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ZuriHac is the biggest Haskell community event in the world: a completely free, three-day grassroots coding festival co-organized by the Zürich Friends of Haskell and the OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Science. It is not your standard conference with papers and presentations, but features fantastic keynotes, hands-on tracks, hacking on many of your favourite projects, and of course lots of socializing!
ZuriHac 2026 takes place Saturday 6 June — Monday 8 June as a physical event at the beautiful Rapperswil-Jona campus of OST located right next to lake Zürich. We hope to see you there!
Speakers
Simon is one of the designers of the Haskell language, an inspiring leader for the whole Haskell community, a prolific researcher, and one of the main authors of GHC, the de facto standard Haskell compiler. He currently works on Verse.
Garrick is the developer of Defect Process, a 2D action game written in Haskell. He currently works as a backend software contractor.
Schedule
ZuriHac is primarily a community event and a hackathon, rather than a conference. Aside from the talks and tracks, attendees are encouraged to work together on all sorts of Haskell-related open-source projects and socialize. Trying to attend everything may a bit too much, so our recommendation is just pick to what you find interesting!
This schedule is tentative and minor changes may still need to happen as we get closer to the event.
| Start | End | Title | Link | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-06T09:00:00+02:00 | 2025-06-06T10:00:00+02:00 | Registration Opens | admin | |
| 2026-06-06T10:00:00+02:00 | 2025-06-06T11:00:00+02:00 | Talk | talk | |
| 2026-06-06T11:00:00+02:00 | 2025-06-06T12:00:00+02:00 | Opening Presentation & Project Pitches | admin | |
| 2026-06-06T12:00:00+02:00 | 2025-06-06T14:00:00+02:00 | Food Truck | food | |
| 2026-06-06T14:00:00+02:00 | 2025-06-06T16:00:00+02:00 | Beginner Track | beginner | |
| 2026-06-06T14:00:00+02:00 | 2025-06-06T16:00:00+02:00 | Advanced track | advanced | |
| 2026-06-06T17:00:00+02:00 | 2025-06-06T18:00:00+02:00 | Talk | talk | |
| 2026-06-06T17:30:00+02:00 | 2025-06-06T20:30:00+02:00 | Food Truck | food | |
| 2026-06-07T10:00:00+02:00 | 2025-06-07T11:00:00+02:00 | Talk | talk | |
| 2026-06-07T11:30:00+02:00 | 2025-06-07T14:00:00+02:00 | Food Truck | food | |
| 2026-06-07T13:30:00+02:00 | 2025-06-07T16:00:00+02:00 | Beginner Track | beginner | |
| 2026-06-07T13:30:00+02:00 | 2025-06-07T16:00:00+02:00 | Advanced Track | advanced | |
| 2026-06-07T17:00:00+02:00 | 2025-06-07T18:00:00+02:00 | Talk | talk | |
| 2026-06-07T17:30:00+02:00 | 2025-06-07T20:30:00+02:00 | Food Truck | food | |
| 2026-06-08T10:00:00+02:00 | 2025-06-08T11:00:00+02:00 | Talk | talk | |
| 2026-06-08T11:30:00+02:00 | 2025-06-08T14:00:00+02:00 | Food Truck | food | |
| 2026-06-08T13:00:00+02:00 | 2025-06-08T15:00:00+02:00 | Advanced Track | advanced | |
| 2026-06-08T15:30:00+02:00 | 2025-06-08T16:15:00+02:00 | Project presentations | admin | |
| 2026-06-08T16:15:00+02:00 | 2025-06-08T17:00:00+02:00 | Closing | admin |
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About
Contact
The main organizers for ZuriHac 2026 are Jasper Van der Jeugt, Farhad Mehta and Alex Drake. Additional key people include Andreas Herrmann, Benjamin Plattner, Bieke Hoefkens, Cazim Hysi, Jeremy Stucki, John Rodewald, Lukas Buchli, Mario Aeberhard, Olivier Lischer, Raphael Das Gupta, Silvan Hegner, and Vaibhav Sagar.
If you have any questions before the event, please reach out to to the organizers. You can also interact with us on our social media accounts: Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter.
Terms
Intellectual property: Each participant will retain ownership of any and all intellectual and industrial property rights to their work created or used during the Hackathon.
Code of Conduct: ZuriHac uses the Berlin Code of Conduct.
Photo Policy: The organizers as well as other participants may take photos during the event to use on social media, blogs and websites. We encourage this, as promoting the event helps our goal of bringing more people into the Haskell community. On the other hand, we want to respect the privacy of the attendees. Therefore, we ask everyone to be mindful and request explicit permission before taking pictures where people are clearly recognizable in the foreground.