A list of suggested topics from previous UnCon's, a subset were actually discussed

by Dan Janowski on Sep 05, 2026

These past attendee submitted topics may inspire you to attend or inspire a topic for you to submit.

Stockholm

  • How vulnerable are we? How bad will it get? Mythos is coming.
  • Tooling up: Claude, hardware and MCP
  • Nerves: The Absolute Basics
  • Using cgroups with port processes
  • Options, what are they, what can they be, how to check them
  • Python: image-to-image search using resnet and spotify annoy
  • Erlang or Elixir
  • Replace Cloud services with Open Source (BEAM etc) to save costs and support community
  • Native Records, problems it solves, problems it creates
  • Writers or builders
  • App (local) export - pre EEP
  • Something about GRiSP
  • How to deal with AI contributions

Malaga

  • Let’s do an Elixir trivia! 5 minutes, 5 questions.
  • Audio generation
  • How do you use Tidewave? Very interested in seeing how people set it up, use it, improve their DevEx and workflow.
  • I would like to learn more about the approaches the EEF will take to secure the supply chain for Elixir and BEAM packages. I would love to get hardened docker images
  • The fastest way to sort a list with 1 million elements in Elixir
  • Elixir Wonderland: How the best environment needs to get better just to please me™
  • Let’s discuss testing strategies, and why I miss RSpec 🥹
  • I like pubsub
  • The dumbest Nerves device I’ve set up in a while.
  • I would like to learn more about interop with python regarding training and serving traditional ML models. I don’t want to Scare the boss about using Elixir in places where Python is the conventional choice
  • “Showcase of AshWorkflow, an unreleased library in the Ash ecosystem, which gives you a simple DSL for expressing work which happens over time.
  • Think Temporal, but for Ash!”
  • Simulation of physical environments using 3D and LiveView for visualising Satellites 📡 🛰️ amongst other things
  • I want to see Lars and Dan sing a duet
  • Want to learn Nerves? We can totally cover the basics :)
  • Phoenix Security - Which tools are you using for dynamic (web)application security testing of your Phoenix application? What is missing that you would like to see?
  • I’d love to hear about how people evangelized Elixir in polyglot companies with over 50 developers? What were general impressions of elixir from outsid? What was convincing leadership to pick elixir over nodejs/something else for new projects like?
  • Meetups and local communities: How are you fostering community in your cities? Are there newcomers showing up? How alive is it? How can we keep elixir beaming?
  • Could you tell us a bit of the starter kit? :)
  • GRiSP update
  • Claude code config for elixir ecosystem
  • Learning Elixir purely from agentic coding (although I’m proficient in other languages).

Berlin

  • Pre-steps and transparency for getting your project funded
  • how do you organise/store rich LLM conversations
  • Using Erlang-Red for fun and profiit - flow based programming in Erlang
  • Oxbow Code and how to get rid of it
  • How can we improve the conference experience for us? and maybe for others, too?
  • Elixir (Beam adoption), still unkown, how to spread the word, build communities…
  • Social Media Infrastructure: Scaling BlueSky, Spritely, Mastodon,…
  • llm to serve public good, crimebeats.app
  • Anything you’d like to know/discuss on Security, Vulnerabilities, Regulatory topics and how the EEF is handling them.
  • Interested in learning more about how to derive interesting things using Ash
  • AI Inference HPC with Elixir Flame and LLM Tool Calling Langchain Elixir
  • Anything Maintainability/Tooling related: Elvis, Hank, Dialyzer, Xref…
  • Using voice as an new user interface
  • Self-hosting Ollama with Open WebUI and AUTOMATIC1111 (image-generation)
  • Visualising Ash Introspection with Clarity
  • Visualising Ash Code Point In Time & Over Time
  • ChatGPT with Ash and MCP
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