NixCon 2026
30 sep 2026
motivation
i’ve been to this years nixcon 2026 in krakow, see schedule.
presentations
nixcon 2026 had two speaker rooms called Aula Duza A and Aula Duza B and two days with talks namely saturday and sunday.
| Start | Topic | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| NixCon 2026 - Saturday - Aula Duza A (1/2) | ||
| 5:00 | Opening ceremony | |
| 46:00 | Nix State of the Union 2026 | Ron Efroni |
| 1:45:00 | NGI Forge | Ivan Minčík, Daniel Ramirez, Fedi Jamoussi, Phani Rithvij |
| 2:15:00 | Lazy Nix Store | Srini, Zhaofeng Li |
| 2:45:00 | Advanced NixOS Integration Tests | Lukas Beierlieb |
| 3:30:00 | Lunch | |
| 4:30:00 | Mainstream Nix (Windows + language backends) | Joachim Schiele |
| 5:30:00 | Nixception: incremental builds | Guillaume Maudoux |
| 6:30:00 | NixOS in the Corporate Trenches | Nicolas Goudry |
| 7:30:00 | NixOS on RISC-V | liberodark |
| 7:40:00 | The future of code collaboration | Tangled |
| 7:50:00 | Lightning: PDT Partners | |
| 8:00:00 | How Long Until It’s Done? Build farm dashboards | Kierán Meinhardt |
| 8:10:00 | Automated function/package/scope creation | Yifei Sun |
| 8:20:00 | Lightning: Cyberus | |
| NixCon 2026 - Saturday - Aula Duza B (1/2) | ||
| 0:36:00 | finix making space for multiple nix operating systems | aanderse |
| 1:15:00 | Nix panel | Jörg Thalheim, Lisanna Dettwyler, Eelco Dolstra |
| 2:07:00 | Nix Foundation and Steering Committee Panel | Ron Efroni |
| 3:38:00 | DeltaNAR space-efficient Nix deployments | adisbladis |
| 4:07:00 | Declarative Hardware Architectures using Nix | Tristan Ross |
| 4:35:00 | Nix & the EU Cyber Resilience Act | Florian Pester |
| 5:07:00 | netbox-nixos | Kierán Meinhardt, Jacek Galowicz |
| 5:35:00 | Statix: stratified module configuration for humans | bme |
| 6:07:00 | Nixing Artificial Intelligence | Ron Efroni |
| 6:35:00 | NixNet: declare network experiments as a flake | Benedikt Spies |
| 7:06:00 | Peering Declaratively: a small AS on NixOS | Dionysis Grigoropoulos |
| 7:35:00 | Running NixOS Integration Tests on Real Hardware | Markus Napierkowski |
| 8:04:00 | Scaling Nix | Eeelco Dolstra |
| NixCon 2026 - Sunday - Aula Duza A (2/2) | ||
| 0:31 | Morning intro | |
| 1:02 | Why I changed my mind about flakes | Valentin Gagarin |
| 39:35 | Break | |
| 1:00:00 | Untangling the undead spaghetti | Molly Miller |
| 1:59:59 | Unprivileged Privileged Nix | Artemis Tosini |
| 2:36:22 | Lunch | |
| 4:15:28 | Staging Ground: building for upstream in clan.lol | lassulus, Qubasa |
| 5:15:18 | Trampolining Nix | Mika Bohinen |
| 6:12:23 | Spontaneous lightning talks | |
| 6:15:57 | NixOS on PowerPC 64 Linux | |
| 6:21:47 | Nix on OpenBSD | |
| 6:25:53 | Hydra update | |
| 6:31:42 | Mobile NixOS | Matt |
| 6:37:24 | dots Home Manager mutable dotfiles | |
| 6:41:57 | Flake Edit | |
| 6:45:40 | Don’t use specialArgs | |
| 7:00:13 | The Thunk Trap | |
| 7:10:03 | Smaller Python artifacts with Nix | Kyle |
| 7:19:59 | Nix Singularity | Fernando |
| 7:29:51 | Biting Your Own Tail Off | Winter |
| 7:39:45 | We deserve a control plane | nick novitski |
| 7:49:54 | Determinate Systems | Luke Perkins |
| 7:59:41 | Hardware testing with Nix | Shiv |
| 8:09:44 | Introducing Nix at work via Flox | |
| 8:30:08 | Closing | |
| NixCon 2026 - Sunday - Aula Duza B (2/2) | ||
| 0:00 | Stream start | |
| 0:26 | The State NixOS Won’t Manage | Alexander Foremny |
| 30:07 | The Ministry of Silly Builds | Aleksander Gondek, Artur Stachecki |
| 49:31 | Distributing trust with laut | Martin Schwaighofer |
| 1:19:50 | Nix store is my favorite database | Anuj More |
| 1:50:28 | The new .devShell interface for nix develop | Lisanna Dettwyler |
| 2:49:00 | When the Honeymoon Ends | Martin Messer |
| 4:47:30 | Build It All Yourself: air-gapped nixpkgs | Kierán Meinhardt |
| 5:19:22 | Kubernetes on RISC-V with NixOS | Bruce Gain, Liang Yuning |
| 5:47:23 | Server apps commodified | Kiara Grouwstra |
| 6:17:05 | Implementing the NixOS STIG | Alexander Foremny |
| 6:47:11 | Nix for cloud-native platform engineering | Arik Grahl |
| 7:17:21 | Two architectures, twice the fun: the Nix Badge | Morgan Jones |
summary NixCon 2026 talk days, in short
created a short summary using grok i’d like to share:
NixCon 2026’s two talk days split roughly into core Nix / NixOS internals, packaging and stores, testing and hardware, corporate/compliance adoption, and community tooling.
saturday A was foundation-facing: State of the Union, NGI packaging, lazy stores, integration tests, Windows/language backends, incremental builds, and a corporate NixOS war story, plus sponsor lightnings (finance, collab forges, RISC-V).
saturday B was more experimental and operational: alternate OS designs (finix), governance panels, space-efficient deploys, declarative hardware, the EU Cyber Resilience Act, NetBox→NixOS, module UX (Statix), network experiments, BGP homelabs, hardware-in-the-loop tests, and Eelco on scaling evaluation.
sunday A was language, networking, sandboxing, and Clan/upstream work, then a long lightning block (PowerPC, OpenBSD, Hydra, Mobile NixOS, Home Manager, flakes UX, evaluator pitfalls, Python artifacts, HPC/Singularity, control planes, Determinate, Flox onboarding).
sunday B was runtime state, Bazel↔︎Nix, supply-chain trust (laut), store-as-database,
nix develop, CVMFS at scale, five-year product support, air-gapped Hydra, Kubernetes on RISC-V, “apps for non-Nix users,” DISA STIG hardening, cloud-native manifests, and the DEF CON Nix badge.
presenters were mostly Nix consultants and product companies (Flox, Tweag, Applicative Systems, Nixcademy/Cyberus), core/foundation people (Eelco, Lisanna, Valentin, Ron), hosting/SRE (Flying Circus, Google), plus a thinner slice of finance sponsors, EU/NGI, space/embedded, and hobby hardware.
target audience was not beginners: talks assume flakes, modules, Hydra, and store semantics. the practical audience is packagers, NixOS module authors, platform/SRE teams taking Nix into regulated or air-gapped shops, and contributors fighting the evaluator and test driver. a secondary audience is orgs that want Nix without teaching everyone Nix (containers, Clan, Flox, commodified server apps).
AI summary
AI: only Ron’s “Nixing Artificial Intelligence” treated it as a first-class topic, and even that was Nix under AI stacks (CUDA, agents, reproducible sandboxes), not AI writing Nix. elsewhere AI barely appeared to be mentioned in talks. there was a nice vibe-coded nix game.
estimate: low on-stage AI hype, moderate acceptance of Nix as AI infrastructure.