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Early-bird ticket sales have begun for SYCL 2026! The conference takes place October 3-6 in the Coquitlam and Port Moody areas of Metro Vancouver.
Tickets are sold as individual day passes which include lunch. Early bird pricing runs until July 1st and applies to all non-workshop tickets. You can select your days and purchase on the tickets page.
Saturday features two workshops running in parallel:
Sunday is Tables Day at Site B in Port Moody. This day features free-form collaboration, lightning talks, and a PCB Badge (more on that below).
Monday and Tuesday are talk days at the Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam. All venues are within a 10-minute walk of a Skytrain station.
Attendees of Tables Day (Sunday) will receive a SYCL Badge V2.
It will look very similar to the Badge from 2024, but has significant hardware and software upgrades that were implemented as a UBC capstone project.
The Team:
The upgrades:
Submissions have been progressing well, however I could use more SYCL talk proposals. There is a certain essence I’m looking for here, and if I don’t get enough submissions that hit the mark, I will let the systems talks bleed into to SYCL talks day.
I am open to having sponsors to help cover costs of the speakers’ dinner. The conference is financially self-sufficient through ticket sales. I like it that way so that we can responsibly discuss our industry. Many organizations align with those values, and if you’re part of one, feel free to email me.
Originally I had planned the conference for June 20-23, but after posting I learned that FIFA is in town. This will make things prohibivitely expensive for out-of-towners, so I will be rescheduling with Emily Carr. I will be keeping the intended structure and days of the week for the conference as outlined in the Agenda. My intended target is August.
SYCL 2026 will be taking place once again at Emily Carr University of Art + Design on June 20-23! The keynotes, workshops, and their presenters can be found on the Agenda page.