Zigtoberfest
One of the preeminent European conferences for the Zig Programming Language!
Thanks for joining us on September 12th!
What Zigtoberfest 2026 had to offer:
Zigtoberfest is a mini-conference dedicated to the Zig programming language! It's the ideal place to connect and learn with other hobbyists as well as professionals in the Zig community. We come together to share our knowledge and passion for computers and programming.
This year, we had the pleasure to welcome 80 Ziguanas from all over the world to Zigtoberfest 2026. In addition to giant pretzels, lots of coffee, and beer of course, there were once again many exciting talks on various subjects this year! Ranging from foundational topics like CSV parsers and SIMD, embedded projects, and even garbage collection.
A keynote by Loris Cro, as well as six amazing talks from a wide range of topics
Connect with people from the Zig community
A charming little theatre in the heart of Munich as event location
For the fashion inclined, an optional Zigtoberfest 2026 shirt
Speakers
Loris Cro
Zig Software Foundation (ZSF)
VP of Community at ZSF
Rene Schallner
AI Research & Technology Lab
I love writing Zig!
Quantum Developer
Cubyz
Developer of Cubyz, an open source voxel sandbox game
Mario Schallner
Building unusual systems at the intersection of low-level engineering and creative computing
Peyman Mortazavi
Software engineer with a focus on systems, performance, and developer tools
Melanie Vogel
Zig beginner & Bread lover
Nikola Ubavić
Coming Computer Engineering
mathematician and Technical Lead
Agenda
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | Doors open | — |
| 10:30 | Introductory Remarks | David Sugar |
| 10:45 | Opening keynote | Loris Cro |
| 11:10 | Building PKCS#11 Modules | Nikola Ubavić |
| 12:25 | Approaching Zig with a Garbage Collection Mindset | QuantumDeveloper |
| 13:10 | Lunch | — |
| 14:40 | SID-GPT: AI-Generated Commodore 64 Music with a Pure Zig Transformer Engine | Mario Schallner |
| 15:55 | Zour-Dough: A Zig-Powered Environment for Sourdough Fermentation | Melanie Vogel |
| 16:40 | Coffee Break | — |
| 17:25 | From 250MB Chromium to 441KB Zig on a Pi Zero — and Down the Color Emoji Rabbit Hole | Rene Schallner |
| 18:10 | Pushing CSV to the Limits: SIMD, Zero Allocation, and Branchless Parsing | Peyman Mortazavi |
| 18:55 | Closing Remarks | David Sugar |
| 19:10 - Open End | Get together | — |
preliminary agenda