GoatConf 2027

A free conference for people who build and sell software. Engineers, designers, product people, founders, and the incurably curious dreamers and visionaries. Any programming language, any stack.

An excuse to hang out with like-minded people and learn from folks sharing their current best. In Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 3 to 5 June 2027.

Two days of one-hour sessions in every room, with a full hour off after each. Then a day at the lakes. The people who come add the rest.

Propose a talk Propose an event See the program

What is decided

1FreeFree tickets.

Freedom Square in Tuzla in summer, the mosque's minaret above the colourful houses — Tuzla

33 to 5 June2027, Thursday to Saturday.

A talk in IPI Academy's lecture hall, students' faces blurred — IPI Academy

5Tech stack agnosticAny programming language, any stack, for anyone who builds or sells software.

6Your talkEvery one-hour slot is open. Propose yours.Yours?

Three days in June

7Thursday 3 June10:00 to 17:00Four one-hour slots in every room, an hour off after each. Welcome at 09:45.
8Friday 4 June09:30 to 16:30Four slots, starting half an hour earlier than Thursday. Welcome at 09:15.
9Saturday 5 JuneThe community's dayThe lakes, the goat hunt, walks and meetups, each run by the people who come.

See the program, room by room

Who is speaking

Speakers appear here as their sessions are accepted. The call for talks is open now.

Propose a session

Give a talk

The call is open, with no strict deadline. First-time speakers are welcome, from any field: engineering, design, product, founding a company.

Sessions are picked for their quality, never for who is paying. Speakers pay their own travel, unless a supporter funds a travel grant.

How to propose a talk

Send your idea through the short form.
The organiser reads your session first, your name after.
You hear back, whatever the answer.
Your session goes on the program.

14Your talkPropose a session: about fifteen minutes.Yours?

Tuzla, the host town

The talks are in English, at IPI Academy, Kulina bana 2, in the centre of Tuzla. Coffee and lunch are in the cafés on Freedom Square, under five minutes' walk away.

The Pannonian Lakes are three salt lakes in the middle of town, with salt waterfalls and a beach. A small train runs there from Freedom Square.

Getting here, staying and money

The fountain on Freedom Square on a summer day, café umbrellas behind it — Freedom Square

The Pannonian salt lakes from the air in summer, crowded with swimmers — The salt lakes

The Korzo with its street clock, café umbrellas and people walking — The Korzo

The old town from above, tiled roofs and a mosaic-paved street — The old town

What things cost in town

A simple meal4.60 €
A cappuccino1.66 €
A lake ticket, weekdays3.60 €
A lake ticket, weekends4.60 €

Meal and cappuccino: Numbeo, 2 October 2026. Lake tickets: adults, summer 2026.

Eat and drink, with or without meat

Bosnian food is meat-heavy, and it is good. There is plenty without meat too: most of the dishes below have none. The organiser pays for no food or drink: you buy your own, or a supporter treats everyone at a café.

We are still checking which places around Freedom Square have vegan and vegetarian dishes. The list will be on the travel page, with a map. Until then, ask each place.

A bowl of pinto bean stew with a bay leaf and a spoon — Pasulj, bean stew

A round spiral pie in a baking tray, seen from above — Zeljanica

Squares of flaky cheese pie on a plate — Sirnica

A round burek in a black pan, clay pots of sour milk beside it — Burek

Ćevapi in flatbread with kajmak, chopped onion and ajvar on a metal plate — Ćevapi

A copper džezva of coffee with a small white cup and sugar cubes — Coffee

Tufahija, a poached apple with whipped cream, beside a copper coffee set — Tufahija

Two syrup-soaked hurmašice cakes on a plate — Hurmašice

A market stall full of peaches, plums, grapes and bananas — Fruit at the market

Propose an event

Anyone can propose an event, like a meetup, a hackathon or a dinner. You run it and pay for it. If the organiser accepts it, it becomes part of GoatConf 2027 and is shared with everyone who comes. It follows the charter and the code of conduct.

28Fringe eventYours?
29WorkshopYours?
30Community hubYours?
31ActivityYours?
32Another venueYours?
33SupportYours?
34HiringYours?
35Something else?Yours?

Propose yours See what people have added

Every euro in the open

No money passes through the organiser, and no company is behind GoatConf. A supporter pays the café, the printer or the camera crew directly. Every payment is listed in the public budget.

Read the public budget

0.00 €spent so far
0.00 €received by the organiser

Who makes it possible

36Your logoFund a speaker's travel, a round of coffee or the printing.Yours?

The supporters

Why a goat

When Austria-Hungary ruled Tuzla, it ordered every goat gone. One man hid his. Word got around, and soon the whole town was buying milk and cheese from that one goat.

The whole of Tuzla milked one goat.A saying people in Bosnia and Herzegovina still use.

That goat is GoatConf's mark: the one that feeds the community. It first appeared as the mascot of EuRuKo 2024, the first Ruby conference in Bosnia and Herzegovina. GoatConf itself is not about Ruby or any one stack.

Saturday has a slot for a goat hunt through town: clues, teams of people who just met, and the goat statue at the end. Whoever runs it gets the slot.

How we treat each other

GoatConf uses RubyConf Austria's code of conduct. The code of conduct team is the organiser, Muhamed Isabegović, and a member of staff at IPI Academy.

Talk to either of them at the event. Or use the contact form: the organiser reads it, and brings in the IPI staff member only if you agree. Reports are confidential.

Read the code of conduct Report through the contact form

The Kapija on the Korzo: a pale green corner building in the old town