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# From Friction to Flow: How We’re Empowering Developers 


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 10, 2025
- **Time:** 17:30–18:00 (30 min)
- **Room:** Airstream 1
- **Event:** World Congress 2025

## Description

In today’s fast-paced tech landscape, developer effectiveness is key to delivering value at speed and scale. This session explores how the Digital Hangar tackles common challenges like fragmented toolchains, unclear ownership and cognitive overload. By diving into practical enablers such as developer portals, guardrails, platform capabilities and an AI empowered toolchain — we’ll showcase how we actively transforming the developer experience. These capabilities help reduce cognitive load, improve decision-making, and accelerate common development workflows, making it easier for teams to focus on delivering value. You’ll leave with actionable insights on reducing complexity, enabling flow and accelerating delivery through automation and integrated tooling. The session concludes with a hands-on demo on onboarding teams for rapid, secure delivery from day one.  

## Speakers

### [Marek Wasilewski](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@marek-wasilewski)

Marek Wasilewski, Chapter Lead Frontend at Lufthansa Group Digital Hangar
### [Ronnie Stadie](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@ronnie-stadie)

Chapter Lead Backend at Lufthansa Group Digital Hangar


## Related talks at this congress

- [Empowering Thousands of Developers: Our Journey to an Internal Developer Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/756-empowering-thousands) — Bastian Heilemann, Bruno Margula
- [Transforming Developer Experience: Lessons from Building a Platform Team](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/648-transforming) — Tobias Mende
- [Empowering Developer Innovation - Balancing Speed, Security, and Scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/836-empowering-developer) — Amir Friedman, Martin Reynolds, Yair Etziony
- [From Workshop to Workspace: The Maker Mindset in Modern DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/856-from-workshop-to) — Sarah Matthies