Erlang has been used for testing commercial products, both those written in Erlang - not least Erlang/OTP itself, and other languages, C and Java included. Research on Erlang and model-based testing has gone on for over a decade, with the EU recognizing this by funding the ProTest, project, a 2.5 million euro grant focused on Erlang and Property based testing. This track  covers hands-on practical industrial use cases, tools as well as the latest news from the research front.

Ericsson has the vision of more than 50 billion connected devices by 2020. This will see profound changes in the way people, businesses and society interact, requiring a new approach to infrastructure and device management. This track looks at how Erlang enables and powers a connected society, from its devices to the networks that connects them together.

In this track, you will learn from the leading experts and Erlang committers about new language constructs, virtual machine implementations and powerful libraries. Esoteric VM implementations are presented, alongside improvements and enhancements to the existing VM. You will learn how many of its features work and how to best use them to write fast and efficient code. You will also find language specific talks, covering subjects from NIFs to extension proposals.

As Erlang's popularity grows, it keeps breaking into new verticals and is adopted by start-ups and Fortune 100 companies alike. In this track we get to listen to the war stories of novice and experienced users, looking at the benefits Erlang brings to these new business segments and introduce current and future distributed architectures. Talks will also include experience reports on how Erlang is introduced in new organizations.

Perhaps your use of Erlang has made you curious about other functional programming languages? Perhaps you are faced with having to understand and interface with other languages in your work? Or perhaps you just want to learn something new? This track lets you widen your horizons and delve into things non-Erlang, but which we believe Erlang developers will find of interest.