The program for BOB
2026, Active Group‘s in-house conference, is
set: On Friday, March 13, 2026, BOB - appropriately the thirteenth
edition - will take place — as last year at the Scandic Hotel
Potsdamer
Platz.
We are proud of the
program, although we had to
reject many other great submissions to create it.
The opening keynote at BOB will be delivered by Stefan Kaufmann
(stk) — it‘s about Digital Sovereignty.
As usual, there are four tracks — two tracks with a total of 16 talks, two
tracks with a total of 8 tutorials.
Registration is
open — the early-bird discount runs until January 16, 2026.
Our goal is always to make the conference contributions accessible to
as many participants as possible. It is therefore
possible to fill the entire day with English-language talks and tutorials.
There are also some German-language contributions.
Talks
This year, what‘s striking is what‘s missing: talks about „AI“. Since all
other developer conferences lately have been quite overrun with the topic,
BOB 2026 is an opportunity for a
break - and a reminder that there is still IT beyond AI.
As always strongly represented in the
program: functional
programming. Topics include
OCaml (twice!,
Scala,
Java, functional
software architecture and
functional programming with
SwiftUI.
Exotic programming languages (even by BOB standards) will
also be present.
Also no surprise - formal methods with
Lean, formal specifications
and tests and
refinement types.
We‘ll also see talks about
accessibility,
UI development,
database joins,
Domain-Driven Design and
reactive systems.
Hopefully there‘s something for everyone - at least if you don‘t
absolutely need „AI“.
Tutorials
The BOB tutorials are each 90 minutes long:
Specific technologies are represented with
Agda, Scheme for
3D graphics,
TypeScript, Multicore
OCaml,
Haskell as well as Mutiny and
Quarkus.
We‘ll also talk about illegal
states (and how to
avoid them) and look forward to a tutorial on
accessibility.
Registration
Registration is open online.
Early-bird discount run until January 16, after that it
becomes somewhat more expensive. There are also discounts and
free tickets for underrepresented groups.