Fun OCaml 2024

PROGRAM

Image: © Steve Bergmann

Fun OCaml 2024 is a 2 days open source hacking event dedicated to OCaml enthusiasts and professionals around the globe!

Let's get together for an exhilarating event packed with creativity, innovation, and learning:

Collaborate on open source projects
Learn through workshops, talks, and hands-on session,
Connect with fellow OCaml developers
Celebrate the impact and potential of OCaml for solving real-world problems.

Talks are live-streamed and will appear on watch.ocaml.org and YouTube after the event.

SESSIONS

Building reliable actor systems with OCaml and Riot

Leandro Ostera

Workshop

Web and mobile app development in OCaml

Vincent Balat

Workshop

Gamelle : 2D games in OCaml

Emile Trotignon

Workshop

Concurrency and Parallelism in OCaml

Vesa Karvonen, Arthur Wendling, Carine Morel

Workshop

The story behind the fastest image comparison library in the world written in OCaml

Dmitriy Kovalenko

Talk

Learning OCaml with Tiny Code Xmas

Michael Dales

Talk

A 'Melange' of Tooling Coming Together

Antonio Monteiro

Talk

MirageOS - developing operating systems in OCaml

Hannes Mehnert

Talk

OCANNL, the `neural_nets_lib`. Mysteries of NNs training unveiled in OCaml

Lukasz Stafiniak

Talk

Universal React in OCaml

David Sancho Moreno

Talk

Maybe OCaml Was the Friends We Made Along the Way; A Journey of Growth in Software Engineering

Dillon Mulroy

Talk

Let Signals in OCaml

Rizo Isrof

Talk

How the Multicore Garbage Collector works

Sudha Parimala

Talk

Using odoc to write documentation

Paul-Elliot Anglès d'Auriac

Talk

Building Incremental and Reproducible Data Pipelines for Tackling Climate Change

Patrick Ferris, Michael Dales

Talk

Type engineering in OCaml, illustrated on the OCaml compiler

Florian Angeletti

Talk

The Future of Dune

Leandro Ostera

Talk

DAY ONE

Time	Yellow Giant Room	Hangout hub Room	Hangout hub
8:00 - 9:00	Arrival		Pretzels & Fruit
9:00 - 9:25	Call for Lightning Talks + Organizer Announcements
9:25 - 9:50	Keynote
10:00 - 10:35	How the Multicore Garbage Collector works	Workshop: Beginner Introduction to OCaml	Socializing & Hacking
10:35 - 11:10	A 'Melange' of Tooling Coming Together
11:10 - 11:20	Break
11:20 - 11:55	MirageOS - Developing Operating Systems in OCaml
11:55 - 12:30	Universal React in OCaml
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:00	Lightning Talks + Connecting People
15:00 - 15:10	Break
15:10 - 15:45	"Easy" GADT's by repeating yourself.	Workshop: Web and mobile app development in OCaml	Socializing & Hacking
15:45 - 16:20	Using odoc to write documentation
16:20 - 16:40	Break
16:40 - 17:15	Let Signals in OCaml
17:15 - 17:50	The Future of Dune
17:50 - 18:00	Wrap up by Organizers
18:00 - 20:00	-	Dinner
20:00 - 24:00	-	Karaoke

DAY TWO

Time	Yellow Giant Room	Apollo Room	Hangout hub Room	Hangout hub
9:00 - 10:00	Arrival	Pretzels & Fruit
10:00 - 10:35	OCANNL, the `neural_nets_lib`: Mysteries of NNs training unveiled in OCaml	Workshop: Building Reliable Actor Systems with OCaml and Riot	Workshop: Concurrency and Parallelism in OCaml	Socializing & Hacking
10:35 - 11:10	Type engineering in OCaml, illustrated on the OCaml compiler
11:10 - 11:20	Break
11:20 - 11:55	Learning OCaml with Tiny Code Xmas
11:55 - 12:30	Building Incremental and Reproducible Data Pipelines for Tackling Climate Change
12:30 - 14:30	Lunch
14:30 - 15:05	The story behind the fastest image comparison library in the world written in OCaml	Socializing & Hacking
15:05 - 15:40	Maybe OCaml Was the Friends We Made Along the Way: A Journey of Growth in Software Engineering	Workshop - Hands-on MirageOS	Workshop - Gamelle : 2D games in OCaml
17:45 - 18:00	Summary
18:00 - 19:00	-	Workshop - Hands-on MirageOS	Workshop - Gamelle : 2D games in OCaml		Dinner, Socializing and Hacking