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2026 speaker

Houston Haynes

Houston Haynes

Founder of Braidpoint - former F# Software Foundation Board of Trustees

Asheville, NC

Houston’s career started out of university when he was hired by his research advisor Bob Moog who was restarting his business at the time of Houston’s graduation. That eventually led to the revival of Moog Music as an international brand. He has since worked in industries ranging from entertainment to automotive, where robotic process automation, software-based decision support and related intelligent devices were always part of the picture. He founded SpeakEZ in 2021 in response to the corporate surveillance proliferating in cloud services and continues his work designing security and privacy-minded intelligent services for organizations of all sizes.

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2026 · keynote

The Clef Programming Language - A Ship of Theseus Story

This talk follows up my presentation from last year where I showed the Fidelity Framework. It brought together F# and FStar among other elements, toward hardware-software co-design using MLIR and other technologies. This made a clear break from the .NET ecosystem while having a “long shared edge” with .NET and Fable ecosystems. Over the past year, the Clef language emerged from that thesis, and while the shared edges with .NET and Fable are at greater length, the end result is a more flexible and more capable systems programming environment. This presentation is an overview of that journey from “F# native” to a new ML-family language with its own syntax and semantics.

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