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10:10

The AI-Native Engineering Org: What’s Real, What’s Hype, What’s Next

10:10 ·Mainstage · 30 min AI Engineering

Taroon Mandhana

The New Financial Stack: AI, Agents and Trust

10:10 ·Tech Leaders Stage · 30 min Strategy & Innovation

Daniele Tonella +3

The R in RAG: Why retrieval is often the weakest link (and how to fix it)

10:10 ·Stage 1 · 30 min AI Engineering

Tomek Porożyński

You Will Migrate Eventually: a developer approach to technology adoption

10:10 ·Stage 2 · 30 min Engineering Leadership

Wouter Ligtenberg +1

Your Tests Are Lying to You: Let AI Expose What You Missed

10:10 ·Stage 3 · 30 min Quality & Reliability

Maish Saidel-Keesing

You Can't Automate Trust — The Future of Recruiting is Still Human

10:10 ·Stage 4 · 30 min People & Culture

Mahmoud Aly

Goodbye Microservices, Hello Self-Contained Systems

10:10 ·Stage 5 · 30 min Software Architecture

Simon Martinelli

Ship Smarter Agents, Not Bigger Prompts

10:10 ·Stage 6 · 30 min AI Agents

April Yoho

Stop using Node.js like in 2020! What changed and what you can do today with Node.js

10:10 ·Stage 7 · 30 min Languages & Runtimes

Alfonso Graziano

Owning the Inference Layer: When and How to Run your Own Models

10:10 ·Stage 8 · 30 min Cloud & AI Infrastructure

Taylor Jordan Smith

Let’s Talk Quality!

10:10 ·Stage 9 · 30 min Quality & Reliability

Lilia Gargouri

Building Trust Through Private and Verifiable AI

10:10 ·Stage 10 · 30 min Security & Privacy

Mingshen Sun

What’s New in Web? 2026 Edition

10:10 ·Stage 11 · 30 min Frontend, Web & Mobile

Christian Liebel

7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform

10:10 ·Stage 12 · 30 min DevOps

Michael Coté

From CPUs to QPUs: A Software Engineer’s Guide to Quantum Computing

10:10 ·Stage 13 · 30 min Emerging Technologies

André Alves

Open Source Software Licenses - A short Guide for Software Developers

10:10 ·Airstream 1 · 30 min Developer Experience

Björn Stahl

Designing UX for SRE Agents in High-Stakes Incidents

10:10 ·Airstream 2 · 10 min AI Agents

Osmar Matos

10:50

Dr. Karsten Wildberger (Federal Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation)

10:50 ·Mainstage · 30 min Strategy & Innovation

Karsten Wildberger

Building 10x Organizations Using Modern Productivity Metrics

10:50 ·Tech Leaders Stage · 30 min Engineering Leadership

Justin Reock

Scaling GraphRAG: Efficient Knowledge Retrieval for AI

10:50 ·Stage 1 · 30 min AI Engineering

Guy Korland

What 500+ Production Environments Taught Us About Shipping AI Agents

10:50 ·Stage 2 · 30 min AI Agents

Liran Hason

You don't need to write the code. You need to become a verification architect and prove it's correct

10:50 ·Stage 3 · 30 min Developer Experience

Guillaume Moigneu

The Great Reskilling - Who Wins in the AI Economy?

10:50 ·Stage 4 · 30 min People & Culture

Rudi Bauer +2

The Velocity Tax: The Hidden Cost of Unintentional Feature Alignment

10:50 ·Stage 5 · 30 min Software Architecture

Tushar Gupta

Production AI Is a Systems Problem: How ML Breaks at Scale and How to Prevent It

10:50 ·Stage 6 · 30 min AI Engineering

Anaëlle Sikich

Rust Is Easy – Things I would have liked to know before I’d started learning Rust

10:50 ·Stage 7 · 30 min Languages & Runtimes

Goetz Markgraf

GPU is not Monolithic : Packing LLMs with MIGs on Kubernetes

10:50 ·Stage 8 · 30 min Cloud & AI Infrastructure

Hajed Khlifi

Back to the Roots: Testing in the Age of AI

10:50 ·Stage 9 · 30 min Quality & Reliability

Jakub Janczyk

Robust AIGC Provenance with Invisible Watermarking

10:50 ·Stage 10 · 30 min Security & Privacy

Haoqi Wu

Don’t Build Agents. Build Agent Skills for the Web

10:50 ·Stage 11 · 30 min Frontend, Web & Mobile

Ohans Emmanuel

From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform

10:50 ·Stage 12 · 30 min DevOps

Dominik Krichbaum

Simple, Clean, Intuitive, and Qrisp: Quantum Linear Algebra for Developers

10:50 ·Stage 13 · 30 min Emerging Technologies

Matic Petrič

Vendor Neutral by Design: Building Healthy Open Source Ecosystems with Diverse Stakeholders

10:50 ·Airstream 1 · 30 min Developer Experience

Hendrik Ebbers

11:30

Building on Open Source: The New Product Playbook

11:30 ·Tech Leaders Stage · 30 min Strategy & Innovation

Dana Lawson +2

The Retrieval Layer for Edge AI

11:30 ·Stage 1 · 30 min AI Engineering

Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya

Agentic AI: building autonomous systems for developers

11:30 ·Stage 2 · 30 min AI Agents

Anshul Jindal

Developers become Orchestrators: From Human-in-the-Loop to Spec-in-the-Loop

11:30 ·Stage 3 · 30 min Developer Experience

Bastian Heilemann +1

The New Org Chart: When AI Joins the Workforce

11:30 ·Stage 4 · 30 min Talent Strategy

Avani Prabhakar +2

Beyond Resilience: Architecting Antifragile Systems

11:30 ·Stage 5 · 30 min Software Architecture

Jan de Vries

The day the chatbot asked for sudo

11:30 ·Stage 6 · 30 min Security & Privacy

Alex Olivier

Physical AI for the Next Wave of Industrial Digitalisation

11:30 ·Stage 7 · 30 min AI Engineering

Sergio Perez

Linux (Pseudo)Filesystems: The Hidden Backbone of Cloud Native

11:30 ·Stage 8 · 30 min Cloud & AI Infrastructure

Daniel Drack

Contract Testing with MCP: Building Self-Describing, Self-Testing APIs

11:30 ·Stage 9 · 30 min Quality & Reliability

Moataz Nabil

Responsibility Beyond Code - Build with Societal Impact In Mind

11:30 ·Stage 10 · 30 min Strategy & Innovation

Yiyang Lu

It's a Great Time to be a Builder: Leveraging AI for Good

11:30 ·Stage 11 · 30 min Frontend, Web & Mobile

Seth Webster

Stop Renaming Teams, Start Product Thinking: A PM's Guide to Platform-as-a-Product

11:30 ·Stage 12 · 30 min DevOps

Dominik Schmidle

Colorful quantum randomness

11:30 ·Stage 13 · 30 min Emerging Technologies

Jakub Gaj

The Internet is Dead, Long Live the Internet: Building Community in the Time of Bots

11:30 ·Airstream 1 · 30 min Developer Experience

Colleen Lake

AI in Recruiting: What Works, What Fails - Real Lessons from Office & Volume Hiring

11:30 ·Airstream 2 · 30 min Talent Strategy

Barbara Kryslak

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13:30

Building the Nervous System of AI

13:30 ·Mainstage · 30 min AI Engineering

Michael Kagan

Future-Proofing Human Capital for the AI Economy

13:30 ·Tech Leaders Stage · 30 min Talent Strategy

Life Cycle Impact Assessment in TypeScript

13:30 ·Stage 1 · 30 min Frontend, Web & Mobile

Corinna John

Robots Among us: Advances in AI for Everyday Androids

13:30 ·Stage 2 · 30 min Emerging Technologies

Thomas Endres +1

Swift, Server-side, Serverless

13:30 ·Stage 3 · 30 min Languages & Runtimes

Sebastien Stormacq

The AI-Fluent Team: A Playbook for Driving Enterprise AI Transformation

13:30 ·Stage 4 · 30 min People & Culture

Avani Prabhakar

RTX AI PC: developing local and edge AI applications

13:30 ·Stage 5 · 30 min AI Engineering

Mohak Chadha

Building the next generation of AI developer tools

13:30 ·Stage 6 · 30 min Developer Experience

Krzysztof Cieślak

From AI Assistance to Agentic Systems: Scaling Sovereign AI in Banking

13:30 ·Stage 7 · 30 min AI Agents

Julia Koch +1

From Static Rules to Reasoning Platforms: Scaling Intelligent Canary Delivery in 2026

13:30 ·Stage 8 · 30 min DevOps

Daniel Oh

Bulletproof Web Applications: The 2025 OWASP Top Ten

13:30 ·Stage 9 · 30 min Security & Privacy

Christian Wenz

Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!

13:30 ·Stage 10 · 30 min Languages & Runtimes

Manfred Bjørlin

Generative UIs and AI Assistants for Your Angular Applications

13:30 ·Stage 11 · 30 min Frontend, Web & Mobile

Manfred Steyer

Parquet, Delta, Iceberg & Ducklake - An introduction for developers

13:30 ·Stage 12 · 30 min Data & Databases

Matthias Niehoff

Beyond authentication: an open-source trust model for the agentic web

13:30 ·Stage 13 · 30 min Quality & Reliability

Sabrina Engling +1

Startup Spotlight

13:30 ·Airstream 1 · 5 min

General Program

14:10

The integrated AI experience: A New Paradigm in an Agentic World

14:10 ·Mainstage · 30 min Strategy & Innovation

Markus Rautert +2

AI-Ready? What Enterprise Transformation Actually Takes

14:10 ·Tech Leaders Stage · 30 min Strategy & Innovation

How Global Capability Centers (GCCs) Are Evolving in the Age of AI

14:10 ·Stage 1 · 30 min Strategy & Innovation

Hareesha Narayana Shirankallu

How I built my own intelligent Robot Arm from Scratch

14:10 ·Stage 2 · 30 min Emerging Technologies

Iulia Feroli

Playing with types: An experimental structural type system for Kotlin

14:10 ·Stage 3 · 30 min Languages & Runtimes

Merlin Pahic

The 2026 Talent Pivot: Essential Trends for an Evolving Workforce

14:10 ·Stage 4 · 30 min Talent Strategy

Bastian Eichler

Understanding Kubernetes in a visual way

14:10 ·Stage 5 · 30 min Cloud & AI Infrastructure

Aurélie Vache

Tour de Force: LLM Inference Optimization from Simple to Sophisticated

14:10 ·Stage 6 · 30 min AI Engineering

Christin Pohl

Why (Senior) Engineers Struggle to Build AI Agents

14:10 ·Stage 7 · 30 min AI Agents

Philipp Schmid

No Keys for the Robot: GitOps as the Control Plane for Autonomous Agents

14:10 ·Stage 8 · 30 min DevOps

Jaroslaw Gajewski

Trust Issues: Because Zero-Trust Isn’t Optional Anymore

14:10 ·Stage 9 · 30 min Security & Privacy

Jan Peer Stöcklmair

From Bytes to Execution: Writing a WebAssembly Runtime in Rust

14:10 ·Stage 10 · 30 min Languages & Runtimes

Gaurav Gahlot

Headless by Design: Building Enterprise Systems That Agents Can Actually Use

14:10 ·Stage 11 · 30 min Software Architecture

Tolga Elser

3 Ways to Rebuild the Data Stack for Agents

14:10 ·Stage 12 · 30 min Data & Databases

Jordan Tigani

Cryptographic agility for a post-quantum future: Falcon signatures in TypeScript

14:10 ·Stage 13 · 30 min Security & Privacy

Andrew Funk

It's Not Vibe Coding If You Know What You're Doing

14:10 ·Airstream 2 · 30 min Developer Experience

Jeff Blankenburg

14:50

Craftsmanship in the Age of Agents

14:50 ·Mainstage · 30 min Developer Experience

Luis Bitencourt-Emilio

Building Euro Champions: What's the next wave of European Tech?

14:50 ·Tech Leaders Stage · 30 min Strategy & Innovation

The Dark Corners of Kotlin Multiplatform

14:50 ·Stage 1 · 30 min Frontend, Web & Mobile

Andrea Della Porta

Building Sovereign AI: Lessons from Deploying Secure RAG Systems using Confidential Computing

14:50 ·Stage 2 · 30 min Security & Privacy

Isha Salania

When Should You Use an Agent? Architectural Trade-offs in Agentic Systems

14:50 ·Stage 3 · 30 min Software Architecture

Matheus Guimaraes

From KPIs to KVIs: What HR Leaders Can Learn from Gamers About Energy, Performance & Longevity

14:50 ·Stage 4 · 30 min Talent Strategy

Toan Nguyen

5 Years in Cloud Native: The Good, the Bad, and the Bill

14:50 ·Stage 5 · 30 min Cloud & AI Infrastructure

Simone Desantis

Rules, Heuristics, or LLMs? Lessons from Solving the Same Problem Twice

14:50 ·Stage 6 · 30 min AI Engineering

Artur Naumenko

Code Is Cheap. Software Isn’t.

14:50 ·Stage 7 · 30 min Software Architecture

Markus Eisele

Docker build without Docker

14:50 ·Stage 8 · 30 min DevOps

Oliver Seitz

Dangerous Reactivity: Why AI Output Is the New XSS

14:50 ·Stage 9 · 30 min Security & Privacy

Ramona Schwering

Extreme Rules Lawyering with the ECMAScript Specifications

14:50 ·Stage 10 · 30 min Languages & Runtimes

Peter Kröner

When Humans Stop Writing Code: Rethinking Languages, Compilers, and Responsibility

14:50 ·Stage 11 · 30 min Languages & Runtimes

Simon Auer

TiDB, One Layer at a Time: How Distributed SQL Became an Agentic AI Backbone

14:50 ·Stage 12 · 30 min Data & Databases

Mattias Jonsson +1

JSX to Live Activity: The Story of Voltra

14:50 ·Stage 13 · 30 min Frontend, Web & Mobile

Szymon Chmal

Tech as a Profit Center – Maximizing P&L Impact by Research Funding and Capitalization

14:50 ·Airstream 2 · 30 min Strategy & Innovation

Henriette Brune

15:30

The Agent Interface Layer: Protocols, Tools and Trust Boundaries

15:30 ·Mainstage · 30 min AI Agents

Taroon Mandhana +2

When AI Runs the Business: The Reality of Enterprise-Wide Automation

15:30 ·Tech Leaders Stage · 30 min Strategy & Innovation

AI Search Insights from OtterlyAI: What We Tested, What Failed, and What Actually Works

15:30 ·Stage 1 · 30 min AI Engineering

Klaus-M. Schremser

Sociotechnical Architecture Reviews: Understanding Teams, Not Just Artefacts

15:30 ·Stage 2 · 30 min Software Architecture

Eberhard Wolff

AI Made Me an Engineer

15:30 ·Stage 3 · 30 min AI Agents

Brian Lovin

The New Shiny Syndrome: How to Avoid Tech Hype Traps

15:30 ·Stage 4 · 30 min Engineering Leadership

Josip Stuhli

Building a Cloud Platform Where Everything is Just Another Kubernetes Resource

15:30 ·Stage 5 · 30 min Cloud & AI Infrastructure

Patrick Koss

Is it still C#? Practical systems programming with .NET (war stories included)

15:30 ·Stage 6 · 30 min Languages & Runtimes

Szymon Kulec

Agentic employees in world's most downloaded FinTech app

15:30 ·Stage 7 · 30 min AI Agents

Sasa Fajkovic

Strategies for Efficient Log Management in Large-Scale Kubernetes Clusters

15:30 ·Stage 8 · 30 min DevOps

Aliaksandr Valialkin

AI in Production: applied AI & enterprise use cases

15:30 ·Stage 9 · 30 min AI Engineering

Mohak Chadha

The Golden Age of Email: Owning the Inbox in the Age of AI

15:30 ·Stage 11 · 30 min AI Agents

Nikhil Gandhi

Beyond SQL Generation: How to Teach Agents What Your Database Actually Means

15:30 ·Stage 12 · 30 min Data & Databases

Celeste Horgan

Engineering Culture in the Age of Intelligent Maps and Real‑Time Systems

15:30 ·Airstream 1 · 30 min Engineering Leadership

Manuela Locarno Ajayi

Keeping Your AI Software Supply Chains Sovereign in the Age of Commercial Open Source

15:30 ·Airstream 2 · 30 min Strategy & Innovation

Franz Kiraly

16:10

Building Serverless Agentic AI Apps with Cloud Run Abstract

16:10 ·Mainstage · 30 min AI Agents

Steren Giannini

Physical AI: The Era of Intelligent Machines

16:10 ·Tech Leaders Stage · 30 min Emerging Technologies

Zohar Fox +2

Multiple Apps, Millions of Users: Scaling React Native in Production

16:10 ·Stage 1 · 30 min Frontend, Web & Mobile

Milica Aleksic

Solving Architectural Entropy With Runnable Diagrams

16:10 ·Stage 2 · 30 min Software Architecture

Mourjo Sen

5 things I wish I hadn’t done building my AI agent

16:10 ·Stage 3 · 30 min AI Agents

Shachar Azriel

Five Ways to Break Silos in Your Engineering Organization

16:10 ·Stage 4 · 30 min People & Culture

Daniel Schniepp

Carbon-Aware Kubernetes: Building Sustainable Cloud-Native Platforms

16:10 ·Stage 5 · 30 min Cloud & AI Infrastructure

Alessandro Stefouli-Vozza

Practical tips for keeping your C# code base clean

16:10 ·Stage 6 · 30 min Languages & Runtimes

Dennis Doomen

Rust in the Real World: Adoption, Migration, and Tradeoffs

16:10 ·Stage 7 · 30 min Languages & Runtimes

Vitaly Bragilevsky

AI That Fits Your Business, Not the Other Way Around

16:10 ·Stage 8 · 30 min Cloud & AI Infrastructure

Anshul Jindal +1

Cutting LLM Costs Without Cutting Quality: How to Beat Proprietary LLMs with Fine-Tuned Open Source

16:10 ·Stage 9 · 30 min AI Engineering

Viktoria Semaan

Keeping applications secure by evolving OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect

16:10 ·Stage 10 · 30 min Security & Privacy

Alexander Schwartz

Microfrontends: Lessons Learned from Growing a Design System and Shared Libraries Across 20+ teams

16:10 ·Stage 11 · 30 min Frontend, Web & Mobile

Erasmo Hernandez

The OpenTelemetry mistakes I keep seeing (and how to stop making them)

16:10 ·Stage 12 · 30 min DevOps

Juraci Paixão Kröhling

Playing Pong on a shoulder press machine

16:10 ·Airstream 1 · 30 min Emerging Technologies

Daniel Meilak +1

Hiring Technical Leaders: Promote from Within or Go External?

16:10 ·Airstream 2 · 30 min Talent Strategy

Barbara Wilk

16:50

Shipping with Confidence: Observability and Quality at Scale

16:50 ·Mainstage · 30 min Quality & Reliability

Mirko Novakovic +2

The Sustainability Race: AI's Promises, Pitfalls and Potential

16:50 ·Tech Leaders Stage · 30 min Strategy & Innovation

Gülnaz Öneş +2

3x Performance: A Humbling Journey

16:50 ·Stage 1 · 30 min Frontend, Web & Mobile

Luca Trușcă

The Migration Cookbook

16:50 ·Stage 2 · 30 min Software Architecture

Robert Lehmann

Event-Driven AI Agents: Orchestrating Long-Context Legal Processing at Scale

16:50 ·Stage 3 · 30 min AI Agents

Luca Bianchi

Unpredictable costs of AI vs predictable cost of Humans

16:50 ·Stage 4 · 30 min People & Culture

Hung Lee +3

The Private AI Platform: Why Agentic Apps Need a Private Application Platform

16:50 ·Stage 5 · 30 min Cloud & AI Infrastructure

Oren Penso

Code that writes code - .NET Source generators

16:50 ·Stage 6 · 30 min Languages & Runtimes

Glenn F. Henriksen

Supercharge your JVM performance with Project Leyden

16:50 ·Stage 7 · 30 min Languages & Runtimes

Ana Maria Mihalceanu

From Cloud Racks to Control Cabinets: Operating Kubernetes on Edge Devices

16:50 ·Stage 8 · 30 min Cloud & AI Infrastructure

Thomas Weinschenk

Building a Multi-Agent Orchestration Engine That Actually Follows the Rules

16:50 ·Stage 9 · 30 min AI Agents

Hussein Jundi +1

Passkeys: Truly Phishing-Resistant? Implementation and Pitfalls

16:50 ·Stage 10 · 30 min Security & Privacy

Martina Kraus

AI in Your Browser: Exploring Chrome's Built-In LLM

16:50 ·Stage 11 · 30 min Frontend, Web & Mobile

Daniel Ostrovsky

When human meets canary

16:50 ·Stage 12 · 30 min DevOps

Sonja Nesic

From Compliance to Code: the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), SBOMs, DevTeams and YOU!

16:50 ·Airstream 1 · 30 min Security & Privacy

Marcus Ross +1

How to Attract & Retain in a fast moving environment

16:50 ·Airstream 2 · 30 min Talent Strategy

Kent Frederiksen

17:30

After the Framework Wars : What’s Next for Web Development

17:30 ·Mainstage · 30 min Strategy & Innovation

Victor Savkin +2

AI-Enabled Organizations: From Strategy to Practice

17:30 ·Tech Leaders Stage · 30 min Strategy & Innovation

Chris Daden +1

Continuous Accessibility

17:30 ·Stage 1 · 30 min Frontend, Web & Mobile

Jörg Jakoby

From Scheduler to Events: Rethinking Alerts in a Modular System

17:30 ·Stage 2 · 30 min Software Architecture

Cristina Musceleanu

How to read code (properly)

17:30 ·Stage 3 · 30 min Developer Experience

Anja Kunkel

From Code Monkeys to Brain Athletes: Why Your Brain Is Your Most Critical Dev Tool in the AI Age

17:30 ·Stage 4 · 30 min Career & Growth

Elisa Schön

Serverless: Hype vs. Reality - Debunking the Most Common Myths

17:30 ·Stage 5 · 30 min Cloud & AI Infrastructure

Emiliano Della Casa

".Net is too slow" was not an option

17:30 ·Stage 6 · 30 min Languages & Runtimes

Tomasz Woznica +1

MultiCloudJ - An open source cloud agnostic java SDK for multicloud development

17:30 ·Stage 7 · 30 min Languages & Runtimes

Sandeep Pal

Hacking AI at the Edge of the Indian Ocean

17:30 ·Stage 8 · 30 min Cloud & AI Infrastructure

Anastasiia Stefanska +1

Truth, Lies, and Probabilities: Testing AI Hallucinations

17:30 ·Stage 9 · 30 min AI Engineering

Anastasia Simou

Post-Quantum Cryptography: Preparing for Q-Day

17:30 ·Stage 10 · 30 min Security & Privacy

Tim Schade

The two trees of React

17:30 ·Stage 11 · 30 min Frontend, Web & Mobile

Carl Assmann

My Lawyer Merged My PR: Automating OSS Compliance at Scale

17:30 ·Stage 12 · 30 min DevOps

Uwe Korn

Trust at scale

17:30 ·Airstream 1 · 30 min Engineering Leadership

Mike Fynes

Your Competitors Know Your Skills Better Than You Do

17:30 ·Airstream 2 · 30 min Talent Strategy

Diana Gehrke

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