Lightning Talks/pitch sessions about future of FP

10:55 - 11:25

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 12:15

The unbearable weight of glue
Mario Rogic

glue-code
complexity
type-safety



11:30 - 12:15

Stories in Open Source
Tobias Pfeiffer

Beginner-friendly
OpenSource

12:20 - 13:20

LUNCH BREAK

14:15 - 15:00

Unison: program differently
Adam Warski

Beginner-friendly
cloud
unison
distributed



14:15 - 15:00

Wire all the things!
Eric Torreborre

Haskell
modularity
wiring

15:00 - 15:30

COFFEE BREAK

17:25 - 17:40

CLOSING NOTES


Become a sponsor!

We need support from the community to make Lambda Days the best event it can possibly be. In return, we offer sponsors the opportunity to showcase technology and hire new talent. Sponsorship will also align your company with cutting-edge technology, engage and raise brand awareness with over 400 functional programming professionals. Explore our sponsorship possibilities and receive our brochure by sending us an email.

SPONSORS

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GOLD SPONSORS

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CALL FOR TALKS

Are you interested in presenting your thoughts on the subject of functional programming? Submit your presentation!

As of now we have identified the followig areas our audience would love to hear about:

  • Functional languages
  • Type Theory
  • Testing & Verification
  • Software and system design
  • Reactive Programming
  • Web programming
  • Computation in functional technologies
  • Applications and case studies

Is your presentation slightly outside that scope? Amaze and inspire us with your submission!

We’re happy to support candidates from under-represented groups in the software development community.

If you have not spoken at conferences before or need help in preparing, our programme committee members are happy to mentor and assist you with their feedback in the planning and delivery stages of your talk.

We’re also accepting talks for our Research Track - share your theoretical work with a large, diverse audience of scholars and practitioners. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to have your paper published in Computer Science (indexed in ESCI WoS and SCOPUS) journal. Just mark the correct field on the form to let us know if you are interested in having your work submitted for the journal.

The first round of reviews will take place in December. The second round in January can be cancelled if we receive enough submissions in the first round.

DEADLINES: first selection: 11/12/2022, second selection: 15/01/2023

Programme committee

John Hughes

Co-Designer Of Haskell And Quickcheck


Mary Sheeran

Professor at Chalmers


Simon Thompson

Computer science researcher @ University of Kent and ELTE


Katja Mordaunt

Tech-for-better dev & elm advocate


Łukasz Sowa

Managing Partner @ Iterators, Scala aficionado


Radek Szymczyszyn

Tech Lead @ Erlang Solutions


Mey Meisaron

Backend Developer at AppsFlyer


Michał Piotrowski

Tech Lead @ Erlang-Solutions


Mateusz Paciorek

Computer science researcher @ AGH University of Science and Technology


Venue



AUDITORIUM
MAXIMUM
UJ

Krupnicza 33

31-123 Kraków

Poland

DON'T MISS OUT!

Why should you attend Lambda Days 2023? (a.k.a. "why can’t I just watch the talk videos online for free instead…?")

Firstly, not all the videos will be published right after the conference and will be kept exclusive to the attendees for a couple months.

The greatest asset of any conference is the community behind it. The Lambda Days crowd is inquisitive, open-minded, friendly and known to motivate each other to learn and innovate.

They ask the right questions, recommend the best talks, point to concepts to explore, inspire and challenge preconceptions at every turn.

Want to make the most of the content our speakers prepare? Experience it live with a crowd of people as excited about it as you are!

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WHO'S IN THE MIX

ORGANIZERS

RESEARCH TRACK

PARTNERS

MEDIA PARTNERS

E-SHOP

To respond to your requests, we've added the minimalistic anniversary design to our e-shop with conference swag! You can now not only participate in Lambda Days 2023 but also order LD t-shirts (included in the ticket!), sweatshirts, mugs and many more items, from the comfort of your couch.

All items are ordered directly with Spreadshirt but are branded with the official Lambda Days branding. The store was created for our community but is a third-party supplier. Any issues with the items should be directed to the supplier and not Code Sync.

Code of Conduct

All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at our conference are required to agree with the following code of conduct. Organisers will enforce this code throughout the event. We are expecting cooperation from all participants to help ensuring a safe environment for everybody.

Our conference is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference space, including talks, workshops, parties, Twitter and other online media.

Please bring any concerns to the immediate attention of the event staff, or contact our Event Coordinator, Barbara Trojecka using our contact form. We thank our attendees for their help in keeping the event welcoming, respectful, and friendly to all participants.