About the Gathering
Welcome - you've found the information hub for the Gleam Gathering 2026.
GLEAM GATHERING 2026 IS A GO! We will be gathering on Saturday 21 February 2026 in Bristol, UK! We are truly honoured to announce our first keynote speaker: Louis Pilfold The interest forms made it clear that a key attraction would be seeing the main Gleamlin in person and he has kindly agreed to join us.
Speakers & Panellists
Louis Pilfold
Creator of the Gleam Language
Keynote: TBA
Giacomo Cavalieri
Gleam Core Team
Panel member: Chat with Gleam core team
Hayleigh Thompson
Gleam Core Team
Panel member: Chat with Gleam core team
Surya Rose
Gleam Core Team
Panel member: Chat with Gleam core team
Talk: Optimising the hell out of Gleam
Danielle Maywood
Speaker
Talk: Could WebAssembly be in Gleam's future?
Guillaume Heu
Speaker
Talk: How I used Lustre to build the best Eve Online arbitrage tool
John Mikael Lindbakk
Speaker
Talk: Riding the Sour Train: Building surtoget.no with Gleam
Robert Durst
Speaker
Talk: 10,000 Lines Later: When a Tool Became a Compiler (and I Became a Gleamlin)
Yoshie Reusch
Speaker
Talk: Inside the Lustre runtime
Venue
We are really excited to be hosting GG26 at Origin Workspace in the heart of Bristol. A co-working space during the week, Origin was built to encourage innovation and community.
How do I get there?
Bristol is a really well connected city, with lots of opportunities to use public transport.
- Coach - National Express and Flixbus run coaches to the heart of Bristol from London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Manchester, Heathrow, and more.
- Planes - Bristol Airport receives international flights and has great connections to the city
- Train - Bristol Temple Mead is the main train station - Origin is about a 30min walk from there. There's
also a frequent local bus service between the station and the part of town Origin is in.
- If taking the train anyone 30 years old or younger from the UK or European Economic Area can save 1/3 off a ticket price using a railcard. Please check the full details for your situation/train.
If you need any further information, please do check the Origin Workspace website for more details:
Buy tickets
We are also keeping this first meet relatively small, so numbers are limited - our venue maxes out at 100.
Tickets are still available. If you can't see the option to buy a ticket, please check your adblocker.
Please also note tickets are non-refundable, but can be transferred to another person if you can't make it.
Meet the organiser
Better known as Crowdhailer online, I've been coding for over a decade. As an early contributor to Gleam, I've always been excited about the possibilities that Gleam offered to the coding community and I'm thrilled to be able to organise this event for the first time. When I am not using Gleam in production, I'm working on my own language, EYG. Can't wait to see you all in Bristol.
Sponsorship opportunities
Bringing the community together is central to this event, and we would like to extend this to any potential sponsors for the event. If your organisation, or an organisation you know of, would be interested in sponsoring GG26, then please do drop us a line at gleamgathering2026@gmail.com.