October Go / Golang meetup: Lightning talks & discussion

Gather with other gophers who write Go/Golang in Chicago. Give a lightning talk! Watch a lightning talk! Talk with humans!

This event is for anyone who writes Go, has written Go, is interested in writing Go, or is interested in becoming a past writer of Go.

Please RSVP, as the venue has a capacity limit.

Talks

• Merten van Gerven: Audience choice (you decide by show of hands at the event)
  a) Grok: fmt.Printf("%+v", withStyle)
  b) Blade: a runner for your Go mono-repo
  c) Claude code sandbox for Go
• Arslan Ametov: Agent Harness in Go
• Aditya Sawant: Your first MCP server in Go: one binary, no npx
• Rich Budek: My journey with Go from Computer Vision to Healthcare to Recreation

Schedule

• 5:30: Arrive and chat
• 6:00: Lightning talks with Q&A: Merten van Gerven, Arslan Ametov, Aditya Sawant, Rich Budek
• 7:00-7:30: Chat

Directions
Go to the main Harold Washington Library entrance at 400 S State. Take the elevator to the 8th floor, and go to the far right corner of that floor for Meeting Room A (8S 15).

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