Lang.NEXT 2012 is a cross-industry conference for programming language designers and implementers on the MIcrosoft Campus in Redmond, Washington. With three days of talks, panels and discussion on leading programming language work from industry and research, Lang.NEXT is the place to learn, share ideas and engage with fellow programming language design experts and enthusiasts. Native, functional, imperative, object oriented, static, dynamic, managed, interpreted... It's a programming language geek fest.

We have a great cast of characters speaking at this year's event. Experts and inconoclasts include:

Andrei Alexandrescu, Facebook
Andy Gordon, Microsoft
Andy Moran, Galois
Donna Malayeri, Microsoft
Dustin Campbell, Microsoft
Erik Meijer, Microsoft
Gilad Bracha, Google
Herb Sutter, Microsoft
James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington
Jeroen Frijters, Sumatra Software
John Cook, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Kim Bruce, Pomona College
Kunle Olukotun, Stanford
Luke Hoban, Microsoft
Mads Torgersen, Microsoft
Martin Odersky, EPFL, Typesafe
Martyn Lovell, Microsoft
Peter Alvaro, University of California at Berkeley
Robert Griesemer, Google
Walter Bright, Digital Mars
William Cook, University of Texas at Austin

Sessions will be recorded and C9 interviews will take place!