Scala Summit 2026 · Monday, October 19

Schedule

One day of Scala, from the keynote at 10:30 to the last talk at 5:45. Tap a talk for the abstract and the speaker.

Subject to change. This schedule may be changed or tweaked at the last minute, so check back on the day for the latest running order.

10:00 10:15 AM
Doors open and arrival
15 min
10:15 10:30 AM
Welcome and introduction
15 min
10:30 11:15 AM
Keynote
Where Scala meets AI Adam Warski · Co-founder, SoftwareMill · Head of R&D, VirtusLab
45 min
11:15 11:45 AM
What's New in ScalaTest 3.3 Bill Venners · President, Artima · Lead developer of ScalaTest
30 min
11:45 12:30 PM
Making the AI agents safe with Scala Łukasz Biały · Scala Developer Advocate, VirtusLab
45 min
12:30 1:30 PM
Lunch
60 min
1:30 2:00 PM
Chisel: The Next Generation Aditya Naik · Software Engineer, SiFive
30 min
2:00 2:30 PM
GPUs for Type Inference and Typeclasses Win Wang · Founder, ParaQuery
30 min
2:30 3:00 PM
Functional Underwriting in Scala Zach Michaelov · Co-founder & CTO, Annex Risk
30 min
3:00 3:15 PM
Just Capture Checking in 15 mins Vivek Ragunathan · Staff Software Engineer, Intuit
15 min
3:15 3:30 PM
Break
15 min
3:30 4:15 PM
One Language, Every Layer: An Opinionated Scala 3 + ZIO Stack Roberto Leibman · Software Engineer, Fox Corporation (Tubi/AdRise)
45 min
4:15 4:45 PM
Coming to Scala as a Rust Developer Gus Wynn · Software Engineer, Annex Risk
30 min
4:45 5:15 PM
Taming the Agentic Beast Alexandros Bantis · Software Engineer, AdRise
30 min
5:15 5:45 PM
AI Multiplies — Let Scala Hold the Line Krzysztof Romanowski · Head of Development Productivity, VirtusLab
30 min
6:00 PM late
Optional happy hour at Tempest
Not part of Scala Summit and not paid for by the conference — everyone pays for their own food and drinks. Anyone who fancies a drink after the talks is welcome to join us at Tempest, 431 Natoma St, San Francisco, from 6pm until late.
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