Functional programming meetup (together with Haskell Users Group)

First joint functional programming meetup of 2026, hosted at the Helsinki office of Metosin and organized together with the Helsinki Haskell Users Group. There will be 2 presentations about topics in functional programming and time for questions as well as free discussion.

Please contact Pekka (pekka.kaitaniemi@metosin.fi) if you'd like to give a presentation about a topic that interests you!

Talks:

• Manipulating immutable data structures through optics (Henri Peurasaari)
• Data analysis and visualization in Clojure using Noj (Pekka Kaitaniemi)
• (Canceled: Unfortunately Alex's talk has been canceled due to illness) The parser combinator ecosystem (Alex Tunstall)

Tentative schedule:
17:15 doors open, free social activity
17:30 welcome words from Metosin
17:40 talks and Q&A
19:30 free social activity