Hello,
Cross-posting to dev@groovy and dev@grails.
Community Over Code Glasgow is 11–14 October 2026 at the Hilton Glasgow
(1 William Street, Glasgow, G3 8HT). All times below are GMT.
Monday 12 October is the Groovy and Grails speaking day. Everything is
in Tweed. Tuesday 13 October is the joint Groovy/Grails hackathon. Full
agenda:
https://web.cvent.com/event/ac71ce47-2b5f-424c-abfe-5b48255315fb/summary
Every morning, 11–14 October
07:00–10:30 Breakfast, hotel restaurant
Included for conference attendees.
Sunday 11 October
19:00–21:00 All-attendee reception, Glasgow Science Centre
Monday 12 October (speaking day, Tweed)
10:20–11:00 Why use Groovy in 2026?
Paul King, Object Computing
11:10–11:50 Groovy and AI
Paul King, Object Computing
12:00–12:40 The Grooviest AI Client: When methodMissing Meets
Large Language Models
Ken Kousen, Kousen IT, Inc.
12:40–14:20 Lunch, Grand Ballroom
14:20–15:00 The Quest for the Holy Grails: A Grails 7 Tutorial
Ken Kousen, Kousen IT, Inc.
15:10–15:50 Tour De Plugin: Putting on the Yellow Jersey of Grails
Søren Glasius, Gennemtænkt IT
15:50–16:10 Afternoon break, Ballroom Foyer
16:10–16:50 Spock testing revisited for Grails 8
Mattias Reichel, Originalab
17:00–17:40 Scaling Production Performance in Apache Grails 8
James Fredley, Triumph Interactive
17:50–18:30 Groovy and Grails Birds of a Feather, Tweed
Open to anyone in either community.
https://events.apache.org/events/2026/community-over-code/bof.html
Monday evening
Joint Groovy and Grails dinner and social after the BoF. - we will
finalize details that afternoon
Tuesday 13 October
15:00–18:40 Joint Groovy and Grails hackathon, Wee Dram Room
One table, both projects. No prior contribution required.
https://events.apache.org/events/2026/community-over-code/groovy-grails.html
Hackathon coordinators on site: Paul King and Søren Berg Glasius
(Groovy), James Fredley and James Daugherty (Grails).
James Fredley
VP, Apache Grails PMC
