Agenda
8:00 – 9:00
Registration
9:00 – 9:15
Opening
9:15 – 9:55
NEURON
Ignacio Navarro
Every ride you take - Hacking a City’s Public Transportation
9:55 – 10:10
break (15 minutes)
10:10 – 10:45
NEURON
Jelena Marjanovic
Building Trust into Software: Secure Development Lifecycles, Automation, and Provenance
10:10 – 10:45
SYNAPSE
Marko Babić
Open-Heart Refactor: MMO Surgery
10:45 – 10:55
break (10 minutes)
10:55 – 11:30
NEURON
Giulia Panozzo
Beyond the Turing Test: Measuring Human Responses to AI
10:55 – 11:30
SYNAPSE
Maciek Próchniak
Maps and territories
11:30 – 11:45
break (15 minutes)
11:45 – 12:20
NEURON
Ties van de Ven
The S in LLM stands for security
11:45 – 12:20
SYNAPSE
Marko Kevac
Living in a New World - How we hire, grow, and work in the age of AI
12:20 – 12:30
break (10 minutes)
12:30 – 13:05
NEURON
Marjan Bugarinovic
Why nobody talks about the environmental impact of AI?
12:30 – 13:05
SYNAPSE
Łukasz Nowak
Let’s create a11y automated testing suite from scratch!
13:05 – 13:35
break (30 minutes)
13:35 – 14:10
NEURON
Sonja Meyer & Martin Bach
MCP Supercharges APEX: Less Clicking, More Kicking — Straight to Git Push Done
13:35 – 14:10
SYNAPSE
Ines Panker
Software Estimates and the Illusion of Control
14:10 – 14:25
break (15 minutes)
14:25 – 15:00
NEURON
Ricardo Magalhães
AI-Assisted Kubernetes Troubleshooting with k8sgpt
14:25 – 15:00
SYNAPSE
Dusan Stanojevic
Signals, Proxies, and Dark Magic
15:00 – 15:15
break (15 minutes)
15:15 – 15:50
NEURON
Peter Farkas
Lessons from 20 Years of Bootstrapping an Open Source Business to $50M+
15:15 – 15:50
SYNAPSE
Pedja Trifunov
Don’t run Kubernetes on your laptop. Smuggle your JAR into the cluster instead.
15:50 – 16:05
break (15 minutes)
16:05 – 16:40
NEURON
Michael Dowden
Reinvent Yourself
16:05 – 16:40
SYNAPSE
Nebojsa Vuksic
Build for the Future, Stay Compatible with the Past
16:40 – 16:50
break (10 minutes)
16:50 – 17:25
NEURON
TBA
16:50 – 17:25
SYNAPSE
Bruno Macabeus
Retro Game Decompilation (+ AI)
9:00 – 10:00
Registration
10:00 – 10:35
NEURON
Maarten Vandeperre
Platform Engineering 101: Building Internal Developer Platforms
10:00 – 10:35
SYNAPSE
Wout Werkman
Async Is the New `goto`: What Modern Java Concurrency Is Really About
10:35 – 10:50
break (15 minutes)
10:50 – 11:25
NEURON
Nikola Kolevski
Cheap Code, Expensive Decisions
10:50 – 11:25
SYNAPSE
Dora Makszy
The irresistible UX: the psychology of brainwaves and clickbait
11:25 – 11:35
break (10 minutes)
11:35 – 12:10
NEURON
Tom Cools
Adopt a Black Cat: Rehabilitating Unloved Technologies
11:35 – 12:10
SYNAPSE
Violina Popova
Is Your App Guessing? Let Data Decide!
12:10 – 12:25
break (15 minutes)
12:25 – 12:50
NEURON
Stevan Milić
Scaling Product Velocity
12:25 – 12:50
SYNAPSE
Igor Đurić
The Next Generation of AI Computers
12:50 – 13:20
break (30 minutes)
13:20 – 13:55
NEURON
Milan Starčević
Making Your Architecture a Reality: From Design to Implementation
13:20 – 13:55
SYNAPSE
Vijay Kakani
Intelligence at the Edge: Deploying Multimodal AI Under Extreme Compute Constraints
13:55 – 14:05
break (10 minutes)
14:05 – 14:40
NEURON
Robert Bermejo & Txus Ballesteros
Operating the Heart of the Sovereign Cloud
14:05 – 14:40
SYNAPSE
Faris Aziz
Caching, Payloads, and Other Dark Arts: Optimizing UX in Suboptimal Conditions
14:40 – 14:55
break (15 minutes)
14:55 – 15:35
NEURON
Milan Milanovic
Expect the Unexpected: How Software Laws Shape People, Teams, and Systems
15:35 – 15:50
Closing