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2026 speaker

Paul Jarrett

Paul Jarrett

Software Engineer

Charleston, SC

Paul is a software engineer who started ada-lang.io, and holds a BS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, and an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. He used to split atoms while under the ocean in a boat with no windows.

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2026 · intermediate

Writing Open Source Ada in 2026

Learn Ada’s unique perspective on expressing problem domain and systems programming concepts, and how you can borrow powerful ideas to improve your next program.

We’ll explore how Ada’s open source ecosystem has modernized over the past five years to deliver a modern development experience.

This talk covers how Ada handles types, encapsulation, and pointer types differently, along with its representation of scope-based resources, sum types, and tasks. You’ll see how Ada makes calling C functions safer, supports automatic ordered initialization, and enables creating and sharing formally verified and other libraries through the Alire package manager.

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