[[!meta date="2026-09-30 15:35"]] [[!tag nixcon-2026 nix nixos]] [[!img media/nixcon26.svg class="noFancy" width="200px" style="float: right"]] [[!summary summary of nixcon 2026]] [[!title NixCon 2026]] # motivation i've been to this years [nixcon 2026](https://talks.nixcon.org/nixcon-2026/) in krakow, see [schedule](https://talks.nixcon.org/nixcon-2026/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**.