Speakers at Heapcon 2026
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Bruno Macabeus
Software Engineer @ Anima
Retro Game Decompilation (+ AI)
Dora Makszy
Head of Design @ Element Logic
The irresistible UX: the psychology of brainwaves and clickbait
Milan Milanović
CTO @ Trucking Hub
Expect the Unexpected: How Software Laws Shape People, Teams, and Systems
Dušan Stanojević
CEO and Founder @ Traceway
Signals, Proxies, and Dark Magic
Faris Aziz
Staff Software Engineer @ Smallpdf
Caching, Payloads, and Other Dark Arts: Optimizing UX in Suboptimal Conditions
Giulia Panozzo
Founder @ Neuroscientive
Beyond the Turing Test: Measuring Human Responses to AI
Ignacio Navarro
Ethical Hacker
Every ride you take - Hacking a City’s Public Transportation
Igor Đurić
Principal Engineer of Product Software @ Tenstorrent
The Next Generation of AI Computers
Ines Panker
Staff Engineer @ Sleuth
Software Estimates and the Illusion of Control
Jelena Marjanović
Principal Cybersecurity Engineer @ Schneider Electric
Building Trust into Software: Secure Development Lifecycles, Automation, and Provenance
Jorge Turrado Ferrero / Robert Bermejo
Principal Site Reliability Engineer / Director of Engineering @ Schwarz Digits / SCRM Lidl International Hub
Operating the Heart of the Sovereign Cloud
Łukasz Nowak
Senior Software Engineer
Let’s create a11y automated testing suite from scratch!
Maarten Vandeperre
Senior Specialist Solutions Architect (AppDev & AI) @ Red Hat
Platform Engineering 101: Building Internal Developer Platforms
Maciek Próchniak
Map Search Engineer @ MapTiler
Maps and territories
Marko Babić
Solution Architect
Open-Heart Refactor: MMO Surgery
Martin Bach / Sonja Meyer
Product Manager / Software Engineer @ Oracle
MCP Supercharges APEX: Less Clicking, More Kicking — Straight to Git Push Done
Michael Dowden
CEO @ Andromeda Galactic Solutions
Reinvent Yourself
Milan Starčević
Principal Software Architect
Making Your Architecture a Reality: From Design to Implementation
Nikola Kolevski
Head of Engineering @ Solflare
Cheap Code, Expensive Decisions
Peđa Trifunov
Senior Backend Engineer @ Nordeus
Don’t run Kubernetes on your laptop. Smuggle your JAR into the cluster instead.
Peter Farkas
CEO @ Percona
Lessons from 20 Years of Bootstrapping an Open Source Business to $50M+
Ricardo Magalhães
Senior DevOps Engineer
AI-Assisted Kubernetes Troubleshooting with k8sgpt
Stevan Milić
Director of Engineering @ Rho
Scaling Product Velocity
Ties van de Ven
Software Quality Expert @ Alliander
The S in LLM stands for security
Tom Cools
Developer Relations Engineer @ Timefold
Adopt a Black Cat: Rehabilitating Unloved Technologies
Vijay Kakani
Computer Vision Engineering Manager @ Rivian
Intelligence at the Edge: Deploying Multimodal AI Under Extreme Compute Constraints
Violina Popova
Software Developer @ ClipMyHorse.TV
Is Your App Guessing? Let Data Decide!
Wout Werkman
Developer Advocate @ JetBrains