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17–19 Nov 2026The Dock, Breda (NL)

3 days · 2 tracks · 38 talks

The Graphics Programming Conference returns to Breda on 17–19 November 2026, and only 100 of 550 tickets are left. GPC is made by and for graphics programmers, from students to industry veterans.

Get your ticket €750 excl. VAT · Standard ticket
All three days, hot lunch and breaks included

Rendering deep dives from

007 First LightNEE-AT path tracing
Helldivers 2Variable rate shading
Subnautica 2Underwater lighting
No Man’s SkyDynamic water on a planet
CONTROL ResonantRay-traced direct lighting
Wētā FXReal-time rendering
Assassin’s Creed Black FlagScaling RTGI
+ 31 more talksSee the full schedule

With our 2026 sponsors

Attendees watching a graphics programming talk at GPC 2025 in Breda — GPC 2025, Breda Watch talks from previous editions

Selected talks

From the 38 talks on this year’s program.

Keynotes

Keynote · Thursday
GPU Programming Languages: “How they came to be, and why we don’t need them anymore”

Chas. Boyd AMD
Keynote · Tuesday
Applied Geometric Research for Real-Time Graphics

Prof. Quirin Meyer Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Rendering in practice

007 First Light · Thursday
Licence to Sample: NEE-AT Path Tracing in 007 First Light

Nikolai Petrov (IO Interactive) & Filip Strugar (NVIDIA)
Helldivers 2 · Tuesday
A Helldivers 2 field briefing: Variable Rate Shading

Rareș Dumitru (Nixxes)
Subnautica 2 · Tuesday
Rendering underwater lighting in Subnautica 2

Daniel Quach (Unknown Worlds)
No Man’s Sky · Tuesday
The Changing Tides of NMS: Crying Saltwater Tears Trying to Implement Dynamic Water on a %@$#&ing Sphere

Tom Winter (Hello Games)
CONTROL Resonant · Wednesday
Ray Traced Direct Lighting in CONTROL Resonant

Lauri Aho (Remedy Entertainment)
Wētā FX · Wednesday
Real-time rendering at Wētā FX

Dieter De Baets (Wētā FX)
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag · Thursday
From Sakai to Havana: Efficient RTGI for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced

Eric Charpenay (Ubisoft)
007 First Light · Tuesday
007 First Light - Frame Breakdown

Mircea Catana (IO Interactive)
NVIDIA · Tuesday
Ray Tracing with Clusters and Partitions

Christoph Kubisch (NVIDIA)

View all 38 talks in the schedule

Grab one of the last tickets

Only 100 of 550 left

Get your ticket

Standard ticket: €750 excluding VAT for all three days. Lunch and the morning and afternoon breaks are included.

Which ticket should I choose?

Standard €750 excl. VAT

The right choice for most attendees. Choose standard if you work in the industry and can afford to attend, your employer pays or reimburses you, or you’re ordering for your team. Standard tickets can include VAT information for reimbursement and are the only ticket type available to order by invoice.
Community

For people trying to get into the industry, or attending without employer backing, who couldn’t otherwise afford to come. These limited tickets are supported by our sponsors. They don’t include a company on the invoice and aren’t intended for employer reimbursement.
Student

For attendees who are currently studying. Choose the student ticket if you’re coming as a student; choose standard if your employer is paying for you to attend for work.

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Ordering for the team? Email contacts@graphicsprogrammingconference.com and we’ll provide invoice or credit card payment options. Invoiced tickets can be re-assigned to colleagues until the conference starts.
Questions or refunds? For questions or refund requests, email contacts@graphicsprogrammingconference.com.

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I’d like to attend the Graphics Programming Conference on 17–19 November 2026 at The Dock in Breda, Netherlands.

The program has 38 technical talks across two tracks, including path tracing, ray-traced lighting, variable rate shading and rendering performance. I’ll choose sessions relevant to our work and share what I learn with the team afterwards.

A standard ticket costs €750 excluding VAT for all three days, including hot lunch and breaks. Travel and accommodation would be additional.

Program: https://graphicsprogrammingconference.com/
For team orders, the organisers offer invoice or credit card payment options via contacts@graphicsprogrammingconference.com.

Why GPC

Made by and for graphics programmers

From students to industry veterans: GPC is where practitioners come together to talk about the hottest topics in real-time graphics.

Organised by graphics programmers

GPC was established in 2024 by industry veterans for the graphics development community: Johan Andersson, Jasper Bekkers and Matthäus Chajdas, the “ABC of graphics”. It is run by a non-profit foundation, Stichting Graphics Programming Conference.
Third edition in Breda

GPC 2024 (12–14 November) and GPC 2025 (18–20 November) both took place in Breda, with 21 and 31 talks. Every talk is listed in our archive.
See what to expect

20 of the 21 talks from 2024 are free to watch on YouTube, for example the keynotes The road to Baldur’s Gate 3 (Larian Studios) and Ghost of Tsushima PC Postmortem (Nixxes Software). Slides of the 2025 talks are in the 2025 archive.
A venue built for it

The Dock (Slingerweg 76, Breda) has room for up to 550 people and runs two tracks in parallel: a 400-seat main room and a 100-seat second room. Lunch and the morning and afternoon breaks are provided. Breda is about an hour by direct train from Schiphol, and there are hotels with GPC discounts nearby.

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2026 schedule

Three days, two tracks: the main room seats 400 people, the second room 100. Registration is on Monday evening from 18:00 to 20:00 (with free drinks, first-come, first-served) and on Tuesday from 8:00 to 9:00. Get your ticket

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