"BEAM on the Edge” explores designing innovative solutions under ambiguous circumstances. Robert Virding discusses how the core Erlang team took a different path from the rest of the software world in the design and reason of the BEAM itself. Frank Hunleth describes the burgeoning world of IoT, problems that the BEAM is well suited to solve, and now Nerves makes those solutions a reality. Frank Savage takes us to the world of functional GUI, why http isn’t appropriate to solve all problems and how Scenic uses the BEAM to explore solutions in this space.