Priya Desai
Principal engineer · Mossline
Code meets community
24 speakers.
1,183 people.
One shared camp.
Confluence Camp is a two-day developer gathering about the tools, habits and communities behind durable software. Expect practical talks, open-source demonstrations and enough room for the conversations that usually happen in the corridor.
Open-source yard
Ship the small tool everyone needs.
Twenty-four community projects get a table, a screen and a rapid demo slot. Bring a useful repo, trade feedback and find the next contributor.
Apply for a table
Owen Park
Creator · Field Cache
Marta Velez
VP of engineering · Kestrel
Idris Boone
Open-source maintainer · Loam
Hana Mori
Developer advocate · Drawbridge
Benno Clarke
Co-founder · Campfire Systems
Sol Adebayo
Staff engineer · Papertrail
Ellis Kim
Engineering lead · Bracket
Rina Halberg
Founder · Quarterdeck
Mateo Silva
Compiler engineer · Northstar
Amara Okafor
Security researcher · Tern
Theo Hart
Maintainer · Lattice DB
Lena Rahman
CTO · Quietworks
Arun Bell
Infrastructure lead · Common Thread
Yasmin Cole
Author · Practical Systems
Nico Ramos
Developer educator · Pinecone
The field programmeTen detailed talks, selected for usefulness over theatre. Every session leaves room for questions and a short demonstration.
Growing engineering communities without centralising every decision
A close look at the rituals, documentation and rotating responsibilities that let a technical community scale while keeping ownership distributed.
When the local-first promise meets a slow train connection
What failure, sync and recovery taught one small team about building software that respects intermittent networks and impatient users.
The calendar is part of the architecture
How review rhythms and decision windows influence system quality long before a line of production code is merged.
Maintaining a project after the exciting part
A frank guide to triage, stewardship and funding when the repo is useful, busy and no longer new.
Documentation as an invitation to contribute
Why structure, examples and tone determine who feels able to enter a codebase—and who quietly closes the tab.
Designing the useful internal tool
Patterns for finding the smallest interface that removes operational friction without becoming another platform to maintain.
Small queues, predictable days
A practical tour of backpressure, observation and humane incident response in services that process irregular loads.
A healthy code review is a writing practice
Concrete ways to make review notes precise, kind and useful to the next person who opens the same file six months later.
Choosing constraints before they choose you
What a four-person company learned by making deliberate choices about support, scope and the shape of its customer base.
The error message is part of your language
Why good diagnostics build understanding, how to test them and what compiler work can teach every developer-facing product.
Day 01 · Friday
- Registration and breakfast
- Opening field notes
- Talks and demos
- Long-table lunch
- Open-source yard
- Depot supper
Day 02 · Saturday
- Community breakfast
- Talks and workshops
- Maintainer clinics
- Lightning demonstrations
- Closing roundtable
- After camp
Tickets
Field pass
£742Both days, talks, open-source yard, lunch and Friday supper.
Choose field passLate camp pass
£936The complete programme plus the small Saturday maintainer clinic.
Choose late passAfter camp
Community partners
Code Assembly
Northern Bytes
Women Who Build
Open Yard
Patch Club
Bracket Society