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AI in Software Development: Code Faster, Fail Smarter

AI is rewriting the rules of software development—literally. From auto-generating code to catching bugs before they wreak havoc, AI is streamlining the SDLC like never before. But is it all sunshine and automation? This talk explores how AI is reshaping developer tools.We’ll dive into the magic, the myths, and the mess AI brings to coding. Will AI finally let developers spend more time thinking and less time debugging, or are we just shifting the chaos elsewhere? Join me as we separate hype from reality and uncover what an AI-driven future means for developers, teams, and the craft of software engineering.

Developer Joy – How great teams get s%*t done by Sven Peters

Software development has become more complex over the years: Building and running a distributed architecture in the cloud, ensuring observability, discussing user experience with design and product, and keeping a healthy balance between dev speed and code quality isn’t easy. Just be agile and practice DevOps, they say.

Join Sven and learn how great software teams measure and improve their developer experience, coordinate work across teams, run autonomous but highly aligned teams, and create a healthy and joyful engineering culture. Always backed up by data (not driven) instead of opinions. The talk will demonstrate how great teams faced development challenges, reinvented themselves, and created new ways of working to get s%*t done. Without losing sight of what makes this craft fun for engineers.

Developer Joy – How great teams get s%*t done by Sven Peters

Software development has become more complex over the years: Building and running a distributed architecture in the cloud, ensuring observability, discussing user experience with design and product, and keeping a healthy balance between dev speed and code quality isn’t easy. Just be agile and practice DevOps, they say.

Join Sven and learn how great software teams measure and improve their developer experience, coordinate work across teams, run autonomous but highly aligned teams, and create a healthy and joyful engineering culture. Always backed up by data (not driven) instead of opinions. The talk will demonstrate how great teams faced development challenges, reinvented themselves, and created new ways of working to get s%*t done. Without losing sight of what makes this craft fun for engineers.

Distributed Consensus by Jim Webber

Our systems are getting bigger and more ambitious, and the ways they can fail are becoming ever more intricate. As software craftspeople we are adept at understanding the fault-tolerant abstractions like transactions to write high quality application code, but have you ever wondered what goes on underneath these APIs?

In this talk we'll discuss how transactions work, think about why they went out of favor for a while, and look at techniques that combine the best of fault-tolerance guarantees for a world both obsessed by scale and beset by chaos. Join the talk if you want to feel happy, scared, puzzled, angry, and ultimately victorious as we develop protocols that are fit for a demanding future!

WSGI - What The Heck Is Going On! by Hemangi Karchalkar

WSGI is the foundation of most Python web frameworks, but there's a good chance most folks never had to interact with it directly. A great web framework abstracts away all the low-level stuff so that one can focus on the core functionality of your application but abstracting away the low-level stuff prevents us from learning important concepts. In this talk, I plan to explore why it exists, how it works, and what the heck it's doing in your stack. This talk aims to develop an appreciation, sound understanding for the low-level goings on of in the stack every time we handle a request.

Fantastic 9: Heuristics about Choosing Design Patterns with Yves Goeleven

There are thousands of design patterns to choose from, but in reality I believe we only need 9 design patterns to build any system imaginable.

Why only 9?

And which ones?

Join me in this session and I'll introduce to these Fantastic 9...

Demystifying Stakeholders - How to get buy-in for critical UX projects

Leading tech companies have adopted a design-centric ethos, but cynicism around UX has not diminished. Team dissent and dissatisfaction and lack of stakeholder buy-in pushes product teams into a corner. Bansi addresses the challenges of team conflicts, stakeholder misalignment and talks about ways of overcoming organizational issues that stand in the way of a truly delightful and intuitive user experience.

Demystifying React with Vanilla JS

React, Vue.js and all those frameworks that call themselves “reactive”, work around the concept of one-way data binding. In other words, they give developers the ability to bind their models to the representation. And on top of that, they let you modify the view automatically when you modify the data, hence the name of "one-way data binding". In this talk, Fernando shows us how to reproduce that magic with plain old Vanilla JS.

A - Accessibility, B - Best Practices, C - Common Sense

Accessibility enables a diverse group of people to understand, interact, and contribute to the web. Design universality into products that bring meaning and germane experience to all users. Learn how development and design together create access for myriad user groups.