About the Gathering

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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 & Pannelists

Louis Pilfold

Creator of the Gleam Language

Hello! I’m Louis, the creator of the Gleam programming language, a friendly language for building type-safe systems that scale! It runs on the Erlang virtual machine, as well as on JavaScript runtimes. Most importantly, it has a lovely and vibrant community, so come say hi!

Giacomo Cavalieri

Gleam Core Team

Giacomo is a software developer and a functional programming enthusiast. Upon discovering Gleam he couldn’t help but fall in love with the language and its friendly community. He’s now a member of Gleam’s core team and an active contributor to its compiler’s development.

Hayleigh Thompson

Gleam Core Team

Hayleigh is the author of Lustre, Gleam’s most popular frontend Web framework as well as an ecosystem of packages that support it. She is an experienced Web developer and Elm engineer. More recently, Hayleigh has spent the last few years acting as a developer evangelist; spreading the good word about types, the BEAM, and Gleam to anyone with the patience to listen to her.

Surya Rose

Gleam Core Team

Hi, I'm Surya, a software developer who loves programming languages, compilers, and other interesting programming problems. I started writing code for the Gleam compiler well before using Gleam; I've been working on Gleam for over a year now, and I love every minute of it!

You?

See our call for talks

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.

1. Coach - National Express and Flixbus run coaches to the heart of Bristol from London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Manchester, Heathrow, and more.
2. Planes - Bristol Airport receives international flights and has great connections to the city
3. 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:

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.