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Upcoming talks — Q2 2026

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Mark Edmondson
Mark Edmondson
Founder

I am happy to be appearing at some varied conferences this spring in 2026, and I hope at least one has something of interest to you, dear reader. I'd love to meet you face to face at one of them. If you do, please say hello — details below cover AI in data, AI in programming, and AI in UI (I sense an AI theme...). If you have the time to come I think you will learn something about how to apply AI to your day job.

analyticsdev.net — Copenhagen, 29 April 2026​

Mark Edmondson speaker card for analyticsdev.net Copenhagen, 29 April 2026

The first is analyticsdev.net, co-organised by my 8-bit-sheep flock member Gunnar as well as Steen and Jomar from the Brand Community. It looks to be a digital analytics star-studded lineup (and me). Real meat to the bone if you are looking for deep technical talks to help further your digital analytics abilities. I'll be talking about how my background in digital marketing, analytics, data science and engineering have helped with my current AI focus, and how what skills and concepts seem to be the same and which are different. AI is definitely transformational to the digital analytics industry — changing web traffic, how people get recommendations, and measurement — and I hope to talk about how we can all weather these changes.

As a side note, it will also be my first outing of my latest PowerPoint avoidance techniques post AI, using a custom HTML template. Previous editions have involved presentations in RMarkdown and Quarto but now I cut out the middleware to add some custom AI features!

Driving AI 2026 — IDA, Copenhagen, 27 May 2026​

IDA Driving AI 2026 conference banner

Next up will be the IDA talk for Driving AI 2026, where I'll talk about AILANG (our newly developed AI-first programming language), my latest frontier in AI applications. Even if you never touch AILANG, the talk will leave you with ideas to sharpen your own AI coding — what an AI pair-programmer actually needs from you, the lessons I've picked up getting my hands dirty with a compiler, and why some prompts work while others burn tokens. We will talk about entropy (one of my favourite subjects!), authority, trust and inspirations.

Here's the prediction I'll be making: AILANG will be one of the first of many AI-specific languages. The benchmarks already show AILANG beating Python on token usage and maintainability — once that gap is visible, more languages will follow. And perhaps we'll all end up with our own created artifacts; I think it's already happening in natural language, as we gather up markdown files full of our secret sauces.

WebSummerCamp — Opatija, Croatia, 2–4 July 2026​

WebSummerCamp 2026 in Opatija, Croatia — 2–4 July, early-bird tickets available until 15 May

From 2–4 July I will be talking at WebSummerCamp in Opatija, Croatia, where we will be exploring AI protocols — in particular those focused on the UI and UX part of the AI experience. As I've written before, protocols offer a way to standardise your AI stack and also offer a glimpse into what the industry is accepting as the new abstraction layers. Whilst it can be an alphabet soup of ADK, MCP, A2A etc., I will help you navigate the protocols dedicated to making responsive and dynamic user interfaces: AGUI, A2UI and MCPApps. I believe if you are working with AI applications you need a combination of data, the model and UX — and it's only the data and UX which will make the difference, as we all have access to the same models (at the moment?).

Care to join me in Opatija for those early-July days? I hear the weather is lovely, and I'm excited to visit for the first time — early bird tickets available now.

Come say hello​

The main value at these conferences, for me, is meeting and sharing ideas with others in the field — so I hope the talks help inspire and facilitate those corridor conversations I look forward to so well. Will I see you there? Let me know, always up for a coffee or drink to chat (and if you can't make the conferences, a reminder that we have an open invite for Friday morning chats at our cosy cafe here in SOHO, Kødbyen, Copenhagen).

If you'd rather get the background material tailored to your own business, a subset of the talks are also offered within the workshops I run — high-value information tightly coupled to your own use cases. The slides and decks themselves live at sunholo.com/presentations.