Simple Made Easy
Perhaps the most cited conference keynote in software engineering history: gives engineers exact vocabulary ('complecting' state, time, and identity) to diagnose accidental complexity.
Rich Hickey
Creator of Clojure & Datomic
Standalone talks by Rich Hickey
4Self-contained public lectures, keynote addresses, and research seminars.
Effective Programs: Situated Information Systems vs. In-Memory Object Graphs
Critiques static class-per-noun modeling in long-lived information systems, advocating open immutable data maps and explicit evolution over time.
Hammock Driven Development
Pairs cognitive science on waking vs. background synthesis with practical software engineering discipline—why typing code too early locks in the worst design.
In Context (Clojure/Conj 2026)
Rich Hickey explores the challenges of managing evolving information in flexible systems, introducing new Clojure features that enhance destructuring, selection, and error handling for dynamic data structures.